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· Wonk Corner
Face to face teaching all but banned across parts of Scotland
Eight universities and several colleges across Scotland will be all but banned from delivering face to face teaching from Friday.
· Analysis
How to make 2021 a happier new year for higher education
Looking ahead, Jim Dickinson considers the steps needed to mitigate the risks of bringing students back to campus all over again after the Christmas break.
· Wonk Corner
Sometimes students really are consumers
There’s been a lot of focus on tuition fees and whether the loss of access to campus services and facilities gives students legal rights to partial refunds. Much commentary has stressed that home undergraduates might not
· Policy Watch
OfS consults on minimum outcomes in every subject – as the B3 bear hunts down Mickey Mouse
What is a poor quality or low value higher education course? The Office for Students has an answer, so Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan take it for a spin.
With David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
MPs debate fee refunds, IfS says only the rich would benefit
On Monday evening MPs debated parliamentary petitions relating to university tuition fees – an event held in response to five petitions that have received just short of a million signatures between them.
· Analysis
Who owns admissions policy and where will it end up? The government just complicated the picture
From PQA to PQO, the sector and government are at loggerheads over admissions reform, but could there be a consensus way forward underneath the political bluster? Team Wonkhe unpicks the latest drama.
With Mark Leach, Debbie McVitty and David Kernohan
· SUs · Members
Society survival
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
What went on in the Higher Education Taskforce in August and September?
Back on 18 August right in the middle of the examnishambles, Universities Minister Michelle Donelan announced the formation of a Higher Education Taskforce.
· Wonk Corner
UKRI publishes its review of support for PGRs during the pandemic
Throughout the pandemic, universities minister Michelle Donelan has stressed that the pandemic shouldn’t mean that students have to “put their life on hold”, and the Office for Students has stressed that it is important
· Policy Watch
A Christmas miracle? DfE guidance on student travel
What’s in the long awaited DfE guidance for students returning home for Christmas? David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson sniff it suspiciously from a safe distance.
With David Kernohan
· Comment
What happened after the big student demo of 2010?
Jim Dickinson reflects on a decade of debates about students, consumers and marketisation in higher education.
· Wonk Corner
Move offers until after exams, says UCAS
This morning the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service stages a dramatic intervention on admissions.
· Analysis
Dropping out during a pandemic should bring neither shame nor penalty
Reflecting on polling on non-continuation, Jim Dickinson asks what students are learning this term – and what can we learn from them.
· Analysis
SAGE says move teaching online. Again.
Jim Dickinson dives into the latest batch of papers from SAGE, and finds familiar themes on harm reduction and moving teaching online.
· SUs · Members
Rounding the corner
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
Do students understand their rights during the pandemic?
As the higher education complaints watchdog launches a consultation on group complaints, Jim Dickinson looks at polling on whether students know what to complain about.
· Comment
Indie SAGE returns with a statement on the sector’s bleak midwinter
The independent version of SAGE is back with a new set of recommendations on universities and the winter. Jim Dickinson weighs up the proposals.
· Wonk Corner
Will it be lonely this Christmas?
Let’s have a think about your university’s Christmas break for a minute.
· Research
The costs of Covid restrictions on students are social
Jim Dickinson introduces headlines from a large survey on student wellbeing – and finds lonely students not getting the social learning experience they crave.
· SUs · Members
The new legal restrictions in England for the November lockdown
With Wonkhe SUs explainer