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Higher Education Policy Institute, 2023
In the last three years there have been big changes in rent levels and the supply of student accommodation, driven and shaped by global and national economic turbulence. High inflation, high energy costs, high building costs and high interest rates have combined to produce unprecedented rises in rent. Because of this rapid change, Unipol have run…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Costs, College Housing, Economic Climate
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Logan, Anne – History of Education, 2021
This article concerns the educational philosophy of S. Margery Fry (1874-1958) and its impact upon the design, organisation and functions of university residences for women in the twentieth century. According to Carol Dyhouse, Fry, the only woman on the University Grants Committee from 1919 to 1947, 'exerted considerable influence over the shape…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, College Housing, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Rebecca Turner; Oliver Webb; Christie Pritchard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
COVID-19 represented a time of disruption and innovation, with online learning ensuring students could still engage with their studies. With the pandemic stabilised, survey data (N > 600) were used to examine ongoing use and perceptions of online learning at a UK university. Despite some reversion to in-person practice, online provision still…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Jones, Sarah; Blakey, Martin – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2020
The higher education community is catching up with the reality that student housing is a major part of the educational offer. By providing the right learning environment and a stimulating and stable social experience, good quality, affordable and well-managed housing can contribute significantly to students' overall educational experience.…
Descriptors: College Housing, College Students, Dormitories, Privatization
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Foulkes, Lucy; Reddy, Ariyana; Westbrook, Juliette; Newbronner, Elizabeth; McMillan, Dean – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Social support at university is key for student wellbeing and retention. The majority of undergraduate students live with same-age housemates, so examining the relationship that students have with their housemates may be critical for understanding student adjustment. However, to date, social relationships within university accommodation have not…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Undergraduate Students, College Housing, Well Being
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Parameswaran, Ashvin; Bowers, Jack – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
There is a long history of universities perceiving residences as pivotal in the learning process. Over the last 50 years, the nature and efficacy of residential environments as an educational tool have been extensively researched. However, within some sections of the tertiary residential sector, in the United States, the United Kingdom, New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, On Campus Students, College Housing, Academic Achievement
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Coles, Rebecca; Swami, Viren – Journal of Research in International Education, 2012
The present research explores the sociocultural adjustment of international students and the role played by university structures in the process. The adjustment process of international students has been modelled in psychological literature as a U-curve, a learning curve and most recently as a long, uneven and unending process of change. Yet,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Asians, Student Adjustment
Soorenian, Armineh – Disability & Society, 2013
This article explores two disabled people's "Seven Needs" to independent living, those of "housing" and "transport" issues, in relation to disabled international students in British universities. Firstly, students' living arrangements, including issues related to the suitability of university accommodation to their…
Descriptors: Housing, Transportation, Disabilities, Foreign Students
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Tight, Malcolm – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
This article explores the changing attitudes towards student accommodation in higher education in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War. In the first part of this period there was a firm assumption, in universities and teacher training colleges, that the accommodation of students in or close to their university or college,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Attitude Change, Residential Patterns