The students suing their university over Covid

Available for over a year

When the Covid pandemic shut down much of day-to-day life in 2020, many university students who had expected a thriving social life found themselves studying in their bedrooms and tuning into lectures online. Four years on, the High Court ruled that around 5,000 students from University College London will be able to take their case for compensation to trial. In this latest episode of our 5 Minutes On podcast, our education correspondent Hazel Shearing answers why, and how, this case is playing out.