Are universities sleepwalking into the cost of living crisis?

It’s July and we’re hearing from university colleagues that, in one particularly desperate case, students have taken to sleeping in the 24 hour library – because it’s warm and there’s access to subsidised food downstairs.

So we find ourselves asking – what’s the situation going to be in 5 months’ time when the temperature is 2 degrees rather than 20?

And as universities across the country gear up to stock on campus food banks we can’t help but ask – why aren’t we talking more about the impact the cost of living crisis is having on students?