Wonkhe explainers for SUs

There’s a lot of material both on the main Wonkhe site and on our subsite for SUs.

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Topics: Fees, funding & student finance · Regulation & the OfS · HE policy & politics · University finance & management · Cost of living & hardship · Housing & accommodation · Mental health & wellbeing · Belonging & community · Free speech & protest · Harassment & sexual misconduct · Teaching, learning & assessment · AI · Academic quality & standards · Student rights & consumer protection · Complaints & the OIA · Access & participation · Equality, diversity & inclusion · Disabled students · International students & immigration · Postgraduate & PGR · Employment, careers & outcomes · SU governance & charity law · SU officers & leadership · Student representation & voice · Activities, sport & societies · Elections & democracy · Industrial action · Covid-19 · Study tours & international comparisons · Sustainability & climate · Digital & technology

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Fees, funding & student finance (99)

Russell Group SUs have said what they think
Deposits, instalments and hardship: the full picture for home and international students
The Home Office owes international students £170 million. Here’s how to get it back
How (and why) to respond to the NMC’s consultation on nursing and midwifery practice learning standards
The coming cost of living crisis will hit students hardest – unless SUs act now
Why SUs need to respond to DfE’s consultation on software and Disabled Students Allowance
The weekend delivery issue and students’ rights (updated)
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Lib Dems
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Greens
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish National Party
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Liberal Democrats
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Labour
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Plaid Cymru
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Green Party
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Conservatives
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Welsh Labour
Here’s what’s happening with HE finance in Wales
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Reform UK
How (and why) to respond to the Treasury Committee’s call for evidence on student loans
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Reform UK
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: The Welsh Conservatives
How to make students more powerful – eight secrets of the Money Saving Expert
Why are medical students calling for changes to maintenance loans?
Financial worry is now the baseline condition of being a student
What do students on placement get for their money?
Here’s how students are spending financial support in 2025
Budget 2025 and what it means for SU, students and graduates
Scotland’s Tertiary Bill at Stage 2: What SUs need to know
What does it actually cost to apply to a postgraduate course?
What’s in the Post-16 skills white paper for students?
International student fees and hardship – what different universities are doing
The costs of failure. How much does it cost students to repeat, resubmit etc?
Twenty things that MPs won’t know about when it comes to student finance
What does the national student money survey say this year – and what do SUs need to know
How much money do students actually need?
VFM in HE – what students think and what SUs can do
When medicine meets poverty – what to do about medical student hardship
OfS has got their funding guidance but what does it mean
Change is coming for PhD students
It’s all coming up: Seven things for SUs to prep for in the year ahead
What’s all this about (home student) attendance policies?
Here’s what the Secretary of State for Education actually said when they increased fees (in England)
How the law works over tuition fee increases
Where international students can pay by instalments (and how many)
What could the King’s Speech mean for students and SUs?
What is the Lifelong Loan Entitlement and how is it supposed to work?
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Labour Party
How to respond to the consultation on improving non-medical help for disabled students
What is polling on students and the cost of living crisis telling us?
There’s a new report on transition and reasonable adjustments for disabled students. Here’s what SUs need to know
It’s all coming up – ten things for SUs to prepare for in 2024
Policy forum update: Student cost of living
50p a week to live on after rent
Do students hope for value for money?
The student money survey 2023 is out. Here’s what SUs need to know
What do the public think about tuition fees?
Will Sharia-compliant student finance ever happen?
Hidden course costs and consumer law
The Wonkhe SUs student cost of living resource hub
Make it make sense – understanding England’s system of student finance
Here’s the latest data on students and cost of living
How England plans to cut back ‘low value’ degrees so it can reap more student loan repayments
How to respond to DfE’s HE policy statement and reform consultation
Can students afford to study in 2022?
Why are students in Scotland facing student poverty?
Do fees have an impact on student satisfaction?
Understanding potential changes to student loans
We can’t ignore money when it comes to student mental health
What does a degree actually cost – for students and for universities?
Ten issues for SUs to explore as universities prepare to expand
How higher education staff perceive the impact of policy on students
How to respond to OfS’ 2021/22 funding consultation
What is London Weighting and why should it matter to students?
The state of play on Covid hardship support
How to spend DfE’s £50m for student hardship
What could be done to help/compensate the Class of Covid?
How do students think about student loans?
Student loans don’t cover students’ costs
Has Covid-19 impacted student (and parent) financial confidence?
A whole bunch of extraordinary facts about postgraduate study in the UK
Would students be happy if next term was online?
What do students think about the so-called “value for money” agenda?
What are prospective students saying about universities and student support?
Complaints, compensation and Covid-19
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 and Industrial Action
General election 2019 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Brexit Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Labour Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Liberal Democrats
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Green Party
How to tell students where their tuition fees go
SUs as charities and external advertising
What do we know about student living costs?
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: value for money
The hits and misses from the 2019 Student Academic Experience survey
Augar is here: what do SUs need to know?
Why postgraduate taught students are about to move up SUs’ priority list
What happens to students if there’s “no deal”?

Regulation & the OfS (118)

What SUs (in England) need to know about the future of the TEF
What SUs need to know about research into students’ experiences of accommodation
How to get involved in the Advance HE/Office for Students research on AI
Here’s where we’re at with university finances (in England) – May 2026
What the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations means for SUs
Welsh student welfare: What new rules require – and what SUs cam now push for
Here’s what access and participation looks like in London
What SUs (in England) need to know about the Office for Students’ guidance on freedom of speech v3
The essential (revised and updated) guide for SUs to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on “treating students fairly”
What SUs need to know about the Sussex free speech judgment
Medr’s regulatory framework is a fair-weather friend to students
What SFC’s new review on safety and belonging mean for SUs
What SUs need to know about the UJS Time for Change report
How are Scottish universities achieving their National Equality Outcomes?
What Scotland’s quality reviews tell SUs about the rights students should expect
The TEF and why it matters to SUs – 2026 edition
Scotland’s new tertiary education act – what SUs need to know
19 things that went wrong at Regent College London – and what reps can learn from it
It’s time to push for a rewrite of your university’s Student Protection Plan
Here’s what the government position is if a provider (in England) goes insolvent
Scotland’s Tertiary Bill at Stage 2: What SUs need to know
What SUs need to know about grade inflation, algorithms and degree transcripts
The SFC has ditched outcome agreements – here’s what the new system means for SUs
How to respond to Medr’s consultation on a new regulatory system for Welsh tertiary education
How (and why) to respond to the consultation on OfS’ proposals on quality
How (and why) to respond to the consultation on OfS’ proposals on quality
The B3 data dashboards are here, what does it mean for SUs
20 questions SUs should ask about harassment and sexual misconduct
Here’s what’s on the to do list for the OfS this year
OfS answers a bunch of frequently asked questions over harassment and sexual misconduct
What happens after the OfS publishes a quality assessment report
The OfS takes a position on AI, here’s what you need to know
OfS has got their funding guidance but what does it mean
Sussex, OfS and free speech – what might the implications be for SUs?
How to respond to OfS’ new consultation on fairness for students
OfS is regulating again, here’s what SUs need to know
What SUs can learn from complaints about harassment and sexual misconduct
How to respond to OfS’ consultation over its new strategy
Welfare, wellbeing, sexual misconduct and racism in Wales
Round one of OfS’ quality reports are complete – here’s what we learned
A new episode of OfS quality assessment reports has dropped. Here’s what SUs need to know
How to respond to Medr’s consultation on its strategic plan
What can SUs learn from the approval of new providers?
How to review your SU’s code of conduct or disciplinary complaints procedure in light of new OfS regulation
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new condition of registration on harassment and sexual misconduct
Slow email responses, deadline bunching and unsuitable IT – driving change via OfS’ latest inspection reports
Here’s why bad scores on student continuation, completion and progression matter to universities and their SUs
The Scottish Funding Council has a new Outcomes Framework. Here’s what SUs need to know
OfS has a new inspection report out – here’s what SUs and their reps need to know
Free speech act and SUs – fines and recovery of costs by OfS
What exactly does “student success” mean
What happened in OfS’ free speech guidance webinar for SUs?
How to improve your university’s handling of allegations of sexual misconduct
Understanding and responding to OfS’ consultation on guidance on SU free speech duties
Takeaways for SUs from OfS’ latest webinar on access and participation
Understanding the free speech legal balance
OfS consults on (and answers questions on) free speech
Amended guidance on APPs – here’s what matters to SUs (Jan 2024 UPDATE)
More ways to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
Tackling violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in HE in Wales: What SUs need to know
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on new free speech duties for SUs
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on its new free speech complaints scheme
Policy forum update: Harassment and sexual misconduct
What SUs need to know about a revised Quality Code
How to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
The Welsh government is slowing down the creation of CTER – here’s what SUs need to know
England’s Free Speech Act – what happens now
Understanding new “legal briefings” on SUs and free speech
A quick guide to university governance
How to feed in on your university’s approach to free speech
What’s in the HE reform consultation response?
Reflecting on a decade of higher education policy and politics – and looking ahead
Student engagement in OfS’ new APP process
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new regulation of access and participation
Round table report: Harassment and sexual misconduct
A consistent standard of mental health support for students in Wales – here’s what SUs need to know
What are the basics that all higher education SUs should have?
How to respond to OfS’ proposals on harassment and sexual misconduct
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new proposals on harassment and sexual misconduct
Are university campuses breeding grounds for extremism?
Providers need to do more to tackle harassment and sexual misconduct, according to a new OfS evaluation
How to use the blended learning review for change
How to respond to the OfS consultation on a new access and participation regime
Your essential guide to making sense of OfS’ new data dashboards
How England plans to cut back ‘low value’ degrees so it can reap more student loan repayments
The TEF and B3 consultation responses are out. Here’s what SUs need to know
Who is James Wharton and why is he in the news?
How to understand and use OfS’ new definitions of quality
Understanding and influencing Access and Participation plan “variations”
The (new) regulation that surrounds student engagement in England
How to respond to OfS’ consultations on outcomes and excellence
This is why the B3 bear and the TEF matters to your SU’s strategy
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about IfS’ new social mobility stats
This is what SUs need to know about the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
Ten ways to improve institution-level student representation
The future of student involvement in quality in Wales
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on quality and standards
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about the new Building Safety Bill
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new “proceed” measure
How to respond to OfS’ 2021/22 funding consultation
Should universities tell students the outcome of harassment and sexual misconduct complaints?
Twenty things that SUs need to know about Phase One of the NSS review
What’s going on with OfS’ consultation on harassment and sexual misconduct – and why SUs should care
OfS has new guidance out on no detriment policies and safety nets
Understanding OfS’ consumer protection reviews
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on quality and standards
How to respond to the NSS review consultation
Proposed work on students’ union, association and guild freedom of expression and wider standards
Back to the future on no platforming
Policy Exchange proposals on SUs and freedom of speech
Students need detail about September – but is that possible?
OfS publishes guidance on teaching, assessment, student support and consumer rights during Covid-19
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on student consultation
An overview of the regulatory framework for England
A code for quality
Why should I care about QAA and HESA?
What’s all the fuss about grade inflation?

HE policy & politics (91)

Russell Group SUs have said what they think
What SUs need to know about student civic engagement
Wonkhe SUs Holyrood election 2026: Student policy guide and webapp
Wonkhe SUs Senedd election 2026: Student policy guide and webapp
Medr’s regulatory framework is a fair-weather friend to students
How (and why) to respond to the Treasury Committee’s call for evidence on student loans
How (and why) to respond to the Welsh Government’s call for evidence on the future of tertiary education
Scotland’s new tertiary education act – what SUs need to know
What UK SUs need to know about Erasmus+ – and what to do about it
What’s going on with UK universities’ finances?
Budget 2025 and what it means for SU, students and graduates
Here’s what the public thinks about universities, and why that matters to SUs
How to use planning policy and the Skills White Paper to make student housing better
What’s in the Post-16 skills white paper for students?
What’s going on with students and guaranteed hours in the Employment Rights Bill?
Students should be more involved in their towns and cities, here’s what SUs need to know about the new Pride in Place Strategy
Here’s what universities civic and economic impact is and why SUs should be interested
How (and why) to respond to the government’s unpaid internships consultation
OfS has got their funding guidance but what does it mean
The government is amending the Employment Rights Bill – here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s where the Department for Education’s mental health taskforce is up to
It’s all coming up: Seven things for SUs to prep for in the year ahead
How (and why) to respond to the Employment Rights Bill call for evidence
Here’s what the Secretary of State for Education actually said when they increased fees (in England)
How to respond to the NHS change consultation in the student interest
There’s a new employment rights Bill out. Here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s what SUs need to know about UUK’s new “blueprint”
How to respond to Medr’s consultation on its strategic plan
What could the King’s Speech mean for students and SUs?
It’s Freshers Week for new MPs – what do SUs need to know?
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The SNP
The Wonkhe SUs 2024 general election student policy guide
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Reform Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Labour Party
The Scottish Funding Council has a new Outcomes Framework. Here’s what SUs need to know
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Green Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: Liberal Democrats
Labour is promising to improve workers’ rights and pay. Here’s the implications for SUs
The government response to the graduate review is out – here’s the upshots for SUs
What to look out for in the MAC review
How city planners think about student accommodation
All about students and HE in Europe and the role of the EU
It’s all coming up – ten things for SUs to prepare for in 2024
The Welsh government is slowing down the creation of CTER – here’s what SUs need to know
What do the public think about tuition fees?
What’s in the HE reform consultation response?
Reflecting on a decade of higher education policy and politics – and looking ahead
It’s all coming up – 10 things for SUs think about in 2023
How (and why) to lobby the Lords over the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
What’s going on with the UCU industrial action?
How to respond to the consultation on new standards for rented homes
It’s all coming up – 10 things for SUs to prep for in 2022/23
How to respond to the consultation on renter’s reform
Turn back time
Achieving a fairer private rental sector – what SUs need to know
Who is James Wharton and why is he in the news?
How to respond to DfE’s HE policy statement and reform consultation
How to respond to UKRI’s New Deal for Postgraduate Research consultation
They are consumers, at the end of the day. Or are they?
This is what SUs need to know about the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
How to follow a Bill through Parliament
Understanding potential changes to student loans
How to submit evidence on the Freedom of Speech Bill
How higher education staff perceive the impact of policy on students
What restrictions might remain on students and universities after “freedom day”?
How to respond to OfS’ 2021/22 funding consultation
What is London Weighting and why should it matter to students?
A quick guide for SUs to new measures in the Chancellor’s “Plan for Jobs”
What SUs need to know about the Winter Economy Plan 2020
The restructuring regime and SUs
Can we (and should we) measure how much students learn?
DfE has published guidance on reopening universities in the autumn
UUK has published some principles and considerations on emerging from lockdown
What are FE colleges being told about opening – and why might it matter for HE?
What do students think about the so-called “value for money” agenda?
It’s a myth! Made up things about students and universities FINALLY REVEALED
It’s all coming up – ten things we think will happen next term
The Wonkhe SUs 2019 general election student policy guide
General election 2019 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Brexit Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Labour Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Liberal Democrats
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Green Party
Data for the terrified- where to find facts, figures and numbers about unis
Augar is here: what do SUs need to know?
A quick guide to qualitative data
What are the four classic policy goals?
(Hear the drummer) get wicked problems

University finance & management (59)

Here’s where we’re at with university finances (in England) – May 2026
Comparing the financial help that universities give to students (In England)
Universities are curbing free food for students
Here’s what’s happening with HE finance in Wales
Graduation costs index: 2026 edition
The ultimate guide for SUs on what to think about and what to do if a merger is on the cards
It’s time to push for a rewrite of your university’s Student Protection Plan
Here’s what the government position is if a provider (in England) goes insolvent
Does your university need a student consultation framework? (2026 update)
What’s going on with UK universities’ finances?
Here’s what the public thinks about universities, and why that matters to SUs
Help! My uni has over (or under) recruited to a course
Here’s what universities civic and economic impact is and why SUs should be interested
Here’s what’s on the to do list for the OfS this year
What SUs can learn from the OIA about closures
Finding your university in the data: Summer 2025 edition
Here’s what UUK has to say about university cuts
How digital transformation happens at universities
What are students’ rights over closed modules, campuses and courses?
What SUs can learn from complaints about student transfers
Here’s what SUs need to know about UUK’s new “blueprint”
What SUs need to think about when deciding how to allocate hardship funding
How to be “positively pushy” to get things done for students
Finding your university in the data: Summer 2024 edition
What are students’ rights if cuts are proposed or implemented?
Women VCs increase reporting rates of gender-based violence on campus
How to interrogate the student experience at subject level
What to think about if you’re feeding in on a new building or refurb on campus
What are universities doing on the cost of living crisis?
A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling
What to think about when your uni is planning (or not planning) to grow
A closer look at university finances
Understanding exclusive university supplier deals on campus
A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling
PGRs need more and better space on campus
The REF, and why it matters to universities
How to respond to DfE’s HE policy statement and reform consultation
A beginner’s guide to medical education
What does a degree actually cost – for students and for universities?
Ten issues for SUs to explore as universities prepare to expand
What’s it like being a woman in higher education?
This is what SUs need to know about league tables
The debate over university admissions reform
Student consumer rights and refunds under Covid-19
What are universities planning and are students still coming?
Are students worried about their uni going bankrupt?
How to reopen universities in September
The practicalities of a socially distant campus
Will students defer or switch if September is socially distant?
Preparing to discuss your university’s finances
How to respond to OfS’ review of admissions (and why SUs should bother)
UUK has been polling people on what they think about admissions
How much profit does your university make out of students?
Make me an offer – how students get recruited to universities and why it matters to SUs
What do students want from library refurbs?
Timetabling, soft skills and student support: does the new “football uni” have the answers?
Are university league tables broken?
How much should my VC get paid (and should students have a say?)
What’s all the fuss about uncondtional offers?

Cost of living & hardship (138)

Deposits, instalments and hardship: the full picture for home and international students
Comparing the financial help that universities give to students (In England)
The coming cost of living crisis will hit students hardest – unless SUs act now
Universities are curbing free food for students
Here’s what SUs need to know about the annual student gambling survey
Who bears the price risk in student energy contracts matters more than the price
What Cibyl’s 2025 mental health survey means for SUs
Graduation costs index: 2026 edition
Why are medical students calling for changes to maintenance loans?
Financial worry is now the baseline condition of being a student
Nom nom nom – food and belonging on campus
Here’s how students are spending financial support in 2025
International student fees and hardship – what different universities are doing
Everything SUs need to know from the UK Student Accommodation Report for 2025
Twenty things that MPs won’t know about when it comes to student finance
What does the national student money survey say this year – and what do SUs need to know
“All your loan goes on rent”: what SUs need to know about Unipol’s house hunting research
How much money do students actually need?
What SUs can learn from #exceptional financial support practice
The hidden impact of menstruation – what SUs need to know
There’s a new report about what student life is like today – here’s why it’s important to SUs in planning the year ahead
The proposed changes to the welfare system and why they matter to students and SUs
When medicine meets poverty – what to do about medical student hardship
What students want their SU to push for on health
There’s new findings in the annual student gambling survey
Here’s what SUs in England need to know about buses and forthcoming changes to bus franchising
Paying more to live further away – UK student housing in 2025
There’s new insight about the impact of hardship funding for students – and why not having restrictions on funding spend matters
Here’s how to respond to the Department for Transport’s Integrated National Transport Strategy
Here’s what students spend their financial support funds on
What’s happening to period product funding in universities in Scotland?
Student mental health is declining, here’s what SUs need to know from a new study
Hardship funds in UK universities – here’s what what we found
Food insecurity is on the up. What should SUs say or do?
What SUs need to think about when deciding how to allocate hardship funding
Which students are more likely to run out of food?
Here’s the latest that SUs need to know about student poverty
All the top takeaways from Jisc’s student digital experience insights surveys
10 things SUs can do to support students who are working
Some students are single parents. What are they going through?
What SUs need to know about the students arriving on campus in September
How to be “positively pushy” to get things done for students
A new report covers student cost of living information – here’s what SUs need to know
Top ten takeaways from this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey
Here’s what SUs need to know about digital poverty
What is polling on students and the cost of living crisis telling us?
How to establish a student basic needs agenda (and centre)
3 per cent of students have enough money
Making student housing affordable – rooms that are 10m squared
Here’s the latest intel on student housing
It’s all coming up – ten things for SUs to prepare for in 2024
First-generation students may need different mental health support
Policy forum update: Building belonging and tackling loneliness
Policy forum update: Student cost of living
Who’s offering hardship funding for international students?
How to approach discussions on university rent setting
PGRs are lonely and hard up too
Financial literacy and the “ethnicity gap” among UK students
50p a week to live on after rent
Helping students with cost of living pressures improves their sense of belonging
Why a basic needs approach may be key to shifting the dial on student support
Student views of the affordability of plant-based diets
How do students spend bursaries and hardship funds?
Here’s the latest intel on student accommodation
How to apply for the Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund (England)
What are universities doing on the cost of living crisis?
The student money survey 2023 is out. Here’s what SUs need to know
What are this year’s Freshers thinking?
Hidden course costs and consumer law
Students are vulnerable to fraud – and need better protection
Top ten takeaways for SUs from the Student Academic Experience Survey 2023
The Wonkhe SUs student cost of living resource hub
How to define and measure international student precarity
What is happening to students in the private rented sector?
Timetabling is stopping students from getting a job
What’s in the APPG students report on students and cost of living – and why it matters
The cost of living crisis is hitting students’ grades
How to ensure students benefit from the Household Support Fund
Cost of living and mental health and closely related
Does paid work boost students’ confidence?
The latest headlines on student mental health
It’s all coming up – 10 things for SUs think about in 2023
Does what students eat get them better outcomes?
Here’s what SUs need to know about the new ONS cost of living research
How to make a difference for students on public transport
Policy forum report: Presidents and UDOs
Policy forum report: Welfare and Community Officers
Some students should be getting money from their landlord
How to make best use of forthcoming national student cost of living research
Seven in ten students have thought about dropping out due to money
300,000 students at risk of hardship – here’s what new universities are doing
International students, hardship and money-lending scams
How to use the OIA note on cost of living to accelerate efforts to support students
Students and part time work: here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s the latest data on students and cost of living
Big Question: What are SUs doing on Cost of Living?
Food insecurity and food banks for students
Here’s what students need to know about the £400 energy bills support scheme
What are students’ rights if their all-inclusive bills go up?
Medical students are cutting spending on food
Two new studies are out on student cost of living
Here’s the latest intel on student halls
Mental health has a close relationship to sleep and financial pressures
What can SUs do to end homelessness?
Scholarships make a big difference for care-experienced and estranged students
Student views on cost of living and politics
For students, the cost of living pressures are really starting to bite
Working, studying and “first in family” students
Can students afford to study in 2022?
Why are students in Scotland facing student poverty?
What is the National Student Accommodation Survey 2022 telling us?
Students are borrowing money to gamble
We can’t ignore money when it comes to student mental health
The state of play on Covid hardship support
How to support international students in financial hardship
How many students are in rent debt?
Is there a link between money and student mental health?
How to spend DfE’s £50m for student hardship
Student caregivers during the pandemic
Which universities are offering rent rebates for Christmas?
Are students destined to live with their parents until their 30s?
Evidence is emerging on students in lockdown
Student loans don’t cover students’ costs
Three in five students have seen a direct impact on their income as a result of Covid-19
Should we worry about students and money this September?
Has Covid-19 impacted student (and parent) financial confidence?
Ten important findings about young people and education from ONS research into the impact of Covid-19
What bespoke support should be in place for disadvantaged students during the crisis?
Are students turning to private debt to pay rent?
What about the voices of part time students
How much profit does your university make out of students?
Students need jobs – but what sort?
Closing the gap between student expectations and reality
Should students who owe their university money be able to graduate?
Students are more skint than ever before
Do bursaries work?
What do we know about student living costs?
Where are we at on student period poverty?

