Some 5,000 current and former UCL students are seeking compensation, alleging the university breached their tuition contracts after teaching went online during COVID
Senior Master Fontaine has paused the case for eight months to give the parties time to settle the claims through mediation or other means before going to trial, this period can be cut to four months if no progress is made.
Ryan Dunleavy is solicitor to Student Group Claim and partner at Harcus Parker:"We have been chasing UCL in writing for more than a year to join us in appropriate settlement talks, which we do not think should be via UCL's own internal complaints procedure. Shannon Barnes is graduating from UCL after two years of her physiology degree was entirely done online.She was frustrated by the lack of laboratory work; simplified experiments were undertaken at home with basic equipment.
Ms Barnes said:"Of course we all want to get the compensation as soon as we can so that UCL and universities across the country can recognise that students didn't get the experience they should have been given.
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