Coronavirus: 'I paid for my student house, now all my lectures are online'
University students have been telling the BBC how they were only told that most of their courses in the coming term will be taught online after paying hundreds of pounds for accommodation far from home.
In an email, seen by the BBC, she was then told"all teaching for final year students" will be online this term - including seminars and dissertation supervisions. In-person teaching in her second term"will depend on the Covid-19 situation closer to the time". "Do I need to be in London or not? Do I need to go in or not? There's no point in [just] sitting in my house," she says."I do think there should be some kind of reduction with everything online. You still get an education but they should reduce the amount you're paying."
Lottie, a third-year student in philosophy and history of art, says the university had initially encouraged students to return to the town. Rhiannon, another student at St Andrews studying international relations, is paying £525 a month for a room in a shared house.
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