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· Wonk Corner
Are freshers’ weeks in September going to be banned?
Student migration into student halls in Scotland represented a risk for areas hosting the halls and for their surroundings. The outbreaks were ultimately dealt with, but the adverse direct and indirect health effects and
· SUs · Members
Little platoons?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Students will build back community better – if we support them to do so
How should we encourage and strengthen students’ contribution to their own and their wider communities? Patrick O’Donnell, Richard Brabner and Jim Dickinson look to the future.
With Richard Brabner and Patrick O’Donnell
· Wonk Corner
Should we charge graduates £10k more each (unless they’re rich)?
They need to pay more in their twenties and pay more in their fifties, basically.
· Wonk Corner
Now they’ve cancelled the Queen
As David Davis MP said when he launched his private members’ bill on universities back in February, the principal reason that our kingdom is a great nation can be encompassed in one word – freedom.
· Wonk Corner
Franchising, collegiate colleges and harassment and sexual misconduct
One of the questions that arises out of ongoing coverage of allegations of misconduct at Drama schools is that of responsibility for both prevention, and complaint investigation and disciplinary processes.
· Wonk Corner
50 new universities and the return of polytechnics
46 new universities in the towns in England with a population of over 80,000 that don’t already have one, and the transformation of further education colleges into polytechnics – place-based vocational centres of excelle
· SUs · Members
Buckle up
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Students deserve a seatbelt when it comes to the autumn
As talk of a third wave hitting the young intensifies, Jim Dickinson argues that we owe students protection over provision this September.
· SUs
Ten notes of caution about a blended autumn and winter
Jim Dickinson has been reading all the announcements about teaching and learning in 2021/22, and the feedback they’re generating from students, so has his synthesizer out.
· Wonk Corner
Has the new free speech bill been properly thought through?
As “niche audience” posts on Wonkhe go, this one is right up there – but it does tell us a thing or two about the depth of thinking that’s gone into the impact assessment for the Freedom of Speech (Higher Education) Bill
· Comment
How to address the sexual and racial misconduct crisis out of the drama
A spate of harassment and sexual misconduct cases in Drama schools should concern the whole of the higher education sector, argues Jim Dickinson.
· Wonk Corner
Nightclubs, halls and three months til September
We are now only three months or so away from universities beginning to welcome students onto campus for the autumn term.
· Comment
Would changes to student loans be progressive?
Jim Dickinson reviews work to deliver a cash “fee rebate” to students, and uncovers some fascinating realities about England’s student loan system along the way.
· Comment
Student finance? It’s the interest rate, stupid
Everyone thinks the interest rate on student loans should come down. Except Jim Dickinson.
· SUs · Members
A run on the bank
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Universities need a blended approach to freedom of expression
What is harmful in the context of what happens at universities – and what do you do when the generations disagree? Jim Dickinson looks to the Online Safety Bill for inspiration.
· SUs · Members
How has Covid impacted the student experience – and what do they want in September?
It’s all the findings you need from a new survey of 2,000 students for the UPP Foundation’s Student Futures Commission.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Three in ten students say online learning has had a major effect on course quality
ONS’ Coronavirus and higher education students survey brings us news of England’s student behaviours, plans, opinions and well-being from 4 to 12 May 2021 – and we have some new questions to reflect on.
· SUs · Members
Missing inaction
With Wonkhe SUs explainer