At first I was afraid, I was petrified. “The house is nice”, my housemates reassured me. I believed them. After all, I had to, for it would be my home for the next year. It was Arrivals Weekend, and I was moving in for the final time here in EX4, to a house I’d never […]
Accommodation
East Park development to go ahead
Exeter City Council approved the building of new student accommodation on Streatham Campus, which should provide housing for 1,200 students, on 24th April. The East Park development is to be built on an arable field on the Eastern side of campus, accessible from Pennsylvania Road and Rennes Drive, and it has even be said it’ll […]
New accommodation plans approved
Exeter City Council Planning Committee voted in favour of the University’s new accommodation plans for East Park after a meeting on Monday 24th April. In revision of the previous plans the University has reduced the site by 18% as well reducing the size of the blocks, allowing planners to finally approve the development. Appropriately named […]
Katie Hopkins slams new university accommodation
Exeter alumna and TV persona Katie Hopkins has caused a storm on twitter in attempts to block university accommodation expansion through linking it to a Saudi “take over”. The university is planning new student residences at East Park which will provide space for around 1,300 students, however due to local pressure planning permission was resubmitted […]
Students queue from 1am for next year’s accommodation…
Students queued from as early as 1am outside Cardens, the estate agents, so they could rent their preferred accommodation for next year. When Cardens opened for business at 9am on Monday (November 7) staff were greeted with a long queue of students. The students had queued for up to eight hours in the cold because […]
Houses vs. Private Halls
’Im now in my third year at Exeter, and in my time here, I like to think I’ve gained some wisdom about student life. I know where to go for a kebab after a night out, and have mastered the fine art of submitting an essay on BART at approximately an hour before the due […]
Students refuse to name award winner in protest over rising rent prices
A category from Property Week’s Student Accommodation Awards has been withdrawn, after a handpicked panel of student judges refused to choose a winner in protest over increasing rent prices. The ten students had been invited to judge a shortlist of providers in the “student experience” category of the inaugural Student Accommodation Awards. However, the judges […]
Which Student Accommodation are you?
How to travel on a student budget
So you know you want to travel, and you know you’ve got nearly four months to do it, between the stress of your end-of-year exams and starting afresh another year older, if not wiser, in September. You start thinking about where you could go and, before you know it, you and your housemates have a […]
The Travel Diaries: couch-surfing with Servas
Taking that first step into the unknown requires two things: time and money. Provided that you already have the former, it can be really tempting to cut as many corners to try to stay within a budget for your travels, whether they take a week or a year of your time. With that in mind, […]