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Is this a turning point in the campus culture wars?
A right wing student group aims to document lecturers’ political bias by asking students to send in videos and photos. Jim Dickinson asks if this is a turning point in the campus culture wars
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What is the point?
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Does lecture capture mean fewer students are turning up (and so what if it does?)
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With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
Are student number controls coming back to English higher education?
In a long read, Jim Dickinson pulls the pieces together to think through how student number controls might return to English higher education
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Fifteen things we learned from January’s OfS board papers
OfS’ January Board papers are out, and Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan have had a read so you don’t have to
With David Kernohan
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Strike a pose
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· Comment
Industrial action: is the force with students this time?
Jim Dickinson wonders whether a change in expectations of redress for students in cases of industrial action could shift the power balance between university staff and employers
· Policy Watch
NSS takes on a new character
The OfS takes a serious look at what we can learn from the National Student Survey. But is all we are seeing the limitations of the current design? Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan get stuck in.
With David Kernohan
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How to tackle student loneliness before term starts
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With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Can Welsh universities be trusted to improve their own governance?
A new review of Welsh Universities’ governance makes Jim Dickinson feel like he’s heard it all before
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Is space the final frontier in higher education value?
Is space the final frontier in higher education value? Jim Dickinson on the problem with capacity in higher education
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Getting things Donelan
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#SUFutures – Course reps were the future once
When course reps were invented in the late 70s and early 80s, UK universities were very different places. In the days of typewriters, noticeboards and fixed line telephones, they were a way of gathering and organising co
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Guess what: there’s a link between the academic experience and mental health
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With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Will we ever escape the campus culture wars?
As Gavin Williamson gives a “final warning” to universities over free speech, Jim Dickinson calls for leadership to solve, not stoke, conflict on campus
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We have been warned
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#SUFutures – What if we looked ahead to 2040?
With Lizzy O'Shea
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#SUFutures: A stab at a PESTLE analysis
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#SUFutures – Time to go back to the future
Jim Dickinson introduces our series looking to the future for students’ unions in the UK
· Comment
Does anyone really care about getting students registered to vote?
Universities have a legal duty to help get students registered to vote. How is that working? Who knows, finds Jim Dickinson