First the bad news: school leavers heading for university are likely to end up deeper in debt than any previous generation.
Undergraduates starting this autumn are predicted to have accumulated debts of, on average, £23,500 by the time they finish their courses. While doing so, however, there is a strong chance they will end up luckier in love than if they had stayed at home or tried to find a job …
Some UK universities are failing to provide accessible accommodation or facilities to disabled students, an investigation has found.
A report by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign suggests one in 10 disabled students were not be able to live or eat on university sites.
About 40% of the 78 institutions surveyed did not have rooms for carers, resulting in students living at home …
After the waiting and hoping, it’s not long until thousands of A-level students receive their results.
And with record number of applications this year, university admissions tutors are warning students they could be left without a place, if they fall short of their expected grades when they’re revealed on Thursday.
More than 600,000 people across the UK have applied for university places this year – that’s a rise of 9.7% …
Brighton is the fifth most expensive city for students to live.
According to information from a student accomodation website undergraduates are forking out £81.28 – nearly £20 more per week than the national average of £62.61.
The only places more expensive to study are London, where rents reach £104.13, Guildford which averages £87.86, Cambridge where rents are £86.95 and Exeter at £82.66 …
Students are not benefiting from the extra money brought in by tuition fees, according to a leading academic.
Lectures are overcrowded and teaching hours limited, despite the extra income, says Manchester University vice-chancellor Alan Gilbert.
He says institutions’ income is not sufficient to deal with rising student numbers and research demands …
Students at St Andrews University pay the highest rent for private accommodation in Scotland, new figures have shown.
Undergraduates preparing to start at the institution face average weekly demands of £80.48, more than students attending Oxford or Edinburgh universities, and almost £20 more than the national average …
Newcastle developer Metnor Property Group is ready to push ahead with the construction of a 396-bed student accommodation block for Northumbria University, which it said will protect around 100 jobs in its North East supply chain.
The 133,000sq ft block, which will be built on the site of the existing Winn Products and George Rye industrial and warehouse buildings on Stoddart Street, will be between five and eight storeys tall – standing well above the two-storey roofline of the existing buildings on the site, and substantially bigger than the Biscuit Factory art gallery opposite …
A multimillion-pound development to provide homes for hundreds of students is rapidly taking shape in Southend.
The 15-storey building, on the old South East Essex College site, in London Road, will be used as halls of residence for 561 students at the nearby University of Essex, when it opens in October 2010 …
A £45m eco-friendly student halls of residence is set to open in Liverpool city centre within two years.
The 700-place Liverpool university development would be among the greenest in the country.
If it gets planning permission, the “Eco Residences” project will be built on the car park of the university’s Management School, in Chatham Street, by the junction with Myrtle Street …
Student accommodation provider Unite Group (UTG.L) has set up a five-year joint venture with Bahrain’s Oasis Capital Bank to develop student housing in London worth an estimated 194 million pounds ($320.2 million).
Oasis Capital has bought a 75 percent stake in the joint venture, investing 39 million pounds, with Unite retaining the remaining 25 percent …
“TigerLime has worked closely with Mainstay Group Limited, over an extended period of time, providing consultancy services for our Student Property Management division.”
Sue Petri, Property Director, Mainstay Residential Limited
