Unite Students Accommodation Matters

We're back for the last episode of the year.    This month we'll be talking about international students.   Joining Darren for this discussion is Vivienne Stern, Director of Universities UK International, Professor Sir Steve Smith, the UK's International Education Champion and former Vice-Chancellor at University of Exeter, Doctor Paul Greatrix, registrar of the University of Nottingham and Sheena...

Host Darren Ellis is back again with a new panel of experts to discuss student mental health and wellbeing, a topic arguably more relevant than ever before. In this episode, the panel discusses how wellbeing came to the fore of the higher education sector’s agenda, how that landscape has changed with the advent of Covid-19, and what lasting changes we might see in the aftermath.   Darren is joined...

This month Darren is joined by a new panel of guests to discuss student wellbeing when going to university during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Get the full episode wherever you get you podcasts from Friday.

Host Darren Ellis is back with a new panel of experts to discuss the transition from school to university in the context of COVID-19. In this episode the panel discusses how students and applicants are feeling right now and how this may affect their behaviour, challenges current media portrayals of the student experience, and highlights the undiminished appetite for a residential university experi...

On this months episode, Darren chats to a new panel of guests including UCAS Chief Executive, Clare Marchant, St Bonaventure’s Director of 6th Form Wayne Templeman, UAL’s Student Experience Manager, James Greenwood and our very own Aberdeen and Glasgow Area Manager, Jo Blair as we discuss the transition into university life.   Listen to Accommodation Matters, available from Friday.  

Join host Darren Ellis in this, the very first episode of Accommodation Matters.  We discuss results day and the impact on UCAS figures and student numbers, look at the demise of the gap year and the student appetite for Higher Education as well as planning for the opening and safe operation of accommodation and campuses. We also talk about arrivals weekends and international students, firing thro...

Unite Students are launching a brand new podcast discussing what matters in student accommodation.   Join host Darren Ellis each month for a lively round table chat with university student accommodation leaders from across the UK, national policy experts and subject specialists.   Available from Friday