This post focuses upon a piece in the news cycle last week that ran with the headline ‘ Student digs in Britain giving first-class returns’ . The content of the piece concerned an increased influx of big business into the student accommodation market in the U.K., which has ultimately brought serious international players like Goldman Sachs and UBS directly into the realm of Higher Education. The focus of this post will be to detail this influx and to look at some of the possible connotations of this increase in profit-driven characters now associating themselves with an arena that is fundamentally based upon educational growth, rather than the growth of a profit margin. This week saw the massive Mipim Property conference take place in Cannes, France. The conference, which is held every year and draws developers from around the world, is also a forum at which government ministers attend to ‘promote’ their approach to developers in their given countries. This year was no differen...