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IQ Student Accommodation
IQ Student Accommodation is a British student housing company that owns 70 halls of residence with 30,000 bedrooms. It is owned by Blackstone, one of the world’s largest real estate investment firms. History In 2016, the Wellcome Trust merged its student accommodation business with Prodigy Living, owned by Goldman Sachs and Greystar Real Estate Partners, thereby founding the company. In December 2017, IQ Student Accommodation bought Pure Student Living from LetterOne Treasury Services for £869 million, adding 11 sites in London, Edinburgh, York, Bath and Brighton. As of February 2018, IQ owned 66 student halls, with 28,000 bedrooms, and a valuation of about £3 billion. IQ is the UK's largest provider of purpose-built student accommodation by value, and second largest by number of bedrooms (after Unite Students). IQ has the largest London portfolio, with 6,700 rooms in 15 sites. In February 2018, Penny Hughes was appointed as chair, joining Rob Roger who was the chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term ''Intelligenzquotient'', his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests at University of Breslau he advocated in a 1912 book. Historically, IQ was a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months. The resulting fraction ( quotient) was multiplied by 100 to obtain the IQ score. For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. This results in approximately two-thirds of the population scoring between IQ 85 and IQ 115 and about 2.5 percent each above 130 and below 70. Scores from intelligence tests are estimates of intelligence. Unlike, for examp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
