Green Templeton College should make it convenient for all college members regardless of degree programme or department affiliation to live at Rewley Abbey Court at reasonable student rates and for periods based on the duration of their respective degree programmes.

The new policy of extending the lease duration for all residents at RAC to 12 months even when their academic year ends in July given a 9 month university academic year financially constrains students wishing to take up job or internship placements, join for instance USA universities (which usually begin early August), go for research fieldwork, or simply return overseas and leave the country upon completion of studies at the end Trinity term.

Therefore, we request Green-Templeton College to re-consider the increase in rents and re-instate lease durations at RAC based on the length of students' respective academic programmes, as is common practice in other Oxford Colleges.