{"id":85075,"date":"2026-02-17T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85075"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:25:38","slug":"students-launch-legal-action-for-compensation-over-covid-hit-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/17\/students-launch-legal-action-for-compensation-over-covid-hit-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Students launch legal action for compensation over Covid-hit studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WtXLE.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The claim says that universities breached their contracts with students from 2018 onwards as in-person classes were either cancelled or moved online (Jacob King\/PA) (PA Archive)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/universities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">universities<\/a>\u00a0could face legal action as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/university-college-london-covid-high-court-london-b2577313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">thousands of students seek financial compensation<\/a>\u00a0after their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">studies<\/a>\u00a0were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/university-research-funding-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-health-innovation-legacy-b2893639.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">impacted by Covid-19.<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/students-launch-legal-action-for-compensation-over-covid-hit-studies\/ar-AA1Wu2Ds?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69942c064d584ca6a64aee8ca5f3b2e4&amp;ei=99&amp;cvpid=69942e42f98a4bb7915955d6951d2203\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; Dozens of\u00a0universities\u00a0could face legal action as\u00a0thousands of students seek financial compensation\u00a0after their\u00a0studies\u00a0were\u00a0impacted by Covid-19.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/students-during-covid.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85077,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075\/revisions\/85077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}