What are the types of rental houses for studying in the UK?

As we all know, the UK, as a major country for studying abroad, has always maintained world-class standards in student accommodation.

Student accommodation is generally divided into three categories:

Accommodation (apartments provided by the school);

Privately owned accommodation (self-owned residence);

Home stay(homestay).

All student accommodations are in single rooms to ensure students’ privacy and independence. The schools generally provide apartments: Part-catered and Self-catered.

Part-catered: Students eat in the school cafeteria, including breakfast from Monday to Friday and main meals (lunch or dinner) on weekends.

Self-catered: There is no doubt that students can cook in the kitchen by themselves. Kitchen facilities are shared, but students are required to bring their own kitchen utensils, pots and pans.

The following is an introduction to the Accommodation (apartment) room types. The specific room types are compared as follows:

*Basic facilities include: bed, mattress, desk, chair, bookshelf, wardrobe, etc.

1. Basic Room

It refers to a basic single room. There are only the most basic furniture and facilities in the room. The bathroom, toilet and kitchen are all for private use. Flats with three or less Basic Rooms are equipped with one bathroom, and flats with four to seven Rooms are equipped with two bathrooms. Most student housing companies have stricter standards than this. Basic

Room is the lowest priced among the three room types, so it is the most economical option.

2. Ensuite Room

Is another type of single room. There is only one difference between it and the Basic room: it has a separate toilet and bathroom. Similarly, an Ensuite will also provide facilities such as beds, desks, and wardrobes. The kitchen is shared. Because it has a private bathroom, the Ensuite Room is a little more expensive than the Basic room.

3. Studio Room

Generally called a single suite or studio apartment, similar to what we call a studio now. Studio is a very common room type, ranging in size from 12 square meters to 30 square meters. The room will provide beds, desks, wardrobes, toilets, bathrooms, kitchens and other facilities. The kitchens in the Studio are all open kitchens. There is an area with kitchen equipment when you enter the room. This kind of kitchen is not suitable for cooking dishes with high oil fumes such as Chinese stir-fries. Studio is a relatively expensive room type among all student apartment types, and is more suitable for students who are financially well-off and prefer quiet living.

4. One Bedroom Flat

If there is only one room in a flat, then this type of apartment is called a 1 bedroom flat, which is what we call it One room and one living room. This kind of room is a type of apartment with complete facilities and a relatively large area in a student apartment. 1 Bedroom

Compared with Studio Room, Flat means that the living area and kitchen are separated from the bedroom. This type of room is suitable for people who have higher requirements for quality of life and have relatively sufficient funds.

5. Introduction to related terms:

Cluster

Flat/Flat/Apartment Students who usually live in the Ensuite Room share an apartment with other students. The kitchen as a whole is called Cluster

Flat. Multiple Ensuite Rooms together are called Cluster Flat, or simply Flat or Apartment.

A Cluster

Flat usually has a public door. After entering, there are multiple rooms, each room has a door, and each room is an Ensuite < /p>

Room, multiple students can share a kitchen and living room.

This is similar to our domestic university dormitories, except that the room facilities and the number of residents are different. There are many student apartments that provide group bookings. If you want to live with friends, you can apply for such a flat together. This kind of flat is suitable for people living in groups who like liveliness and social interaction.

Privately Owned Accommodation (private residence) includes exclusive apartments, houses, boarding houses, living and bedroom accommodation, etc. Prices also vary widely. Compared with student dormitories, this type of renting has higher risks. When disputes arise between students and landlords, it is difficult for the school's housing affairs office to intervene.

Although it will be cheaper than school accommodation if you live in a shared house, the cheaper one is definitely a shared house with multiple people. Even if the roommate you just moved in is good, there is no guarantee whether the roommate will be replaced if you change the roommate. It will happen, and there is no guarantee that the person will be replaced. The most important thing is safety. After all, people who share apartments usually find international students to share apartments with, and there may be so many problems that you can't study seriously. (This paragraph is reproduced from UKER's ULT's post "The Cheapest and Safest Accommodation for Studying in the UK - Home Stay")

Homestay is a form of paid service for foreign students in the country where they study. Provide housing and basic living facilities (mostly to local families) to improve their ability to live in the country where they study abroad.

Homestay, as the name suggests, means living in a place other than one’s own home, such as school, other people’s families, etc. Here we specifically refer to living in foreign families; homestay means providing accommodation to foreigners other than one’s own family members. Homestay is the matter of staying with a foreigner's family.

Homestay has a history of several decades in developed countries. Mainly, foreign students live in local families for a short or long term in order to solve the accommodation problems, improve their foreign language proficiency, promote their understanding of foreign culture, and better integrate into foreign society.

Many Chinese students in foreign countries also choose this kind of accommodation. Especially in European and American countries where homestay originated, homestay has become commonplace and widely accepted.

About the 1970s, with the rapid economic development and the increase in foreign exchanges in some Southeast Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, homestay was also widely accepted. (These three paragraphs are from Baidu Encyclopedia)

Students can rent a room in a private residence and live with the landlord or their family. Kitchen equipment is available and three meals a day are served. Although this type of accommodation allows students to have the company and support of others, on the other hand, they will not be able to live completely independently. This will be cheaper than student apartments.