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· Policy Watch
Covid-19: Is secrecy over university finances in the student interest?
The English HE regulator is responding to Covid-19. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson look at what universities will have to do if their finances look shaky
With David Kernohan
· SUs · Members
Looking around the corner
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· Comment
Cut-throat competition over students is the opposite of what we need in a crisis
Cut-throat competition over students is the opposite of what we need in a crisis, argues Jim Dickinson who looks at the choices facing OfS and DfE over Covid-19
· SUs · Members
Student rights and Covid-19: OIA on complaints during the pandemic
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
How can students feel safe and not safe all at the same time?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Covid-19 puts “student partnership” to the test
Jim Dickinson rounds up some things SUs have been raising with universities wise enough to let them in the Covid-19 planning room
· SUs · Members
Bin the plan
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· Analysis
The B3 bear has been in court – and won
There’s been a judicial review of an OfS decision. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan look at the judgment and the implications.
With David Kernohan
· SUs
Coronavirus and protecting students’ interests
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With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Will more “free speech” regulation have unintended consequences?
Amber Rudd was invited to a student event, then uninvited. Jim Dickinson on the crackdown that’s coming on no platforming as a result
· SUs
#SUFutures – Is it time to bin off the SU strategic plan?
Ed Marsh and Jim Dickinson make the case for new kinds of strategic planning processes in SUs
With Ed Marsh
· SUs · Members
Activities and opportunities
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· SUs
Southern SUs slides and resources 3/4 Mar 2026
Session 1: How to take your lobbying to the next level Slides Plus: How to be “positively pushy” to get things done for students Live players, dead players and influencing tactics and skills Session 2: What we can learn
· Comment
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
· SUs · Members
What is the point?
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· SUs · Members
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
· Comment
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
· SUs · Members
Strike a pose
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With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· 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