Comment below on the National Student Forum’s ideas for better university accommodation services
At an institutional level, we would like to see all university accommodation services:
- negotiating a range of prices / types of accommodation and more local travel subsidy schemes for students
- working with the Students’ Union and local community associations to build relationships and improve perceptions of students within the wider community
- working with private landlords to encourage them to be more open to renting to students outside the ‘traditional’ student areas
- supporting collaboration between local authority planning services and students
- increasing awareness amongst students of the basic standards they should expect when looking for accommodation – and what to do if these aren’t being met
- offering contract checking services
- offering prospective students the chance to express a preference about types of accommodation; and all residential managers being flexible and accommodating people’s individual request
