‘This isn’t my fault’: University students on facing rent while lockdown keeps them away from accommodation

‘I’m paying £120 a week for accommodation that I won’t be living in for at least two and a half months,’ one first-year tells Zoe Tidman

Students share frustration over rent payments for accommodation at university, while stuck at home during lockdown (Supplied)

University students have been left frustrated at the prospect of paying for accommodation they have been told to stay away from under England’s new lockdown. 

As the country was plunged into its third national lockdown, government guidance said many students should remain where they are – while many were still at family homes during the Christmas break – until at least mid-February, with teaching pushed online.

“I think we deserve to have our rent back,” Caitlin Airey, a first-year student, says.