Housing crunch leaves UK university students without halls
Students who begin courses at several UK universities next month have been
stranded without accommodation after being told there were no rooms available
for them in university halls.
First-year undergraduates at the University of Glasgow, Manchester Metropolitan
University and the University of the West of England in Bristol were informed this
month that they would have to find their own rooms owing to the lack of space in
halls.
The accommodation crunch comes as rental markets are exceptionally tight in UK
cities and follows similar problems last year when some universities accepted more
students than they had planned for …