Student Rent Strikes Due to lack of En-suite Facilities

Sapphire

setmefree2 wrote: »

I don't think it's unrealistic to want good quality accommodation. And it's not just students who want this, parents want good quality accommodation for their kids too (and let's be honest it's us who are paying). We've paid £400 to £500 per month for our kids accommodation. For that they've had nice digs with a modern kitchen (all mod cons including a dryer), bathroom, etc.

Good Lord! Your offspring are very lucky…

Everyone wants 'good-quality' accommodation. However, I've never known students to have en suite facilities – all the many students I've known have tended to share digs and perhaps have their own bedrooms, but perhaps things are different now! NB I don't have en suite facilities, and I'm a home owner…

kinger101

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

We were lucky to have a bathroom on the same staircase. The unlucky ones had to cross the court in dressing gowns in all weathers to use the antiquated facilities in the basement of another stairs.

Dressing gowns you say. Some people don't know how lucky they are. We had to cross a mine field covered by only by one sheet of newspaper while we had rocks thrown at us by the postgraduates. If we made it across to the other side, we got to shower in cold mud.

thequant

Sapphire wrote: »

Good Lord! Your offspring are very lucky…

Everyone wants 'good-quality' accommodation. However, I've never known students to have en suite facilities – all the many students I've known have tended to share digs and perhaps have their own bedrooms, but perhaps things are different now! NB I don't have en suite facilities, and I'm a home owner…

This is what they expecting,

For a student residing at the Vita Student building in Manchester, life is full of dilemmas. Do you head for one of the university libraries, or curl up with your books on one of the long, deep sofas in the warmth of the funky lounge with a video of a fire flickering in front of you?
Do you book tickets for the local multiplex, or invite your friends round for the evening in the cosy home cinema? Trudge out to the college sports fields, or run a few miles on one of the machines in the 24-hour private gym?
This is student life, but not as previous generations knew it. Each of Vita’s studio flats has an en suite bathroom. Your personal kitchenette is equipped with a fridge, hob and microwave oven. You don’t have to sit in the laundry room while your socks go round and round, because Vita’s app notifies you when the machine has finished. “And the best thing,” says a German student at Manchester Metropolitan University, “is that I can take the flat-screen TV off the wall and watch it in bed.”


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/11425399/Luxury-the-new-breed-of-student-digs.html

kinger101

thequant wrote: »

This is what they expecting,

For a student residing at the Vita Student building in Manchester, life is full of dilemmas. Do you head for one of the university libraries, or curl up with your books on one of the long, deep sofas in the warmth of the funky lounge with a video of a fire flickering in front of you?
Do you book tickets for the local multiplex, or invite your friends round for the evening in the cosy home cinema? Trudge out to the college sports fields, or run a few miles on one of the machines in the 24-hour private gym?
This is student life, but not as previous generations knew it. Each of Vita’s studio flats has an en suite bathroom. Your personal kitchenette is equipped with a fridge, hob and microwave oven. You don’t have to sit in the laundry room while your socks go round and round, because Vita’s app notifies you when the machine has finished. “And the best thing,” says a German student at Manchester Metropolitan University, “is that I can take the flat-screen TV off the wall and watch it in bed.”


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/11425399/Luxury-the-new-breed-of-student-digs.html

Funky? Do they mean the 1960's version of the word, or it's original definition meaning a strong unpleasant smell. Either way, I'm avoiding that lounge.

CLAPTON

Sapphire wrote: »

Good Lord! Your offspring are very lucky…

Everyone wants 'good-quality' accommodation. However, I've never known students to have en suite facilities – all the many students I've known have tended to share digs and perhaps have their own bedrooms, but perhaps things are different now! NB I don't have en suite facilities, and I'm a home owner…

sorry to say, you're about 20 years out of date
nobody shares rooms anymore : many expect a nice double bed

GwylimT

CLAPTON wrote: »

sorry to say, you're about 20 years out of date
nobody shares rooms anymore : many expect a nice double bed

Universities still offer shared rooms. My neice was allocated one in 2011, the university decided to tell her the day she arrived, so she swiftly went home.

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/accommodation/types-accommodation/self-catered/cwrt-mawr/

CLAPTON

GwylimT wrote: »

Universities still offer shared rooms. My neice was allocated one in 2011, the university decided to tell her the day she arrived, so she swiftly went home.

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/accommodation/types-accommodation/self-catered/cwrt-mawr/

seems somewhat of a foolish over reaction
but OK 'hardly anyone shares a room anymore'

Generali

CLAPTON wrote: »

seems somewhat of a foolish over reaction
but OK 'hardly anyone shares a room anymore'

My old Halls of Residence still has shared rooms. A quick squizz shows that Durham (where I considered going) also has shared rooms.

This is just another one of those 'beat up on the kids' newspaper articles that has been around at least since I was a kid. In my day we were all a bunch of violent, drugged-up, sexual deviants. These days they've never had it so good and have become a bunch of spoilt brats as a result.

It's basically what they put in the paper these days now that they can't show pictures of breasts.

westernpromise

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

We were lucky to have a bathroom on the same staircase. The unlucky ones had to cross the court in dressing gowns in all weathers to use the antiquated facilities in the basement of another stairs.

Sounds exactly like Corpus circa 1982.

missbiggles1

setmefree2 wrote: »

I don't think it's unrealistic to want good quality accommodation. And it's not just students who want this, parents want good quality accommodation for their kids too (and let's be honest it's us who are paying). We've paid £400 to £500 per month for our kids accommodation. For that they've had nice digs with a modern kitchen (all mod cons including a dryer), bathroom, etc.

I don't want my kids living in a dump.

When I was at university I didn't give a toss what my parents thought.:D

Nobody should have to put up with rats and mould but your student days should be about more than slick mod cons.