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· SUs · Members
Safe adventures
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
Or are we dancer?
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
NUS elects its full-time officers for 2026–28
The National Union of Students (NUS) holds its elections online these days – no four day schlep to Blackpool for today’s representatives – and has just announced the winners, all of whom are elected for a two-year term.
· Policy Watch
DfE proposes to strip most assistive software out of Disabled Students’ Allowance
A new DfE consultation would restrict DSA-funded software to “exceptional circumstances” across almost every category. Jim Dickinson adds up the cumulative impact on disabled students
· SUs · Members
The problem with AI declarations isn’t compliance – it’s the mechanism
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
What is the safe adventures report and why should your SU take it seriously?
After a student drowned on a wild swimming trip, 16 SUs commissioned a sector-wide review of adventure activity safety. Jim Dickinson explores what it found – and why your trustee board needs to read it
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Course it’s not the careers service
With new OfS research showing half of graduates felt unprepared, Jim Dickinson warns the regulator’s response mistakes a structural problem for a communications one
· Comment
Students know exactly where learning happens – and it’s not in the upload
Exams, placements, seminars, peer explanation – students name the moments that made learning stick. Jim Dickinson argues the common thread is accountability, not format
· SUs · Members
What SFC’s new review on safety and belonging mean for SUs
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Group essays? Pull the other one
An Australian politician’s call to abolish group assignments has drawn ridicule, but Jim Dickinson finds students’ frustrations are well-founded – and the fixes already exist
· SUs · Members
Meningitis outbreak at Kent – what SUs need to know
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Research
Trained to stop learning: How students are experiencing assessment and learning in an age of AI
New research from Wonkhe finds that assessment design – not AI policy – is what determines whether students use AI to learn or to produce. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall explain
With Mack Marshall
· Comment
AI policy is penalising the students most trying to comply
Jim Dickinson presents findings from new research on students’ use of AI – and argues the sector is punishing precisely the disposition it should be cultivating
· Comment
AI enforcement apparatus exists to punish the anxious middle
Detection tools miss the determined cheaters and terrify the principled non-users into self-censoring their own punctuation. Jim Dickinson makes the case for accountability moments over algorithmic guesswork
· Wonk Corner
Black and Asian students use AI most carefully, and punitive policies put them most at risk
When I was staring at the data tables behind the HEPI/Kortext Student Generative Artificial Intelligence Survey the other day, something quite significant jumped out.
· SUs · Members
Now I can think for myself
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
A higher education system in Wales or for Wales?
On Tuesday evening I toddled along to the London Welsh Centre on Gray’s Inn Road for the latest in the “Wales Matters” discussion series, hosted by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and the London Welsh Centre.
· Comment
The graduate premium has a long way to fall yet
Jim Dickinson explains how the student loans repayment prediction model distinguishes courses by subject and provider group, but not by delivery method – a gap that’s about to become very expensive, in more ways than one
· Wonk Corner
Students will be able to join locality-based credit unions
In November 2024, the Chancellor launched a call for evidence on the common bond rules governing credit unions – making good on a manifesto commitment to “double the size of the UK’s co-operative and mutual sector”.
· Wonk Corner
The Canterbury meningitis response and its assumptions about student life
There is a bleak familiarity to the way students have entered the health policy conversation in recent years.