Luxury student accommodation related to poorer academic performance, says US study
Posted in Fees, access and admissions, Governance and administration on October 10th, 2019 by steve“Students who stay in luxury accommodation achieve, on average, lower grades that those who stay in more traditional style student accommodation, according to a study carried out in the United States. The study, which examined the academic performances of college students staying in accommodation with a luxury-style apartment design that provided privacy and added amenities and students staying in a traditional double-corridor design with shared bathrooms at the ends, found that those staying in the latter type of accommodation achieved higher first semester grade point averages …” (more)
[Finn Purdy, Trinity News, 10 October]