Housing & accommodation (103)

What SUs need to know about research into students’ experiences of accommodation
Renter’s Rights Act: What should have happened in May?
Rights to exit student accommodation in England “early” as of May 1st 2026
A beefed up weapon against rogue landlords – a guide to Rent Repayment Orders for SUs in England
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Plaid Cymru
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Green Party
Who bears the price risk in student energy contracts matters more than the price
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: The Welsh Conservatives
12 (+3) new Renter’s Rights tricks landlords could pull (and what to do about them)
The Renters Rights Bill is law – what should SUs do to prepare for May 1st 2026? (updated)
Guide to Renter’s Rights Act (England) for students (updated)
What students’ landlords are being told about the Renters’ Rights Act, and why it matters for SUs
Summer 2026 and the Renter’s Rights Act – Step by Step
30 housing cases that made it to the first tier tribunal
How to stop students being ripped off by the emerging guarantor market
Students live in terrible housing. Can SUs do anything about it?
How to use planning policy and the Skills White Paper to make student housing better
Everything SUs need to know from the UK Student Accommodation Report for 2025
A showdown over students is coming in the Housing (Scotland) Bill
The one-year loophole: How students can escape PBSA contracts in 2025/26
“All your loan goes on rent”: what SUs need to know about Unipol’s house hunting research
How much money do students actually need?
There are some last-minute government amendments to the Renters Rights Bill
24 things that SUs need to know about new rights in (some) university halls
Here’s the latest on the Housing (Scotland) Bill
What’s been happening in the Lords re the Renter’s Rights Bill?
What students want their SU to push for on health
How to respond to the consultation on standards and rights in privately-run halls
Here’s all the amendments the Lords have submitted for the Renter’s Rights Act
Paying more to live further away – UK student housing in 2025
What’s still wrong with the Renter’s Rights Bill (and what would fix it)?
What does the rest of Europe do about PBSA contract exit, guarantors and upfront rent for students?
What the Renters Rights Bill committee heard about students in its first major meeting
How to respond to the Renters’ Rights Bill call for evidence
If that then that – here’s what amendments to the Renters’ Rights Bill could look like for students
This is what SUs (mainly in England) need to know about the new Renter’s Rights Bill
How to establish a student basic needs agenda (and centre)
How city planners think about student accommodation
How to develop urban advocacy projects in an election year
Here’s what SUs need to know about the progress of the Renter’s (Reform) Bill in England
Making student housing affordable – rooms that are 10m squared
Here’s the latest intel on student housing
How to develop a student urban advocacy agenda
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning halls?
Policy forum update: Student cost of living
How to approach discussions on university rent setting
50p a week to live on after rent
Here’s the latest intel on student accommodation
The university experiences of care experienced students
How to respond to the Welsh government’s consultation on housing rent and supply
The renters (reform) bill – here’s what SUs need to know
How to use UUK’s guidance on student accommodation to win a local housing strategy for students
What is happening to students in the private rented sector?
Here’s what the implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act means for students and SUs
How (and why) to lobby the Lords over the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
What’s going on with the UCU industrial action?
Some students should be getting money from their landlord
University students are hidden targets of county lines drug dealing – new report
How to respond to the consultation on new standards for rented homes
Here’s what students need to know about the £400 energy bills support scheme
What are students’ rights if their all-inclusive bills go up?
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about the new Building Safety Act
Two new studies are out on student cost of living
Here’s the latest intel on student halls
How to respond to the consultation on renter’s reform
Will rental reform help students in halls?
What can SUs do to end homelessness?
How to improve the quality of student housing
Rental reform is coming – what should SUs do next?
What are the big differences between living in private lets and purpose built student accommodation?
Achieving a fairer private rental sector – what SUs need to know
What is the National Student Accommodation Survey 2022 telling us?
Why are we ingraining inequality in student communities?
Race and racism in student halls
Horrible housemates and the student experience
Accommodation environments and student mental health
What is the solution to problems faced by student tenants?
Student renters need to know their rights
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about the new Building Safety Bill
How much space do students have?
How the national codes protect students in accommodation
How many students are in rent debt?
Do students want to “return” after Easter?
What is the National Student Accommodation Survey 2021 telling us?
Sunday 21 March is the most important day of the year
Which universities are offering rent rebates for Christmas?
Why are 60s halls the way they are?
Are students destined to live with their parents until their 30s?
What support should be put in place when students are self-isolating in halls?
The impacts of purpose-built student accommodation
Where will students get their work done?
Ten things worth knowing about private student halls in the UK
Students are keen to come back – with caveats
NHS Test and Trace and the major questions for students
How many students are already locked into accommodation contracts next year?
Are students turning to private debt to pay rent?
How much profit does your university make out of students?
Higher education, students, and a sense of place
What are the benefits to “mixing people up” in halls?
The type of student accommodation you live in affects your grades
Are housemates the key to student wellbeing?
The new realists: the 2019 HEPI/Unite Students insight report
Are student homes fit for habitation?

Mental health & wellbeing (182)

The research on fixated behaviour – and what SUs can do about it
Does going to university make you happier (and more socially mobile?)
Welsh student welfare: What new rules require – and what SUs cam now push for
Getting ahead on student voice: Why pre-arrival questionnaires are (literally) the future
Here’s what SUs need to know about the annual student gambling survey
Meningitis outbreak at Kent – what SUs need to know
What’s the update on learner analytics and what do SUs need to know
What Cibyl’s 2025 mental health survey means for SUs
Why are medical students calling for changes to maintenance loans?
How can SUs learn from HE and NHS partnerships
Financial worry is now the baseline condition of being a student
What SUs can learn from the QAA’s report on assessment practice at Glasgow
What does the latest research tell us about student belonging – and what can SUs do about it?
Pass/fail is better for learning and better for mental health
Student loneliness isn’t going away and the evidence on what works is getting stronger
What SUs need to know about a new book on belonging
Does commuting to university really damage student wellbeing?
How to use the Abrahart triangle for change
What are incoming students thinking and why it matters to SUs
Top ten takeaways from the 2025 Student Academic Experience Survey
What SUs need know about the national review of student suicides
What students want their SU to push for on health
There’s new findings in the annual student gambling survey
There’s a new framework to support students in distress – here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s where the Department for Education’s mental health taskforce is up to
Here’s where universities are going wrong (and right) on student mental health
Welfare, wellbeing, sexual misconduct and racism in Wales
Policy forum: Wellbeing and liberation officers and staff
Student mental health is declining, here’s what SUs need to know from a new study
How to respond to the NHS change consultation in the student interest
Scabies is on the rise – and students are among the worst affected
New guidance on preventing student death by suicide – here’s what SUs need to know
Avoiding academic burnout? It’s belonging again
Mpox is a global health emergency – what should universities and SUs do?
Some students are single parents. What are they going through?
Do students who use their phones during lectures just lack self-control?
After Abrahart: What should SUs push for to improve support for Disabled students? (June 2024 update)
Students from lower socioeconomic backrounds have worse sleep
Which students are suitable candidates for mental health services?
Why do students pre-drink?
Takeaways for SUs from OfS’ latest webinar on access and participation
What about the Covid student doctors?
This is why better sleep should matter more to students (and their universities)
How to measure the mental health of students
Amended guidance on APPs – here’s what matters to SUs (Jan 2024 UPDATE)
What help is there for students with ADHD – and what should there be?
Policy forum update: PGR student experience
First-generation students may need different mental health support
Policy forum update: Building belonging and tackling loneliness
Why do students self-harm?
Why a basic needs approach may be key to shifting the dial on student support
There’s a new “student needs framework”. Here’s what SUs need to know
How to be better at supporting Black students’ wellbeing
Are campus nap pods an actual thing?
Student mental health, clubs and societies and drugs
What are this year’s Freshers thinking?
Understanding loneliness stigma
Exploring approaches to promoting belonging
A consistent standard of mental health support for students in Wales – here’s what SUs need to know
What’s in the APPG students report on students and cost of living – and why it matters
Peer support builds connection, community and confidence
What type of interventions best address student loneliness?
Cost of living and mental health and closely related
How to implement a harm reduction approach over drugs and alcohol
Understanding students and eating disorders
The latest headlines on student mental health
Learning the lessons from an evaluation of intersectional student mental health initiatives
Policy forum report: Postgraduates
Almost half of young people are experiencing mental health problems
Should your university adopt “digital” mental health support?
Does active learning improve wellbeing?
Seven in ten students have thought about dropping out due to money
Over a quarter of students have no friends at university
There’s new guidance out on placements, mental health support and preventing student suicide
University students are hidden targets of county lines drug dealing – new report
Are “wellbeing analytics” going to solve all our problems?
Targeting mental health initiatives at those most in need
A cheat sheet for the key evidence on student mental health
Academic stress is a key contributor to poor student mental health
Mental health has a close relationship to sleep and financial pressures
What is the actual impact of Instagram on student wellbeing?
Who are the UK’s loneliest students?
Is perfectionism an important part of the student mental health crisis?
What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?
Information sharing and student suicide
How did the lockdowns impact students’ mental health?
For students, the cost of living pressures are really starting to bite
Anxious students are more likely to struggle both socially and academically
Zero tolerance doesn’t stop drug use
Can students afford to study in 2022?
How to stop students from burning out
Mental health in teaching and learning
Drink, drink up
How to make post-pandemic HE work for disabled students
Horrible housemates and the student experience
Students are borrowing money to gamble
How to persuade students to live healthy
What if student wellbeing is dependent on trust?
PGRs may be normalising anxiety and depression – so what should be done to tackle that?
Accommodation environments and student mental health
What if we viewed student anxiety as an academic issue?
Want to improve student mental health? It’s all about connections
What causes international students to feel satisfied?
Seven big takeaways from the 2021 UK Engagement Survey
What happened to the health and wellbeing of staff during Covid?
How to reduce drug-related harms amongst students
How to help students with ADHD to succeed
Five important factors when supporting Covid generation freshers
International students’ social values and backgrounds can influence their mental health
There’s a new “student happiness” index – but what does it tell us?
Addressing the issues faced by deaf higher education students post-pandemic
Poorer and BAME students feel left behind during pandemic
The generation game – or why are boomers are so clueless?
We can’t ignore money when it comes to student mental health
Student mental health was hit hard during the pandemic – what should happen now?
The psychological impacts of Covid-19 on students
What should concern us re university applicants enrolling this September?
A quarter of students have no friends, says new study
How the national codes protect students in accommodation
What have students in Scotland missed out on – and what do they need next year?
Should we build mindfulness into the timetable for students?
How has Covid impacted the student experience – and what do they want in September?
The latest on students and sex and drugs
How to reduce and prevent student bullying
Should students consider becoming sober-curious?
Is academic credit for wellbeing classes an answer to the student mental health crisis?
Is there a link between money and student mental health?
Do students want to “return” after Easter?
Mental health and the next generation of students
Should universities build wellbeing education into the timetable?
Student caregivers during the pandemic
Majority of university students want refund on first term
Students’ views on the impact of Coronavirus
Projects that improve PGR mental health
How do they support student mental health in Finland?
What does social distancing do to student mental health?
Three in five students have seen a direct impact on their income as a result of Covid-19
Some new findings on students and belonging
What role should academics play when it comes to student mental health?
How important are friends at university to student mental health?
Can the curriculum improve student happiness?
Amending mental health services in light of the pandemic
Places and spaces on a socially distant campus
What is it like being a PGR/PhD student in the UK?
What difference do “personal tutors” make – and how?
Does “mindfulness” training help with exams?
There’s a briefing out on mental health and Covid-19
Is the penny starting to drop for students re September?
What sort of impact is the pandemic having on PGRs?
There is new guidance on student (and staff) mental health and wellbeing
How many students are already locked into accommodation contracts next year?
Mental health among transgender students
What are prospective students saying about universities and student support?
Does sleep affect academic performance?
Almost half of students have had “a serious psychological issue”
Why are LGBT+ students dropping out of uni?
Wellbeing and burnout: is it worse for medical students?
How to tackle student loneliness before term starts
Guess what: there’s a link between the academic experience and mental health
Are some subjects worse than others for student mental health?
The essential guide to the Student Minds University Mental Health Charter (Part 2)
The essential guide to the Student Minds University Mental Health Charter (Part 1)
Do learning analytics help us spot students in trouble?
How to embed mental health in the curriculum
The headlines you need from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2019
How to close the student mental health attainment gap
Want better grades? Get more sleep
Opportunity blocked: how lonely are students?
Opportunity blocked: student confidence and outcomes
Ten takeaways from Trendence research on LGBT+ students
Fitness to practise – case studies from OIA
Are housemates the key to student wellbeing?
The new realists: the 2019 HEPI/Unite Students insight report
Norman Lamb has stats on uni mental health services
What about postgrad student mental health?
Students are more skint than ever before
Where should we start on student mental health?
What is a healthy university – and why does it matter?
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: welfare disclosure
Essential welfare intervention or surveillance state?
What role do teaching and academic staff play in mental health strategies?
Co-producing mental health strategies with students

Belonging & community (119)

Top ten takeaways from the 2026 Student Academic Experience Survey
What does student belonging really mean and what really drives it?
Does going to university make you happier (and more socially mobile?)
What SUs need to know about student civic engagement
Students (still) need to see themselves in their SU
What is Generation A and what will they want from their SU?
What SFC’s new review on safety and belonging mean for SUs
Nom nom nom – food and belonging on campus
What does the latest research tell us about student belonging – and what can SUs do about it?
100+ of our favourite student-run festivals and events from across Europe
What can UK SUs learn from the Netherlands’ longest student introduction programme?
What SUs need to know about the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2025
What makes peer tutoring work and why SUs should be running it
Student loneliness isn’t going away and the evidence on what works is getting stronger
What’s in APPs on belonging and social connection?
Tuutorointi proves peer support works when you resource it as infrastructure, not sparkle
What SUs need to know about a new book on belonging
Does commuting to university really damage student wellbeing?
How to start the year with a start week that delivers social, academic and administrative integration
100 ways to build (and bridge) community on campus
What could a cheat sheet for the secret codes to university actually look like?
The games students play: How SUs can use research into students’ subject engagement
Disabled students find community online – results of a new study
Could “Freshman Learning Communities” help students transition to university?
Student mental health is declining, here’s what SUs need to know from a new study
Avoiding academic burnout? It’s belonging again
A new “civic healthcheck” for your uni and SU
How empowered SUs could transform the student experience
Supporting students to transition well into university
What SUs need to know about “block” teaching
What has personality got to do with belonging (and why it might matter to SUs)
Meet the SU with 1500 student leaders and a focus on subject belonging
Facilitating interactions and connections between students outside of the classroom is crucial for belonging
Policy forum update: Building belonging and tackling loneliness
PGRs are lonely and hard up too
What is Belong telling us about career confidence, belonging and student opportunities?
Belonging is partly about space
Helping students with cost of living pressures improves their sense of belonging
Why a basic needs approach may be key to shifting the dial on student support
There’s a new “student needs framework”. Here’s what SUs need to know
What to think about if you’re feeding in on a new building or refurb on campus
Belonging and retention: what does the evidence tell us?
The university experiences of care experienced students
Expectations and anticipations – how to not let students down
Are campus nap pods an actual thing?
What are this year’s Freshers thinking?
Here’s what part-time, distance learner and commuter students need their SU to focus on
How do you build belonging in a blended environment?
Understanding loneliness stigma
How does students’ socioeconomic status impact their sense of belonging?
Exploring approaches to promoting belonging
All the latest research on the value of extra curricular activities
Round table report: EDI in clubs and societies
Peer support builds connection, community and confidence
What type of interventions best address student loneliness?
Thirty ideas for revitalising welcome week from across Europe
Is international integration all about pairing?
Helping international students to achieve academic integration
How to improve international student integration and experience
Policy forum report: Postgraduates
Over a quarter of students have no friends at university
How to ensure commuter students belong
What are the factors influencing students’ sense of belonging?
Who are the UK’s loneliest students?
Student satisfaction? It’s all about interaction
Anxious students are more likely to struggle both socially and academically
Ten top takeaways for SUs from our research on students and belonging
Why are we ingraining inequality in student communities?
Race and racism in student halls
A desire to belong – ethnic minority students’ lived experience of being a PGR
Horrible housemates and the student experience
Accommodation environments and student mental health
Want to improve student mental health? It’s all about connections
How do mature students make the transition into HE?
Five important factors when supporting Covid generation freshers
Here’s what SUs need to know about the Student Futures Commission interim report
Freshers need extra help with social connections
What should concern us re university applicants enrolling this September?
What’s it like being a Black student at a predominantly white university?
A quarter of students have no friends, says new study
International students are facing racism on campus
Identifying student subcultures in the unexpected online student cohort
What’s it like to be both mature and first in family to university?
What if only extroverts benefit from student opportunities?
What if social isolation makes academic work harder?
Does student engagement work engage BAME students? (not really)
Does belonging predict drop out?
Students this year are lonely – but quite activisty
What does a campus mean?
Some new findings on students and belonging
How important are friends at university to student mental health?
Student retention and feeling part of a community
Student inclusion and reopening
Places and spaces on a socially distant campus
Students are keen to come back – with caveats
What happens when you ask students themselves about “inclusion”?
Inducting, socialising and engaging students in the “new normal”
You think Oxbridge, you think privilege
What is “socio-educational well-being” and do university classrooms affect it?
Students these days are so “super complex”
How can students feel safe and not safe all at the same time?
How to tackle student loneliness before term starts
Higher education, students, and a sense of place
What are the benefits to “mixing people up” in halls?
Do we need an international students integration index?
Disabled students and living up to the “hype”
Opportunity blocked: how lonely are students?
Opportunity blocked: commuters and London
Opportunity blocked: the value of SUs
Opportunity blocked: getting involved
The type of student accommodation you live in affects your grades
Closing the gap between student expectations and reality
What helps first in the family students to succeed?
Are housemates the key to student wellbeing?
Revealed: how to stop WP students from dropping out
The new realists: the 2019 HEPI/Unite Students insight report
How can we promote international integration on campus?
What is a healthy university – and why does it matter?
What can London tell us about commuter students?

Free speech & protest (58)

New research on students and free speech: What SUs need to know
What SUs (in England) need to know about the Office for Students’ guidance on freedom of speech v3
The essential (revised and updated) guide for SUs to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023
What SUs need to know about the Sussex free speech judgment
If your Amnesty group wants the university to sign its Defend Dissent Charter, here’s what you need to know
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Reform UK
Should SUs and their universities be doing more on far-right extremism?
Tensions on campus and beyond – legal rights and regulatory risks for SUs
Is the CCP interfering in UK universities through SUs and their Chinese student societies?
Proscription of Palestine Action: Implications for students and SUs
Sabbs as trustees, codes of conduct, free speech and the St Andrews Rector case
Understanding the right to protest and the Youth Demand incident in London
Sussex, OfS and free speech – what might the implications be for SUs?
Protected beliefs – when can an SU censor a member of staff?
What can SUs learn for the future from the encampments of 2024
How the “Prevent” duty actually works in universities and SUs
Gaza campus protests: two human rights law experts write new principles for universities
Free speech act and SUs – fines and recovery of costs by OfS
What happened in OfS’ free speech guidance webinar for SUs?
Understanding and responding to OfS’ consultation on guidance on SU free speech duties
Understanding the free speech legal balance
Can students send “grossly offensive” emails to SU officers and claim “free speech”?
SUs, free speech, the equality act, controversial beliefs and the interactions with democracy
OfS consults on (and answers questions on) free speech
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on new free speech duties for SUs
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on its new free speech complaints scheme
Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) and new “foreign influence” regulation
SU staff and free speech
When is it right to “interfere” in the free speech of student activists, officers or student groups?
England’s Free Speech Act – what happens now
Understanding new “legal briefings” on SUs and free speech
How to feed in on your university’s approach to free speech
Round table report: Harassment and sexual misconduct
Are university campuses breeding grounds for extremism?
The essential guide for SUs to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Student attitudes to free speech on campus
What is Critical Race Theory and what has it got to do with universities?
What does Policy Exchange have to say about SUs and Prevent?
What do students really think about trigger warnings
Student voice and Muslim students
SUs and “pro-life” societies
How to submit evidence on the Freedom of Speech Bill
How to understand the so-called “culture wars”
How do people feel about the “culture wars”?
What SU trustees need to know about free speech and SUs
How should SUs respond to DfE’s proposed free speech “standards”?
Is there any evidence of cancel culture?
The Charity Commission and free speech in SUs
Proposed work on students’ union, association and guild freedom of expression and wider standards
Back to the future on no platforming
Policy Exchange proposals on SUs and freedom of speech
What it’s like being a muslim student in the UK (and what students think about Islam)
Are universities a sinister cult, and can you have a “neutral” education?
Student views (and student types) on campus free speech
Should there be new law to protect debate on campus?
Is this a turning point in the campus culture wars?
New freedom of speech guidance – implications for SUs
A legal view on “no platform” policies

Harassment & sexual misconduct (86)

The research on fixated behaviour – and what SUs can do about it
Welsh student welfare: What new rules require – and what SUs cam now push for
What SUs need to know about the UJS Time for Change report
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on handling reports of harassment and sexual misconduct
What all SUs need to know about sexism and sexual violence in UK medical education
Here’s what the OfS sector level sexual misconduct data says and what it means for SUs
20 questions SUs should ask about harassment and sexual misconduct
OfS answers a bunch of frequently asked questions over harassment and sexual misconduct
How to protect international students from harassment and sexual misconduct
What SUs can learn from complaints about harassment and sexual misconduct
Welfare, wellbeing, sexual misconduct and racism in Wales
A new duty on SUs is coming re sexual harassment. Here’s what SUs need to know
How to review your SU’s code of conduct or disciplinary complaints procedure in light of new OfS regulation
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new condition of registration on harassment and sexual misconduct
How to improve your university’s handling of allegations of sexual misconduct
Understanding the free speech legal balance
Can students send “grossly offensive” emails to SU officers and claim “free speech”?
How to improve safety for students in local pubs and clubs (update)
Tackling violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in HE in Wales: What SUs need to know
Policy forum update: Harassment and sexual misconduct
The ten failings in a recent “duty of care” case over allegations of sexual assault
Women VCs increase reporting rates of gender-based violence on campus
Is there a link between gender-based violence and access and participation?
A new law passes on sexual harassment in the workplace – here’s what SUs need to know
When is it right to “interfere” in the free speech of student activists, officers or student groups?
Understanding students’ experiences of violence on and off campus
Polling and practice from UUK on students’ experiences of racial harassment
What SUs need to know about a new report on campus antisemitism
Broadening our understanding of sexual violence on campus
Expectations on Welsh universities over EDI – what SUs need to know
Round table report: Harassment and sexual misconduct
How to respond to OfS’ proposals on harassment and sexual misconduct
How do students define sexual consent?
International students need tailored support when it comes to sexual violence
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new proposals on harassment and sexual misconduct
Hidden marks – the contribution of student leaders to tackling gender-based violence on campus
How impactful is mandatory sexual misconduct training for students?
Understanding male students’ sexual aggression
Policy forum report: Liberation
The results of Europe’s largest survey on gender-based violence in academia
Policy forum report: Welfare and Community Officers
Providers need to do more to tackle harassment and sexual misconduct, according to a new OfS evaluation
Gender based violence, SUs and jurisdiction in complaints procedures
Student involvement in disciplinary processes
UUK has published new guidance on sharing personal data in harassment cases
Alcohol is becoming more common in sexual assault among students
Understanding sexual assault prevalence is central to tackling the issue
UUK has new guidance on staff-student sexual misconduct
How do students understand and talk about gender-based violence on campus?
Understanding sexual aggression in male students
Student relationships, sex and sexual health
Should universities tell students the outcome of harassment and sexual misconduct complaints?
The latest on students and sex and drugs
How to reduce and prevent student bullying
What’s going on with OfS’ consultation on harassment and sexual misconduct – and why SUs should care
How to tackle islamophobia on campus
How to ensure that students disclose sexual misconduct
Tackling racial harassment in higher education
How does student activism drive change on campus sexual violence?
Online harassment – is reputation more important than safeguarding?
Creating conversations about sexual consent on campus
Racism on campus and social norming
What are “romantic advances” and why might they harm students?
Staff sexual misconduct – improving students’ rights
Lessons for SU trustees from the Save the Children harassment investigation
Ten things to note in UCL’s new policy on staff student relationships
BUCS is intervening on “problem initiations”
Are parts of HE turning a blind eye to racism?
Here’s what universities are doing about online abuse of students
Racial harassment at UK universities – summarising the report
Racism on campus – the role of SUs
How to run research projects on gender-based violence
Ten takeaways from Trendence research on LGBT+ students
Making staff sexual misconduct more visible
How much progress has your uni made on “changing the culture”?
Sports teams and homophobia – still a problem?
Universities UK guidance on initiations at UK universities
Drinking and peer pressure
UUK on tackling online harassment
How to respond to the Government consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Nine big issues for reviews of harassment procedures
How to use the evaluation of OfS projects on student safeguarding locally
Ensuring discrimination, harassment and non-reporting policies work for all students
What is Title IX and what have US universities learned?
Changing the culture – the UUK taskforce report

