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A cycle of silence is destroying progress on addressing students’ problems
Jim Dickinson explores how structural and cultural pressures create a "conspiracy of silence" around the student experience – and why SUs could choose truth-telling over reputation management
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Summer 2025
Improving the experience for international students
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Coping with crisis means SUs have to adapt again
From lobbying under Labour to leading in crisis, Team Wonkhe reports on two compelling plenaries at Membership Services Conference 2025 that charted a new direction for student representation in uncertain times.
Study Tour January 2025
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Partnership? Students in Scotland need protection
As funding pressures mount, Jim Dickinson argues that Scotland’s celebrated model of student partnership is no longer enough - and students now need real, enforceable protections
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Wales can lead the way on student engagement – if it chooses to
From student rights to democratic participation, Jim Dickinson makes the case for a bold, enforceable Learner Engagement Code in Wales to ensure higher education delivers on its civic promise
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Freedom of speech in SUs
For SUs, free speech regulation is a terrible mess
Jim Dickinson reflects on a new legal case that highlights the importance of democratic debate and the right of citizens and members to discriminate on the basis of others' beliefs
Study tour to Portugal
To be FAIRe, there was plenty to learn in Portugal
On the way home from this year study tour to Portugal, Jim, Mack and team reflect on what UK SUs might learn from the country's impressive systems and culture of student organising
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Social mobility is in the mix
Friendships that cut across income brackets and backgrounds are the stuff of many an american teen movie, but it turns out that they’re also a measurable driver of social mobility.
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I would like a place I could call my own
You’ve got to hand it to the good people running businesses in Lincoln.
Belong from Wonkhe and Cibyl
Latest from Belong – students are earning, but what are we learning?
Jim Dickinson assesses the findings of new polling from Belong on students' experiences of and impacts from being at work
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Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new regulation of access and participation
The Office for Students (OfS) has published new arrangements for the regulation of equality of opportunity in higher education in England and there are big opportunities for SUs.
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Free speech
We’re still no closer to clarity over antisemitism on campus
A couple of fairly notable things emerged last week over antisemitism in higher education.
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We need to talk about sabbatical burnout
One of the conversations we have a lot at this time of year with SUs is about burnout and sabbatical officer workload.
Policy forums and round tables
Round table report: Harassment and sexual misconduct
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Study Tour 2023: The low countries
As the sector expands, why are we letting more mean less?
Are we making compromises to the student experience just to make the numbers add up? Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott reflect on a week in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany with student leaders.
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Nick Smith's adventures in SU democracy and governance
Mixed category trustee boards aren’t working. Here’s what would
SU governance expert Nick Smith takes us back to Britain's answer to Disneyland to learn lessons about trustee boards
