Accommodation crisis: Colleges to be asked to cut number of days students must be on campus

Third-level institutions will be asked to examine reducing the number of days students must be on campus for lectures to limit commuting and pressure on student accommodation.

The proposal, part of a new Government strategy, will be in the new national student accommodation strategy outlining the Government’s aim to produce 42,000 additional student beds in the next decade.

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