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· 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
· Comment
Big decisions about January need to be taken by governors now
Jim Dickinson reviews the parameters of the decisions ahead on what to do about teaching, learning and “campus reopening” in January – and asks if anyone’s seen the governing body.
· Wonk Corner
How are tiers being interpreted when it comes to face to face activity?
There’s a logic to “tiers”. They simplify restrictions and help justify what is still a fairly targeted approach to virus control.
· Wonk Corner
Can students go home for reading week?
Christmas? CHRISTMAS? What about going home for “reading week”, the official and sometimes unofficial break from the routine that happens any time now on lots of courses?
· Comment
Never mind the quality, feel the exhaustion
The government says providers charging full fees during the pandemic should be offering “quality” courses. Jim Dickinson goes on the hunt for a definition.
· Wonk Corner
Some more things to note from SAGE papers
As well as the much discussed “move teaching online” recommendation in the SAGE circuit breaker papers from September, there’s a couple of other things to note from that and some previous SAGE papers.
· Wonk Corner
Five big questions hanging over guidance on Christmas
At the time of writing we’re still waiting for that guidance on students’ return home for Christmas, whose appearance we were told would be “imminent” two weeks ago.
· SUs · Members
The Job Support Scheme expansion for closed business premises
With Wonkhe SUs explainer