University of Essex - Cash for Essex regeneration

Some £250 million is to be spent on the University of Essex's three campus sites over the next seven years. Thirty projects are involved, including a £25 million student centre in Colchester. At the Southend campus, which opened in 2007, student accommodation will be built, plus performance facilities for the university's East 15 Acting School. The cash is made up of a loan of up to £100 million and capital grants from the Higher Education Funding Council for England.