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This is IMPORTANT. This can and SHOULD happen in the US.
See this analysis: https://alter.systems/p/1f09e180-0b85-4787-af4f-f658582b3a3c
This topic was reported in the Financial Times a few days ago, which is usually behind a paywall. The full archived version is linked to below. Don’t use a VPN when trying to access it.
In sum, 6,500 former UK university students made a successful claim for compensation for educational loss during the Covid period through the High Court, but that is a mere subset of the 194,000 students pursuing such action representing 36 other universities. Apparently another 24,000 students have signed on in just the last few days. The terms of the UCL (University College London) settlement have not been disclosed but overall payout could go into the hundreds of millions.
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BREAKING: UK Students Win £21 Million Over Covid Disruption
A Watershed Settlement
A £21 million settlement in the UK just set a precedent. American institutions haven’t answered for what they did to a generation — yet.
In a watershed moment that should send shockwaves across the Atlantic, University College London has agreed to pay £21 million to settle a lawsuit brought by 6,500 former students who claimed their education was gutted by Covid closures — cancelled lectures, substandard Zoom teaching, locked libraries and labs.
And this is just the beginning. Lawyers are now pursuing 36 other UK universities on behalf of 194,000 claimants. If successful, the total payout for Britain’s higher education sector could run into hundreds of millions of pounds.
Let that sink in.
Students in the United Kingdom are being compensated for what they lost. Meanwhile, American college students who suffered the same fate — stripped of the campus experience they paid tens of thousands of dollars for — have largely been left holding nothing but debt and degrees that didn’t deliver on their promise.
The Covid disruption to childhood and education spared no one. From the youngest kids in kindergarten to graduate students defending dissertations on Zoom, an entire generation was failed at every level — by school boards, administrators, public health officials, and university presidents alike. No age group, no grade, no stage of learning was protected. Children lost years. Adolescents lost milestones. College students lost the education they were promised and paid for.
The UK ruling didn’t happen by accident. It happened because students organized, lawyers stepped forward, and courts took seriously the idea that institutions have an obligation to deliver what they promise — pandemic or not. UCL admitted no liability, but wrote a £21 million check anyway. That is accountability in action. Read the full Financial Times report here. (ER: Don’t use a VPN to access this site)
American students were failed at every level of their education. The question is: who will hold American institutions — from school boards to university presidents — accountable for what they took from an entire generation?
The precedent is now set. The wave is coming. And if you’re a college student, a graduate, or a parent who watched your child’s education collapse behind a screen — you should be asking very loudly: Where is our reckoning?
P.S. Watch the film they don’t want you to see the one that exposes exactly what was done to our kids when the schools closed—15 DAYS: The Real Story of America’s Pandemic School Closures. WATCH IT HERE.
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Featured image source, graduating students: https://www.ft.com/content/a0cfc270-4dcc-46a6-a87d-6f002f889ca2
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