campus and a third space on the 9th floor at the Reading campus.
The union aims to bring students academic advice and advocacy support, events, ways to take up new activities, and sports, and a place to socialise. With the course representative programme run by their Student Voice team, students can apply to be a course or school representative to help advocate for academic change.
=== Student accommodation ===
Before 2006, the university operated halls of residence only at the Reading campus, although several private houses in the Ealing area were rented by the university and allocated to students studying there. In September 2006 the university began to offer halls of residence accommodation to students from the Ealing and Slough campuses at a student and keyworker accommodation site named Paragon. The site won the 'Major Housing Project of the Year' category at the 2007 Building Awards, and is in Brentford, approximately two miles away from the Ealing campus.
Paragon is home to the tallest building to be completed using modern methods of construction (MMC) in the UK, which serves as a 130,000 sq ft (12,000 m2) academic facility for the university's human sciences facility. The student accommodation at Paragon had been criticised by its residents for being too expensive, costing the highest of all Greater London universities' halls of residence along with SOAS in the 2007–2008 year. TVU defended the costs, asserting that the halls are of an especially high standard.
In 2020, Notting Hill Genesis, the company that owned the Paragon student lets site, controversially closed the entire student halls of residence due to fire safety concerns, asking students to immediately evacuate. Students were moved to temporary housing in nearby Wembley whilst the university found suitable housing. Accommodation for students at UWL now varies from shared housing to student lets in Ealing, Acton and the surrounding area.
== Controversies ==
In the mid-1990s, its high-profile vice-chancellor, Mike Fitzgerald, ushered through …
