Student Accommodation: emerging challenges and opportunities. A student and client needs perspective
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Stream 1
| Tuesday, August 6, 2024 |
| 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM |
| Crystal 1 |
Overview
Ben Apted, SPP
Details
* what’s changed in student accommodation since Covid?
* what are students looking for and how has that changed?
* what models are being deployed to reduce capital requirements for financially constrained universities and what are the risks and opportunities associated with these models?
* what are some examples of models that have been deployed in the last five years and what are the impacts of these?
Speaker
Mr Ben Apted
Senior Partner
SPP
Student Accommodation: emerging challenges and opportunities. A student and client needs perspective
Abstract Overview
* what’s changed in student accommodation since Covid?
* what are students looking for and how has that changed?
* what models are being deployed to reduce capital requirements for financially constrained universities and what are the risks and opportunities associated with these models?
* what are some examples of models that have been deployed in the last five years and what are the impacts of these?
* what are students looking for and how has that changed?
* what models are being deployed to reduce capital requirements for financially constrained universities and what are the risks and opportunities associated with these models?
* what are some examples of models that have been deployed in the last five years and what are the impacts of these?
Biography
Ben Apted is a Senior Partner at SPP, a leading higher education management consulting firm in Australia. He has led student accommodation strategies, market engagement, business cases, demand studies, and other work over the past ten years, supporting Australia’s universities and student accommodation providers to establish infrastructure and operations. He specialises in operating model development and understands how public and pro site providers can work together to mutual benefit.