Teaching, learning & assessment (258)

What SUs (in England) need to know about the future of the TEF
What does student belonging really mean and what really drives it?
How (and why) to respond to the NMC’s consultation on nursing and midwifery practice learning standards
How the National Review of Awarding Arrangements will work in Scotland (and why/how SUs can be involved)
The problem with AI declarations isn’t compliance – it’s the mechanism
What SUs need to know about our new research on students, assessment and AI
What is authentic assessment and why should SUs be interested in it?
What to do about the AI panic and the snap back to the exam hall
The TEF and why it matters to SUs – 2026 edition
The top six takeaways for SUs from PRES 2025
International PGT students: the resit and visa timing problem
Ten things to think about if you’re feeding in on online proctoring in 2026
What SUs can learn from the QAA’s report on assessment practice at Glasgow
Pass/fail is better for learning and better for mental health
What makes module feedback feel worth giving
How to improve things for PGRs that teach
If students can’t use AI, should staff be able to?
What makes peer tutoring work and why SUs should be running it
Now that’s what I call AI 2025
Why SUs should push for Universal Design for Learning
The costs of failure. How much does it cost students to repeat, resubmit etc?
According to the latest YouGov polling, here’s how students are using AI
Thirty things we found (or didn’t find) when we went looking for policies on PGT supervision
Digital takeaways for SUs from this year’s student digital experience survey
Now here’s a way to generate some additional study space when deadlines and exams loom
Breaking the “meritocracy of difficulty” – what could a survey on culture at your university help to kick off?
Getting students to turn up without threatening them
Lecture capture as a tool for inclusion and legal compliance
The hidden impact of menstruation – what SUs need to know
Top ten takeaways from the 2025 Student Academic Experience Survey
Here’s what university policies say about anonymous marking
What is Rise and why does it matter
What could a cheat sheet for the secret codes to university actually look like?
The games students play: How SUs can use research into students’ subject engagement
What students are saying about AI – and the implications for SUs
OfS is regulating again, here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s what universities are doing to change assessment and feedback
What’s all this about (home student) attendance policies?
Here’s what students think about AI
We looked at 26 university “fit to sit” policies. Here’s what we found
Could “Freshman Learning Communities” help students transition to university?
Here’s every AI policy in UK universities and what support there is for students
How do PGR students get supervised – new intel
Round one of OfS’ quality reports are complete – here’s what we learned
We’ve read every university’s policy on extensions and late submission. Here’s what we found
A new episode of OfS quality assessment reports has dropped. Here’s what SUs need to know
Decolonising the curriculum hasn’t closed the gap between Black and white students – here’s what might
Perceptions of fairness can make a huge difference to student satisfaction
How to become competent over competence standards
Can ChatGPT help to analyse module feedback and free-text comments?
Online learning, neurodivergent students and “cognitive load”
Do students who use their phones during lectures just lack self-control?
Post-pandemic students have different expectations when it comes to teaching
Slow email responses, deadline bunching and unsuitable IT – driving change via OfS’ latest inspection reports
Interventions that reduce academic misconduct
Top ten takeaways from this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey
OfS has a new inspection report out – here’s what SUs and their reps need to know
What SUs need to know about “block” teaching
What are students’ rights if cuts are proposed or implemented?
What has personality got to do with belonging (and why it might matter to SUs)
How to improve rights for students who have a placement
Everything you need to know about Student-Led Teaching Awards
More ways to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
The upside of AI for students – getting students engaged in the future
Internationalisation at home: Here’s what SUs need to know
Policy forum update: AI and assessment
How to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
Imagine if there was a subject-level TEF
This new model could be great for course reps wanting to make a difference
Do students hope for value for money?
Seminar attendance, lecture capture and disability adjustments
How do we make assessment more “authentic” given the rise of the robots?
How do you build belonging in a blended environment?
What do students think would make university more engaging?
Top ten takeaways for SUs from the Student Academic Experience Survey 2023
This is what inclusive education should look like
Making major changes to courses just got a lot harder
A beginner’s guide to university policies on Generative AI
What are students saying about generative AI ?
How do staff and students feel about lecture recordings?
How do early morning classes affect student attendance and attainment?
Timetabling is stopping students from getting a job
Policy forum report: Advice managers catch up
The cost of living crisis is hitting students’ grades
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning academic misconduct?
Does paid work boost students’ confidence?
Reviewing policies on lecture capture
Are perceptions of teaching excellence impacted by gender?
Does what students eat get them better outcomes?
What are creative arts courses?
How to argue for an inclusive curriculum
Here’s what SUs need to know about UCU’s action short of a strike
How effective is personal tutoring at your university?
How do students see student success differently by subject?
Does active learning improve wellbeing?
How to use the blended learning review for change
What are students telling us about digital learning?
Do we read worse on screens?
Academic stress is a key contributor to poor student mental health
1 in 6 university students has admitted to cheating in online exams this year
Why do distance education students drop out?
That synching feeling – exploring student engagement in an online environment
Do students engage when everything is online?
Things to think about if you’re discussing or debating online proctoring at your uni
Student satisfaction? It’s all about interaction
Should we punish students that plagiarise?
What is Critical Race Theory and what has it got to do with universities?
Should students have to learn how to make arguments- and be assessed on it?
What is “authentic” assessment – and is it only good for the world of work?
What do students think about tech and how useful it is on their course?
What do students really think about trigger warnings
Generation Alpha is coming – here’s what you need to know
Identifying the educational development needs of elected sabbatical officers with a remit for supporting teaching and learning
How to ensure disabled students can access their education post-pandemic
Principles of good assessment and feedback
Understanding “graduate attributes”
What can we learn from the shift to digital delivery?
How to stop students from burning out
Mental health in teaching and learning
How to close awarding gaps through new assessment methods
The absolutely fundamental guide to assessing students
Does having a high EQ improve your grades?
“It was about us against the system” – how to reduce attainment gaps in higher education
November and December in decol
Here’s how universities are being advised to support student engagement
What if we viewed student anxiety as an academic issue?
Is it actually possible to spot a milled essay?
October in decol
Students just don’t do the reading. Or do they?
Can artificial intelligence replace student representation?
A beginner’s guide to medical education
What is “student success” and why does it matter to SUs?
Student perceptions of value in 2021
Here’s what SUs need to know about the Student Futures Commission interim report
What should SUs argue for when it comes to digital learning?
How to get students to admit to cheating
Developing your understanding and approach around decolonising
How to speak the new language of learning
Switching from exams to coursework narrows the Black awarding gap
Should students get to see Turnitin’s originality reports?
Shorter recorded lectures, or long ones – which is best for learning?
One way to think about post-pandemic “blended” learning
What if students aren’t happy about lectures moving online in September?
What makes teaching good – the answers that student reps need to know
What can students’ unions take from our research on digital literacy and the curriculum?
What have students in Scotland missed out on – and what do they need next year?
Why too many recorded lecture videos may be bad for maths students’ learning
Is helping students to focus a killer “key skill” we should be supporting?
Making the student academic experience more “immersive”
How has Covid impacted the student experience – and what do they want in September?
What do students value about the student experience?
How students perceive of time at university
Learning lessons from part one of the pandemic
Should SUs worry about class sizes?
What can you do in Step 3 from Monday?
How do students react to learning analytics feedback?
What is the secret for students to getting things done?
Do students learn as well from e-textbooks as they do from hardcopies?
What if social isolation makes academic work harder?
How a year of emergency digitally-enabled learning could get even better
Is keeping lectures online in September such a great idea after all?
Is academic credit for wellbeing classes an answer to the student mental health crisis?
Module evaluation in a pandemic and beyond
What (do academics think) is the ideal student?
How to ensure blind students can access remote exams
Should SUs lobby for better/more training for university teaching staff?
Feeding back to students – does the medium affect the message?
Disentangling assessment and feedback
Why students cheat
Do students need to develop “civic skills” now?
Should universities build wellbeing education into the timetable?
QAA has published advice on practical components and placements
QAA has published advice on “safety net” and “no detriment” policies
This is why writing matters for student learning
What should (or could) be in a new no detriment or safety net policy for this year?
Mitigating or extenuating circumstances gets a major overhaul
Students’ views on the impact of Coronavirus
What do students really think about how they are assessed?
The “mess, stress and trauma” of student cheating
How do students decide what to study (and where)?
Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student
Business students’ thinking about their studies and future careers
What does a campus mean?
Online learning – is it any good?
The Jisc Digital Experience Insights Survey
Do teaching fellowships improve teaching for students?
Now students are concerned about access to staff and facilities
Is this the secret to improving feedback for students?
What role should academics play when it comes to student mental health?
Can the curriculum improve student happiness?
It looks like casualisation is a student interest issue
Decolonising in UK universities
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on a new chapter of its Good Practice Framework
Student enterprise and entrepreneurship
Changes to courses and the issue of “consent”
What does Quality mean in the age of coronavirus?
Next academic year and the “structure of learning”
Student views on Covid-19 and implications for SUs
Weighing up types of teaching in the student interest
Improving the relationship between PGR students and their supervisors
Can we (and should we) measure how much students learn?
The essential findings in this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey
What difference do “personal tutors” make – and how?
Does “mindfulness” training help with exams?
QAA has guidance out on courses and assessment next year
QAA has published briefings on years abroad and placements
Can social networks be used as an educational resource?
Bolton or Cambridge? Announcements on lifting lockdown tested
What is “socio-educational well-being” and do university classrooms affect it?
Learning through successful feedback
What do students want from assessment feedback?
What impact is Covid-19 having on students (and what do they think of their university’s handling of it)
Why are we so negative about students “dropping out”?
QAA has guidance out on placements, years abroad and apprenticeships
QAA has guidance out on practice and lab-based assessment
QAA has guidance out on academic standards and supporting student achievement
Digging into research on student views on Covid-19 handling
OfS publishes guidance on teaching, assessment, student support and consumer rights during Covid-19
Changes being made to teaching and assessment have to last beyond the lockdown
Key points from QAA’s guidance on Covid-19 and the student learning experience
Does sleep affect academic performance?
Student-staff co-creation in higher education
How can uni and SUs bridge the gap between school/college and uni?
Unbiased, reliable, and valid student evaluations can still be unfair
Does lecture capture mean fewer students are turning up (and so what if it does?)
Wellbeing and burnout: is it worse for medical students?
Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student
Guess what: there’s a link between the academic experience and mental health
There’s funding available for SUs to do some research
Are some subjects worse than others for student mental health?
This is why men do better when they appeal
How do people get on when they study more than one subject at uni?
Are graduates hitting the world of work underprepared?
Are universities a sinister cult, and can you have a “neutral” education?
How to respond to OIA’s extenuating circumstances consultation
The headlines from the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2019
How to embed mental health in the curriculum
Want better grades? Get more sleep
How co-creation can support underrepresented students and equitable practices
Could moderation make marking fairer and mean more consistent feedback?
Decolonising the curriculum means decolonising the library too
The type of student accommodation you live in affects your grades
What helps first in the family students to succeed?
Helping under-represented students navigate academic culture
What the research says about lecture capture
Timetabling, soft skills and student support: does the new “football uni” have the answers?
Can we “nudge” students towards better grades?
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: learning and teaching
The hits and misses from the 2019 Student Academic Experience survey
How are degrees calculated – and why does it matter?
What role do teaching and academic staff play in mental health strategies?
Is it possible to “liberate the curriculum”?
How many students cheat – and what approaches work?
Should we manage, meet, or transform student expectations?
A look at personal tutoring policies
Will Hinds beat the cheats?
Do students look at the feedback they get?
Understanding and responding to the independent review of the TEF

AI (30)

How to get involved in the Advance HE/Office for Students research on AI
How is AI affecting graduate employability
The problem with AI declarations isn’t compliance – it’s the mechanism
What SUs need to know about our new research on students, assessment and AI
What is authentic assessment and why should SUs be interested in it?
What to do about the AI panic and the snap back to the exam hall
If students can’t use AI, should staff be able to?
Now that’s what I call AI 2025
According to the latest YouGov polling, here’s how students are using AI
Digital takeaways for SUs from this year’s student digital experience survey
What SUs can learn from complaints to the OIA about cheating and AI
What are incoming students thinking and why it matters to SUs
The OfS takes a position on AI, here’s what you need to know
How digital transformation happens at universities
What students are saying about AI – and the implications for SUs
Here’s what universities are doing to change assessment and feedback
Here’s what students think about AI
Here’s every AI policy in UK universities and what support there is for students
Can ChatGPT help to analyse module feedback and free-text comments?
Interventions that reduce academic misconduct
What students want to see in academic integrity policy in an age of AI
The upside of AI for students – getting students engaged in the future
Policy forum update: AI and assessment
How do we make assessment more “authentic” given the rise of the robots?
A beginner’s guide to university policies on Generative AI
What are students saying about generative AI ?
Should your university adopt “digital” mental health support?
Things to think about if you’re discussing or debating online proctoring at your uni
Can artificial intelligence replace student representation?
Can artificial intelligence help predict students’ needs?

Academic quality & standards (153)

What SUs (in England) need to know about the future of the TEF
Top ten takeaways from the 2026 Student Academic Experience Survey
How the National Review of Awarding Arrangements will work in Scotland (and why/how SUs can be involved)
Two more quality reviews in Scotland tell us more about the rights students should enjoy
What Scotland’s quality reviews tell SUs about the rights students should expect
The TEF and why it matters to SUs – 2026 edition
The top six takeaways for SUs from PRES 2025
19 things that went wrong at Regent College London – and what reps can learn from it
What SUs can learn from the QAA’s report on assessment practice at Glasgow
Pass/fail is better for learning and better for mental health
If students can’t use AI, should staff be able to?
What SUs need to know about the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2025
What SUs need to know about grade inflation, algorithms and degree transcripts
How (and why) to respond to the consultation on OfS’ proposals on quality
Thirty things we found (or didn’t find) when we went looking for policies on PGT supervision
How (and why) to respond to the consultation on OfS’ proposals on quality
The B3 data dashboards are here, what does it mean for SUs
VFM in HE – what students think and what SUs can do
Here’s what’s on the to do list for the OfS this year
What happens after the OfS publishes a quality assessment report
Everything that SUs need to know and think about when it comes to TNE
Top ten takeaways from the 2025 Student Academic Experience Survey
Here’s what university policies say about anonymous marking
OfS is regulating again, here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s what universities are doing to change assessment and feedback
Round one of OfS’ quality reports are complete – here’s what we learned
A new episode of OfS quality assessment reports has dropped. Here’s what SUs need to know
What can SUs learn from the approval of new providers?
Perceptions of fairness can make a huge difference to student satisfaction
Slow email responses, deadline bunching and unsuitable IT – driving change via OfS’ latest inspection reports
Here’s why bad scores on student continuation, completion and progression matter to universities and their SUs
Interventions that reduce academic misconduct
Top ten takeaways from this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey
OfS has a new inspection report out – here’s what SUs and their reps need to know
What exactly does “student success” mean
What SUs need to know about “block” teaching
What students want to see in academic integrity policy in an age of AI
What exactly is “graduate employability” anyway (and what gets graduates employed?)
What SUs need to know about a revised Quality Code
All the TEF 2023 student submissions in one place
What did the TEF panel really notice in SU submissions?
Here’s what SUs need to know about PTES 2023
How big is the international attainment gap at your university?
Imagine if there was a subject-level TEF
This new model could be great for course reps wanting to make a difference
Do students hope for value for money?
How to interrogate the student experience at subject level
How do we make assessment more “authentic” given the rise of the robots?
What’s in the HE reform consultation response?
What do students think would make university more engaging?
Top ten takeaways for SUs from the Student Academic Experience Survey 2023
What are universities doing to close degree awarding gaps?
This is what inclusive education should look like
A beginner’s guide to university policies on Generative AI
Supporting and enhancing the experience of international students
Seven big takeaways for SUs from the 2022 UK Engagement Survey
Are perceptions of teaching excellence impacted by gender?
TEF Student Submission Catch Up #4
Policy forum report: Research, policy, and insights staff
Here’s our top five takeaways from PTES 2022
Four key takeaways for SUs from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2022
OfS B3 Quality Toolkit
The student role in governance and quality assurance
Report from TEF student submission catch up #3
300,000 students at risk of hardship – here’s what new universities are doing
OfS has released new guidance on the TEF Student Submission
Your essential guide to making sense of OfS’ new data dashboards
This is why some people don’t Likert the NSS
There’s more to do to eradicate ethnicity awarding gaps
How to respond to the consultation on the NSS
The TEF and B3 consultation responses are out. Here’s what SUs need to know
Report from TEF student submission catch up #2
Student satisfaction? It’s all about interaction
How to understand and use OfS’ new definitions of quality
The REF, and why it matters to universities
Report from the TEF student submission catch up
Do extra-curricular activities help with employability? Some do
Student engagement in quality assurance reviews
Do extra-curricular activities improve grades, completion rates and graduate job prospects?
What can we learn from the shift to digital delivery?
How to respond to OfS’ consultations on outcomes and excellence
This is why the B3 bear and the TEF matters to your SU’s strategy
What will count as Gold, Silver and Bronze?
The absolutely fundamental guide to assessing students
What SUs need to know about student voice in the new TEF
Do fees have an impact on student satisfaction?
Here’s how universities are being advised to support student engagement
Is it actually possible to spot a milled essay?
Top ten takeaways from PTES 2021
The future of student involvement in quality in Wales
How to get students to admit to cheating
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on quality and standards
Switching from exams to coursework narrows the Black awarding gap
Should students get to see Turnitin’s originality reports?
What makes teaching good – the answers that student reps need to know
How students perceive of time at university
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new “proceed” measure
Should SUs worry about class sizes?
Twenty things that SUs need to know about Phase One of the NSS review
This is what SUs need to know about league tables
How does QAA accreditation reflect student experience?
OfS has new guidance out on no detriment policies and safety nets
QAA has published advice on practical components and placements
QAA has published advice on “safety net” and “no detriment” policies
Roll up roll up for the National Contentment Survey
What should (or could) be in a new no detriment or safety net policy for this year?
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on quality and standards
What do students really think about how they are assessed?
What does PTES 2020 actually tell us?
The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2020
Why activity-oriented focus groups are great for student research
Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student
Revealed: what different types of students think of SUs
How to respond to the NSS review consultation
Do teaching fellowships improve teaching for students?
Is this the secret to improving feedback for students?
What does Quality mean in the age of coronavirus?
What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?
Can we (and should we) measure how much students learn?
The essential findings in this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey
QAA has guidance out on courses and assessment next year
QAA has published briefings on years abroad and placements
Learning through successful feedback
What do students want from assessment feedback?
What do students think about the so-called “value for money” agenda?
QAA has guidance out on practice and lab-based assessment
QAA has guidance out on academic standards and supporting student achievement
Key points from QAA’s guidance on Covid-19 and the student learning experience
Unbiased, reliable, and valid student evaluations can still be unfair
Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student
Revealed: what different types of students think of SUs
“Inappropriate influence” and the NSS
It’s all coming up – ten things we think will happen next term
Thorny issues to think through in the run up to industrial action
What (and where) on earth is TNE?
Could moderation make marking fairer and mean more consistent feedback?
Six things to bear in mind about NSS Q26
Where does student voice go?
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: value for money
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: learning and teaching
How to read (and use) the HEPI survey results
The hits and misses from the 2019 Student Academic Experience survey
How are degrees calculated – and why does it matter?
Should there be standards in PGR supervision?
Are university league tables broken?
A code for quality
Closing the gap: the UUK/NUS attainment report
Why should I care about QAA and HESA?
What’s all the fuss about grade inflation?
Mandatory affordability strategies
Do students look at the feedback they get?
The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2018
Understanding and responding to the independent review of the TEF

Student rights & consumer protection (152)

What SUs need to know about research into students’ experiences of accommodation
Renter’s Rights Act: What should have happened in May?
How the National Review of Awarding Arrangements will work in Scotland (and why/how SUs can be involved)
Two more quality reviews in Scotland tell us more about the rights students should enjoy
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on “treating students fairly”
What SUs can learn from complaints summaries in the OIA’s annual report 2025
Rights to exit student accommodation in England “early” as of May 1st 2026
The weekend delivery issue and students’ rights (updated)
The problem with AI declarations isn’t compliance – it’s the mechanism
What is the safe adventures report and why should your SU take it seriously?
Check your contract: 12 legal clauses SUs should look at in their student-uni agreement (2026 update)
What Scotland’s quality reviews tell SUs about the rights students should expect
The ultimate (updated 2026) guide to students’ rights over industrial action
What students’ landlords are being told about the Renters’ Rights Act, and why it matters for SUs
Ten things to think about if you’re feeding in on online proctoring in 2026
Summer 2026 and the Renter’s Rights Act – Step by Step
It’s time to push for a rewrite of your university’s Student Protection Plan
Here’s what the government position is if a provider (in England) goes insolvent
30 housing cases that made it to the first tier tribunal
What do students on placement get for their money?
New research on students’ perceptions of their rights: 20 things SUs need to know
What SUs need to know about grade inflation, algorithms and degree transcripts
How to stop students being ripped off by the emerging guarantor market
Help! My uni has over (or under) recruited to a course
The costs of failure. How much does it cost students to repeat, resubmit etc?
Tensions on campus and beyond – legal rights and regulatory risks for SUs
The one-year loophole: How students can escape PBSA contracts in 2025/26
VFM in HE – what students think and what SUs can do
What SUs can learn from the OIA about closures
What SUs can learn from complaints to the OIA about cheating and AI
There are some last-minute government amendments to the Renters Rights Bill
International students and new consumer rights
24 things that SUs need to know about new rights in (some) university halls
What’s been happening in the Lords re the Renter’s Rights Bill?
Here’s what UUK has to say about university cuts
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
A beginner’s guide to reasonable adjustments and competence standards for disabled students
How to respond to the consultation on standards and rights in privately-run halls
How to respond to OfS’ new consultation on fairness for students
What are students’ rights over closed modules, campuses and courses?
UKVI confirms new attendance rules for international students
What SUs need to know from Disabled Students’ UK’s annual access insights report
How to respond to OfS’ consultation over its new strategy
What’s all this about (home student) attendance policies?
What SUs can learn from complaints about student transfers
We looked at 26 university “fit to sit” policies. Here’s what we found
Policy forum: Advice managers
How the law works over tuition fee increases
We’ve read every university’s policy on extensions and late submission. Here’s what we found
What SUs can learn from complaints about service issues
How to become competent over competence standards
Learning and rights from complaints from postgrads
After Abrahart: What should SUs push for to improve support for Disabled students? (June 2024 update)
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
What are students’ rights if cuts are proposed or implemented?
How to improve rights for students who have a placement
Here’s what SUs need to know about the progress of the Renter’s (Reform) Bill in England
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning halls?
The ten failings in a recent “duty of care” case over allegations of sexual assault
Here’s why results from the Disabled Student Survey 2023 matter to SUs
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning non-academic misconduct?
Student casuals are to get a right to request predictable hours: Here’s what SUs need to know
Hidden course costs and consumer law
Students are vulnerable to fraud – and need better protection
Everything SUs need to know about industrial action in the sector
Making major changes to courses just got a lot harder
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
What sort of conditions do students face at work – and what can universities and SU do about it?
Policy forum report: Advice managers catch up
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning academic misconduct?
Not all student carers are the same
Here’s what the implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act means for students and SUs
Policy forum report: Advice managers
What SUs need to know about changes to OIA’s Good Practice Framework
Here’s what SUs need to know about UCU’s action short of a strike
Students and pregnancy
Pregnancy, parenthood and childcare rights for students
The ultimate guide to student rights when there’s industrial action
There’s new guidance out on placements, mental health support and preventing student suicide
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on its Good Practice Framework for complaints
What are students’ rights if their all-inclusive bills go up?
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about the new Building Safety Act
1 in 6 university students has admitted to cheating in online exams this year
UUK has published new guidance on sharing personal data in harassment cases
Will rental reform help students in halls?
Understanding exclusive university supplier deals on campus
What are the big differences between living in private lets and purpose built student accommodation?
Should we punish students that plagiarise?
Information sharing and student suicide
Twelve things for SUs to note from the 2021 OIA annual report
What can SUs learn from the latest batch of OIA-adjudicated complaints?
Students with caring responsibilities face significant challenges
Zero tolerance doesn’t stop drug use
What is the solution to problems faced by student tenants?
Student perceptions of value in 2021
Student renters need to know their rights
What does a degree actually cost – for students and for universities?
What can SUs learn from batch 3 of Covid complaints?
What if students aren’t happy about lectures moving online in September?
What can SUs learn from a new batch of complaint case studies?
So what can students complain about?
Fifteen reasons why students could complain over Covid – so their rights become much clearer
What can SUs learn from batch 2 of Covid complaints?
What could be done to help/compensate the Class of Covid?
Does belonging predict drop out?
Understanding OfS’ consumer protection reviews
Mitigating or extenuating circumstances gets a major overhaul
Majority of university students want refund on first term
What can SUs learn from batch 1 of Covid complaints?
The “mess, stress and trauma” of student cheating
How do students decide what to study (and where)?
The new legal restrictions in England for the November lockdown
Can universities expel students over Covid?
New laws in England that SUs need to know about
Do both modules? Here’s £500. Or maybe £1,000.
Covid-19, student discipline and student opportunities
Student retention and feeling part of a community
Are students getting the “absolute clarity” they were promised?
Changes to courses and the issue of “consent”
Are “student compacts” an answer to some of the September student questions?
OIA has new guidance out on how it will approach Covid complaints
Students need detail about September – but is that possible?
How to reopen universities in September
Ten things to remember about temporary changes to immigration rules for international students
OfS publishes guidance on teaching, assessment, student support and consumer rights during Covid-19
As everything moves online, do you know your data rights?
Student rights and Covid-19: OIA on complaints during the pandemic
Staff sexual misconduct – improving students’ rights
Coronavirus and protecting students’ interests
What are universities being advised about coronavirus and what are the implications for SUs?
How to respond to OfS’ review of admissions (and why SUs should bother)
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 and Industrial Action
How are SUs handling term two of strike action?
This is why men do better when they appeal
What should SUs interrogate when it comes to student data?
HEPI/Youthsight research on student cybersecurity
How to respond to OIA’s extenuating circumstances consultation
Thorny issues to think through in the run up to industrial action
Student rights and industrial action
How to tell students where their tuition fees go
Fitness to practise – case studies from OIA
Understanding “fitness to practise”
Should students who owe their university money be able to graduate?
What has Plato got to do with student rights and expectations?
Fitness to practice and unsual academic regs
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: welfare disclosure
Attendance monitoring at university
Implications for SUs of summaries of strike complaints
So your uni’s reviewing disciplinary procedures
Compensation and industrial action
Will Hinds beat the cheats?
Student disciplinary procedures in focus

