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  • Demand for action on broken student housing system

    NUS Scotland has warned of yet another year of student housing shortages, with a “broken housing system” driving up student homelessness. Student activists in St Andrews have highlighted the difficulties students are having finding housing for the coming year and first-year students at the University of Glasgow have been told...
    August 16, 2022

  • Student rent has risen 34% in three years across Scotland

    The average annual cost for student accommodation in Scotland now stands at £6,853, according to new figures from student housing charity Unipol and the National Union of Students (NUS). 
    December 08, 2021

  • NUS Scotland publishes  A Student Guarantee  ahead of Holyrood elections.

    NUS Scotland has launched its Scottish Parliament Election manifesto - A Student Guarantee for Scotland. Amidst a pandemic that has exposed a mental health crisis and rising debts and poverty amongst students, NUS Scotland is calling for education to be at the heart of our recovery from Covid-19 and for no student...
    March 17, 2021