A report on what student accommodation is for
A new HEPI and UPP Foundation report examines the history and future of student accommodation, arguing that as AI changes how people learn, the value of university increasingly lies in what happens outside the lecture — which is mostly a function of where students live. It lands in a year of rent rises, shortages and disappearing cheap rooms. Finding student housing covers the market.
Progress on outlawing “sex for rent”
A coalition including the Irish Council for International Students has welcomed progress on legislation criminalising sex-for-rent arrangements. Students are the group most targeted by these adverts, which appear on the same listing sites as ordinary rooms; in the UK, offering an arrangement of this kind is already an offence, and the sites remove them only when reported. Finding student housing covers safer searching.
Social life, ranked, with the famous names absent again
StudentCrowd’s rankings for clubs and societies leave Oxford and Cambridge outside the top 20 for a second table this week. Collegiate universities organise social life differently rather than badly, which is a reminder to read these rankings for what they measure. Joining societies covers what to look for.