{"id":24829,"date":"2019-10-19T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=24829"},"modified":"2019-10-19T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T12:40:34","slug":"tuition-fees-refund-1k-british-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/tuition-fees-refund-1k-british-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition fees refund for 1k students in British universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

British universities have acknowledged that they have been prompted to carry out tuition fees refund for nearly 1,000 students in the last two years. This has been instigated by complaints that they are not getting value for their money.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe issue of tuition fees refund is a primary source of concern because this depicts the presence of low-quality education as students are not satisfied with the standards availed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuition fees refund prompted by dissatisfaction<\/b><\/h2>\n

Currently, students are required to pay fees worth <\/b>\u00a39,250 annually compared<\/b> to paying <\/b>\u00a33,000 <\/b>in 2006.\u00a0<\/b>
\nStudents in British universities are continuously paying high tuition fees. Nevertheless, some of them have become dissatisfied with the quality of education rendered. It is the reason why they have been demanding a refund.<\/span>
\nRealistically, universities tend to promote various courses with the promise of presenting exceptional career paths, as well as incredible facilities. This is, however, not usually the case as they do not live to expectations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuition fees refund totals at least <\/b>\u00a3750,000<\/b><\/h2>\n

Tuition fees refund availed to students stood at 978 payouts worth at least <\/b>\u00a3750,000 <\/b>in the last two years.\u00a0<\/b>
\nFor instance, <\/span>Teesside University<\/span><\/a> paid <\/span>\u00a356,650<\/span> to<\/span> 23 students. Some of them complained about the quality of education they were receiving in their MSc courses. On the other hand, the University of Leicester paid <\/span>\u00a327,928<\/span> to 18 students.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe Royal Veterinary College was also not spared because <\/span>\u00a33,450 <\/span>was paid back to a student who protested about the teaching quality and research project supervision.\u00a0<\/span>
\nCritics have acknowledged that students have been hit with the reality of the presence of the huge scandal involving poor-quality courses. Some of them have made learners unemployable, and this has been detrimental.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSome of the complaints received were directed at lecturers, whereas others to courses being mis-sold or elements changing upon enrollment.<\/b>
\nOn the other hand, UK students have been complaining about the <\/span>rising cost of university halls<\/span><\/a>. Notably, <\/span>the rent for university halls has been steadily rising over the past few years.<\/span>
\n\u00a0This has resulted in student leadership in collaboration with rent action to demand action to be taken by universities to address this problem. They have also organized a strike action on Thursday calling for universities to intervene.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British universities have acknowledged that they have been prompted to carry out tuition fees refund for nearly 1,000 students in the last two years. This has been instigated by complaints that they are not getting value for their money.\u00a0 The issue of tuition fees refund is a primary source of concern because this depicts the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}