Complaints & the OIA (57)

What SUs can learn from complaints summaries in the OIA’s annual report 2025
The weekend delivery issue and students’ rights (updated)
Check your contract: 12 legal clauses SUs should look at in their student-uni agreement (2026 update)
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on handling reports of harassment and sexual misconduct
New research on students’ perceptions of their rights: 20 things SUs need to know
Now that’s what I call AI 2025
What SUs can learn from the OIA about closures
What SUs can learn from complaints to the OIA about cheating and AI
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
How to respond to OfS’ new consultation on fairness for students
What SUs can learn from complaints about harassment and sexual misconduct
What are students’ rights over closed modules, campuses and courses?
What SUs can learn from complaints about student transfers
Policy forum: Advice managers
What SUs can learn from complaints about service issues
Learning and rights from complaints from postgrads
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
How to improve rights for students who have a placement
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning halls?
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on its new free speech complaints scheme
The ten failings in a recent “duty of care” case over allegations of sexual assault
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning non-academic misconduct?
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning academic misconduct?
What SUs need to know about changes to OIA’s Good Practice Framework
Gender based violence, SUs and jurisdiction in complaints procedures
Pregnancy, parenthood and childcare rights for students
How to use the OIA note on cost of living to accelerate efforts to support students
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on its Good Practice Framework for complaints
Student involvement in disciplinary processes
Twelve things for SUs to note from the 2021 OIA annual report
What can SUs learn from the latest batch of OIA-adjudicated complaints?
Here’s what OIA says is important as we approach the new academic year
What can SUs learn from batch 3 of Covid complaints?
What can SUs learn from a new batch of complaint case studies?
Should universities tell students the outcome of harassment and sexual misconduct complaints?
So what can students complain about?
Fifteen reasons why students could complain over Covid – so their rights become much clearer
How to advise students on their prospects of success in appeals and complaints
What can SUs learn from batch 2 of Covid complaints?
Mitigating or extenuating circumstances gets a major overhaul
What can SUs learn from batch 1 of Covid complaints?
Do both modules? Here’s £500. Or maybe £1,000.
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on a new chapter of its Good Practice Framework
OIA has new guidance out on how it will approach Covid complaints
Ten things to note from OIA’s annual report
Complaints, compensation and Covid-19
Student rights and Covid-19: OIA on complaints during the pandemic
How to respond to OIA’s extenuating circumstances consultation
Fitness to practise – case studies from OIA
Understanding “fitness to practise”
Fitness to practice and unsual academic regs
What can London tell us about retaining students?
Implications for SUs of summaries of strike complaints
So your uni’s reviewing disciplinary procedures
Compensation and industrial action
Student disciplinary procedures in focus

Access & participation (120)

Here’s what the Russell Group have to say about widening access to postgraduate study
Comparing the financial help that universities give to students (In England)
Does going to university make you happier (and more socially mobile?)
Here’s what access and participation looks like in London
How (and why) to respond to the Welsh Government’s call for evidence on the future of tertiary education
What does the 2025 Access Insights report mean for SUs?
What’s in APPs on belonging and social connection?
What does it actually cost to apply to a postgraduate course?
Where are students and SUs in access and participation interventions?
Did universities involve students and SUs properly in APPs?
What are incoming students thinking and why it matters to SUs
There’s a new report about what student life is like today – here’s why it’s important to SUs in planning the year ahead
Finding your university in the data: Summer 2025 edition
100 ways to build (and bridge) community on campus
What could a cheat sheet for the secret codes to university actually look like?
Here’s what universities need to do to support students with experience of children’s social care
Here’s what you need to know about Scottish universities tackling inequalities
Here’s what students spend their financial support funds on
This is the support that care experienced students need and should get
Decolonising the curriculum hasn’t closed the gap between Black and white students – here’s what might
Some students are single parents. What are they going through?
What SUs need to know about the students arriving on campus in September
A new report covers student cost of living information – here’s what SUs need to know
Finding your university in the data: Summer 2024 edition
Everything SUs need to know about the student experience of trans and non-binary students
Here’s what SUs need to know about digital poverty
What exactly does “student success” mean
Students from lower socioeconomic backrounds have worse sleep
There’s a new report on transition and reasonable adjustments for disabled students. Here’s what SUs need to know
How to establish a student basic needs agenda (and centre)
Takeaways for SUs from OfS’ latest webinar on access and participation
This is why better sleep should matter more to students (and their universities)
3 per cent of students have enough money
How to measure the mental health of students
Amended guidance on APPs – here’s what matters to SUs (Jan 2024 UPDATE)
First-generation students may need different mental health support
Here’s why understanding trends in applicant data matters for SUs
Is there a link between gender-based violence and access and participation?
How do students spend bursaries and hardship funds?
The university experiences of care experienced students
Expectations and anticipations – how to not let students down
Students need more financial support on work placements
Student engagement in OfS’ new APP process
How does students’ socioeconomic status impact their sense of belonging?
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new regulation of access and participation
Here’s how SAs in Scotland can “tackle persistent inequalities together”
How do students cope with racism and racial inequality on campus?
Students and pregnancy
How to respond to the OfS consultation on a new access and participation regime
Disabled students need more information on the support universities can offer
Gypsy, traveller, roma, showman and boater students in higher education
Scholarships make a big difference for care-experienced and estranged students
What are the factors influencing students’ sense of belonging?
More student or faculty diversity on campus leads to lower racial gaps in graduation rates
What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?
How to speed up improvements for Disabled students
Students with caring responsibilities face significant challenges
Understanding and influencing Access and Participation plan “variations”
Working, studying and “first in family” students
How to close awarding gaps through new assessment methods
What will count as Gold, Silver and Bronze?
“It was about us against the system” – how to reduce attainment gaps in higher education
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about IfS’ new social mobility stats
Did SUs make a difference on access and participation?
How do mature students make the transition into HE?
Five important factors when supporting Covid generation freshers
Next steps in the LGBT+ student experience
Ten issues for SUs to explore as universities prepare to expand
Freshers need extra help with social connections
What’s it like being a Black student at a predominantly white university?
What’s it like to be both mature and first in family to university?
What if only extroverts benefit from student opportunities?
What role do SUs have in Access and Participation Plans?
What (do academics think) is the ideal student?
How and why to feed in on your uni’s access and participation plan and progress
What happened to student activities and opportunities during the pandemic?
How student activities and opportunities help skills development
Understanding the HE journey of care experienced learners
The debate over university admissions reform
Student consumer rights and refunds under Covid-19
Applicants are worried about grades and what uni life will be like
Should we worry about students and money this September?
Student inclusion and reopening
A major digital divide is opening up between students
OfS has uncovered more gaps in getting in and getting on
You think Oxbridge, you think privilege
Students these days are so “super complex”
What bespoke support should be in place for disadvantaged students during the crisis?
Why are we so negative about students “dropping out”?
Changes being made to teaching and assessment have to last beyond the lockdown
How to improve diversity on campus
It’s a myth! Made up things about students and universities FINALLY REVEALED
How can uni and SUs bridge the gap between school/college and uni?
How to respond to OfS’ review of admissions (and why SUs should bother)
Why are LGBT+ students dropping out of uni?
UUK has been polling people on what they think about admissions
What about the voices of part time students
So did universities build student engagement into access and participation plans?
Access and participation to… postgrad study?
Plums on the tree – what’s going on with social mobility?
Make me an offer – how students get recruited to universities and why it matters to SUs
Do learning analytics help us spot students in trouble?
How to close the student mental health attainment gap
Understanding the BME attainment gap
Are unis doing enough for disabled students?
Opportunity blocked: getting involved
Closing the gap between student expectations and reality
What helps first in the family students to succeed?
Helping under-represented students navigate academic culture
Revealed: how to stop WP students from dropping out
Ten takeaways from Advance HE’s students statistical report 2019
What do published access and participation strategies say about SU and student involvement?
What’s the Sutton Trust saying about prospective students?
Do bursaries work?
What can London tell us about commuter students?
What can London tell us about retaining students?
Contextual admissions – a quick explainer
Why postgraduate taught students are about to move up SUs’ priority list
What’s all the fuss about uncondtional offers?
A beginner’s guide to HESA data

Equality, diversity & inclusion (122)

What the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations means for SUs
How (and why) to respond to the NMC’s consultation on nursing and midwifery practice learning standards
Two more quality reviews in Scotland tell us more about the rights students should enjoy
Ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting is coming – what SUs need to know
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Greens
What SFC’s new review on safety and belonging mean for SUs
What SUs need to know about the UJS Time for Change report
How are Scottish universities achieving their National Equality Outcomes?
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
What all SUs need to know about sexism and sexual violence in UK medical education
Should SUs and their universities be doing more on far-right extremism?
Tensions on campus and beyond – legal rights and regulatory risks for SUs
The hidden impact of menstruation – what SUs need to know
How to use social proof to influence conduct on campus (and close awarding gaps)
Sussex, OfS and free speech – what might the implications be for SUs?
Protected beliefs – when can an SU censor a member of staff?
Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship
What can SUs learn for the future from the encampments of 2024
Here’s what you need to know about Scottish universities tackling inequalities
Policy forum: Wellbeing and liberation officers and staff
Decolonising the curriculum hasn’t closed the gap between Black and white students – here’s what might
There’s new findings on the LGBTQ+ student experience that SUs need to know
Everything SUs need to know about the student experience of trans and non-binary students
SUs, free speech, the equality act, controversial beliefs and the interactions with democracy
The lived experiences of BAME LGBTQ students
Internationalisation at home: Here’s what SUs need to know
Women VCs increase reporting rates of gender-based violence on campus
How big is the international attainment gap at your university?
Financial literacy and the “ethnicity gap” among UK students
Understanding students’ experiences of violence on and off campus
How to be better at supporting Black students’ wellbeing
Will Sharia-compliant student finance ever happen?
Polling and practice from UUK on students’ experiences of racial harassment
Can SUs be truly representative of their student bodies?
What are universities doing to close degree awarding gaps?
This is what inclusive education should look like
Do students have a voice in diversity policies?
What SUs need to know about a new report on campus antisemitism
Expectations on Welsh universities over EDI – what SUs need to know
How proposed changes to the Equality Act could impact universities and students
Round table report: EDI in clubs and societies
International students need tailored support when it comes to sexual violence
Here’s why activities, events, groups or reps for a particular group aren’t unlawful
Not all student carers are the same
Here’s how SAs in Scotland can “tackle persistent inequalities together”
Are perceptions of teaching excellence impacted by gender?
How do students cope with racism and racial inequality on campus?
Policy forum report: Advice managers
Learning the lessons from an evaluation of intersectional student mental health initiatives
Policy forum report: Liberation
How to argue for an inclusive curriculum
How to make a difference for students on public transport
The results of Europe’s largest survey on gender-based violence in academia
How do students see student success differently by subject?
Over a quarter of students have no friends at university
There’s more to do to eradicate ethnicity awarding gaps
UUK has published new guidance on sharing personal data in harassment cases
Understanding equality and equity – the saga of the chocolate cake
Gypsy, traveller, roma, showman and boater students in higher education
More student or faculty diversity on campus leads to lower racial gaps in graduation rates
What is Critical Race Theory and what has it got to do with universities?
What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?
What does Policy Exchange have to say about SUs and Prevent?
How to close awarding gaps through new assessment methods
Why are we ingraining inequality in student communities?
Race and racism in student halls
A desire to belong – ethnic minority students’ lived experience of being a PGR
“It was about us against the system” – how to reduce attainment gaps in higher education
November and December in decol
October in decol
What should SUs worry about when it comes to internationally mobile LGBTQ+ students?
Student voice and Muslim students
Does reputation get in the way of researching student sex work?
Next steps in the LGBT+ student experience
Poorer and BAME students feel left behind during pandemic
Developing your understanding and approach around decolonising
Switching from exams to coursework narrows the Black awarding gap
Student relationships, sex and sexual health
How to understand the so-called “culture wars”
What’s it like being a Black student at a predominantly white university?
What’s it like being a woman in higher education?
International students are facing racism on campus
Does student engagement work engage BAME students? (not really)
Does belonging predict drop out?
How to tackle islamophobia on campus
Tackling racial harassment in higher education
Mind the gender pay gap
Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student
Young people in the time of Covid-19: a fear and hope study of 16-24 year olds
Decolonising in UK universities
Ethnicity, the postgraduate experience and what to do about it
What it’s like being a muslim student in the UK (and what students think about Islam)
Racism on campus and social norming
Workplace equality for SUs in the time of coronavirus
What happens when you ask students themselves about “inclusion”?
OfS has uncovered more gaps in getting in and getting on
Mental health among transgender students
How can students feel safe and not safe all at the same time?
How to improve diversity on campus
Guess what. There’s a religion and belief attainment gap too
Unbiased, reliable, and valid student evaluations can still be unfair
Why are LGBT+ students dropping out of uni?
Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student
Are parts of HE turning a blind eye to racism?
This is why men do better when they appeal
What are the benefits to “mixing people up” in halls?
Straight white men and diversity projects
Racial harassment at UK universities – summarising the report
Racism on campus – the role of SUs
Understanding the BME attainment gap
How co-creation can support underrepresented students and equitable practices
Ten takeaways from Trendence research on LGBT+ students
Decolonising the curriculum means decolonising the library too
Ten takeaways from Advance HE’s students statistical report 2019
Sports teams and homophobia – still a problem?
Why are my lecturers so white?
How representative are SU officers?
What can SUs learn from Essex Uni’s antisemitism review?
How to use the evaluation of OfS projects on student safeguarding locally
Closing the gap: the UUK/NUS attainment report
Is it possible to “liberate the curriculum”?
Ensuring discrimination, harassment and non-reporting policies work for all students

Disabled students (51)

Why SUs need to respond to DfE’s consultation on software and Disabled Students Allowance
Ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting is coming – what SUs need to know
What’s the update on learner analytics and what do SUs need to know
How are Scottish universities achieving their National Equality Outcomes?
What is authentic assessment and why should SUs be interested in it?
What does the 2025 Access Insights report mean for SUs?
Here’s what SUs can learn from the latest report from the Disabled Student Commitment
How to use the Abrahart triangle for change
25 things to push for to improve higher education for Disabled students
Why SUs should push for Universal Design for Learning
Lecture capture as a tool for inclusion and legal compliance
The proposed changes to the welfare system and why they matter to students and SUs
How can universities and SUs support visually impaired students
A beginner’s guide to reasonable adjustments and competence standards for disabled students
New research on international disabled students – what SUs need to know
Disabled students find community online – results of a new study
What SUs need to know from Disabled Students’ UK’s annual access insights report
Here’s what you need to know about Scottish universities tackling inequalities
How to become competent over competence standards
Online learning, neurodivergent students and “cognitive load”
After Abrahart: What should SUs push for to improve support for Disabled students? (June 2024 update)
How to respond to the consultation on improving non-medical help for disabled students
There’s a new report on transition and reasonable adjustments for disabled students. Here’s what SUs need to know
What help is there for students with ADHD – and what should there be?
Here’s why understanding trends in applicant data matters for SUs
Here’s why results from the Disabled Student Survey 2023 matter to SUs
Seminar attendance, lecture capture and disability adjustments
What are international disabled students entitled to?
How to use the new Disabled students commitment
Round table report: Supporting Disabled sabbs
Reviewing policies on lecture capture
There needs to be better support for students with chronic illnesses
Disabled students need more information on the support universities can offer
How to speed up improvements for Disabled students
How to ensure disabled students can access their education post-pandemic
How to make post-pandemic HE work for disabled students
How to help students with ADHD to succeed
How to get it right for disabled students
Addressing the issues faced by deaf higher education students post-pandemic
What was the impact of the pandemic on Disabled students?
Dyslexia and remote learning – students have struggled
How to ensure blind students can access remote exams
SUs need to do more to enable disabled students to access the full student experience
Twenty six challenges to universities over disabled students and Covid-19
What happens when you ask students themselves about “inclusion”?
How is Covid-19 impacting disabled students?
Covid-19 mitigations and deaf students
How to make a difference for disabled students
Are unis doing enough for disabled students?
Disabled students and living up to the “hype”
Ten takeaways from Advance HE’s students statistical report 2019

International students & immigration (79)

Deposits, instalments and hardship: the full picture for home and international students
The Home Office owes international students £170 million. Here’s how to get it back
Study Tour Spring 2026: Reykjavík/Iceland
Are we letting international students down on employability?
International PGT students: the resit and visa timing problem
What SUs can do about delayed visas and late arrivals
What UK SUs need to know about Erasmus+ – and what to do about it
What can UK SUs learn from how Central Europe supports international students?
Budget 2025 and what it means for SU, students and graduates
How to stop students being ripped off by the emerging guarantor market
Help! My uni has over (or under) recruited to a course
International student fees and hardship – what different universities are doing
Immigration rules changes affecting students and graduates: What SUs need to know
UK universities operating campuses abroad and the students’ union question
Is the CCP interfering in UK universities through SUs and their Chinese student societies?
Everything that SUs need to know and think about when it comes to TNE
International students and new consumer rights
Fifteen things that SUs need to know about the immigration white paper
For international students career support is a priority, here’s how SUs can support them
New research on international disabled students – what SUs need to know
The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), SUs and international societies
How to protect international students from harassment and sexual misconduct
UKVI confirms new attendance rules for international students
Here’s what SUs need to know about upcoming regulation of international agents
Here’s what SUs need to know about international postgraduate research students
Policy forum: Advice managers
Where international students can pay by instalments (and how many)
If that then that – here’s what amendments to the Renters’ Rights Bill could look like for students
The government response to the graduate review is out – here’s the upshots for SUs
What to look out for in the MAC review
Here’s what SUs should argue for on international students and technology
How to run impactful focus groups with international students
How to sponsor international graduates as “skilled workers”
The rules when international students become sabbs
Internationalisation at home: Here’s what SUs need to know
All about students and HE in Europe and the role of the EU
Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) and new “foreign influence” regulation
Here’s what SUs need to know about PTES 2023
Who’s offering hardship funding for international students?
Here’s what SUs need to know when making sense of recent immigration figures
How big is the international attainment gap at your university?
Here’s the latest intel on student accommodation
What are international disabled students entitled to?
Here’s what UUK says universities should do when recruiting international students
How to define and measure international student precarity
Improving the narrative around internationalisation
International students’ digital experience – what SUs need to know
Supporting and enhancing the experience of international students
Policy forum report: Advice managers catch up
Policy forum report: International
International students need tailored support when it comes to sexual violence
Is international integration all about pairing?
Helping international students to achieve academic integration
How to improve international student integration and experience
Policy forum report: Research, policy, and insights staff
Here’s our top five takeaways from PTES 2022
International students, hardship and money-lending scams
What to think about when your uni is planning (or not planning) to grow
International students are having a positive experience on the new graduate route (if they can get onto it)
What causes international students to feel satisfied?
What should SUs worry about when it comes to internationally mobile LGBTQ+ students?
How to respond to the call for evidence on the inspection of the immigration system
International students’ social values and backgrounds can influence their mental health
International students are facing racism on campus
What are prospective international students saying about September?
How to support international students in financial hardship
What is it like to be a student at a UK university campus overseas?
How should universities be supporting international arrivals?
Understanding Erasmus
It looks like international students are desperate to defer
Ten things to remember about temporary changes to immigration rules for international students
The fast way to understand debates about post-Brexit immigration and universities
Do we need an international students integration index?
General election 2019 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru
What (and where) on earth is TNE?
How can we promote international integration on campus?
Do international students think Britain is drunk?
How many students cheat – and what approaches work?
What happens to students if there’s “no deal”?

