{"id":1487,"date":"2021-02-19T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:36:39","slug":"struck-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/02\/19\/struck-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Struck Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lancaster’s student rent strike, which saw thousands of learners organise remotely to challenge the University’s insistence that they pay for campus rooms that they weren’t using, ended last week. The Director of Finance reported, at the Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff meeting on 29 January, that 2,000 students had accepted management’s initial offer of a \u00a3400 goodwill payment<\/q>; this offer was recently doubled to \u00a3800, which led to the decision to call off the campaign.<\/p>\n

subtext<\/cite> congratulates the organisers, and those taking action, for once again highlighting the consequences of Lancaster’s student residences contract with UPP. As the Vice-Chancellor noted at the all-staff meeting, the University is liable for the rent, whether there are students in the rooms or not.<\/p>\n

In a special report<\/a>, one of the strike organisers gives their own account of the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lancaster’s student rent strike, which saw thousands of learners organise remotely to challenge the University’s insistence that they pay for campus rooms that they weren’t using, ended last week. 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