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· Comment
Students are having to choose between physical and mental health
Two new reports seek to learn lessons on supporting students this term. Jim Dickinson wonders whether it’s possible to combine physical and mental health given the findings.
· Comment
They were promised blended. They’re not getting it.
The Office for National Statistics has worrying new findings out on students and Covid. Jim Dickinson wonders if they’ll make any difference.
· Wonk Corner
Return to campus in Scotland – even more staggering
There was a moment yesterday when the Scottish Government published a page in its tertiary Covid guidance collection called “Return to campus”, and some in the sector thought it meant January 2021.
· Wonk Corner
What kind of free speech problem are we trying to solve?
Here at Wonkhe towers we’ve been beavering away supporting a group of students’ unions to try to progress the agenda over campus politics and freedom of speech.
· Wonk Corner
What can we learn from students taking part in testing?
It’s exciting and all that there’s a vaccine coming, but we do have at least another term to navigate in higher education before anyone is predicting even a soupcon of normality.
· SUs · Members
Grade inflation rules OK
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Policy Watch
DfE publishes staggering advice for universities on students return in 2021
Advice is out from DfE on the return to campus in 2021. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan unpick the implications.
With David Kernohan
· Comment
Has higher education delivered on expectations this term?
Jim Dickinson reviews the latest polling from HEPI on students experiences this term, and finds a gap between expectations and reality.
· SUs
What happens when politics wades into charities?
It’s probably not unfair to say that Baroness Tina Stowell has cut a fairly controversial, and apparently quite “political” figure as the Chair of the Charity Commission. A Conservative minister as recently as 2016, the
· Wonk Corner
What will students be allowed to do legally over Christmas?
Exciting times. The statutory instrument that MPs will vote on detailing the Christmas regime has been published, and naturally sets out how this will all work for students.
· SUs · Members
A test of reasonableness
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Interrogating the culture wars story of the week
A big culture wars story this week has been the announcement that a midwifery student banned from her hospital placement over her pro-life views has secured a settlement from her university.
· Comment
We need to reinvent no detriment for January 2021
Students in their thousands are signing new petitions calling for “no detriment” policies for this part of the pandemic. Jim Dickinson assesses the demands.
· SUs · Members
What can SUs learn from batch 1 of Covid complaints?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
DfE lobs a brick through the Student Travel Window (if you’re a nurse)
Version one of DfE’s guidance on “student movement and plans for the end of term” was spectacularly unhelpful on issues relating to work-based learning.
· Comment
Did students and universities squeeze through the pitfalls of the pandemic?
How are students responding to the constraints of Covid? ONS has been finding out, and Jim Dickinson isn’t at all surprised by the results.
· Comment
Staff and students need a welcome break
Jim Dickinson has heard the news about the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme, and thinks it might be time to “leave it til April”
· SUs · Members
It’s your union
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
We need a collective insurance scheme to protect students
As a review of complaints over a higher education provider’s collapse is published, Jim Dickinson wonders if the protection we give students matches the risks they take.
· Wonk Corner
Students and universities need answers on Christmas
There’s lots of speculation in the press today over Christmas, building on two papers from SAGE floating around from SPI-M and SPI-B modelling the options. The ambition remains that there is a UK-wide approach.