Postgraduate & PGR (49)

Here’s what the Russell Group have to say about widening access to postgraduate study
The top six takeaways for SUs from PRES 2025
International PGT students: the resit and visa timing problem
How to improve things for PGRs that teach
What SUs need to know about the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2025
What does it actually cost to apply to a postgraduate course?
Thirty things we found (or didn’t find) when we went looking for policies on PGT supervision
Change is coming for PhD students
Here’s what SUs need to know about international postgraduate research students
How do PGR students get supervised – new intel
Learning and rights from complaints from postgrads
Pay and rights for PhD students across Europe
Policy forum update: PGR student experience
Here’s what SUs need to know about PTES 2023
PGRs are lonely and hard up too
Understanding the “new deal” for PGR students
Exploring the transition from PhD student to academic
Policy forum report: Postgraduates
Here’s our top five takeaways from PTES 2022
Four key takeaways for SUs from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2022
What to think about when your uni is planning (or not planning) to grow
PGRs need more and better space on campus
How to respond to UKRI’s New Deal for Postgraduate Research consultation
A desire to belong – ethnic minority students’ lived experience of being a PGR
PGRs may be normalising anxiety and depression – so what should be done to tackle that?
Top ten takeaways from PTES 2021
Understanding postgraduate degrees
How to advise students on their prospects of success in appeals and complaints
What does PTES 2020 actually tell us?
The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2020
Projects that improve PGR mental health
Ethnicity, the postgraduate experience and what to do about it
What is it like being a PGR/PhD student in the UK?
Improving the relationship between PGR students and their supervisors
What sort of impact is the pandemic having on PGRs?
What should universities be doing for PGR students during the pandemic?
A whole bunch of extraordinary facts about postgraduate study in the UK
Would students be happy if next term was online?
How can uni and SUs bridge the gap between school/college and uni?
What about postgrads that teach?
Access and participation to… postgrad study?
The headlines from the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2019
The headlines you need from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2019
Why are my lecturers so white?
What about postgrad student mental health?
Should there be standards in PGR supervision?
Why postgraduate taught students are about to move up SUs’ priority list
PGR students and their supervisors
The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2018

Employment, careers & outcomes (68)

Top ten takeaways from the 2026 Student Academic Experience Survey
Careers, credit and curricula – examples of practice from European SUs and unis
How (and why) to respond to DBT’s consultation on zero hours contracts
How is AI affecting graduate employability
What is a “non-academic transcript” and should SUs be paying attention?
Are we letting international students down on employability?
Students say employability is their top priority – what can SUs do about it?
Five new consultations on employment rights – here’s what SUs need to know
There’s a timeline for new employment rights – here’s what SUs need to know (updated)
Euro unis are using diploma supplements to recognise student volunteer roles – and the UK could too
How to improve things for PGRs that teach
What do students on placement get for their money?
Students are developing amazing skills through the SU (if they can uncover them)
What SUs need to know about the changes to employment law
What’s going on with students and guaranteed hours in the Employment Rights Bill?
How (and why) to respond to the government’s unpaid internships consultation
The B3 data dashboards are here, what does it mean for SUs
What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?
For international students career support is a priority, here’s how SUs can support them
The government is amending the Employment Rights Bill – here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s what students think about AI
How (and why) to respond to the Employment Rights Bill call for evidence
There’s a new employment rights Bill out. Here’s what SUs need to know
10 things SUs can do to support students who are working
Here’s why bad scores on student continuation, completion and progression matter to universities and their SUs
What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?
Labour is promising to improve workers’ rights and pay. Here’s the implications for SUs
The upside of AI for students – getting students engaged in the future
What exactly is “graduate employability” anyway (and what gets graduates employed?)
What is Belong telling us about career confidence, belonging and student opportunities?
Student casuals are to get a right to request predictable hours: Here’s what SUs need to know
Students need more financial support on work placements
What sort of conditions do students face at work – and what can universities and SU do about it?
Timetabling is stopping students from getting a job
Why do students get involved in stuff?
Does paid work boost students’ confidence?
What are creative arts courses?
Students and part time work: here’s what SUs need to know
How England plans to cut back ‘low value’ degrees so it can reap more student loan repayments
What is “authentic” assessment – and is it only good for the world of work?
Working, studying and “first in family” students
Do extra-curricular activities help with employability? Some do
Understanding “graduate attributes”
Do extra-curricular activities improve grades, completion rates and graduate job prospects?
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about IfS’ new social mobility stats
Does reputation get in the way of researching student sex work?
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new “proceed” measure
How student activities and opportunities help skills development
Do students need to develop “civic skills” now?
Do clubs and societies make a difference to employability?
Mind the gender pay gap
Students want sustainability skills from their higher educattion
Business students’ thinking about their studies and future careers
How are students feeling about return to campus?
Have students and graduates lost access to the workplace?
Student enterprise and entrepreneurship
What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?
What can we do about the graduate unemployment crisis that’s coming?
How confident is the Covid cohort when it comes to finding a job?
QAA has guidance out on placements, years abroad and apprenticeships
Do SUs help students pick up the skills that employers need?
What about postgrads that teach?
The way holiday pay is calculated is changing and it will affect students
Students need jobs – but what sort?
Are graduates hitting the world of work underprepared?
Students want jobs and Advance HE has a framework for that
Opportunity blocked: student confidence and outcomes
It’s name is LEO

SU governance & charity law (108)

How (and why) to respond to DBT’s consultation on zero hours contracts
What SUs need to know about the Sussex free speech judgment
Ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting is coming – what SUs need to know
Martyn’s Law: What SUs need to know (April 2026 Update)
Five new consultations on employment rights – here’s what SUs need to know
There’s a timeline for new employment rights – here’s what SUs need to know (updated)
Local elections in May 2026 (England): What SUs need to know
The charitable soft opt-in: a guide for SUs
Are your reps secretly workers? What a coastguard case means for SUs
Meet the SU where the academic societies have £800k budgets
What a new report on student governors means for SUs
The state of the sabbatical. How UK SUs structure their leadership
What are scrutiny panels and why should your SU care about them?
Scotland’s Tertiary Bill at Stage 2: What SUs need to know
What SUs need to know about the changes to employment law
UK universities operating campuses abroad and the students’ union question
Student governors 2025: What are your “reasonable care” duties as trustees?
Sabbs as trustees, codes of conduct, free speech and the St Andrews Rector case
A guide to generative governance for SU boards and student governors
Four things that help make a student trustee a changemaker
Here’s what SU officers need to know about a new duty to prevent fraud
What (incorporated) SUs need to know about changes to company law
The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), SUs and international societies
Here’s what SUs need to know about the Online Safety Act
The Village People from the Agency: What research on SU governance tells us
Protected beliefs – when can an SU censor a member of staff?
Twenty four reasons why SUs are different – and why that’s probably OK
Students’ union strategies
A new duty on SUs is coming re sexual harassment. Here’s what SUs need to know
How the “Prevent” duty actually works in universities and SUs
Can we pay our part time officers (and other related questions)
How to review your SU’s code of conduct or disciplinary complaints procedure in light of new OfS regulation
Levers to pull to get universities to ethically invest
Membership Services Conference 2024: Slides
You’ll spend a lot of time in useless meetings. Here’s how to make them even worse
A general election is on – here’s what SUs need to know
Free speech act and SUs – fines and recovery of costs by OfS
How to sponsor international graduates as “skilled workers”
The latest for SUs on holiday pay
SUs, free speech, the equality act, controversial beliefs and the interactions with democracy
Meet the SU with a €4m block grant and hundreds of sabbs
SU staff and free speech
A new law passes on sexual harassment in the workplace – here’s what SUs need to know
What’s it like being on academic board/council/senate?
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning non-academic misconduct?
Student casuals are to get a right to request predictable hours: Here’s what SUs need to know
There’s new formal guidance on the use of social media. Here’s what SUs need to know
Understanding new “legal briefings” on SUs and free speech
A quick guide to university governance
What is the Boycott Bill and why might it matter to students and SUs?
Can SUs be truly representative of their student bodies?
How to use UUK’s guidance on student accommodation to win a local housing strategy for students
What are the basics that all higher education SUs should have?
Here’s why activities, events, groups or reps for a particular group aren’t unlawful
The essential guide for SUs to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Gender based violence, SUs and jurisdiction in complaints procedures
The student role in governance and quality assurance
Holiday pay for part-year staff should not be pro-rated
Why can’t SUs campaign on whatever they like?
Who is James Wharton and why is he in the news?
Student governors – what do they do and what should they do?
The (new) regulation that surrounds student engagement in England
Need to know – the law on students’ unions
Ten ways to improve institution-level student representation
SUs and “pro-life” societies
Understanding organisational politics
Making statements on political issues
Contractual considerations for students’ unions
What SU trustees need to know about free speech and SUs
How should SUs respond to DfE’s proposed free speech “standards”?
What should SU trustees learn from the collapse of Kids Company?
The Charity Commission and free speech in SUs
Does participation in university governance add value to a student’s academic experience?
A quick guide for SUs to new measures in the Chancellor’s “Plan for Jobs”
The Job Support Scheme expansion for closed business premises
Can universities expel students over Covid?
Proposed work on students’ union, association and guild freedom of expression and wider standards
Back to the future on no platforming
What SUs need to know about the Winter Economy Plan 2020
Student governors face major potential conflicts of interest
The Job Retention Scheme (JRS) bonus scheme
Policy Exchange proposals on SUs and freedom of speech
Does Ukraine offer lessons for UK students’ union development?
The restructuring regime and SUs
Workplace equality for SUs in the time of coronavirus
Knowing your DSARs from your elbow: Data subject access requests
Lip service and bottlenecks – what is it like being a student representative?
Draft Covid-19 workplace guidelines
How should SUs manage risk in the current climate?
Holding meetings during the Covid-19 lockdown
What you need to know about the furloughed workers scheme
Lessons for SU trustees from the Save the Children harassment investigation
The way holiday pay is calculated is changing and it will affect students
The Wonkhe SUs 2019 general election student policy guide
SUs, elections and charity law: nothing to worry about
The electoral commission has clarified some things for charities
How to respond to the Government consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
SUs as charities and external advertising
What’s the secret to keeping SU staff?
What is deliberative democracy and why should SUs think about it?
What would an “assertive” partnership with a university look like?
Student trustees – should we appoint or elect?
How much should my VC get paid (and should students have a say?)
Changes to employment law
Charity Commission: Serious incident reporting
Charity Commission- serious incident reporting
New freedom of speech guidance – implications for SUs
A legal view on “no platform” policies

SU officers & leadership (44)

The research on fixated behaviour – and what SUs can do about it
Are your reps secretly workers? What a coastguard case means for SUs
The state of the sabbatical. How UK SUs structure their leadership
What are scrutiny panels and why should your SU care about them?
What is “storming fortnight” and can officer teams survive it?
How to speak volunteers’ appreciation language and transform SU engagement
Now that’s what I call great officer comms
A brief guide to “political” comms for student leaders
Sabbs as trustees, codes of conduct, free speech and the St Andrews Rector case
Four things that help make a student trustee a changemaker
Here’s what SU officers need to know about a new duty to prevent fraud
Twenty four reasons why SUs are different – and why that’s probably OK
Policy forum: Wellbeing and liberation officers and staff
Policy forum: Academic representation and voice
Can we pay our part time officers (and other related questions)
Live players, dead players and influencing tactics and skills
How to be “positively pushy” to get things done for students
You’ll spend a lot of time in useless meetings. Here’s how to make them even worse
What makes a powerful SU officer, team or organisation?
How to support student officers to transition out of their role
Can students send “grossly offensive” emails to SU officers and claim “free speech”?
The rules when international students become sabbs
Meet the SU with a €4m block grant and hundreds of sabbs
Membership Services Conference 2023: Slides
How to speak on a panel or deliver a keynote with confidence and impact
How to be an influential and effective SU officer
Policy forum report: Course rep coordinators
Round table report: Supporting Disabled sabbs
Hidden marks – the contribution of student leaders to tackling gender-based violence on campus
Policy forum report: Liberation
Policy forum report: Presidents and UDOs
Policy forum report: Welfare and Community Officers
It’s all coming up – 10 things for SUs to prep for in 2022/23
Turn back time
Cathedrals, bricks and walls
Voice and representation work in SUs in the Scandis
Identifying the educational development needs of elected sabbatical officers with a remit for supporting teaching and learning
What factors make student representatives more effective?
Understanding organisational politics
An A-Z of higher education data for student officers and staff that support them
I know what Wonkhe SUs did last summer – all our webinars archived in one place
The Johari Window model
What are the development needs of sabbs?
What’s the secret to keeping SU staff?

Student representation & voice (183)

Russell Group SUs have said what they think
How to get involved in the Advance HE/Office for Students research on AI
New research on students and free speech: What SUs need to know
What does student belonging really mean and what really drives it?
Getting ahead on student voice: Why pre-arrival questionnaires are (literally) the future
Students (still) need to see themselves in their SU
Medr’s regulatory framework is a fair-weather friend to students
Students say employability is their top priority – what can SUs do about it?
How to make students more powerful – eight secrets of the Money Saving Expert
How (and why) to respond to the Welsh Government’s call for evidence on the future of tertiary education
The ultimate guide for SUs on what to think about and what to do if a merger is on the cards
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
Scotland’s new tertiary education act – what SUs need to know
19 things that went wrong at Regent College London – and what reps can learn from it
Are your reps secretly workers? What a coastguard case means for SUs
What are Dutch study associations and what’s different from UK academic societies?
Does your university need a student consultation framework? (2026 update)
What a new report on student governors means for SUs
What makes module feedback feel worth giving
Tuutorointi proves peer support works when you resource it as infrastructure, not sparkle
The SFC has ditched outcome agreements – here’s what the new system means for SUs
How to use the Abrahart triangle for change
Students are developing amazing skills through the SU (if they can uncover them)
Where are students and SUs in access and participation interventions?
Did universities involve students and SUs properly in APPs?
Breaking the “meritocracy of difficulty” – what could a survey on culture at your university help to kick off?
Getting students to turn up without threatening them
A brief guide to “political” comms for student leaders
Wonkhe explainers for SUs
Webinar archive
Study Tour 2025: Portugal
What is Rise and why does it matter
The games students play: How SUs can use research into students’ subject engagement
Here’s what SUs in England need to know about buses and forthcoming changes to bus franchising
Study tour 2025: 48 hours in Stockholm
A round up of student influence, voice and representation policies from our eurotours
Study Tour 2025: Poland
Study Tour 2025: Czechia
Study Tour 2025: Slovakia
Study Tour 2025: Hungary
Here’s how to respond to the Department for Transport’s Integrated National Transport Strategy
Policy forum: Academic representation and voice
Students’ union strategies
Live players, dead players and influencing tactics and skills
Membership Services Conference 2024: Slides
What do students think of uni comms (inside and outside of a crisis?)
What makes a powerful SU officer, team or organisation?
How empowered SUs could transform the student experience
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Austria
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Serbia
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Slovenia
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Croatia
How to run impactful focus groups with international students
Meet the SU with 1500 student leaders and a focus on subject belonging
2024 Study Tour: Ireland
Everything you need to know about Student-Led Teaching Awards
The five frames of student representation
What students want to see in academic integrity policy in an age of AI
More ways to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
Study Tours 2024: Finland
Study Tours 2024: Estonia
Study Tours 2024: Latvia
Study Tours 2024: Lithuania
Policy forum update: PGR student experience
What SUs need to know about a revised Quality Code
All the TEF 2023 student submissions in one place
What did the TEF panel really notice in SU submissions?
How to approach discussions on university rent setting
How to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
Imagine if there was a subject-level TEF
This new model could be great for course reps wanting to make a difference
What’s it like being on academic board/council/senate?
Membership Services Conference 2023: Slides
What do students think about learner analytics?
How to interrogate the student experience at subject level
Belonging and retention: what does the evidence tell us?
Here’s what part-time, distance learner and commuter students need their SU to focus on
What do students think would make university more engaging?
Can SUs be truly representative of their student bodies?
Do students have a voice in diversity policies?
How to fix the student engagement problem
Student engagement in OfS’ new APP process
Policy forum report: Course rep coordinators
What are the basics that all higher education SUs should have?
Why do students get involved in stuff?
Seven big takeaways for SUs from the 2022 UK Engagement Survey
How do universities recognise student volunteering?
TEF Student Submission Catch Up #4
Learning the lessons from an evaluation of intersectional student mental health initiatives
Four key takeaways for SUs from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2022
OfS B3 Quality Toolkit
The student role in governance and quality assurance
Report from TEF student submission catch up #3
OfS has released new guidance on the TEF Student Submission
This is why some people don’t Likert the NSS
Student involvement in disciplinary processes
How to respond to the consultation on the NSS
The TEF and B3 consultation responses are out. Here’s what SUs need to know
Report from TEF student submission catch up #2
Understanding equality and equity – the saga of the chocolate cake
Why aren’t we giving student reps the data they need?
Voice and representation work in SUs in the Scandis
The dangerous “difference” between student partnership and student representation
Report from the TEF student submission catch up
Student governors – what do they do and what should they do?
Identifying the educational development needs of elected sabbatical officers with a remit for supporting teaching and learning
Scanditour 2022: Norway
Scanditour 2022: Sweden
Scanditour 2022: Denmark
Student engagement in quality assurance reviews
The (new) regulation that surrounds student engagement in England
Ten top takeaways for SUs from our research on students and belonging
How to respond to OfS’ consultations on outcomes and excellence
They are consumers, at the end of the day. Or are they?
This is why the B3 bear and the TEF matters to your SU’s strategy
What will count as Gold, Silver and Bronze?
What SUs need to know about student voice in the new TEF
Has student politics disappeared with marketisation?
Here’s how universities are being advised to support student engagement
What factors make student representatives more effective?
Did SUs make a difference on access and participation?
Seven big takeaways from the 2021 UK Engagement Survey
Can artificial intelligence replace student representation?
Ten ways to improve institution-level student representation
How to respond to the call for evidence on the inspection of the immigration system
The future of student involvement in quality in Wales
Student voice and Muslim students
Study tour 2022 – outline itinerary and details
What is “student success” and why does it matter to SUs?
What makes teaching good – the answers that student reps need to know
What can students’ unions take from our research on digital literacy and the curriculum?
Making statements on political issues
What do students value about the student experience?
How to make student voice more meaningful
What role do SUs have in Access and Participation Plans?
Twenty things that SUs need to know about Phase One of the NSS review
Module evaluation in a pandemic and beyond
Does student engagement work engage BAME students? (not really)
How and why to feed in on your uni’s access and participation plan and progress
What should SUs push for when it comes to digital teaching and learning?
Sunday 21 March is the most important day of the year
Should we make students “participate” or just survey them for student voice?
Roll up roll up for the National Contentment Survey
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on quality and standards
Does participation in university governance add value to a student’s academic experience?
Why activity-oriented focus groups are great for student research
Revealed: what different types of students think of SUs
Students this year are lonely – but quite activisty
How to respond to the NSS review consultation
Students not as apathetic as policy-makers like to think
Student governors face major potential conflicts of interest
Communicating to students about Covid-19
Does Ukraine offer lessons for UK students’ union development?
What do students say about uni efforts to minimise the spread of Covid-19?
What do students say if you ask for their ideas on September and social distancing?
Student views on Covid-19 and implications for SUs
Lip service and bottlenecks – what is it like being a student representative?
I know what Wonkhe SUs did last summer – all our webinars archived in one place
Student-staff co-creation in higher education
Responding to student voice: insights into international practice
Revealed: what different types of students think of SUs
What about the voices of part time students
So did universities build student engagement into access and participation plans?
“Inappropriate influence” and the NSS
How to make a difference for disabled students
Students want jobs and Advance HE has a framework for that
Partnerships that support student led projects
What are the development needs of sabbs?
Racism on campus – the role of SUs
Opportunity blocked: students’ unions
Opportunity blocked: the value of SUs
How co-creation can support underrepresented students and equitable practices
How to run research projects on gender-based violence
What do published access and participation strategies say about SU and student involvement?
How representative are SU officers?
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on student consultation
What is deliberative democracy and why should SUs think about it?
What has Plato got to do with student rights and expectations?
Six things to bear in mind about NSS Q26
Where does student voice go?
What would an “assertive” partnership with a university look like?
Should we manage, meet, or transform student expectations?
Co-producing mental health strategies with students

Activities, sport & societies (96)

Careers, credit and curricula – examples of practice from European SUs and unis
What the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations means for SUs
What SUs need to know about student civic engagement
Martyn’s Law: What SUs need to know (April 2026 Update)
If your Amnesty group wants the university to sign its Defend Dissent Charter, here’s what you need to know
What is the safe adventures report and why should your SU take it seriously?
What is Generation A and what will they want from their SU?
What is a “non-academic transcript” and should SUs be paying attention?
Euro unis are using diploma supplements to recognise student volunteer roles – and the UK could too
Meet the SU where the academic societies have £800k budgets
100+ of our favourite student-run festivals and events from across Europe
What can UK SUs learn from the Netherlands’ longest student introduction programme?
What are Dutch study associations and what’s different from UK academic societies?
Students are developing amazing skills through the SU (if they can uncover them)
Students should be more involved in their towns and cities, here’s what SUs need to know about the new Pride in Place Strategy
Now here’s a way to generate some additional study space when deadlines and exams loom
How to speak volunteers’ appreciation language and transform SU engagement
How to start the year with a start week that delivers social, academic and administrative integration
Is the CCP interfering in UK universities through SUs and their Chinese student societies?
Proscription of Palestine Action: Implications for students and SUs
The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), SUs and international societies
What is Rise and why does it matter
100 ways to build (and bridge) community on campus
Membership Services Conference 2024: Slides
What SUs need to know about the students arriving on campus in September
A new “civic healthcheck” for your uni and SU
Supporting students to transition well into university
Why do students pre-drink?
Everything you need to know about Student-Led Teaching Awards
Facilitating interactions and connections between students outside of the classroom is crucial for belonging
How to improve safety for students in local pubs and clubs (update)
Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) and new “foreign influence” regulation
What is Belong telling us about career confidence, belonging and student opportunities?
When is it right to “interfere” in the free speech of student activists, officers or student groups?
Membership Services Conference 2023: Slides
Student mental health, clubs and societies and drugs
All the latest research on the value of extra curricular activities
Round table report: EDI in clubs and societies
Why do students get involved in stuff?
Peer support builds connection, community and confidence
Thirty ideas for revitalising welcome week from across Europe
How to implement a harm reduction approach over drugs and alcohol
How do universities recognise student volunteering?
Here’s why activities, events, groups or reps for a particular group aren’t unlawful
How to ensure commuter students belong
Big Question: What are SUs doing on Cost of Living?
Who are the UK’s loneliest students?
Do extra-curricular activities help with employability? Some do
Scanditour 2022: Norway
Scanditour 2022: Sweden
Scanditour 2022: Denmark
Student engagement in quality assurance reviews
Do extra-curricular activities improve grades, completion rates and graduate job prospects?
Ten top takeaways for SUs from our research on students and belonging
Drink, drink up
How to persuade students to live healthy
Want to improve student mental health? It’s all about connections
How do students understand and talk about gender-based violence on campus?
Understanding sexual aggression in male students
How to reduce drug-related harms amongst students
SUs and “pro-life” societies
Implications for students and SUs of “Plan B” vaccine passports in England
International students’ social values and backgrounds can influence their mental health
What if only extroverts benefit from student opportunities?
Should students consider becoming sober-curious?
Five ideas from Europe for building students back higher this Autumn
120 ways to rebuild student opportunities after the pandemic
How to make student sport happen under “Step One”
What happened to student activities and opportunities during the pandemic?
How student activities and opportunities help skills development
Do clubs and societies make a difference to employability?
Tiers, gatherings and exemptions – a quick guide for SUs
SUs need to do more to enable disabled students to access the full student experience
A “can do” approach to clubs and socs during Covid
How does student activism drive change on campus sexual violence?
What does social distancing do to student mental health?
How do the rules on socialising and gatherings affect student groups?
Covid-19 and clubs, societies and campus facilities
Covid-19, student discipline and student opportunities
Creating conversations about sexual consent on campus
What are universities planning and are students still coming?
Inducting, socialising and engaging students in the “new normal”
Do SUs help students pick up the skills that employers need?
How to tackle student loneliness before term starts
BUCS is intervening on “problem initiations”
Partnerships that support student led projects
Opportunity blocked: students’ unions
Opportunity blocked: commuters and London
Opportunity blocked: the value of SUs
Opportunity blocked: student confidence and outcomes
Opportunity blocked: getting involved
Sports teams and homophobia – still a problem?
Universities UK guidance on initiations at UK universities
Drinking and peer pressure
What can SUs learn from Essex Uni’s antisemitism review?
Do international students think Britain is drunk?

Elections & democracy (55)

Wonkhe SUs Holyrood election 2026: Student policy guide and webapp
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Lib Dems
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Greens
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish National Party
Wonkhe SUs Senedd election 2026: Student policy guide and webapp
Senedd election 2026: Student policy picker
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Liberal Democrats
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Labour
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Plaid Cymru
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Green Party
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Conservatives
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Welsh Labour
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Reform UK
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Reform UK
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: The Welsh Conservatives
Local elections in May 2026 (England): What SUs need to know
Elections are coming in Holyrood and the Senedd – here’s what SUs need to know
What are scrutiny panels and why should your SU care about them?
Local elections in May 2025: What SUs need to know
Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The SNP
The Wonkhe SUs 2024 general election student policy guide
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Reform Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Labour Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Green Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: Liberal Democrats
How to get the student vote out
A general election is on – here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s the latest intel on students and voting
How to develop urban advocacy projects in an election year
How to develop a student urban advocacy agenda
It’s time to unlock students’ voices
Cathedrals, bricks and walls
Why can’t SUs campaign on whatever they like?
Student views on cost of living and politics
Has student politics disappeared with marketisation?
A huge set of elections is coming up and SUs need to act fast
Students not as apathetic as policy-makers like to think
Do student voters make much difference at elections?
It’s all coming up – ten things we think will happen next term
The Wonkhe SUs 2019 general election student policy guide
General election 2019 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Brexit Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Labour Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Liberal Democrats
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Green Party
There’s a new “ranking” out on voter registration
Update from the Cabinet Office on electoral registration and NI numbers
SUs, elections and charity law: nothing to worry about
The electoral commission has clarified some things for charities
Getting students registered to vote is an urgent priority
What is deliberative democracy and why should SUs think about it?

