When the latest plans were unveiled. There was talk of income from Student accommodation. Higher Education is having a funding crisis, not helped by the loophole being closed where overseas students can come on a visa to study flower arranging.
Some institutions may have to merge. The development will not be very useful to commute to Wivenhoe.
Tell me about it.
You do know there is a big university the other side of the Chelmsford City Centre? Up here there have been students studying in Manchester, but with student accommodation near Liverpool. That may decline as more skyscrapers have been built, but hopefully we will have students needing accommodation in Manchester and also Chelmsford.
Although I am fed up with the Boomers and their digs at HE, which is either jealousy or pig ignorance. Remember that the average Essex school leaver in the 60s and 70s tried to get an apprenticeship with Hoffman?s or Marconis. Those days are gone and the likes of Anglia Ruskin are trying to fill the gap through apprenticeship programmes alongside more traditional degrees.
