Oddbean new post about login | logout @43d7c4ea I think we need to get away from the paradigm that university students need to live away from home in often either piss-poor or expensive accommodation in 'university' towns. Its expensive, who ever pays for it, and discourages poorer students. It also overwhelms the local rental market for residents. It might have made sense when only 7% went to university but not now when 50+% do. Of course achieving it would have to mean levelling up our universities so local always meant good.
@713945cf On one hand I agree; both because it gives students more stability & also as you say as this would be an incentive to have full spectrum, well-developed HE right across the country; but (having taught university students for 25 years) I think you are not fully recognising the value of them being away from hime & (as it were) coming of age with a group of peers - I should say I don't hold a romantic notion of this, it results in all sorts of problems, but still has a value, I think