What's so good about intercollegiate halls?

Seraphic

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(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 1

la fille danse

The location is way better than any of the other King's halls, without a doubt.

Reply 2

adrianclark

Seraphic

I'm getting round to sorting out my accommodation for King's, and looking through the many threads on accommodation, I keep seeing comments on how the intercollegiate halls are a good choice, but often neglected.

So what exactly makes the intercollegiates appealing? What makes them better than the King's residences?

Thanks :smile:

Location is definitely a major factor. All the intercollegiate halls are in prime central London locations. Connaught and College Halls are right in the heart of Bloomsbury, which is a very safe, quiet, and green area to live with great transport links (Northern, Central, Picadilly, Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, and Victoria Lines all within 15 minutes' walk, and loads of buses) - and still only 15-20 minutes' walk from Oxford Street.

I lived in Connaught Hall as a medical student and now I work there part-time. For me, living in an intercollegiate hall was really good because it meant I could socialise with people other than medics - and from all over the University of London, not just my own college, so I got to see other people's student unions and do a lot more different things than my friends who stayed in the college's halls.

All the intercollegiates are fully catered and students' rooms are fully cleaned once a week - those are plusses for some, and complete turn-offs for others! High-speed internet is included in the accommodation fees. There are no hidden charges for anything (food, cleaning, internet) - it's all included.

The intercollegiate halls have a well established network of social and pastoral support services to (a) boost residents' social experience of the hall and (b) help out if things go wrong. But don't trust me - I work in an intercollegiate hall so obviously I'm biased - read what other people have said (and see some of the other links below):

TSR Threads:

[INDENT]Opinions on the intercollegiate halls -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=375590

Best intercollegiate hall of residence -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=373908

Shared Accommodation between the Universities of London -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=362598

Intercollegiate halls - food -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=259731

Anyone living in Connaught? -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=368174

University of London intercollegiate halls -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=362321

For those who have a place at intercollegiate halls -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=273522

Intercollegiate halls... -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=334677

Which intercollegiate hall? -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=210984

The ultimate intercollegiate poll -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=247627

Connaught Hall -
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=3055921#post3055921[/INDENT]

Wikipedia articles:

[INDENT]
Connaught Hall-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connaught_Hall%2C_London

International Hall -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Hall

Nutford House -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutford_House

Commonwealth Hall -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Hall

Canterbury Hall -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_Hall

Hughes Parry Hall -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Parry_Hall
[/INDENT]

Other links:

[INDENT]
Intercollegiate halls of residence website -
http://www.london.ac.uk/halls

Connaught Hall Residents' Handbook 2007-8 -
http://www.london.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/students/student_services/accommodation/ConnHall07.pdf

Connaught Hall photos -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/connaughthall/collections/

Accommodation handout -
http://us.share.geocities.com/adrianclarkmbbs/hallshandout.pdf[/INDENT]

Adrian.

Reply 3

Seraphic

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(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 4

3.1415926535897

intercollegiate halls are in london.

king's halls (ssa exempt, and that nice one near egdware road) aren't.*

*not wholly accurate.

Reply 5

la fille danse

3.1415926535897

that nice one near egdware road

Do you mean Nutford House? That's an intercollegiate.

Brian Creamer House is central. So is Wolfson. They're both in zone 1. The only bad location is that of KCH... Hampstead campus is pretty far out (zone 3?) but Hampstead is fantastic.