TY - JOUR

T1 - Student accommodation in higher education in the United Kingdom

T2 - changing post-war attitudes

AU - Tight, Malcolm

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - This article explores the changing attitudes towards student accommodation in higher education in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War. In the first part of this period there was a firm assumption, in universities and teacher training colleges, that the accommodation of students in or close to their university or college, preferably in association with at least some academics, was the preferred strategy. Latterly, however, with the lowering of the age of majority and the massification of higher education provision, practice has shifted towards both a greater reliance on the private sector in providing student accommodation, and a more entrepreneurial approach on the part of universities and colleges in managing their own student accommodation.

AB - This article explores the changing attitudes towards student accommodation in higher education in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War. In the first part of this period there was a firm assumption, in universities and teacher training colleges, that the accommodation of students in or close to their university or college, preferably in association with at least some academics, was the preferred strategy. Latterly, however, with the lowering of the age of majority and the massification of higher education provision, practice has shifted towards both a greater reliance on the private sector in providing student accommodation, and a more entrepreneurial approach on the part of universities and colleges in managing their own student accommodation.

U2 - 10.1080/03054985.2010.545193

DO - 10.1080/03054985.2010.545193

M3 - Journal article

VL - 37

SP - 109

EP - 122

JO - Oxford Review of Education

JF - Oxford Review of Education

SN - 0305-4985

IS - 1

ER -