Latest blogs from SUs
Access all areas? If only
With a conference session on disability inclusion sitting up a flight of stairs, Bryony Humphries-Jennings argues that the gap between good intentions and inclusive design is where belonging is lost
Working for students
Blogs from SUs
Bereaved students aren’t rare. They’re just invisible to each other
With up to half of students bereaved in the past two years, Annie McEntee argues the problem isn't a lack of services – it's a culture that won't mention death
Study tour to Iceland
There is magic in being a little angry but not alone
Iceland's higher education system was built to serve a national purpose. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall report from Reykjavík – and ask what the UK's system is for when the salary returns stop adding up
The Friday SUs Briefing Email
Student experience on Wonkhe
Some private schools are more equal than others
Pupils at the country's wealthiest private schools are up to nine times more likely to get into Oxbridge than pupils at the least wealthy private schools – despite both groups sitting inside the very same elite schools' body
Students' unions on Wonkhe
The class of 2026 has clocked that they can’t have it all
Students were sold an education, a community and a transformation. Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah find a generation of student leaders working out those promises no longer fit inside one life
Explainers
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
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SUs Video Briefings
Study tour January 2026
Country guides
Students unions on Wonkhe
Student voice systems have transformed beyond recognition
Ashley Storer-Smith outlines findings from a sector-wide review of student representation systems, highlighting recent changes in structure, recruitment, and practice
student finance on wonkhe
A fresh cost of living crisis is coming for students. You’d never know
With OfS's proposed fairness condition under consultation, Jim Dickinson audits what universities tell applicants about costs – and finds silence, archaeology or arithmetic that doesn't add up
accommodation on wonkhe
Belong from Wonkhe and Cibyl
Latest from Belong – students’ health is not OK, and that’s not OK
Jim Dickinson explores new polling that reveals a worsening picture of students' physical and mental health, undermining their academic success
Featured SUs Explainers
All the latest research on the value of extra curricular activities
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Free speech
The Miller judgment draws its line through students
Jim Dickinson reads the Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment on David Miller's dismissal – and finds one half setting out what a university can't touch, and one what it still can
Featured SUs Explainers
Featured SUs blogs
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.
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.
Country Briefings
Nick Smith's adventures in SU democracy and governance
Swap your new notebook for new behaviours
Nick Smith writes up their new year's resolutions starting with the updated charity governance code and its new focus on behaviours.
