STUDENT ACCOMMODATION & THE SUMMER OF 2014
Unipol One-Day Seminar, Thursday, 30 October 2014

Unipol has announced a new event, a one-day seminar on Student Accommodation and the Summer of 2014: Volatility in the Market, Overspills, Undershoots and Late Buildings'.

Government announced an extra 30,000 student places in Higher Education for 2014-2015. Unipol asks the question: 'What happened and what was the effect on student accommodation this year?'.

'The seminar will look at student accommodation supply, demand and allocations in the light of:

• the additional student places available
• the extra 6% flexibility in intake that institutions were given
• the increased competition and stratification within the HE sector
• the working out of the system of the 2012 drop in student intake with the introduction of high cost fees

Some developments over this summer are already clear:

• institutional intake varied widely (and sometimes unpredictably) between HEIs
• not all institutions increased intake - some took less
• late buildings re-appeared with all the problems that brings
• the demand for student accommodation was increasingly unpredictable.

All of this against a backdrop of rising consumer expectations and demands often in a climate of cut-throat competition to attract and retain students.'

For more information go to:

http://www.unipol.org.uk/events/student-accommodation-and-the-summer-of-2014-volat