We ask the University of Exeter to reimburse all students for lectures, seminars and teaching time lost due to the 8 days of planned strikes. We also want the University to hear the demands of the teaching staff and work with the University and College Union to find an amicable solution to the issues our lecturers are facing: concerns about pay, casualisation, working conditions, the gender pay gap, racial inequality, workloads and pensions, amidst more they feel unable to disclose. 

As students, we support our staff that feel able to take industrial action to protect their future and well-being. However, we feel that we should be compensated by the University of Exeter due to the fact that we are missing extremely valuable time from our education as a result of the University's attitudes towards its staff, gaps in teaching that are likely to affect our full understanding of this term’s modules and therefore also affect any assessments based off of this term’s teaching. 

Based on £9,000 a year tuition fees, with the strike lasting the full eight days, students are set to lose £380 each (£300 paid for every five day week), and an equally appropriate sum of compensation for Postgraduate Students. With approximately 22,000 students at the University of Exeter, this equates to the university paying out roughly £8,360,000 in compensation. This does not include international students who pay twice the tuition losing out on double the money.

Additionally there should not be a formal application process in order to receive reimbursement, all students should receive the full amount of compensation automatically, without having to fill out forms. 

There is also a similar petition to the University of Sussex, so credit to the creator of that petition for the framework of this one.