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· 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.
· 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