Autumn of student activism begins over rising cost of university halls

Students receive training to negotiate lower rents as day of protest kicks off campaign Most students settling in at university this autumn are worrying about seminars and exams, but Caitlin Ghibout, a second-year anthropology student at Durham, is angry about rents. Specifically, the fact that the high costs of college accommodation leave a student on the maximum maintenance loan just £1,270 to cover living costs for the year. This autumn, in parallel with student activists across the country,...