Industrial action (25)

The ultimate (updated 2026) guide to students’ rights over industrial action
Everything SUs need to know about industrial action in the sector
Making major changes to courses just got a lot harder
It’s all coming up – 10 things for SUs think about in 2023
A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling
Here’s what SUs need to know about UCU’s action short of a strike
What are this week’s strikes all about?
Here’s what SUs need to know about UCU’s industrial action
The ultimate guide to student rights when there’s industrial action
Nursing strikes and students
A closer look at university finances
A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling
What happened to the health and wellbeing of staff during Covid?
All the press releases from the pensions and pay dispute(s)
Why could industrial action be coming to UK campuses in the coming year?
It looks like casualisation is a student interest issue
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 and Industrial Action
What about postgrads that teach?
How are SUs handling term two of strike action?
It’s all coming up – ten things we think will happen next term
Industrial action latest statements
Thorny issues to think through in the run up to industrial action
Student rights and industrial action
Implications for SUs of summaries of strike complaints
Compensation and industrial action

Covid-19 (168)

Does your university need a student consultation framework? (2026 update)
Which students are more likely to run out of food?
Post-pandemic students have different expectations when it comes to teaching
What about the Covid student doctors?
How to fix the student engagement problem
Almost half of young people are experiencing mental health problems
Mental health has a close relationship to sleep and financial pressures
How did the lockdowns impact students’ mental health?
How to ensure disabled students can access their education post-pandemic
How to make post-pandemic HE work for disabled students
What if student wellbeing is dependent on trust?
Top ten takeaways from PTES 2021
Seven big takeaways from the 2021 UK Engagement Survey
What happened to the health and wellbeing of staff during Covid?
Why did some students ignore Covid rules?
Five important factors when supporting Covid generation freshers
Implications for students and SUs of “Plan B” vaccine passports in England
Student perceptions of value in 2021
Addressing the issues faced by deaf higher education students post-pandemic
Poorer and BAME students feel left behind during pandemic
Here’s what SUs need to know about the Student Futures Commission interim report
Here’s what OIA says is important as we approach the new academic year
What was the impact of the pandemic on Disabled students?
Student mental health was hit hard during the pandemic – what should happen now?
What can SUs learn from batch 3 of Covid complaints?
Freshers need extra help with social connections
The psychological impacts of Covid-19 on students
What should concern us re university applicants enrolling this September?
A quarter of students have no friends, says new study
What restrictions might remain on students and universities after “freedom day”?
What have students in Scotland missed out on – and what do they need next year?
Dyslexia and remote learning – students have struggled
How has Covid impacted the student experience – and what do they want in September?
Identifying student subcultures in the unexpected online student cohort
Learning lessons from part one of the pandemic
What are prospective international students saying about September?
Fifteen reasons why students could complain over Covid – so their rights become much clearer
The state of play on Covid hardship support
What if social isolation makes academic work harder?
120 ways to rebuild student opportunities after the pandemic
How to support international students in financial hardship
How to make student sport happen under “Step One”
How a year of emergency digitally-enabled learning could get even better
Is keeping lectures online in September such a great idea after all?
Module evaluation in a pandemic and beyond
How to ensure blind students can access remote exams
How many students are in rent debt?
Ten things for SUs to learn from Jisc’s new digital experience research
Is there a link between money and student mental health?
What can SUs learn from batch 2 of Covid complaints?
What should SUs push for when it comes to digital teaching and learning?
What happened to student activities and opportunities during the pandemic?
Do students want to “return” after Easter?
What is the National Student Accommodation Survey 2021 telling us?
How to spend DfE’s £50m for student hardship
What’s going on with OfS’ consultation on harassment and sexual misconduct – and why SUs should care
What could be done to help/compensate the Class of Covid?
OfS has new guidance out on no detriment policies and safety nets
Understanding OfS’ consumer protection reviews
QAA has published advice on practical components and placements
QAA has published advice on “safety net” and “no detriment” policies
Student caregivers during the pandemic
Roll up roll up for the National Contentment Survey
A huge set of elections is coming up and SUs need to act fast
What should (or could) be in a new no detriment or safety net policy for this year?
Which universities are offering rent rebates for Christmas?
Majority of university students want refund on first term
Students’ views on the impact of Coronavirus
What can SUs learn from batch 1 of Covid complaints?
What does PTES 2020 actually tell us?
The new legal restrictions in Wales for after the firebreak
The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2020
The new legal restrictions in England for the November lockdown
A quick guide for SUs to new measures in the Chancellor’s “Plan for Jobs”
Students this year are lonely – but quite activisty
Tiers, gatherings and exemptions – a quick guide for SUs
The Job Support Scheme expansion for closed business premises
Three new tiers for England
Can universities expel students over Covid?
Evidence is emerging on students in lockdown
A “can do” approach to clubs and socs during Covid
What support should be put in place when students are self-isolating in halls?
New laws in England that SUs need to know about
What SUs need to know about the Winter Economy Plan 2020
How are students feeling about return to campus?
What does social distancing do to student mental health?
How do the rules on socialising and gatherings affect student groups?
Three in five students have seen a direct impact on their income as a result of Covid-19
Communicating to students about Covid-19
Covid-19 and clubs, societies and campus facilities
Covid-19, student discipline and student opportunities
Face coverings rules in universities
Now students are concerned about access to staff and facilities
How should universities be supporting international arrivals?
Some new findings on students and belonging
Students are worried about local lockdowns
Applicants are worried about grades and what uni life will be like
Amending mental health services in light of the pandemic
The Job Retention Scheme (JRS) bonus scheme
Where will students get their work done?
Are students getting the “absolute clarity” they were promised?
Has Covid-19 impacted student (and parent) financial confidence?
Have students and graduates lost access to the workplace?
The restructuring regime and SUs
Student inclusion and reopening
Twenty six challenges to universities over disabled students and Covid-19
What will social distancing look like for students in the autumn?
What do students say about uni efforts to minimise the spread of Covid-19?
What do students say if you ask for their ideas on September and social distancing?
Changes to courses and the issue of “consent”
What does Quality mean in the age of coronavirus?
Places and spaces on a socially distant campus
Next academic year and the “structure of learning”
Workplace equality for SUs in the time of coronavirus
Student views on Covid-19 and implications for SUs
Students, spring break, science and September
Ten important findings about young people and education from ONS research into the impact of Covid-19
Are “student compacts” an answer to some of the September student questions?
OIA has new guidance out on how it will approach Covid complaints
What are universities planning and are students still coming?
A major digital divide is opening up between students
Students need detail about September – but is that possible?
Students are keen to come back – with caveats
DfE has published guidance on reopening universities in the autumn
QAA has guidance out on courses and assessment next year
UUK has published some principles and considerations on emerging from lockdown
Are students worried about their uni going bankrupt?
There’s a briefing out on mental health and Covid-19
Inducting, socialising and engaging students in the “new normal”
QAA has published briefings on years abroad and placements
What are FE colleges being told about opening – and why might it matter for HE?
How to reopen universities in September
NHS Test and Trace and the major questions for students
Bolton or Cambridge? Announcements on lifting lockdown tested
The practicalities of a socially distant campus
Will students defer or switch if September is socially distant?
How is Covid-19 impacting disabled students?
Is the penny starting to drop for students re September?
What sort of impact is the pandemic having on PGRs?
There is new guidance on student (and staff) mental health and wellbeing
What should universities be doing for PGR students during the pandemic?
How many students are already locked into accommodation contracts next year?
What can we do about the graduate unemployment crisis that’s coming?
Would students be happy if next term was online?
Draft Covid-19 workplace guidelines
What impact is Covid-19 having on students (and what do they think of their university’s handling of it)
What bespoke support should be in place for disadvantaged students during the crisis?
How confident is the Covid cohort when it comes to finding a job?
It looks like international students are desperate to defer
It’s a small world – how contagious are university campuses?
Ten things to remember about temporary changes to immigration rules for international students
QAA has guidance out on placements, years abroad and apprenticeships
QAA has guidance out on practice and lab-based assessment
QAA has guidance out on academic standards and supporting student achievement
Digging into research on student views on Covid-19 handling
OfS publishes guidance on teaching, assessment, student support and consumer rights during Covid-19
Changes being made to teaching and assessment have to last beyond the lockdown
Preparing to discuss your university’s finances
How should SUs manage risk in the current climate?
Holding meetings during the Covid-19 lockdown
Complaints, compensation and Covid-19
Covid-19 mitigations and deaf students
What you need to know about the furloughed workers scheme
Key points from QAA’s guidance on Covid-19 and the student learning experience
Student rights and Covid-19: OIA on complaints during the pandemic
Coronavirus and protecting students’ interests
What are universities being advised about coronavirus and what are the implications for SUs?
Industrial action latest statements

Study tours & international comparisons (59)

Careers, credit and curricula – examples of practice from European SUs and unis
Study Tour Spring 2026: Reykjavík/Iceland
Euro unis are using diploma supplements to recognise student volunteer roles – and the UK could too
Meet the SU where the academic societies have £800k budgets
What can UK SUs learn from how Central Europe supports international students?
100+ of our favourite student-run festivals and events from across Europe
January 2026 Study Tour: Belgium
January 2026 Study Tour: France
What can UK SUs learn from the Netherlands’ longest student introduction programme?
January 2026 Study Tour: Netherlands
Study Tour January 2026: Germany
Study Tour January 2026: Luxembourg
Study Tour January 2026: Switzerland
What are Dutch study associations and what’s different from UK academic societies?
What makes peer tutoring work and why SUs should be running it
Tuutorointi proves peer support works when you resource it as infrastructure, not sparkle
Now here’s a way to generate some additional study space when deadlines and exams loom
How to start the year with a start week that delivers social, academic and administrative integration
Breaking the “meritocracy of difficulty” – what could a survey on culture at your university help to kick off?
Study Tour 2025: Portugal
Study tour 2025: 48 hours in Stockholm
A round up of student influence, voice and representation policies from our eurotours
Study Tour 2025: Poland
Study Tour 2025: Czechia
Study Tour 2025: Slovakia
Study Tour 2025: Hungary
What does the rest of Europe do about PBSA contract exit, guarantors and upfront rent for students?
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Austria
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Serbia
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Slovenia
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Croatia
Meet the SU with 1500 student leaders and a focus on subject belonging
Pay and rights for PhD students across Europe
2024 Study Tour: Ireland
How to develop urban advocacy projects in an election year
Meet the SU with a €4m block grant and hundreds of sabbs
How to develop a student urban advocacy agenda
Study Tours 2024: Finland
Study Tours 2024: Estonia
Study Tours 2024: Latvia
Study Tours 2024: Lithuania
All about students and HE in Europe and the role of the EU
Scandi Mini Tour 2023: Denmark
Scandi Mini Tour 2023: Sweden
Study Tour 2023: Germany
Study Tour 2023: The Netherlands
Study Tour 2023: EU
Study Tour 2023: Belgium
Voice and representation work in SUs in the Scandis
Scanditour 2022: Norway
Scanditour 2022: Sweden
Scanditour 2022: Denmark
Scanditour 2022: Latest emails
Study tour 2022 – outline itinerary and details
How much space do students have?
Five ideas from Europe for building students back higher this Autumn
How do they support student mental health in Finland?
Does Ukraine offer lessons for UK students’ union development?
Understanding Erasmus

Sustainability & climate (10)

Levers to pull to get universities to ethically invest
Gaza campus protests: two human rights law experts write new principles for universities
Student views of the affordability of plant-based diets
What is the Boycott Bill and why might it matter to students and SUs?
Student opinions and understanding of sustainability
Students are more concerned about climate change than any other issue
Students want sustainability skills from their higher educattion
What are universities doing about climate change?
Half of universities have made “divestment” commitments. Has yours?
Partnerships that support student led projects

Digital & technology (82)

What’s the update on learner analytics and what do SUs need to know
The charitable soft opt-in: a guide for SUs
Ten things to think about if you’re feeding in on online proctoring in 2026
Digital takeaways for SUs from this year’s student digital experience survey
Now that’s what I call great officer comms
Lecture capture as a tool for inclusion and legal compliance
A brief guide to “political” comms for student leaders
How digital transformation happens at universities
Here’s what SUs need to know about the Online Safety Act
Disabled students find community online – results of a new study
UKVI confirms new attendance rules for international students
Avoiding academic burnout? It’s belonging again
All the top takeaways from Jisc’s student digital experience insights surveys
Online learning, neurodivergent students and “cognitive load”
Do students who use their phones during lectures just lack self-control?
Post-pandemic students have different expectations when it comes to teaching
What do students think of uni comms (inside and outside of a crisis?)
Here’s what SUs need to know about digital poverty
Here’s what SUs should argue for on international students and technology
Belonging is partly about space
What do students think about learner analytics?
There’s new formal guidance on the use of social media. Here’s what SUs need to know
Seminar attendance, lecture capture and disability adjustments
How do you build belonging in a blended environment?
How to fix the student engagement problem
International students’ digital experience – what SUs need to know
How do staff and students feel about lecture recordings?
Reviewing policies on lecture capture
Should your university adopt “digital” mental health support?
How to use the blended learning review for change
Are “wellbeing analytics” going to solve all our problems?
What are students telling us about digital learning?
Do we read worse on screens?
Why do distance education students drop out?
Why aren’t we giving student reps the data they need?
That synching feeling – exploring student engagement in an online environment
Do students engage when everything is online?
Things to think about if you’re discussing or debating online proctoring at your uni
What is the actual impact of Instagram on student wellbeing?
What do students think about tech and how useful it is on their course?
Generation Alpha is coming – here’s what you need to know
What can we learn from the shift to digital delivery?
What should SUs argue for when it comes to digital learning?
How to speak the new language of learning
Shorter recorded lectures, or long ones – which is best for learning?
One way to think about post-pandemic “blended” learning
What if students aren’t happy about lectures moving online in September?
What can students’ unions take from our research on digital literacy and the curriculum?
Why too many recorded lecture videos may be bad for maths students’ learning
Is helping students to focus a killer “key skill” we should be supporting?
Dyslexia and remote learning – students have struggled
Identifying student subcultures in the unexpected online student cohort
Learning lessons from part one of the pandemic
What can you do in Step 3 from Monday?
How do students react to learning analytics feedback?
Do students learn as well from e-textbooks as they do from hardcopies?
How a year of emergency digitally-enabled learning could get even better
Is keeping lectures online in September such a great idea after all?
Ten things for SUs to learn from Jisc’s new digital experience research
What should SUs push for when it comes to digital teaching and learning?
This is why writing matters for student learning
Can artificial intelligence help predict students’ needs?
Online learning – is it any good?
The Jisc Digital Experience Insights Survey
Online harassment – is reputation more important than safeguarding?
An A-Z of higher education data for student officers and staff that support them
Knowing your DSARs from your elbow: Data subject access requests
A major digital divide is opening up between students
Can social networks be used as an educational resource?
As everything moves online, do you know your data rights?
Does lecture capture mean fewer students are turning up (and so what if it does?)
There’s funding available for SUs to do some research
Here’s what universities are doing about online abuse of students
What should SUs interrogate when it comes to student data?
HEPI/Youthsight research on student cybersecurity
Do learning analytics help us spot students in trouble?
Students and tech – Jisc’s digital insights survey
What the research says about lecture capture
UUK on tackling online harassment
Can we “nudge” students towards better grades?
Essential welfare intervention or surveillance state?
Attendance monitoring at university

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England (343)

What SUs (in England) need to know about the future of the TEF
What SUs need to know about research into students’ experiences of accommodation
Here’s what the Russell Group have to say about widening access to postgraduate study
Renter’s Rights Act: What should have happened in May?
How to get involved in the Advance HE/Office for Students research on AI
Here’s where we’re at with university finances (in England) – May 2026
New research on students and free speech: What SUs need to know
Comparing the financial help that universities give to students (In England)
Here’s what access and participation looks like in London
What SUs (in England) need to know about the Office for Students’ guidance on freedom of speech v3
The essential (revised and updated) guide for SUs to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023
Universities are curbing free food for students
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on “treating students fairly”
Why SUs need to respond to DfE’s consultation on software and Disabled Students Allowance
What SUs need to know about the Sussex free speech judgment
What SUs can learn from complaints summaries in the OIA’s annual report 2025
Rights to exit student accommodation in England “early” as of May 1st 2026
The weekend delivery issue and students’ rights (updated)
What SUs need to know about student civic engagement
A beefed up weapon against rogue landlords – a guide to Rent Repayment Orders for SUs in England
If your Amnesty group wants the university to sign its Defend Dissent Charter, here’s what you need to know
Meningitis outbreak at Kent – what SUs need to know
Who bears the price risk in student energy contracts matters more than the price
What SUs need to know about the UJS Time for Change report
What’s the update on learner analytics and what do SUs need to know
How (and why) to respond to the Treasury Committee’s call for evidence on student loans
12 (+3) new Renter’s Rights tricks landlords could pull (and what to do about them)
The Renters Rights Bill is law – what should SUs do to prepare for May 1st 2026? (updated)
Guide to Renter’s Rights Act (England) for students (updated)
The TEF and why it matters to SUs – 2026 edition
The top six takeaways for SUs from PRES 2025
Local elections in May 2026 (England): What SUs need to know
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
What SUs can do about delayed visas and late arrivals
How can SUs learn from HE and NHS partnerships
What students’ landlords are being told about the Renters’ Rights Act, and why it matters for SUs
19 things that went wrong at Regent College London – and what reps can learn from it
Summer 2026 and the Renter’s Rights Act – Step by Step
It’s time to push for a rewrite of your university’s Student Protection Plan
Here’s what the government position is if a provider (in England) goes insolvent
30 housing cases that made it to the first tier tribunal
Pass/fail is better for learning and better for mental health
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on handling reports of harassment and sexual misconduct
If students can’t use AI, should staff be able to?
New research on students’ perceptions of their rights: 20 things SUs need to know
What’s in APPs on belonging and social connection?
What SUs need to know about grade inflation, algorithms and degree transcripts
How to use the Abrahart triangle for change
How to stop students being ripped off by the emerging guarantor market
Students live in terrible housing. Can SUs do anything about it?
How to use planning policy and the Skills White Paper to make student housing better
Help! My uni has over (or under) recruited to a course
What’s in the Post-16 skills white paper for students?
How (and why) to respond to the consultation on OfS’ proposals on quality
Where are students and SUs in access and participation interventions?
Tensions on campus and beyond – legal rights and regulatory risks for SUs
Did universities involve students and SUs properly in APPs?
Students should be more involved in their towns and cities, here’s what SUs need to know about the new Pride in Place Strategy
Here’s what the OfS sector level sexual misconduct data says and what it means for SUs
How (and why) to respond to the consultation on OfS’ proposals on quality
The one-year loophole: How students can escape PBSA contracts in 2025/26
Here’s what universities civic and economic impact is and why SUs should be interested
How much money do students actually need?
The B3 data dashboards are here, what does it mean for SUs
VFM in HE – what students think and what SUs can do
20 questions SUs should ask about harassment and sexual misconduct
Here’s what’s on the to do list for the OfS this year
What SUs can learn from the OIA about closures
What SUs can learn from complaints to the OIA about cheating and AI
OfS answers a bunch of frequently asked questions over harassment and sexual misconduct
There are some last-minute government amendments to the Renters Rights Bill
What happens after the OfS publishes a quality assessment report
Finding your university in the data: Summer 2025 edition
The OfS takes a position on AI, here’s what you need to know
OfS has got their funding guidance but what does it mean
What SUs need know about the national review of student suicides
24 things that SUs need to know about new rights in (some) university halls
What’s been happening in the Lords re the Renter’s Rights Bill?
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
A beginner’s guide to reasonable adjustments and competence standards for disabled students
Here’s all the amendments the Lords have submitted for the Renter’s Rights Act
Sussex, OfS and free speech – what might the implications be for SUs?
Local elections in May 2025: What SUs need to know
How to respond to OfS’ new consultation on fairness for students
Here’s what SUs in England need to know about buses and forthcoming changes to bus franchising
There’s a new framework to support students in distress – here’s what SUs need to know
OfS is regulating again, here’s what SUs need to know
What SUs can learn from complaints about harassment and sexual misconduct
What are students’ rights over closed modules, campuses and courses?
Here’s where the Department for Education’s mental health taskforce is up to
What’s still wrong with the Renter’s Rights Bill (and what would fix it)?
How to respond to OfS’ consultation over its new strategy
What’s all this about (home student) attendance policies?
What SUs can learn from complaints about student transfers
Here’s how to respond to the Department for Transport’s Integrated National Transport Strategy
Here’s what the Secretary of State for Education actually said when they increased fees (in England)
How the law works over tuition fee increases
This is the support that care experienced students need and should get
How to respond to the NHS change consultation in the student interest
Round one of OfS’ quality reports are complete – here’s what we learned
What the Renters Rights Bill committee heard about students in its first major meeting
How to respond to the Renters’ Rights Bill call for evidence
A new episode of OfS quality assessment reports has dropped. Here’s what SUs need to know
What SUs can learn from complaints about service issues
If that then that – here’s what amendments to the Renters’ Rights Bill could look like for students
What can SUs learn from the approval of new providers?
This is what SUs (mainly in England) need to know about the new Renter’s Rights Bill
How to review your SU’s code of conduct or disciplinary complaints procedure in light of new OfS regulation
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new condition of registration on harassment and sexual misconduct
Slow email responses, deadline bunching and unsuitable IT – driving change via OfS’ latest inspection reports
Here’s why bad scores on student continuation, completion and progression matter to universities and their SUs
What is the Lifelong Loan Entitlement and how is it supposed to work?
Learning and rights from complaints from postgrads
A new report covers student cost of living information – here’s what SUs need to know
How to respond to the consultation on improving non-medical help for disabled students
OfS has a new inspection report out – here’s what SUs and their reps need to know
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
Free speech act and SUs – fines and recovery of costs by OfS
What exactly does “student success” mean
Which students are suitable candidates for mental health services?
What happened in OfS’ free speech guidance webinar for SUs?
There’s a new report on transition and reasonable adjustments for disabled students. Here’s what SUs need to know
Understanding and responding to OfS’ consultation on guidance on SU free speech duties
Takeaways for SUs from OfS’ latest webinar on access and participation
How to improve rights for students who have a placement
Understanding the free speech legal balance
Can students send “grossly offensive” emails to SU officers and claim “free speech”?
How city planners think about student accommodation
Here’s what SUs need to know about the progress of the Renter’s (Reform) Bill in England
The lived experiences of BAME LGBTQ students
OfS consults on (and answers questions on) free speech
Amended guidance on APPs – here’s what matters to SUs (Jan 2024 UPDATE)
More ways to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning halls?
How to improve safety for students in local pubs and clubs (update)
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on new free speech duties for SUs
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on its new free speech complaints scheme
What exactly is “graduate employability” anyway (and what gets graduates employed?)
Policy forum update: Harassment and sexual misconduct
All the TEF 2023 student submissions in one place
What did the TEF panel really notice in SU submissions?
SU staff and free speech
How to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
Why do students self-harm?
Imagine if there was a subject-level TEF
When is it right to “interfere” in the free speech of student activists, officers or student groups?
50p a week to live on after rent
How do students spend bursaries and hardship funds?
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning non-academic misconduct?
How to apply for the Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund (England)
Understanding students’ experiences of violence on and off campus
England’s Free Speech Act – what happens now
Understanding new “legal briefings” on SUs and free speech
The university experiences of care experienced students
A quick guide to university governance
How to feed in on your university’s approach to free speech
What do the public think about tuition fees?
Hidden course costs and consumer law
What’s in the HE reform consultation response?
Making major changes to courses just got a lot harder
Reflecting on a decade of higher education policy and politics – and looking ahead
Student engagement in OfS’ new APP process
The renters (reform) bill – here’s what SUs need to know
Make it make sense – understanding England’s system of student finance
How to use the new Disabled students commitment
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new regulation of access and participation
Round table report: Harassment and sexual misconduct
How to respond to OfS’ proposals on harassment and sexual misconduct
What can SUs learn from complaints concerning academic misconduct?
How to ensure students benefit from the Household Support Fund
Cost of living and mental health and closely related
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new proposals on harassment and sexual misconduct
Are university campuses breeding grounds for extremism?
How to improve international student integration and experience
The essential guide for SUs to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
How (and why) to lobby the Lords over the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
What’s going on with the UCU industrial action?
Learning the lessons from an evaluation of intersectional student mental health initiatives
What SUs need to know about changes to OIA’s Good Practice Framework
Here’s what SUs need to know about the new ONS cost of living research
Almost half of young people are experiencing mental health problems
Policy forum report: Welfare and Community Officers
OfS B3 Quality Toolkit
Providers need to do more to tackle harassment and sexual misconduct, according to a new OfS evaluation
How to make best use of forthcoming national student cost of living research
How to use the blended learning review for change
Report from TEF student submission catch up #3
OfS has released new guidance on the TEF Student Submission
How to respond to the OfS consultation on a new access and participation regime
Your essential guide to making sense of OfS’ new data dashboards
How to use the OIA note on cost of living to accelerate efforts to support students
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on its Good Practice Framework for complaints
Student involvement in disciplinary processes
How to respond to the consultation on new standards for rented homes
How England plans to cut back ‘low value’ degrees so it can reap more student loan repayments
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about the new Building Safety Act
How to respond to the consultation on the NSS
The TEF and B3 consultation responses are out. Here’s what SUs need to know
How to respond to the consultation on renter’s reform
Will rental reform help students in halls?
Report from TEF student submission catch up #2
How to improve the quality of student housing
Rental reform is coming – what should SUs do next?
What are the big differences between living in private lets and purpose built student accommodation?
Achieving a fairer private rental sector – what SUs need to know
Who is James Wharton and why is he in the news?
How to understand and use OfS’ new definitions of quality
Report from the TEF student submission catch up
Twelve things for SUs to note from the 2021 OIA annual report
What can SUs learn from the latest batch of OIA-adjudicated complaints?
Understanding and influencing Access and Participation plan “variations”
Understanding sexual assault prevalence is central to tackling the issue
How to respond to DfE’s HE policy statement and reform consultation
The (new) regulation that surrounds student engagement in England
How to respond to OfS’ consultations on outcomes and excellence
This is why the B3 bear and the TEF matters to your SU’s strategy
What will count as Gold, Silver and Bronze?
What SUs need to know about student voice in the new TEF
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about IfS’ new social mobility stats
Did SUs make a difference on access and participation?
Ten ways to improve institution-level student representation
Implications for students and SUs of “Plan B” vaccine passports in England
Understanding potential changes to student loans
Student renters need to know their rights
Here’s what OIA says is important as we approach the new academic year
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on quality and standards
What does a degree actually cost – for students and for universities?
What was the impact of the pandemic on Disabled students?
Ten issues for SUs to explore as universities prepare to expand
What can SUs learn from batch 3 of Covid complaints?
How to submit evidence on the Freedom of Speech Bill
What if students aren’t happy about lectures moving online in September?
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about the new Building Safety Bill
What restrictions might remain on students and universities after “freedom day”?
Making the student academic experience more “immersive”
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new “proceed” measure
How to respond to OfS’ 2021/22 funding consultation
What can SUs learn from a new batch of complaint case studies?
Should universities tell students the outcome of harassment and sexual misconduct complaints?
So what can students complain about?
Fifteen reasons why students could complain over Covid – so their rights become much clearer
What is London Weighting and why should it matter to students?
What role do SUs have in Access and Participation Plans?
How to make student sport happen under “Step One”
Is keeping lectures online in September such a great idea after all?
Is academic credit for wellbeing classes an answer to the student mental health crisis?
How and why to feed in on your uni’s access and participation plan and progress
What can SUs learn from batch 2 of Covid complaints?
What should SUs push for when it comes to digital teaching and learning?
How should SUs respond to DfE’s proposed free speech “standards”?
How to spend DfE’s £50m for student hardship
Sunday 21 March is the most important day of the year
What’s going on with OfS’ consultation on harassment and sexual misconduct – and why SUs should care
OfS has new guidance out on no detriment policies and safety nets
Understanding the HE journey of care experienced learners
Understanding OfS’ consumer protection reviews
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on quality and standards
What can SUs learn from batch 1 of Covid complaints?
The new legal restrictions in England for the November lockdown
Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student
Revealed: what different types of students think of SUs
How to respond to the NSS review consultation
Tiers, gatherings and exemptions – a quick guide for SUs
Three new tiers for England
Proposed work on students’ union, association and guild freedom of expression and wider standards
Back to the future on no platforming
New laws in England that SUs need to know about
How do the rules on socialising and gatherings affect student groups?
Now students are concerned about access to staff and facilities
Amending mental health services in light of the pandemic
Has Covid-19 impacted student (and parent) financial confidence?
The restructuring regime and SUs
An A-Z of higher education data for student officers and staff that support them
Changes to courses and the issue of “consent”
OIA has new guidance out on how it will approach Covid complaints
Can we (and should we) measure how much students learn?
A major digital divide is opening up between students
Students need detail about September – but is that possible?
OfS has uncovered more gaps in getting in and getting on
DfE has published guidance on reopening universities in the autumn
What are FE colleges being told about opening – and why might it matter for HE?
NHS Test and Trace and the major questions for students
Ten things to note from OIA’s annual report
What do students think about the so-called “value for money” agenda?
OfS publishes guidance on teaching, assessment, student support and consumer rights during Covid-19
Student rights and Covid-19: OIA on complaints during the pandemic
What are universities being advised about coronavirus and what are the implications for SUs?
Ten things to note in UCL’s new policy on staff student relationships
Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student
Revealed: what different types of students think of SUs
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 and Industrial Action
Are parts of HE turning a blind eye to racism?
What about the voices of part time students
So did universities build student engagement into access and participation plans?
“Inappropriate influence” and the NSS
Higher education, students, and a sense of place
Make me an offer – how students get recruited to universities and why it matters to SUs
It’s all coming up – ten things we think will happen next term
What should SUs interrogate when it comes to student data?
Student views (and student types) on campus free speech
How to respond to OIA’s extenuating circumstances consultation
Do learning analytics help us spot students in trouble?
Partnerships that support student led projects
Should there be new law to protect debate on campus?
Student rights and industrial action
How to close the student mental health attainment gap
Update from the Cabinet Office on electoral registration and NI numbers
Are unis doing enough for disabled students?
Fitness to practise – case studies from OIA
Understanding “fitness to practise”
Closing the gap between student expectations and reality
What do published access and participation strategies say about SU and student involvement?
Timetabling, soft skills and student support: does the new “football uni” have the answers?
What’s the Sutton Trust saying about prospective students?
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on student consultation
Where should we start on student mental health?
Do bursaries work?
What can SUs learn from Essex Uni’s antisemitism review?
Six things to bear in mind about NSS Q26
Fitness to practice and unsual academic regs
An overview of the regulatory framework for England
What can London tell us about commuter students?
What can London tell us about retaining students?
How to use the evaluation of OfS projects on student safeguarding locally
Essential welfare intervention or surveillance state?
Are student homes fit for habitation?
Augar is here: what do SUs need to know?
Contextual admissions – a quick explainer
Implications for SUs of summaries of strike complaints
Student trustees – should we appoint or elect?
So your uni’s reviewing disciplinary procedures
Ensuring discrimination, harassment and non-reporting policies work for all students
How much should my VC get paid (and should students have a say?)
What’s all the fuss about grade inflation?
What’s all the fuss about uncondtional offers?
Compensation and industrial action
Will Hinds beat the cheats?
Student disciplinary procedures in focus
Charity Commission: Serious incident reporting
Charity Commission- serious incident reporting
Understanding and responding to the independent review of the TEF
New freedom of speech guidance – implications for SUs

