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· 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
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· 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
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· 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
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· 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?
· 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?
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Five ideas from Europe for building students back higher this Autumn
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