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· Comment
Students should be partners in mergers, not subjects or consumers
Jim Dickinson works through Advance HE’s new merger governance resource phase by phase – and finds a framework that reserves the language of partnership for everyone except students
· Wonk Corner
Students and their homelessness are invisible in MHCLG
On long train journeys, I’ve been slowly meandering my way around government strategies I might have missed.
· Wonk Corner
Providers get answers on weekend delivery. Students not so much
The Student Loans Company (SLC) has updated the practitioner pages on the HE Gateway with a brand new weekend courses FAQ.
· Wonk Corner
Students caught up in the weekend delivery loans crisis have been given a reprieve
At Education Questions in the Commons today, Department for Education (DfE) minister Josh MacAlister said this unprompted:
· SUs
Student responsibilities enter the charter as rights come under attack
Jim Dickinson examines Europe’s first pan-European student rights charter – and finds the responsibilities framework will determine whether it becomes advocacy currency or constraint
· SUs · Members
Study Tour Spring 2026: Reykjavík/Iceland
With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Treating students fairly means providers admitting when they don’t
New OfS proposals say fair treatment should be a core part of provider culture. Jim Dickinson warns that by connecting quality failures to consumer law remedies, OfS may make providers more defensive, not more honest
· Comment
There is magic in being a little angry but not alone
Iceland’s higher education system was built to serve a national purpose. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall report from Reykjavík – and ask what the UK’s system is for when the salary returns stop adding up
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
In Wales and Scotland, students were promised a maintenance floor. The promise is broken
On 7 May 2026, voters in Scotland and Wales go to the polls.
· SUs · Members
Ice breakers
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
Fish Balls Served with onion butter and potatoes
On the final day of the Wonkhe SUs study tour to Iceland, the team finds a bar that gets cheaper when students get poorer – and a 57-year-old law that does the work of seven UK organisations
With Alan Roberts, Mack Marshall and Mike Day
· SUs
Before learning becomes only for the chosen ones
On Day Two of the Wonkhe SUs study tour to Iceland the team met a national union born out of a loan system crisis, and a graduate trade union you can join before you graduate
With Mike Day, Alan Roberts and Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Nobody should believe that a party-state will spontaneously change
In June 1989, a 26-year-old law student at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest stood in front of 200,000 people and made the case for institutional design as democratic protection.
· SUs
The playfulness of the fishing goddess
On Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team visit a university designed as a town, find six modules doing what most UK employability strategies can’t, and end up at a geothermal beach where students stag
With Alan Roberts, Mike Day and Mack Marshall
· SUs
Do you have a 2,000,000 kr. idea?
On the afternoon of Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team find credit where it’s due for inclusion work, an AI policy that makes sense, and 3,000 golden eggs
With Mack Marshall, Mike Day and Alan Roberts
· SUs
A strong public university that is funded by the government and not by the students
On Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team visit a student council that predates its own university’s main building, has two organised political factions dating back to 1935, and tried to no-confidence
With Mack Marshall, Alan Roberts and Mike Day
· SUs
The competitors are offered milk from Hvanneyrarfjós
On Day Zero of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team drive a Dacia Duster into a nature reserve, stand in the car park of a university that went fully online, and walk up a campus volcano
With Gareth Hughes, Alan Roberts, Mack Marshall and Mike Day
· Comment
The student loan system needs replacing not remixing
Stepped student loan repayments sound progressive. Jim Dickinson argues they distract from an accounting structure that structurally rewards chancellors for squeezing graduates and hides the lack of public subsidy
· SUs
I prefer the abnormal one
On Day -1 of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team chase happy hour deals at £10 a pint and discover that the secret to student belonging might be a huge shared kitchen and a relative absence of clothing
With Mack Marshall, Mike Day and Alan Roberts
· SUs
The harbourmaster harbours no doubt
Before the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland even lands, the team get lost in Icelandic TV, discover a ram appreciation society, and wonder what a students’ union looks like when its average member is nearly 30
With Alan Roberts, Mack Marshall and Mike Day