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University students are unsupported during coronavirus
MOLLIE BROWN writes that many student have been left in limbo, often unable to graduate, work or return home — with mature and working-class students disproportionately affected

COVID-19 has evidently had a very detrimental impact on many people across different sectors and groups society. If you are employed, self-employed, unemployed or a small-business owner, or work in a key industry such as the NHS, public services, public transport or education we have all — in some way or another — had to make drastic changes to our everyday lives.

Many have been offered state-funded financial support to help them through this crisis, but we also know that many have slipped through the net completely.

Students are another group that have been failed during the crisis, with little attention given to how the pandemic is impacting them.

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