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· Comment
What should we say about September?
Jim Dickinson tries to read the runes and considers what could and should be announced about the delivery of higher education in the Autumn.
· Wonk Corner
Nine out of ten students are already at uni
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published the latest results from its Coronavirus and higher education students survey (England), this time covering 15 April to 22 April 2021.
· Analysis
Does Neil O’Brien have the answer to the levelling up question?
Downing Street has announced a new white paper on the levelling up agenda. Jim Dickinson asks if the MP leading the work can define it, explain it, and achieve it.
· SUs · Members
What can SUs learn from a new batch of complaint case studies?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Where will they all live?
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· SUs
Our approach to training and induction this Summer 2021
Working with SUs to develop understanding of key policy and knowledge areas is a core function of our work at Wonkhe SUs. We’re committed to delivering useful, helpful and essential knowledge briefing and policy content
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Should students have to pass a consent course?
Jim Dickinson reviews HEPI findings on student sex and relationships, and asks if we should compel students to learn about and pass a test on sexual consent.
· Wonk Corner
Michelle Donelan at Education Committee
Universities minister Michelle Donelan’s third appearance before the Commons Education Committee was notable less for her perfunctory, on-message answers and more for the content and tone of the questions.
· SUs
So what can students complain about?
Elsewhere on the site we’ve looked in detail at the aspects of the student experience and the student-university contract – where there remains confusion about what students can and can’t complain about, but where those
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Five things that the Education Committee could raise with Michelle Donelan on Tuesday
On Tuesday morning, universities minister Michelle Donelan will face her third appearance in front of the Commons’ Education Committee.
· SUs · Members
Redressed down
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
How should students express their dissatisfaction now?
As the last hope of a structural political solution to the “fee rebate” issue fades into the distance, Jim Dickinson considers what unhappy students could do next.
· SUs
Fifteen reasons why students could complain over Covid – so their rights become much clearer
Over on the main site, we’ve set out the case for every student that feels dissatisfied about a provider’s action or lack of action, or about the standard of service provided by or on behalf of the provider, to make that
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Students want more teaching online. Or do they?
There’s a lot of talk around the sector about the percentage or proportion (in principle) of teaching that should be online or remote next year, as “teaching recovery groups” and their ilk kick into gear.
· Wonk Corner
Student initiations are more about group harassment than alcohol
There’s a tragic student sport initiation case in the news.
· Comment
We need to take abuse on campus much more seriously than this
In the wake of a string of disclosures on Everyone’s Invited, Jim Dickinson reviews a new set of expectations on universities around case handling and prevention.
· Comment
How might ministers make student loans cheaper?
Jim Dickinson reviews the ways in which England’s student loans system might be caused to be less of a burden to taxpayers.
· SUs · Members
Student safety
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· Blog
Precarity robs students of agency and power
Jim Dickinson reviews work on vulnerable consumers and considers its relevance to higher education students that are struggling.
· Wonk Corner
What really happened with return to campus?
If there’s no scientific basis for the decision – and it’s been hugely unpopular – why did the Westminster government make the decision that it did on return to campus this week?