I'll spare you the full backlog of information as you'll all die of boredom, but essentially the uni have lied to student finance (repeatedly, for many students without them knowing), but student finance have picked up on it in my case and refused eligibility for doctoral loan, losing me £28,000.
There is a huge amount of evidence; paper trails, admissions of wrong doing, a time line of events etc to prove what they've done is wrong.
They offered me a 50% fee waiver for the remaining part of the course, which still leaves me £20,000 out of pocket and declined my suggestion of a different settlement, suggesting I go to the OIA.
A lawyer who we know personally has been looking at it on the side throughout and agrees the university are in the wrong.
The OIA upon investigation doesn't necessarily look like the best option, and I'm unsure whether to go through them or use a no win no fee solicitor.
I was hoping someone might have some experience of the OIA or taking a university to court or might be a solicitor and have some experience in this field and could make a suggestion as to which route might be better? I am exhausted having to have this ingoing fight and the university have been consistently gaslighting me for the last four months, if they're trying to wear me down then they're doing a fairly good job.
Any help or information would be really gratefully received.