Plans to be drawn up for student accommodation across TU sector

Last November, funding was approved to support the TU sector to develop regionally focused accommodation strategies, and to determine current and future capacities. Picture: Larry Cummins

Work is to begin on developing a plan for student accommodation at seven technological universities (TUs), spread across five different regions.

Traditionally, unlike universities, regional technical colleges were limited from borrowing to build their own purpose-built student accommodation.