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· Wonk Corner
Time to talk about the graduate jobs crisis
The Resolution Foundation has published a briefing note on changes in youth unemployment and study since the onset of Covid-19.
· Wonk Corner
Factoring in furlough for September’s students
The undergraduate student maintenance loan system in England embeds a number of assumptions.
· Wonk Corner
Fifteen things to note in today’s DfE return to campus announcement
In the end it was all as signalled.
· Wonk Corner
What if learning is harder when you’re lonely?
One of the things that’s consistently irked me throughout the pandemic are various people’s attempts at clumsily separating the academic experience from “the social side”.
· SUs · Members
What if social isolation makes academic work harder?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Five ideas from Europe for building students back higher this Autumn
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
Here’s what happened when I read every Access and Participation Plan
As providers prepare monitoring returns and impact reports, Jim Dickinson reads every APP in England and has thoughts on student success in a post-pandemic context.
· SUs · Members
What role do SUs have in Access and Participation Plans?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Here’s what students were doing and feeling in March (in England)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published what now appear to be the monthly results from its Student Covid-19 Insights Survey (SCIS).
· Wonk Corner
Taking stock on return to campus after Easter
So that’s that then. The lack of mention of universities or students in the government’s Easter Monday press conference pretty much seals the fate of the academic year. We should have guessed really. Earlier in the day t
· Comment
Isn’t it time we believed in students?
Jim Dickinson looks to a post-pandemic future, when we’ll need to trust and support students to solve the social and economic problems they’re inheriting.
· Wonk Corner
Why is lateral flow testing in universities shrouded in secrecy?
Mass Covid-19 testing at UK universities is haphazard and unscientific.
· Policy Watch
If a provider is in trouble, who will take the force of the blow?
If you’re studying at a provider close to going under, OfS has new plans. Jim Dickinson wonders if they’ll work.
· Comment
Avoiding analysis of racial disparity in higher education is one way to avoid fixing it
David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson work out what’s missing from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report – and wonder why.
With David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
Most students don’t expect any (more) face-to-face teaching this year
There’s a kind of grim, numb reality to the pile-up of polling and evidence on the student experience this pandemic year.
· Wonk Corner
Should universities make students get the Covid-19 vaccine?
There’s some comprehensive and quite concerning polling out today on students and attitudes to vaccination.
With David Kernohan
· Comment
How to build back student community and opportunity
Jim Dickinson and Rosie Hunnam interrogate the student opportunities lost to the pandemic, and gather intel on what it would take to build them, and the student community they support, back higher.
With Rosie Hunnam
· Comment
Is it time to tighten up the regulation of international agents?
Jim Dickinson reviews a new report on international agents and asks if it’s time to crack down on sharp practice.
· SUs · Members
PESTLE and mortarboard
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
What are Britain’s course reps saying about the year they’ve had?
I’m quite a big fan of course reps. I find them to be polite, passionate, partner types – neither rabid consumerists demanding fee rebates, nor the more cliched student activist sorts that would eschew marketisation on t