Wednesday 30 September 2026
Jim Dickinson

Team Wonkhe

Jim Dickinson

Associate Editor (SUs)

2,611 pieces

Newest first, since August 2013 · page 10 of 131

  1. · SUs · Members

    Cap in hand

    With Mack Marshall

  2. · SUs · Members

    Dues diligence

    With Mack Marshall

  3. · SUs · Members

    The weekend delivery issue and students’ rights (updated)

    With Wonkhe SUs explainer

  4. · Comment

    Students should be partners in mergers, not subjects or consumers

    Jim Dickinson works through Advance HE’s new merger governance resource phase by phase – and finds a framework that reserves the language of partnership for everyone except students

  5. · Wonk Corner

    Students and their homelessness are invisible in MHCLG

    On long train journeys, I’ve been slowly meandering my way around government strategies I might have missed.

  6. · Wonk Corner

    Providers get answers on weekend delivery. Students not so much

    The Student Loans Company (SLC) has updated the practitioner pages on the HE Gateway with a brand new weekend courses FAQ.

  7. · Wonk Corner

    Students caught up in the weekend delivery loans crisis have been given a reprieve

    At Education Questions in the Commons today, Department for Education (DfE) minister Josh MacAlister said this unprompted:

  8. · SUs

    Student responsibilities enter the charter as rights come under attack

    Jim Dickinson examines Europe’s first pan-European student rights charter – and finds the responsibilities framework will determine whether it becomes advocacy currency or constraint

  9. · SUs · Members

    Study Tour Spring 2026: Reykjavík/Iceland

    With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer

  10. · Comment

    Treating students fairly means providers admitting when they don’t

    New OfS proposals say fair treatment should be a core part of provider culture. Jim Dickinson warns that by connecting quality failures to consumer law remedies, OfS may make providers more defensive, not more honest

  11. · Comment

    There is magic in being a little angry but not alone

    Iceland’s higher education system was built to serve a national purpose. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall report from Reykjavík – and ask what the UK’s system is for when the salary returns stop adding up

    With Mack Marshall

  12. · Wonk Corner

    In Wales and Scotland, students were promised a maintenance floor. The promise is broken

    On 7 May 2026, voters in Scotland and Wales go to the polls.

  13. · SUs · Members

    Ice breakers

    With Mack Marshall

  14. · SUs

    Fish Balls Served with onion butter and potatoes

    On the final day of the Wonkhe SUs study tour to Iceland, the team finds a bar that gets cheaper when students get poorer – and a 57-year-old law that does the work of seven UK organisations

    With Alan Roberts, Mack Marshall and Mike Day

  15. · SUs

    Before learning becomes only for the chosen ones

    On Day Two of the Wonkhe SUs study tour to Iceland the team met a national union born out of a loan system crisis, and a graduate trade union you can join before you graduate

    With Mike Day, Alan Roberts and Mack Marshall

  16. · Wonk Corner

    Nobody should believe that a party-state will spontaneously change

    In June 1989, a 26-year-old law student at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest stood in front of 200,000 people and made the case for institutional design as democratic protection.

  17. · SUs

    The playfulness of the fishing goddess

    On Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team visit a university designed as a town, find six modules doing what most UK employability strategies can’t, and end up at a geothermal beach where students stag

    With Alan Roberts, Mike Day and Mack Marshall

  18. · SUs

    Do you have a 2,000,000 kr. idea?

    On the afternoon of Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team find credit where it’s due for inclusion work, an AI policy that makes sense, and 3,000 golden eggs

    With Mack Marshall, Mike Day and Alan Roberts

  19. · SUs

    A strong public university that is funded by the government and not by the students

    On Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team visit a student council that predates its own university’s main building, has two organised political factions dating back to 1935, and tried to no-confidence

    With Mack Marshall, Alan Roberts and Mike Day

  20. · SUs

    The competitors are offered milk from Hvanneyrarfjós

    On Day Zero of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team drive a Dacia Duster into a nature reserve, stand in the car park of a university that went fully online, and walk up a campus volcano

    With Gareth Hughes, Alan Roberts, Mack Marshall and Mike Day