A record number of students are choosing to live at home rather than on campus as the approach becomes the “new normal”, the head of the university and college admissions service has said.
Clare Marchant, the chief executive of Ucas, told The Times that students were more troubled about the immediate concerns of day-to-day living than the cost of tuition fee loans.
Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) reveal that the gap between the number of students living at home and going away to university has narrowed to fewer than 100,000, down from 250,000 in 2014-15.
