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Although this is not part of the debate, the impact of an abandoned place ultimately places strain on the ability of universities to keep going and will require significant overheads in juggling the type of courses offered with the numbers taking up a course and likely to stay the course. This may affect the wider communities of local and not-so-local students who now travel daily from home to attend. They may find courses cut and institutions closing because of default. Here I speak of those universities, as an example, to which many students now commute daily because it is cheaper for them not to pay accommodation costs. It is a great way for students who come from a family background with no experience of a university education to become the first in their families able to afford the fees, go to classes and finish their degrees. They sometimes travel, as I have seen, many miles on the train when commuting daily. They may lose their courses, because the planning has been such that, ultimately, the course must close.