Accommodation
A room in a Hall of Residence is guaranteed for IFP students of 17 years of age and above.
Please read the following information carefully.
IFP students applying for rooms in Halls need to make an application online. However, you are only able to apply for accommodation if you have accepted your Unconditional or Conditional offer of a place on the Programme. To do this, you must return your Acceptance form to the ISLC office as soon as possible.
Students joining the programme in January and who have accepted an offer can apply for accommodation from 7 November 2011.
Students must apply online in order to guarantee a place in a Hall of Residence.
Please see the instructions on how to apply below.
Halls available for IFP students
Please view the University of Reading website for detailed information about Halls of Residence (http://www.reading.ac.uk/life/life-accommodation.aspx). However, please note that only the following Halls and options are available to IFP students starting the programme in January 2012:
Benyon (self-catered en-suite; 3 Jan - 4 Aug)
St George's (self-catered en-suite; 3 Jan - 4 Aug)
St George's (self-catered wash-basin room; 3 Jan - 4 Aug)
The students in self-catered accommodation will be able to purchase meals at a 10% discount using the campus card system.
More information on catering can be found here: http://www.fmd.reading.ac.uk/Events_and_catering/Residential_Catering/
The following Halls (mostly catered) are available for a limited initial residency period. Students opting for the halls where the initial residency period finishes on 30 June will be provided with alternative accommodation for the Summer Vacation period.
Bulmershe (self-catered en-suite; 3 Jan - 30 June)
Windsor (catered, wash-basin room; 3 Jan - 30 June)
Windsor (catered, standard room; 3 Jan - 30 June)
Wantage (catered, wash-basin room; 3 Jan - 30 June)
Wantage (catered, standard room; 3 Jan - 30 June)
In the catered halls, the charge for catering is included in the rent. This is loaded on to the students' campus card and meals can be purchased (at 40% discount) during the IFP term-times (up to 30 June). The amount loaded on the card is equivalent to around 14 meals per week.
Instructions for applying online
Log in to: https://www.risisweb.reading.ac.uk/si/sits.urd/run/siw_lgn
Type in your student number (this will be on your offer letter) in the username field.
Type in your date of birth as your password, in the format ddmmyyyy. You will then be asked to put in the temporary password given on the screen.
Select Accommodation from the left-hand column. You will then be able to click to apply for accommodation at the bottom of the box on the left or read the walkthrough guide from the box on the right-hand side.
You will then go through to student accommodation online and just need to follow the instructions on the screen to proceed.
Please note the following:
Your application type is New Undergraduate.
Your type of study during the academic year is International Foundation Prog.
Once you have been sent an offer of a place in a Hall, you must accept or decline this offer within two weeks. If you accept the offer of accommodation you will be legally bound to the contract once you have enrolled on your course. After accepting the Hall you will then be required to pay the accommodation deposit of £250.00 within 10 days.
Possible problems
If you do not get the column on the left-hand side, then you need to click refresh and it should appear again.
You may get a java script error that will stop you from submitting the application if you try to cut and paste any text into the application. If this happens, then you should delete anything you have pasted and try again to submit.
If you experience any other problems please contact the Accommodation Office via email studenthelp@reading.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)118 378 5555.
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