Estates and facilities

New STEM proposal meets state’s needs and government’s demands, vice-chancellor says, but opponents say all relocation plans should be scrapped

University staff like their workplaces more than people in other sectors but spend less time being there, surveys find

Both new ventures located in London’s financial district and launched in partnership with third-party companies

Unprecedented investment is one of the largest UK university building projects in recent years

Limit visitor numbers and access to study areas, some urge university, but others don’t mind visitors so much

Ahead of the new academic term, experts have cautioned that student housing pressures will be unevenly distributed across the UK

Abolition of fixed-term tenancies could make students less attractive tenants

Institution based in the west of the capital will join the federation to pursue ‘new opportunities for collaboration’

Departments to move out of Grade I-listed King’s Manor by September 2025

Several St Catherine’s College buildings have been largely unusable for almost a year after safety fears were raised

Government’s proposal will intensify the problem it is supposed to solve while ‘wreaking havoc’ on universities’ finances, universities say

Development running much more slowly than target, leaving poorer learners in ‘bleak’ situation

Students carry the can for rental spikes and record low vacancies while alternative causes are overlooked, says accommodation lobby

While enrolment rates are set to surge at the island’s universities, progress on the development of student housing has been slow

Growing scrutiny of empty departmental workplaces has revived the fraught debate over whether academics should retain their own assigned office

Hepi paper says rents need to come down by about 30 per cent in response to cost-of-living crisis

Land handover entrenches Southern Cross’ sanctuary role

Universities end offers of on-campus dormitories to career-focused master’s students

During every teaching session, students’ minds inevitably wander. We need to accommodate this part of the learning process, too, says Brad Evans

Cost-of-living crisis has not spawned improvements in university food options, Australian analysis finds

Campus Live event hears sector leaders call for neighbouring institutions to share facilities in the face of declining enrolments

Institution to remove Colston dolphin emblem from its logo and set up £10 million programme to tackle racial injustice

Average rents across UK up 14.6 per cent in just two years, study of 10 cities finds, with Bristol, Exeter and Nottingham most expensive

Morgan State upgrades security after shooting but proposal to extend barrier proves controversial

WeWork-style project seeks to replicate some of the benefits of having a university in higher education ‘cold spots’

New Olympic Park campus will host one of UK’s largest universities and add thousands more jobs and students. What can it achieve?

Students want to be on campus but they still need a reason to go there, summit hears

Chester moves academics into communal working spaces, prompting union concerns about student meetings and equality impact

Discovery adds to multimillion-pound repair bill on brutalist campus and comes as managers battle spiralling deficit

Urgent inspections of university estates after government warnings complicated by scale of buildings involved, and shortages of expertise

Institutions face multimillion-pound repair bills and months of disruption as estates departments digest impact of new government warnings over Raac

As more universities lay out plans to reduce emissions, the calculations can be almost as tough as the targets

Takeover of private institution by larger public one ‘holds lessons’ for sectors haemorrhaging students due to demographic decline

A rapidly declining student population makes closures inevitable – but scholars say where the axe falls should not perpetuate inequalities

Accommodation shortages and spiralling rents are damaging the student experience and limiting universities’ expansion ambitions. But amid political turbulence, rising borrowing costs and a shrinking private rental market, how can universities ensure that housing supply meets demand without mortgaging their futures, asks Patrick Jack

As enrolment expansion far outstrips campus housing capacity, universities must take more responsibility for local neighbourhoods, says Harvey Graff

Top Korean institution announces change of direction for its first venture into the US

War has helped to fan inflation and wither universities’ resources. With scant prospect of let-up, all eyes are watching the horizon for hopeful signs

But promised infrastructure and research commercialisation funding could stretch thin