payment of full uni fees when exams dropped

[MultiCulturalMother]

My DD's university (York) has demanded full fees for 2019-20, despite the fact that they didn't hold end of year (1) exams. I have read the discussion about online lectures and am not querying payment for these. However, they still wanted approx £2000 for a summer term, in which she received minimal lectures and no exams. Other universities held exams, even if they were open book ones. Does she have a case and if so, any tips for complaining? They are telling her that they won't accept her for Y2 unless she coughs up. Any advice gratefully received!

Advice - cough up. Unless you want your child to not be able to continue with her degree.

Very little teaching happens in the third term. It just happens that the SLC structure fee payments that way. It's not a reflection on the third term's activity.

Thanks, titchy - she will have to cough up but paying for non-existent exams (i.e. clearly something which was due to be delivered and did not happen - as opposed to the debatable quality or lack of, of online lectures) seems a bit much. I should have been clearer - wondering if there is a concrete way of lodging a complaint and requesting a retrospective reduction, as it doesn't seem fair to pay for something which didn't happen

She hasn't paid for a non-existent exam. Anymore than she pays £135 or whatever for a lecture on plate tectonics. The fee is the fee for facilitating her gaining the knowledge required for a degree. Exams are not a knowledge delivery method, they're an assessment method.

If the university is happy to assess those modules without having an exam (I assume she's done coursework?) then that's ok. They're the ones that decide what an appropriate assessment method is, not you. And as nothing in year 1 generally counts towards a classification, as long as you pass, she hasn't been disadvantaged.

Move on.