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[drspouse]

Although the conditions under which these particular students signed up to the university may be discriminatory, they were the conditions of the contract.  So they would be within their rights to complain that the contract was discriminatory - but not that it wasn't what they signed up to. So students who join an institution with evening lectures, for example, can complain that these discriminate against those who have families, or religious obligations some evenings, but they can't complain that it wasn't what they signed up for.

I don't know how far universities can realistically go in adjusting their timetable for one group of students over another - evening lectures, for example, are very popular with part-time working students (and are the norm some places e.g. Birkbeck), but are pretty much impossible for others such as parents of young children, or observant Jewish students.  So it may end up being a case of students picking the institution that has the timetable that suits them best, in a market-led HE economy - but with a variety of arrangements being found across different institutions.