Jen Hastings

4 pieces

Newest first, since June 2020

1. 7 January 2021 · Comment

   Limiting access to academia limits its outcomes

   Jen Hastings wonders whether working class students would see academia as a world they can enter.

2. 1 October 2020 · SUs

   SU staff are not immune from the struggles of Covid-19

   It is a busy time for students’ unions. Having managed to induct their new sabbatical officers remotely, trawl through countless risk assessments and deliver a Covid-secure freshers’ week, their attention is now on suppo

3. 15 July 2020 · SUs

   SUs have a complicated relationship with the National Student Survey

   Every summer, universities wait in apprehension for the scores that will dictate meeting agendas and departmental plans for the following year. Consisting of 27 core questions, the results of the National Student Survey

4. 18 June 2020 · SUs

   Covid-19 could be a catalyst for a more supportive, inclusive education

   Coronavirus has forced many universities to speed up their activity, forgoing the usual (well-meaning) layers of bureaucracy to implement solutions at a rate that far surpasses their standard cycle of change. There’s no