REF:66-2109-1880407 - Moving out of postgraduate accommodation

Your comment: Hi, I think it is quite ridiculous that we were required to leave post graduate specific university accommodation one month before our dissertations were due. The reason I had elected to stay in post graduate specific accommodation during my masters was so that I didn’t have to worry about moving in and out dates and landlords as I assumed, obviously mistakenly, that accommodation would cover the duration of the whole course. I understand that the license period dates were given prior to my accepting of the lease but that was prior to knowing the hand in date of my dissertation.

Our response:

This has been an issue for a very small number of PG’s for about a year now. We have had a number of meetings with the PG School. The accommodation licence is very clear in the period that it covers, and we cannot offer accommodation for 52 weeks for a number of reasons. We do offer summer accommodation, which is advertised from April, to give plenty of warning about booking etc and we are very flexible about leaving belongings in the room etc. Other than that I am afraid there is nothing else we can do.

The period of moving out has to coincide with the academic year. Thank you