UPP-sponsored report calls for more support for ‘commuter students’
The Government and higher education institutions should do more to support commuter students – who live away from campus and often in the parental home – according to a new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI).
Sponsored by University Partnerships Programme (UPP), the UK’s leading provider of on-campus student accommodation infrastructure and support services, ‘Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding commuter students’ has been written by Professor David Maguire, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, and David Morris, the Vice-Chancellor’s Policy Officer at the University of Greenwich.
The paper considers the experiences of students who live in the parental home during university. They have poorer outcomes than those who move away from home and are less engaged and satisfied with their academic experiences …