Do you think uni students should be compensated for disruption caused by COVID-19?

Nah, You can't just beg for compo every time there's a global disaster. In case you missed it we're now sitting in the middle of a huge 'My group needs priority treatment!' mess where everyone shouts.

TBH I feel those students 'not willing' to defer are making their own simple choice, personally I deferred because this year was clearly going to be a trainwreck.

What's the next plan? ask for compo when the pubs reopen because it's not as sociable and you're missing out on the true pub experience?

I've been happy with teaching this year. I prefer it over pre-pandemic. It was a bit bumpy at first but things settled. I am behind over the last 3 weeks though, family life and uni all in one house is difficult. Im doing pretty well with my grades but I'm disappointed that we have to do things like group presentations online. I just don't have the motivation for working with other people right now. Motivation is starting to slow down and I just can't be bothered. Luckily, it's the Christmas break soon and I can recharge.
Overall, I'm happy paying what I am. The support has been better this year.

I personally think we should get a reduced rate than what we are paying if we were to have face-to-face lectures.

I think there is a good argument made for compensation, often the reason for the charge in a high price for doing a uni course is the experience, but what experience, if there's just teaching online, and access to courses, it's like the open university, which is far cheaper.
However uni's might not be able to offer compensation given contracts, among other things.

I think there is a good argument made for compensation, often the reason for the charge in a high price for doing a uni course is the experience, but what experience, if there's just teaching online, and access to courses, it's like the open university, which is far cheaper.
However uni's might not be able to offer compensation given contracts, among other things.

Okay.. calm down.. I was asking a question to see what people’s opinions were and I already said I was on the fence about it. I also said I can understand why they haven’t given us any extra help with assessments because we already knew it was going to be online. So overall I don’t mind if we don’t get any compensation. I just asked because I know a lot of people at my uni feel their mental health is terrible and they are convinced their degree outcome will be affected by this. That’s all. My uni implemented a no-detriment policy last year so a lot are thinking they should be doing it this year as well. I also knew this year would be a “train wreck” but unfortunately I was already in my first year when Covid hit and so it wasn’t as easy or as tempting to defer as it is for those who were lucky enough to have not started at uni yet pre-pandemic. As I said before, it’s not that easy to just defer. It’s very difficult to get a job right now, so that was another factor that convinced me to carry on with uni. But that doesn’t change the fact that all my contact hours have been cancelled and for a couple of my modules we haven’t even had online lectures, just been told to teach ourselves from a PowerPoint. Just a bit frustrating and wanted to see what other people thought of their uni’s.

I am calm, but it is how I feel, not particularly about your thread but in general. I feel a lot of people are trying to make connections between covid and compensation that aren't valid, as @mnot pointed out, it's not like the unis expenses have significantly dropped, who compensates them?. Past a point a global epidemic and chaos is what it is, everyone's upset, people are losing X,Y, Z, often in ways that make education disruption look petty.

Deferral is a choice for everyone, I left at the end of 2nd year determined to earn what I could to stay afloat, i'm not saying my choice is for everyone, but it's there. In fairness i'm a mature student so more confident stopping & starting.

The teaching might be more similar to the open uni, everything else isnt.

The open uni cant provide the same access to archives, libraries, journals, software, careers teams, subsidised SU services, access to seminars/talks by researchers, contact time with world class researchers.

The education delivery is one part of what a university offers, and honestly half the time students skip these anyway. Their are lots of other resources still available (id argue the best resources are still available).
No one is forcing students to enrol, if they dont like the fee dont go (which in most UK students cases is paid for by SFE and the students arent ever going to pay the loan back anyway...).

Contact time varies often and i went to Uni! and journals are often free on google scholar and academia. It is true it is a choice to go, but for a lot of people that choice is due to wanting the experience as well as the education.