Scotland (42)

How the National Review of Awarding Arrangements will work in Scotland (and why/how SUs can be involved)
Two more quality reviews in Scotland tell us more about the rights students should enjoy
Wonkhe SUs Holyrood election 2026: Student policy guide and webapp
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Lib Dems
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Greens
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish National Party
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Labour
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Scottish Conservatives
What SFC’s new review on safety and belonging mean for SUs
Holyrood Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Reform UK
How are Scottish universities achieving their National Equality Outcomes?
What Scotland’s quality reviews tell SUs about the rights students should expect
Scotland’s new tertiary education act – what SUs need to know
What SUs can learn from the QAA’s report on assessment practice at Glasgow
Elections are coming in Holyrood and the Senedd – here’s what SUs need to know
Scotland’s Tertiary Bill at Stage 2: What SUs need to know
The SFC has ditched outcome agreements – here’s what the new system means for SUs
A showdown over students is coming in the Housing (Scotland) Bill
Getting students to turn up without threatening them
Sabbs as trustees, codes of conduct, free speech and the St Andrews Rector case
Here’s the latest on the Housing (Scotland) Bill
Here’s what you need to know about Scottish universities tackling inequalities
What’s happening to period product funding in universities in Scotland?
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The SNP
The Scottish Funding Council has a new Outcomes Framework. Here’s what SUs need to know
How to support student officers to transition out of their role
This new model could be great for course reps wanting to make a difference
Exploring approaches to promoting belonging
How do staff and students feel about lecture recordings?
Here’s how SAs in Scotland can “tackle persistent inequalities together”
Big Question: What are SUs doing on Cost of Living?
Why are students in Scotland facing student poverty?
What have students in Scotland missed out on – and what do they need next year?
What if social isolation makes academic work harder?
A “can do” approach to clubs and socs during Covid
What support should be put in place when students are self-isolating in halls?
Covid-19, student discipline and student opportunities
Face coverings rules in universities
Responding to student voice: insights into international practice
Access and participation to… postgrad study?
How to run research projects on gender-based violence
Where does student voice go?

Wales (29)

Welsh student welfare: What new rules require – and what SUs cam now push for
Wonkhe SUs Senedd election 2026: Student policy guide and webapp
Senedd election 2026: Student policy picker
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Liberal Democrats
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Plaid Cymru
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Green Party
Medr’s regulatory framework is a fair-weather friend to students
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Welsh Labour
Here’s what’s happening with HE finance in Wales
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Reform UK
Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: The Welsh Conservatives
How (and why) to respond to the Welsh Government’s call for evidence on the future of tertiary education
Elections are coming in Holyrood and the Senedd – here’s what SUs need to know
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on handling reports of harassment and sexual misconduct
How to respond to Medr’s consultation on a new regulatory system for Welsh tertiary education
Welfare, wellbeing, sexual misconduct and racism in Wales
How to respond to Medr’s consultation on its strategic plan
General election 2024 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru
Tackling violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in HE in Wales: What SUs need to know
The ten failings in a recent “duty of care” case over allegations of sexual assault
The Welsh government is slowing down the creation of CTER – here’s what SUs need to know
How to respond to the Welsh government’s consultation on housing rent and supply
Expectations on Welsh universities over EDI – what SUs need to know
A consistent standard of mental health support for students in Wales – here’s what SUs need to know
Here’s what the implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act means for students and SUs
This is what SUs need to know about the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
The future of student involvement in quality in Wales
The new legal restrictions in Wales for after the firebreak
General election 2019 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru

UK-wide (871)

