ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the endurance of place-based learning as an important component of global higher education. Focusing mainly on the UK, the chapter examines the size, scale and spatial qualities of educational estates, and their management. The chapter discusses the role of the university estate in enhancing or lowering the student experience, the staff experience and effective learning, and puts forward the case for more evidence-based and consultative approaches to the creation, management and operation of university estates. Iconic new buildings can be found on most campuses, often designed by world-renowned architect's starchitects drawing attention to themselves and to the university by their audacious shapes, structure, colour and materials. In the UK alone, university buildings, excluding student residential accommodation, account for 27 million square metres gross internal area, are valued at 61 billion and account for an average annual operating budget of 911 per cent of university income.
