Contractor Galliford Try, has handed over the first phase of Buckinghamshire New University’s new Hughenden Park Student Village in High Wycombe.
The creation of the Student Village, consisting of 234 student rooms and built on the site of the former CompAir factory in Hughenden Avenue, is part of Buckinghamshire New University’s wider campus redevelopment plans …
Cambridge is in the top three university cities for house growth, new figures have revealed.
The city has seen 163 per cent house price growth in the past ten years placing it just behind Exeter and Bath.
Newport and Hull are the most affordable university towns in which to buy a property …
Soaring house prices in Brighton and Hove over the last ten years have been linked to the success of its two universities.
Average house values in the city have rocketed by 197% according to Lloyds TSB.
Growth in the number of university places for students and the economic benefits brought by universities has been attributed to the boost in local housing markets …
They look like they are straight out of American teen movies, where everything is hip and happy, and where teeth are always shiny white. Huge numbers of privately run halls of residence have sprung up alongside Britain’s universities, offering freshers a funky mix of study rooms and chill-out areas, with free wireless broadband to boot.
But take a look at the online forums run by student unions. “The halls are only there to con first-years out of a load of money,” according to one posting in Sheffield. Another in Cardiff says that for £95 a week he gets “a box room with the smallest en suite in history”. Others rant about mystery fees and one-sided tenancy contracts …
The prospective university of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) has said it cannot meet higher demand for student places because of a lack of funding.
The institution was responding to the results of a youth migration survey.
Almost half the respondents said opportunities to study further education and for training were poor …
A short distance from the centre of Cambridge, sandwiched between the M11 motorway and Girton College on the Huntingdon Road, a 22-tonne mechanical digger and a dozen men and women in high-viz vests are working a field under a big East Anglian sky.
The stubbled soil is criss-crossed with dozens of short, shallow trenches dug to a mathematical pattern; from the air, it must look like the board for some giant, fiendishly complicated parlour game. In fact, this is the site for most of Cambridge University’s future growth: soon this 120-hectare field will house research and development facilities, academic buildings, accommodation for 1,500 university staff and 2,000 postgraduates, 1,500 private homes, a school, shops and public open spaces …
Opal Property Group is the winner of the National Student Housing Survey (NSHS) Best Private Halls 2009.
The National Student Housing Survey (NSHS) is an annual survey of students in higher education across the UK. The survey measures satisfaction levels in all types of accommodation, and allows participating institutions to measure their performance against national and regional benchmarks. The 2009 survey attracted around 9,000 responses from more than 80 universities and colleges.
Opal was formed in 1982 and now owns and operates over 18,000 student beds in 14 UK cities, many under lease or nomination with Universities and other institutions. Opal is opening new halls in London, Nottingham and Sheffield in September …
Residents in Bangor have voiced their concerns over the amount of houses on Deiniol Road that are being turned into student accommodation.
Complaints in the city earlier this year about antisocial behaviour, late night noise, litter and parking problems associated with the students led to Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones AM calling for Bangor University to do more to ease the tension between residents and students …
Britain’s army of students may be wearing concerned frowns this summer. Are they caused by late exam results? The scramble for university places? Or are they worried about where they are all to live?
There are already 1.96 million university students in Britain and 1.2 million higher education students, according to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. About 10 per cent wait until the two months before starting their first year to find a place to live – no mean task in an unfamiliar town …
Middle class students should be denied loans to cover tuition fees and living costs so that bright poor pupils do not lose out, a think tank says.
The Institute of Public Policy Research says the current system whereby the government funds fees and grants of all students up front is too costly.
The cap on university places means many able pupils are not getting on degree courses, despite rising unemployment …
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