Daughter is livid. While supporting the faculty (she considers the cause to be completely justifiable), she had to cash in all her life savings to pay for the overseas tuition at the Uni. She is going to not have classes for roughly a quarter of the academic quarter/term.
On inquiry, she was told they are not planning to schedule make-up classes to cover the missed material. The Uni is not planning to refund any of the fees paid by the students for the incomplete teaching they are going to have received. The Uni says that since they will still graduate, there is no harm done and so does not see a need for a partial refund.
This would appear to be a breach of contract - she paid for a certain level of tuition from faculty (advertised as a certain number of faculty contact hours in a given term), and isn't going to get it. Thus, she is getting only 75% of the product she paid for.
I hope the Uni and their Union get this sorted out, as I'm not able to offer anything other than to cluck sympathetically, as I don't know much about UK contract law.