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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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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
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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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Gareth Chaplin; Paul Wyton – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of research that aimed to determine what university students living in Unite accommodation in the UK understand about the concept of sustainable living. It considers what barriers they perceive to be standing in the way of following sustainable living practices. In particular, the…
Descriptors: Sustainability, College Students, Foreign Countries, Barriers
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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