Dr Paul Davis

with the impact of the Middle East, perhaps postgraduate numbers declining and therefore a direct impact on turnover that's coming into the college.

And that turnover, given that most colleges are operating on a knife edge, will be removed also because of the increases in energy costs.

We have to start trying to put some practical plans in place to deal with this.

And I'd rather plan for my education rather than arrive at it by default.

We relied, like the UK did, and like a lot of countries, on two cohorts, Chinese and Indian.

And with the Middle East setting, it's actually started to bring down the level of people that want to travel at this stage.

There's a fear of moving away.

And that's a big impact on us at this point.

It's significant, yeah.

And you're also not just saving on that.

You're giving some foresight to the students who would be coming on campus, maybe arriving up.

And we've heard this over the last few weeks of students talking about how they can't get accommodation, some of them sleeping in cars, some of them not turning up to lectures because they can't actually get here.

So what you're doing is you're actually giving some stability for students to be able to plan how they're going to do it so they can stay at home, they can do their lectures, they can attend lectures.

But we're not involved in this

rush to get accommodation that the students are giving out about.

It's trying to find a balance in there for everybody, but we need to plan it.

The difference is that a single large building is very much underutilised.

A single home, look, and I have to be very careful of being facetious, but having grown up in the 70s, an extra jumper always seemed to work for me as a student.

Now that seems very facetious, but I don't want to be.

The problem with it is it's not one lecture hall, it's a whole building or whole sets of buildings.