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· Wonk Corner
DfE guidance on the “new national restrictions”
How should higher education in England approach the latest lockdown?
With David Kernohan
· Comment
Michelle Donelan trades tiers for fears
The minister has sent a couple of letters about the new English lockdown. Jim Dickinson dons his reading glasses.
· SUs · Members
Refunds and redress
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
We are where we are. But why are we here? Universities and the lockdown
As new national lockdown measures loom large, Jim Dickinson considers the policy implications of keeping campuses “open”.
· Wonk Corner
Who’s falling between the cracks financially?
The Scottish Government has published a bunch of case studies of financial hardship faced by students this year.
· Wonk Corner
Guidance is out on getting students home safely for the holidays
Sorry. I’ve been a bit naughty here. We do not yet have anything from any of the four UK governments on the “Christmas issue”.
· Policy Watch
The Office for Students has a (new) plan
England’s higher education regulator has published a new business plan to cover the long winter months. Jim Dickinson tries to read the runes.
· Comment
If students were misled about this term, what are the implications?
Lots of students feel misled about university life this term. Jim Dickinson interrogates the potential legal implications.
· Wonk Corner
What do students think about Prevent?
The Home Office has published findings from some survey work on “Prevent”, carried out last August to better understand public knowledge, attitudes and behaviours surrounding its controversial counter-terrorism strategy.
· Comment
22 things we spotted in the September OfS board papers
The Office for Students has published board papers for September, and Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan have had a read so you don’t have to.
With David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
Did students lose out on learning during lockdown?
University students from the lowest income backgrounds lost 52% of their normal teaching hours as a result of lockdown, but those from the highest income groups suffered a smaller loss of 40%.
· Analysis
Students and Covid is a UK wide problem that needs a UK wide solution
Christmas and the new year are UK wide student migration events. Jim Dickinson asks if this means the exciting and dramatic return of UK wide higher education policy.
· SUs · Members
Marshmallows for toasting
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Is the pandemic still an extenuating circumstance?
The spring saw a suite of measures implemented at pace to take account of the impact of the pandemic on students. Jim Dickinson asks if they should continue or be scrapped.
· Wonk Corner
Why are we teaching face to face?
Earlier this week on the site I reviewed the big decision(s) facing universities and their governing bodies on delivery in the new year.
· SUs · Members
How to respond to the NSS review consultation
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
All the times that DfE has respent the same money on students hit by the pandemic
As we’ve noted on the site before, for years and years now the (Westminster) government has provided a top up of funds to universities for support for disadvantaged students called “student premium funding”.
· SUs · Members
Student consumer rights and refunds under Covid-19
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Another new model on students and Covid-19 emerges
If we’re insisting on doing all of this again next term, what should we do? Is the solution testing, or special isolation accommodation, or some other kind of scientific intervention that will save us all?
· SUs · Members
Storms don’t last forever
With Wonkhe SUs explainer