HOME
  • Home
  • Our Sessions
    • Next Steps & Careers
    • Employability
    • Study Skills
    • Wellbeing
    • Parents, Guardians & Carers
    • Prices
  • For You
    • Blog
    • Student Newsletter
    • Student Zone >
      • University
      • Apprenticeships
      • Jobs
      • Gap Years
      • No Idea
      • Do what you love, Love What you do blog
    • Universities
    • Uni Connect teams
    • Employers
    • Parents
    • Teachers & Career Advisors
    • Media Enquiries
  • About Us
    • What is Push? >
      • Why choose Push?
      • History of Push
      • FAQs
    • How We Present
    • Gatsby Benchmarks
    • Work with Push
    • Our Team
    • Legal Stuff
  • Reviews
  • Enquire

Student blog: What's new?



​

what to think about if you're in... Y13

6/6/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
If you're heading to uni, in just about three months’ time you'll be packing up your life to continue it somewhere else for the next three plus years. The weeks between getting your results and starting term scoot by and unis start allocating their housing the moment the grades are out.

There are four basic housing choices for students – living at home, living in, living out or private halls.
Living at home means staying wherever you were before you started your course, usually with your parents.
It can be cheaper (although you are entitled to a bit less funding and travel can sometimes be just as expensive as rent), but the fridge magically refills with food and if you're lucky, your dirty clothes even clean themselves.

Living 'in' means living in housing that the uni provides. That's usually on the same site as where you study or at least in the same town or nearby. It might be in a flat, in a room in a shared flat or house, or — most commonly — it’s in a purpose-built block called a hall of residence.

There are lots of different options with halls of residence, but usually you get your own room with a shared bathroom and kitchen. Often students cook for themselves, but many halls have canteen meals as part of the deal.
Living in is a popular option for 'freshers' (first year students), but only a few unis have enough housing to offer the opportunity for more than one year.

Living 'out' means finding housing for yourself, usually a privately rented flat or house. Students often choose to share with their friends (so living out often suits second and third years who've had a chance to make some).
Occasionally, living out means just renting a room in someone else's house.

The fourth option is private halls. These work in much the same the way as uni halls of residence — lots of students in individual rooms (usually en suite with shared kitchens), but they’re owned by private companies rather than the uni.
Often the only significant difference between a private hall and a uni hall is who you pay your rent to.

Different unis have different options when it comes to housing and, at a few, they have nothing of their own at all. Check you know what your first choice uni offers to first year students.

Author

LUCY HARDING is the Editorial manager for Push. She is an English Literature grad and an MA Publishing student at UCL. She is passionate about international relations and cultural diversity, having worked closely with her university’s Erasmus society to support European students. She also spent a year abroad studying at California State University: Long Beach

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Want to keep up to date with our news?

    * indicates required

    View previous campaigns.

    This section will not be visible in live published website. Below are your current settings:


    Current Number Of Columns are = 1

    Expand Posts Area =

    Gap/Space Between Posts = 15px

    Blog Post Style = card

    Use of custom card colors instead of default colors =

    Blog Post Card Background Color = current color

    Blog Post Card Shadow Color = current color

    Blog Post Card Border Color = current color

    Publish the website and visit your blog page to see the results

    Authors

    Lucy Harding
    ​Moj Taylor
    Aron Tennant
    ​Johnny Rich

    Kitkat Anderson
    Anisha Minocha
    ​Guy Reynolds

    Categories

    All
    Advice
    Applications
    Apprenticeship
    Books
    Confidence
    Conflict
    Covid 19
    Covid-19
    Deadline
    Employability
    Equality
    Exams
    Finance
    Food
    Friendship
    Gap Years
    GCSE
    Gender
    Guest
    History
    Home
    Independence
    Jobs
    Johnny Rich
    Jubilee
    Kindness
    Learning
    Memory
    Mental Health
    Mind
    News
    No Idea
    Philosophy
    Quiz
    Reading
    Revision
    School
    Self-Love
    Society
    Study
    Sustainability
    Travel
    UCAS
    University
    WIWIK

    We're always interested to hear from talented young writers, so if you'd like to feature as a guest author then hit us up for more details.

    RSS Feed

This website uses marketing and tracking technologies. Opting out of this will opt you out of all cookies, except for those needed to run the website. Note that some products may not work as well without tracking cookies.

Opt Out of Cookies
  • Home
  • Our Sessions
    • Next Steps & Careers
    • Employability
    • Study Skills
    • Wellbeing
    • Parents, Guardians & Carers
    • Prices
  • For You
    • Blog
    • Student Newsletter
    • Student Zone >
      • University
      • Apprenticeships
      • Jobs
      • Gap Years
      • No Idea
      • Do what you love, Love What you do blog
    • Universities
    • Uni Connect teams
    • Employers
    • Parents
    • Teachers & Career Advisors
    • Media Enquiries
  • About Us
    • What is Push? >
      • Why choose Push?
      • History of Push
      • FAQs
    • How We Present
    • Gatsby Benchmarks
    • Work with Push
    • Our Team
    • Legal Stuff
  • Reviews
  • Enquire