04 | WELCOME
Welcome Making an ‘estate-ment’
Creating future-proofed learning spaces for today’s university students is no small task.
Predicting the upcoming needs
of students, from technology to infrastructure, is a tricky task, along with instilling that all-important atmosphere in university spaces which is almost impossible to measure or predict. In this issue of University Business, our estates focus, we feature some of the newest and most refreshing campus developments across the UK, as well as overseas. Check out our ‘Space to learn’ feature on page 18 for more.
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In other news… It was very interesting to hear about plans to extend the UCAS application system to include
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We also had the pleasure of visiting the new-look facility at Cardiff Business School – a £14.5m build which will certainly equip business students at the school for years to come – Editor Rebecca Paddick provides a full insight on page 36. So if you have some prime university real estate to shout about, we’d love to hear from you.
MAY – THE FINANCE ISSUE Scholarships across HE
Student accommodation trends Catering: keeping students on campus
Tech insight: the cost of ICT in universities
European universities in the future.
With so much
uncertainty over what lies ahead for tuition fees with the up-coming general election 2015, more and more students (and their cash-strapped parents) will be looking at cheaper but still as good alternatives on the continent. Watch this space!
Until next time,
Hannah Oakman, Managing Editor
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