'Treated like cash cows': international students at top London universities withhold £29,000 fees

Students say lockdown learning in their bedrooms is not what they paid for

Hundreds of international students at three major London universities are refusing to pay their fees because they say learning mostly in their bedrooms has not justified prices of up to 29,000 a year.

More than 300 students at the Royal College of Art, two-thirds of them from abroad, launched a tuition fee strike in January, the Guardian has learned, potentially withholding around 3.4m in fee payments, in an attempt to force the university to issue refunds for the past year.