Chinese Central Bank Clobbers All UK Students By Raising Rents & Tuition Fees

[Tony Gosling]

Chinese Central Bank Clobbers All UK Students By Raising Rents & Tuition Fees

http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/

<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://realmedia.press/>Real 
Media’s 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ajntMjQ4YU>latest 
video reveals how the 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-universities-to-deliver-choice-and-opportunity-for-students>UK’s 
proposed University Laws have been drafted to 
suit the 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.pbc.gov.cn/>People’s 
Bank of China ­ also known as 
the<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Bank_of_China>Chinese 
Central Bank ­  the world’s second largest financial institution.


UCL Rent Strike

I was first told this story last month by David 
Dahlborn, a history student at University College 
London (UCL). He is the Student Housing officer at UCL.
Dahlborn informed me that students in London are 
being systematically overcharged for University accommodation.
The 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/09/rent-strike-students-ucl-london-threat-to-education-access>UCL 
Rent Strike Campaign have discovered the 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)>revolving 
doorbetween their University and its largest 
private accommodation provider ­ 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.upp-ltd.com/>UPP.


UPP

Last year 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/>UCL 
Estates Office appointed 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-palmer-4449103>Duncan 
Palmer the ex-Managing Director of UPP’s 
Residential Services as their Head of Student Accomodation.
The wording on Palmer’s 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-palmer-4449103>LinkedIn 
profile is consistent with the revolving door 
theory as it says he only has an interim role at UCL.
The general feeling is that Palmer is going to 
hand over as much of UCL’s housing stock to his 
former colleagues at UPP as he can ­ before returning there himself.
UCL have been asked via 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/duncan_palmer_upp_ucl#incoming-823573>Freedom 
of Information (FOI) request to supply details of 
all correspondence between Palmer and UPP but 
there is no guarantee they will co-operate.
The Rent Strike have not yet attempted to monitor 
Palmer’s employment contract with UCL.
David Dahlborn showed me 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.upp-ltd.com/perch/resources/upp-bond-report-2015-14-dec.pdf>in 
UPP’s accounts that their major shareholders are 
a Dutch Pension Fund 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-20/upp-prepares-600-million-bond-sale-backed-by-student-rooms>and 
the Chinese Central Bank.


Chinese Central Bank

This 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323699704578323670119279066>Wall 
Street Journal piece shows the Chinese Central 
Bank have recently been taking quite an interest in Britain.
Further googling told us that UPP sponsor the 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/hec/about>Higher 
Education Commission which lobbies government to 
raise tuition fees and increase the size of student loans.
In December 2015 UPP released their 
<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.upp-ltd.com/perch/resources/uppstudent-experience-report-digital.pdf>Work 
Hard Play Hard report 
on<http://londonconversation.com/news/chinese-central-bank-clobbers-uk-students-raising-rents-tuition-fees/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/12195473/Top-100-universities-for-student-experience.html>Student 
Experience
And surely enough in the Queen’s Speech, Student 
Experience is used to justify rampant 
marketisation of the University Sector as the UK 
positions itself as a Global Academic Supermarket.
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