Russell Group SUs have said what they think
Top ten takeaways from the 2026 Student Academic Experience Survey
The research on fixated behaviour – and what SUs can do about it
How (and why) to respond to DBT’s consultation on zero hours contracts
Deposits, instalments and hardship: the full picture for home and international students
The Home Office owes international students £170 million. Here’s how to get it back
What does student belonging really mean and what really drives it?
What the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations means for SUs
Does going to university make you happier (and more socially mobile?)
How is AI affecting graduate employability
How (and why) to respond to the NMC’s consultation on nursing and midwifery practice learning standards
The coming cost of living crisis will hit students hardest – unless SUs act now
Ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting is coming – what SUs need to know
Getting ahead on student voice: Why pre-arrival questionnaires are (literally) the future
Martyn’s Law: What SUs need to know (April 2026 Update)
Here’s what SUs need to know about the annual student gambling survey
Students (still) need to see themselves in their SU
The problem with AI declarations isn’t compliance – it’s the mechanism
What is the safe adventures report and why should your SU take it seriously?
What is Generation A and what will they want from their SU?
What SUs need to know about our new research on students, assessment and AI
Check your contract: 12 legal clauses SUs should look at in their student-uni agreement (2026 update)
What is authentic assessment and why should SUs be interested in it?
What to do about the AI panic and the snap back to the exam hall
What Cibyl’s 2025 mental health survey means for SUs
Are we letting international students down on employability?
Students say employability is their top priority – what can SUs do about it?
Graduation costs index: 2026 edition
How to make students more powerful – eight secrets of the Money Saving Expert
The ultimate guide for SUs on what to think about and what to do if a merger is on the cards
Five new consultations on employment rights – here’s what SUs need to know
There’s a timeline for new employment rights – here’s what SUs need to know (updated)
The charitable soft opt-in: a guide for SUs
Why are medical students calling for changes to maintenance loans?
The ultimate (updated 2026) guide to students’ rights over industrial action
International PGT students: the resit and visa timing problem
Are your reps secretly workers? What a coastguard case means for SUs
Financial worry is now the baseline condition of being a student
Ten things to think about if you’re feeding in on online proctoring in 2026
What does the 2025 Access Insights report mean for SUs?
Nom nom nom – food and belonging on campus
Here’s what SUs can learn from the latest report from the Disabled Student Commitment
What does the latest research tell us about student belonging – and what can SUs do about it?
What UK SUs need to know about Erasmus+ – and what to do about it
Does your university need a student consultation framework? (2026 update)
What a new report on student governors means for SUs
What’s going on with UK universities’ finances?
What makes module feedback feel worth giving
How to improve things for PGRs that teach
What do students on placement get for their money?
Here’s how students are spending financial support in 2025
The state of the sabbatical. How UK SUs structure their leadership
What are scrutiny panels and why should your SU care about them?
Budget 2025 and what it means for SU, students and graduates
What SUs need to know about the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2025
What all SUs need to know about sexism and sexual violence in UK medical education
Student loneliness isn’t going away and the evidence on what works is getting stronger
What SUs need to know about a new book on belonging
What is “storming fortnight” and can officer teams survive it?
What does it actually cost to apply to a postgraduate course?
Here’s what the public thinks about universities, and why that matters to SUs
Students are developing amazing skills through the SU (if they can uncover them)
Now that’s what I call AI 2025
What SUs need to know about the changes to employment law
Should SUs and their universities be doing more on far-right extremism?
International student fees and hardship – what different universities are doing
25 things to push for to improve higher education for Disabled students
Why SUs should push for Universal Design for Learning
Everything SUs need to know from the UK Student Accommodation Report for 2025
Immigration rules changes affecting students and graduates: What SUs need to know
What’s going on with students and guaranteed hours in the Employment Rights Bill?
The costs of failure. How much does it cost students to repeat, resubmit etc?
According to the latest YouGov polling, here’s how students are using AI
UK universities operating campuses abroad and the students’ union question
Twenty things that MPs won’t know about when it comes to student finance
Thirty things we found (or didn’t find) when we went looking for policies on PGT supervision
What does the national student money survey say this year – and what do SUs need to know
Digital takeaways for SUs from this year’s student digital experience survey
“All your loan goes on rent”: what SUs need to know about Unipol’s house hunting research
Student governors 2025: What are your “reasonable care” duties as trustees?
How to speak volunteers’ appreciation language and transform SU engagement
Now that’s what I call great officer comms
How (and why) to respond to the government’s unpaid internships consultation
Lecture capture as a tool for inclusion and legal compliance
What SUs can learn from #exceptional financial support practice
Is the CCP interfering in UK universities through SUs and their Chinese student societies?
The hidden impact of menstruation – what SUs need to know
What are incoming students thinking and why it matters to SUs
There’s a new report about what student life is like today – here’s why it’s important to SUs in planning the year ahead
How to use social proof to influence conduct on campus (and close awarding gaps)
What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?
The proposed changes to the welfare system and why they matter to students and SUs
Proscription of Palestine Action: Implications for students and SUs
A brief guide to “political” comms for student leaders
How can universities and SUs support visually impaired students
Everything that SUs need to know and think about when it comes to TNE
Wonkhe explainers for SUs
Webinar archive
Top ten takeaways from the 2025 Student Academic Experience Survey
International students and new consumer rights
A guide to generative governance for SU boards and student governors
When medicine meets poverty – what to do about medical student hardship
Fifteen things that SUs need to know about the immigration white paper
Four things that help make a student trustee a changemaker
Here’s what SU officers need to know about a new duty to prevent fraud
Here’s what UUK has to say about university cuts
What students want their SU to push for on health
For international students career support is a priority, here’s how SUs can support them
How to respond to the consultation on standards and rights in privately-run halls
New research on international disabled students – what SUs need to know
What (incorporated) SUs need to know about changes to company law
Here’s what university policies say about anonymous marking
How digital transformation happens at universities
The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), SUs and international societies
What is Rise and why does it matter
Understanding the right to protest and the Youth Demand incident in London
100 ways to build (and bridge) community on campus
Here’s what SUs need to know about the Online Safety Act
What could a cheat sheet for the secret codes to university actually look like?
How to protect international students from harassment and sexual misconduct
The games students play: How SUs can use research into students’ subject engagement
The Village People from the Agency: What research on SU governance tells us
Here’s what universities need to do to support students with experience of children’s social care
There’s new findings in the annual student gambling survey
The government is amending the Employment Rights Bill – here’s what SUs need to know
What students are saying about AI – and the implications for SUs
Protected beliefs – when can an SU censor a member of staff?
Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship
Disabled students find community online – results of a new study
Twenty four reasons why SUs are different – and why that’s probably OK
Paying more to live further away – UK student housing in 2025
Change is coming for PhD students
What can SUs learn for the future from the encampments of 2024
Here’s what universities are doing to change assessment and feedback
There’s new insight about the impact of hardship funding for students – and why not having restrictions on funding spend matters
UKVI confirms new attendance rules for international students
Here’s what SUs need to know about upcoming regulation of international agents
What SUs need to know from Disabled Students’ UK’s annual access insights report
It’s all coming up: Seven things for SUs to prep for in the year ahead
Here’s what students think about AI
Here’s where universities are going wrong (and right) on student mental health
We looked at 26 university “fit to sit” policies. Here’s what we found
How (and why) to respond to the Employment Rights Bill call for evidence
Here’s what students spend their financial support funds on
Here’s what SUs need to know about international postgraduate research students
Policy forum: Wellbeing and liberation officers and staff
Policy forum: Academic representation and voice
Policy forum: Advice managers
Could “Freshman Learning Communities” help students transition to university?
Students’ union strategies
Student mental health is declining, here’s what SUs need to know from a new study
Here’s every AI policy in UK universities and what support there is for students
Hardship funds in UK universities – here’s what what we found
How do PGR students get supervised – new intel
Scabies is on the rise – and students are among the worst affected
We’ve read every university’s policy on extensions and late submission. Here’s what we found
Where international students can pay by instalments (and how many)
Food insecurity is on the up. What should SUs say or do?
New guidance on preventing student death by suicide – here’s what SUs need to know
Avoiding academic burnout? It’s belonging again
There’s a new employment rights Bill out. Here’s what SUs need to know
A new duty on SUs is coming re sexual harassment. Here’s what SUs need to know
Decolonising the curriculum hasn’t closed the gap between Black and white students – here’s what might
Here’s what SUs need to know about UUK’s new “blueprint”
What SUs need to think about when deciding how to allocate hardship funding
How the “Prevent” duty actually works in universities and SUs
Can we pay our part time officers (and other related questions)
Perceptions of fairness can make a huge difference to student satisfaction
How to become competent over competence standards
Which students are more likely to run out of food?
Here’s the latest that SUs need to know about student poverty
Levers to pull to get universities to ethically invest
All the top takeaways from Jisc’s student digital experience insights surveys
Live players, dead players and influencing tactics and skills
Can ChatGPT help to analyse module feedback and free-text comments?
Membership Services Conference 2024: Slides
10 things SUs can do to support students who are working
Online learning, neurodivergent students and “cognitive load”
Mpox is a global health emergency – what should universities and SUs do?
Some students are single parents. What are they going through?
Do students who use their phones during lectures just lack self-control?
Post-pandemic students have different expectations when it comes to teaching
What could the King’s Speech mean for students and SUs?
What SUs need to know about the students arriving on campus in September
How to be “positively pushy” to get things done for students
It’s Freshers Week for new MPs – what do SUs need to know?
Interventions that reduce academic misconduct
You’ll spend a lot of time in useless meetings. Here’s how to make them even worse
There’s new findings on the LGBTQ+ student experience that SUs need to know
After Abrahart: What should SUs push for to improve support for Disabled students? (June 2024 update)
A new “civic healthcheck” for your uni and SU
The Wonkhe SUs 2024 general election student policy guide
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Reform Party
What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?
Finding your university in the data: Summer 2024 edition
Top ten takeaways from this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey
Gaza campus protests: two human rights law experts write new principles for universities
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Labour Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Green Party
General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party
What do students think of uni comms (inside and outside of a crisis?)
General election 2024 manifesto watch: Liberal Democrats
What makes a powerful SU officer, team or organisation?
How to get the student vote out
How empowered SUs could transform the student experience
Labour is promising to improve workers’ rights and pay. Here’s the implications for SUs
Everything SUs need to know about the student experience of trans and non-binary students
The government response to the graduate review is out – here’s the upshots for SUs
A general election is on – here’s what SUs need to know
Supporting students to transition well into university
What to look out for in the MAC review
Here’s what SUs need to know about digital poverty
What is polling on students and the cost of living crisis telling us?
Students from lower socioeconomic backrounds have worse sleep
What SUs need to know about “block” teaching
Here’s the latest intel on students and voting
What are students’ rights if cuts are proposed or implemented?
Why do students pre-drink?
What has personality got to do with belonging (and why it might matter to SUs)
How to establish a student basic needs agenda (and centre)
How to improve your university’s handling of allegations of sexual misconduct
Here’s what SUs should argue for on international students and technology
What about the Covid student doctors?
How to run impactful focus groups with international students
How to sponsor international graduates as “skilled workers”
The rules when international students become sabbs
The latest for SUs on holiday pay
3 per cent of students have enough money
SUs, free speech, the equality act, controversial beliefs and the interactions with democracy
Making student housing affordable – rooms that are 10m squared
Everything you need to know about Student-Led Teaching Awards
The five frames of student representation
Here’s the latest intel on student housing
How to measure the mental health of students
The upside of AI for students – getting students engaged in the future
Internationalisation at home: Here’s what SUs need to know
What help is there for students with ADHD – and what should there be?
It’s all coming up – ten things for SUs to prepare for in 2024
Policy forum update: PGR student experience
First-generation students may need different mental health support
Here’s why understanding trends in applicant data matters for SUs
Policy forum update: Building belonging and tackling loneliness
Policy forum update: AI and assessment
Policy forum update: Student cost of living
What SUs need to know about a revised Quality Code
Women VCs increase reporting rates of gender-based violence on campus
Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) and new “foreign influence” regulation
Here’s why results from the Disabled Student Survey 2023 matter to SUs
Here’s what SUs need to know about PTES 2023
Who’s offering hardship funding for international students?
Here’s what SUs need to know when making sense of recent immigration figures
How to approach discussions on university rent setting
PGRs are lonely and hard up too
How big is the international attainment gap at your university?
Is there a link between gender-based violence and access and participation?
What is Belong telling us about career confidence, belonging and student opportunities?
Financial literacy and the “ethnicity gap” among UK students
A new law passes on sexual harassment in the workplace – here’s what SUs need to know
Belonging is partly about space
Helping students with cost of living pressures improves their sense of belonging
What’s it like being on academic board/council/senate?
Why a basic needs approach may be key to shifting the dial on student support
Membership Services Conference 2023: Slides
Student views of the affordability of plant-based diets
There’s a new “student needs framework”. Here’s what SUs need to know
What do students think about learner analytics?
Here’s the latest intel on student accommodation
Do students hope for value for money?
Understanding the “new deal” for PGR students
How to interrogate the student experience at subject level
What to think about if you’re feeding in on a new building or refurb on campus
Student casuals are to get a right to request predictable hours: Here’s what SUs need to know
There’s new formal guidance on the use of social media. Here’s what SUs need to know
Belonging and retention: what does the evidence tell us?
How to be better at supporting Black students’ wellbeing
What are universities doing on the cost of living crisis?
The student money survey 2023 is out. Here’s what SUs need to know
Expectations and anticipations – how to not let students down
Will Sharia-compliant student finance ever happen?
Are campus nap pods an actual thing?
Student mental health, clubs and societies and drugs
Seminar attendance, lecture capture and disability adjustments
What are this year’s Freshers thinking?
What are international disabled students entitled to?
Students need more financial support on work placements
How do we make assessment more “authentic” given the rise of the robots?
Students are vulnerable to fraud – and need better protection
How to speak on a panel or deliver a keynote with confidence and impact
Here’s what part-time, distance learner and commuter students need their SU to focus on
It’s time to unlock students’ voices
What is the Boycott Bill and why might it matter to students and SUs?
Polling and practice from UUK on students’ experiences of racial harassment
How do you build belonging in a blended environment?
Everything SUs need to know about industrial action in the sector
Can SUs be truly representative of their student bodies?
Top ten takeaways for SUs from the Student Academic Experience Survey 2023
The Wonkhe SUs student cost of living resource hub
How to be an influential and effective SU officer
Here’s what UUK says universities should do when recruiting international students
What are universities doing to close degree awarding gaps?
Understanding loneliness stigma
This is what inclusive education should look like
Do students have a voice in diversity policies?
Exploring the transition from PhD student to academic
How to fix the student engagement problem
What SUs need to know about a new report on campus antisemitism
How does students’ socioeconomic status impact their sense of belonging?
Broadening our understanding of sexual violence on campus
A beginner’s guide to university policies on Generative AI
How to use UUK’s guidance on student accommodation to win a local housing strategy for students
Improving the narrative around internationalisation
What is happening to students in the private rented sector?
International students’ digital experience – what SUs need to know
How proposed changes to the Equality Act could impact universities and students
Supporting and enhancing the experience of international students
Policy forum report: Course rep coordinators
How do early morning classes affect student attendance and attainment?
What sort of conditions do students face at work – and what can universities and SU do about it?
Timetabling is stopping students from getting a job
All the latest research on the value of extra curricular activities
Policy forum report: Advice managers catch up
Round table report: Supporting Disabled sabbs
Policy forum report: International
Round table report: EDI in clubs and societies
What’s in the APPG students report on students and cost of living – and why it matters
What are the basics that all higher education SUs should have?
Why do students get involved in stuff?
How do students define sexual consent?
Peer support builds connection, community and confidence
What type of interventions best address student loneliness?
The cost of living crisis is hitting students’ grades
International students need tailored support when it comes to sexual violence
Hidden marks – the contribution of student leaders to tackling gender-based violence on campus
Does paid work boost students’ confidence?
Seven big takeaways for SUs from the 2022 UK Engagement Survey
How to implement a harm reduction approach over drugs and alcohol
How do universities recognise student volunteering?
Here’s why activities, events, groups or reps for a particular group aren’t unlawful
Reviewing policies on lecture capture
Understanding students and eating disorders
Helping international students to achieve academic integration
How impactful is mandatory sexual misconduct training for students?
Not all student carers are the same
The latest headlines on student mental health
Are perceptions of teaching excellence impacted by gender?
How do students cope with racism and racial inequality on campus?
TEF Student Submission Catch Up #4
It’s all coming up – 10 things for SUs think about in 2023
A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling
Does what students eat get them better outcomes?
What are creative arts courses?
Policy forum report: Advice managers
Policy forum report: Research, policy, and insights staff
Understanding male students’ sexual aggression
Policy forum report: Liberation
Policy forum report: Postgraduates
How to argue for an inclusive curriculum
Here’s our top five takeaways from PTES 2022
Four key takeaways for SUs from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2022
Here’s what SUs need to know about UCU’s action short of a strike
What are this week’s strikes all about?
How to make a difference for students on public transport
How effective is personal tutoring at your university?
Policy forum report: Presidents and UDOs
Students and pregnancy
Gender based violence, SUs and jurisdiction in complaints procedures
Should your university adopt “digital” mental health support?
How do students see student success differently by subject?
Here’s what SUs need to know about UCU’s industrial action
Pregnancy, parenthood and childcare rights for students
Some students should be getting money from their landlord
Student opinions and understanding of sustainability
There needs to be better support for students with chronic illnesses
Does active learning improve wellbeing?
The ultimate guide to student rights when there’s industrial action
Seven in ten students have thought about dropping out due to money
The student role in governance and quality assurance
Nursing strikes and students
Over a quarter of students have no friends at university
300,000 students at risk of hardship – here’s what new universities are doing
International students, hardship and money-lending scams
What to think about when your uni is planning (or not planning) to grow
There’s new guidance out on placements, mental health support and preventing student suicide
This is why some people don’t Likert the NSS
University students are hidden targets of county lines drug dealing – new report
Are “wellbeing analytics” going to solve all our problems?
How to ensure commuter students belong
Students and part time work: here’s what SUs need to know
Targeting mental health initiatives at those most in need
Here’s the latest data on students and cost of living
A cheat sheet for the key evidence on student mental health
What are students telling us about digital learning?
Do we read worse on screens?
Food insecurity and food banks for students
Here’s what students need to know about the £400 energy bills support scheme
It’s all coming up – 10 things for SUs to prep for in 2022/23
Academic stress is a key contributor to poor student mental health
What are students’ rights if their all-inclusive bills go up?
Medical students are cutting spending on food
A closer look at university finances
Two new studies are out on student cost of living
Here’s the latest intel on student halls
There’s more to do to eradicate ethnicity awarding gaps
1 in 6 university students has admitted to cheating in online exams this year
UUK has published new guidance on sharing personal data in harassment cases
International students are having a positive experience on the new graduate route (if they can get onto it)
Mental health has a close relationship to sleep and financial pressures
Holiday pay for part-year staff should not be pro-rated
What can SUs do to end homelessness?
Disabled students need more information on the support universities can offer
Understanding equality and equity – the saga of the chocolate cake
Why aren’t we giving student reps the data they need?
Turn back time
Gypsy, traveller, roma, showman and boater students in higher education
Scholarships make a big difference for care-experienced and estranged students
Cathedrals, bricks and walls
Why can’t SUs campaign on whatever they like?
Things to think about if you’re discussing or debating online proctoring at your uni
Understanding exclusive university supplier deals on campus
A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling
Student attitudes to free speech on campus
What is the actual impact of Instagram on student wellbeing?
What are the factors influencing students’ sense of belonging?
Who are the UK’s loneliest students?
Student views on cost of living and politics
Should we punish students that plagiarise?
PGRs need more and better space on campus
Is perfectionism an important part of the student mental health crisis?
What is Critical Race Theory and what has it got to do with universities?
The dangerous “difference” between student partnership and student representation
Should students have to learn how to make arguments- and be assessed on it?
The REF, and why it matters to universities
What is “authentic” assessment – and is it only good for the world of work?
What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?
How to speed up improvements for Disabled students
What do students think about tech and how useful it is on their course?
Information sharing and student suicide
Students with caring responsibilities face significant challenges
What does Policy Exchange have to say about SUs and Prevent?
For students, the cost of living pressures are really starting to bite
What do students really think about trigger warnings
Generation Alpha is coming – here’s what you need to know
Working, studying and “first in family” students
Student governors – what do they do and what should they do?
Identifying the educational development needs of elected sabbatical officers with a remit for supporting teaching and learning
Anxious students are more likely to struggle both socially and academically
How to ensure disabled students can access their education post-pandemic
Principles of good assessment and feedback
Do extra-curricular activities help with employability? Some do
Zero tolerance doesn’t stop drug use
UUK has new guidance on staff-student sexual misconduct
Student engagement in quality assurance reviews
Understanding “graduate attributes”
Can students afford to study in 2022?
Do extra-curricular activities improve grades, completion rates and graduate job prospects?
How to respond to UKRI’s New Deal for Postgraduate Research consultation
What can we learn from the shift to digital delivery?
Ten top takeaways for SUs from our research on students and belonging
How to stop students from burning out
What is the National Student Accommodation Survey 2022 telling us?
Mental health in teaching and learning
How to close awarding gaps through new assessment methods
Why are we ingraining inequality in student communities?
Drink, drink up
Race and racism in student halls
How to make post-pandemic HE work for disabled students
A desire to belong – ethnic minority students’ lived experience of being a PGR
Horrible housemates and the student experience
The absolutely fundamental guide to assessing students
Students are borrowing money to gamble
Does having a high EQ improve your grades?
How to persuade students to live healthy
“It was about us against the system” – how to reduce attainment gaps in higher education
Has student politics disappeared with marketisation?
November and December in decol
Need to know – the law on students’ unions
What if student wellbeing is dependent on trust?
Do fees have an impact on student satisfaction?
PGRs may be normalising anxiety and depression – so what should be done to tackle that?
Here’s how universities are being advised to support student engagement
Accommodation environments and student mental health
What is the solution to problems faced by student tenants?
What if we viewed student anxiety as an academic issue?
Want to improve student mental health? It’s all about connections
Is it actually possible to spot a milled essay?
What factors make student representatives more effective?
Top ten takeaways from PTES 2021
October in decol
How do students understand and talk about gender-based violence on campus?
Seven big takeaways from the 2021 UK Engagement Survey
Students just don’t do the reading. Or do they?
Understanding sexual aggression in male students
A beginner’s guide to medical education
What happened to the health and wellbeing of staff during Covid?
What should SUs worry about when it comes to internationally mobile LGBTQ+ students?
How to respond to the call for evidence on the inspection of the immigration system
Student voice and Muslim students
All the press releases from the pensions and pay dispute(s)
What is “student success” and why does it matter to SUs?
SUs and “pro-life” societies
How to help students with ADHD to succeed
How to follow a Bill through Parliament
Five important factors when supporting Covid generation freshers
Does reputation get in the way of researching student sex work?
How to get it right for disabled students
Next steps in the LGBT+ student experience
Student perceptions of value in 2021
There’s a new “student happiness” index – but what does it tell us?
Addressing the issues faced by deaf higher education students post-pandemic
Poorer and BAME students feel left behind during pandemic
Here’s what SUs need to know about the Student Futures Commission interim report
The generation game – or why are boomers are so clueless?
What should SUs argue for when it comes to digital learning?
We can’t ignore money when it comes to student mental health
Why could industrial action be coming to UK campuses in the coming year?
How to get students to admit to cheating
Developing your understanding and approach around decolonising
How to speak the new language of learning
Understanding organisational politics
Switching from exams to coursework narrows the Black awarding gap
Student mental health was hit hard during the pandemic – what should happen now?
Freshers need extra help with social connections
Should students get to see Turnitin’s originality reports?
Student relationships, sex and sexual health
How to understand the so-called “culture wars”
Shorter recorded lectures, or long ones – which is best for learning?
One way to think about post-pandemic “blended” learning
The psychological impacts of Covid-19 on students
What should concern us re university applicants enrolling this September?
What’s it like being a Black student at a predominantly white university?
What makes teaching good – the answers that student reps need to know
What can students’ unions take from our research on digital literacy and the curriculum?
A quarter of students have no friends, says new study
How much space do students have?
What’s it like being a woman in higher education?
How the national codes protect students in accommodation
International students are facing racism on campus
Students are more concerned about climate change than any other issue
How do people feel about the “culture wars”?
Why too many recorded lecture videos may be bad for maths students’ learning
Making statements on political issues
Contractual considerations for students’ unions
How has Covid impacted the student experience – and what do they want in September?
What do students value about the student experience?
How students perceive of time at university
Should SUs worry about class sizes?
What can you do in Step 3 from Monday?
How do students react to learning analytics feedback?
What is the secret for students to getting things done?
What are prospective international students saying about September?
The latest on students and sex and drugs
How to make student voice more meaningful
What if only extroverts benefit from student opportunities?
Understanding postgraduate degrees
How to reduce and prevent student bullying
Should students consider becoming sober-curious?
The state of play on Covid hardship support
120 ways to rebuild student opportunities after the pandemic
Twenty things that SUs need to know about Phase One of the NSS review
How to support international students in financial hardship
How a year of emergency digitally-enabled learning could get even better
Module evaluation in a pandemic and beyond
This is what SUs need to know about league tables
Does student engagement work engage BAME students? (not really)
What (do academics think) is the ideal student?
How to ensure blind students can access remote exams
How to advise students on their prospects of success in appeals and complaints
How many students are in rent debt?
What SU trustees need to know about free speech and SUs
Should SUs lobby for better/more training for university teaching staff?
Ten things for SUs to learn from Jisc’s new digital experience research
Feeding back to students – does the medium affect the message?
Is there a link between money and student mental health?
Disentangling assessment and feedback
What happened to student activities and opportunities during the pandemic?
How student activities and opportunities help skills development
What should SU trustees learn from the collapse of Kids Company?
Do students want to “return” after Easter?
What is the National Student Accommodation Survey 2021 telling us?
Should we make students “participate” or just survey them for student voice?
How does QAA accreditation reflect student experience?
What could be done to help/compensate the Class of Covid?
Do students need to develop “civic skills” now?
Mental health and the next generation of students
Is there any evidence of cancel culture?
How to tackle islamophobia on campus
QAA has published advice on practical components and placements
QAA has published advice on “safety net” and “no detriment” policies
Roll up roll up for the National Contentment Survey
A huge set of elections is coming up and SUs need to act fast
What should (or could) be in a new no detriment or safety net policy for this year?
Which universities are offering rent rebates for Christmas?
Mitigating or extenuating circumstances gets a major overhaul
Majority of university students want refund on first term
How to ensure that students disclose sexual misconduct
The Charity Commission and free speech in SUs
Students’ views on the impact of Coronavirus
What do students really think about how they are assessed?
Tackling racial harassment in higher education
Can artificial intelligence help predict students’ needs?
What does PTES 2020 actually tell us?
Mind the gender pay gap
The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2020
How do students decide what to study (and where)?
Why activity-oriented focus groups are great for student research
The debate over university admissions reform
A quick guide for SUs to new measures in the Chancellor’s “Plan for Jobs”
Why are 60s halls the way they are?
Students want sustainability skills from their higher educattion
Students this year are lonely – but quite activisty
How do students think about student loans?
Student consumer rights and refunds under Covid-19
Projects that improve PGR mental health
Are students destined to live with their parents until their 30s?
The Job Support Scheme expansion for closed business premises
Can universities expel students over Covid?
Evidence is emerging on students in lockdown
SUs need to do more to enable disabled students to access the full student experience
What does a campus mean?
What SUs need to know about the Winter Economy Plan 2020
How does student activism drive change on campus sexual violence?
Online learning – is it any good?
How are students feeling about return to campus?
Do student voters make much difference at elections?
What does social distancing do to student mental health?
Student governors face major potential conflicts of interest
The Jisc Digital Experience Insights Survey
Do teaching fellowships improve teaching for students?
Student loans don’t cover students’ costs
Do both modules? Here’s £500. Or maybe £1,000.
Three in five students have seen a direct impact on their income as a result of Covid-19
Communicating to students about Covid-19
Covid-19 and clubs, societies and campus facilities
The impacts of purpose-built student accommodation
How should universities be supporting international arrivals?
Some new findings on students and belonging
Is this the secret to improving feedback for students?
What role should academics play when it comes to student mental health?
Students are worried about local lockdowns
Applicants are worried about grades and what uni life will be like
How important are friends at university to student mental health?
Student retention and feeling part of a community
Can the curriculum improve student happiness?
Should we worry about students and money this September?
The Job Retention Scheme (JRS) bonus scheme
Where will students get their work done?
Young people in the time of Covid-19: a fear and hope study of 16-24 year olds
Policy Exchange proposals on SUs and freedom of speech
Online harassment – is reputation more important than safeguarding?
It looks like casualisation is a student interest issue
Are students getting the “absolute clarity” they were promised?
Have students and graduates lost access to the workplace?
Ten things worth knowing about private student halls in the UK
Decolonising in UK universities
Ethnicity, the postgraduate experience and what to do about it
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on a new chapter of its Good Practice Framework
Student enterprise and entrepreneurship
Student inclusion and reopening
Twenty six challenges to universities over disabled students and Covid-19
What will social distancing look like for students in the autumn?
What it’s like being a muslim student in the UK (and what students think about Islam)
What do students say about uni efforts to minimise the spread of Covid-19?
What do students say if you ask for their ideas on September and social distancing?
Creating conversations about sexual consent on campus
Racism on campus and social norming
What does Quality mean in the age of coronavirus?
Places and spaces on a socially distant campus
Next academic year and the “structure of learning”
Workplace equality for SUs in the time of coronavirus
Student views on Covid-19 and implications for SUs
Students, spring break, science and September
What is it like being a PGR/PhD student in the UK?
What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?
Ten important findings about young people and education from ONS research into the impact of Covid-19
Are “student compacts” an answer to some of the September student questions?
Weighing up types of teaching in the student interest
Knowing your DSARs from your elbow: Data subject access requests
Improving the relationship between PGR students and their supervisors
What are universities planning and are students still coming?
What are “romantic advances” and why might they harm students?
The essential findings in this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey
What difference do “personal tutors” make – and how?
Students are keen to come back – with caveats
What happens when you ask students themselves about “inclusion”?
Does “mindfulness” training help with exams?
QAA has guidance out on courses and assessment next year
UUK has published some principles and considerations on emerging from lockdown
Are students worried about their uni going bankrupt?
There’s a briefing out on mental health and Covid-19
Inducting, socialising and engaging students in the “new normal”
QAA has published briefings on years abroad and placements
How to reopen universities in September
Can social networks be used as an educational resource?
Bolton or Cambridge? Announcements on lifting lockdown tested
The practicalities of a socially distant campus
You think Oxbridge, you think privilege
Will students defer or switch if September is socially distant?
How is Covid-19 impacting disabled students?
Is the penny starting to drop for students re September?
What is “socio-educational well-being” and do university classrooms affect it?
What sort of impact is the pandemic having on PGRs?
There is new guidance on student (and staff) mental health and wellbeing
I know what Wonkhe SUs did last summer – all our webinars archived in one place
What should universities be doing for PGR students during the pandemic?
A whole bunch of extraordinary facts about postgraduate study in the UK
Learning through successful feedback
How many students are already locked into accommodation contracts next year?
What do students want from assessment feedback?
Students these days are so “super complex”
What can we do about the graduate unemployment crisis that’s coming?
Would students be happy if next term was online?
Draft Covid-19 workplace guidelines
What impact is Covid-19 having on students (and what do they think of their university’s handling of it)
What bespoke support should be in place for disadvantaged students during the crisis?
How confident is the Covid cohort when it comes to finding a job?
It looks like international students are desperate to defer
It’s a small world – how contagious are university campuses?
Ten things to remember about temporary changes to immigration rules for international students
Why are we so negative about students “dropping out”?
What are prospective students saying about universities and student support?
QAA has guidance out on placements, years abroad and apprenticeships
QAA has guidance out on practice and lab-based assessment
QAA has guidance out on academic standards and supporting student achievement
Digging into research on student views on Covid-19 handling
Changes being made to teaching and assessment have to last beyond the lockdown
Preparing to discuss your university’s finances
How should SUs manage risk in the current climate?
Holding meetings during the Covid-19 lockdown
Complaints, compensation and Covid-19
Covid-19 mitigations and deaf students
As everything moves online, do you know your data rights?
What you need to know about the furloughed workers scheme
Key points from QAA’s guidance on Covid-19 and the student learning experience
How to improve diversity on campus
Guess what. There’s a religion and belief attainment gap too
Staff sexual misconduct – improving students’ rights
Do SUs help students pick up the skills that employers need?
Does sleep affect academic performance?
Coronavirus and protecting students’ interests
It’s a myth! Made up things about students and universities FINALLY REVEALED
Almost half of students have had “a serious psychological issue”
Lessons for SU trustees from the Save the Children harassment investigation
Student-staff co-creation in higher education
How can uni and SUs bridge the gap between school/college and uni?
Unbiased, reliable, and valid student evaluations can still be unfair
How to respond to OfS’ review of admissions (and why SUs should bother)
Why are LGBT+ students dropping out of uni?
What are universities doing about climate change?
Wellbeing and burnout: is it worse for medical students?
How to tackle student loneliness before term starts
Are students turning to private debt to pay rent?
UUK has been polling people on what they think about admissions
BUCS is intervening on “problem initiations”
What about postgrads that teach?
Guess what: there’s a link between the academic experience and mental health
How are SUs handling term two of strike action?
There’s funding available for SUs to do some research
The way holiday pay is calculated is changing and it will affect students
Are some subjects worse than others for student mental health?
The Johari Window model
The fast way to understand debates about post-Brexit immigration and universities
How to make a difference for disabled students
Plums on the tree – what’s going on with social mobility?
How much profit does your university make out of students?
Here’s what universities are doing about online abuse of students
Half of universities have made “divestment” commitments. Has yours?
Students need jobs – but what sort?
How do people get on when they study more than one subject at uni?
Are graduates hitting the world of work underprepared?
Students want jobs and Advance HE has a framework for that
The essential guide to the Student Minds University Mental Health Charter (Part 2)
The essential guide to the Student Minds University Mental Health Charter (Part 1)
HEPI/Youthsight research on student cybersecurity
The Wonkhe SUs 2019 general election student policy guide
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Brexit Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Labour Party
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Liberal Democrats
General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Green Party
Industrial action latest statements
Thorny issues to think through in the run up to industrial action
The headlines from the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2019
What are the development needs of sabbs?
How to embed mental health in the curriculum
The headlines you need from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2019
There’s a new “ranking” out on voter registration
SUs, elections and charity law: nothing to worry about
Straight white men and diversity projects
Want better grades? Get more sleep
Racial harassment at UK universities – summarising the report
Racism on campus – the role of SUs
Understanding the BME attainment gap
How to tell students where their tuition fees go
Opportunity blocked: students’ unions
Opportunity blocked: how lonely are students?
Opportunity blocked: commuters and London
Opportunity blocked: the value of SUs
Opportunity blocked: student confidence and outcomes
Opportunity blocked: getting involved
How co-creation can support underrepresented students and equitable practices
What (and where) on earth is TNE?
Ten takeaways from Trendence research on LGBT+ students
Could moderation make marking fairer and mean more consistent feedback?
Making staff sexual misconduct more visible
How much progress has your uni made on “changing the culture”?
Decolonising the curriculum means decolonising the library too
The type of student accommodation you live in affects your grades
What helps first in the family students to succeed?
Are housemates the key to student wellbeing?
Ten takeaways from Advance HE’s students statistical report 2019
Sports teams and homophobia – still a problem?
The electoral commission has clarified some things for charities
Universities UK guidance on initiations at UK universities
Students and tech – Jisc’s digital insights survey
Why are my lecturers so white?
The new realists: the 2019 HEPI/Unite Students insight report
Drinking and peer pressure
Norman Lamb has stats on uni mental health services
How representative are SU officers?
What about postgrad student mental health?
What the research says about lecture capture
UUK on tackling online harassment
How to respond to the Government consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
SUs as charities and external advertising
What’s the secret to keeping SU staff?
Should students who owe their university money be able to graduate?
Data for the terrified- where to find facts, figures and numbers about unis
Getting students registered to vote is an urgent priority
Students are more skint than ever before
Nine big issues for reviews of harassment procedures
What is deliberative democracy and why should SUs think about it?
What has Plato got to do with student rights and expectations?
What do we know about student living costs?
How can we promote international integration on campus?
Where are we at on student period poverty?
What is a healthy university – and why does it matter?
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: welfare disclosure
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: value for money
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: learning and teaching
How to read (and use) the HEPI survey results
The hits and misses from the 2019 Student Academic Experience survey
How are degrees calculated – and why does it matter?
Do international students think Britain is drunk?
What would an “assertive” partnership with a university look like?
Should there be standards in PGR supervision?
What role do teaching and academic staff play in mental health strategies?
Are university league tables broken?
Attendance monitoring at university
Why postgraduate taught students are about to move up SUs’ priority list
A code for quality
Closing the gap: the UUK/NUS attainment report
Is it possible to “liberate the curriculum”?
How many students cheat – and what approaches work?
PGR students and their supervisors
Why should I care about QAA and HESA?
Mandatory affordability strategies
Should we manage, meet, or transform student expectations?
It’s name is LEO
A quick guide to qualitative data
Changes to employment law
A look at personal tutoring policies
What happens to students if there’s “no deal”?
A beginner’s guide to HESA data
Do students look at the feedback they get?
Co-producing mental health strategies with students
The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2018
Changing the culture – the UUK taskforce report
What are the four classic policy goals?
Is this a turning point in the campus culture wars?
(Hear the drummer) get wicked problems
A legal view on “no platform” policies