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Should students pay their fees on a credit card?
Student protection plans are useless and consumer rights are hard to enforce. Jim Dickinson on why students should pay fees on a credit card
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What would students think?
This is a briefing for Wonkhe SUs subscribers. To find out more go to the SUs page in the menu above.
· Policy Watch
An OfS analysis of access and participation plans
What do all those access and participation plans look like in aggregate? As David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson find out for Wonkhe, it is difficult to say.
With David Kernohan
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Wicked problems: reputation, exit, failure and protection
The “market” is supposed to deliver “quality” but what happens when it lets students down? Ben Elger and Jim Dickinson on reputation, exit, failure and protection
With Ben Elger
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Look me in the eye of the storm
This is a briefing for Wonkhe SUs subscribers. To find out more go to the SUs page in the menu above.
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Does university governance need incremental or radical change?
The Committee of University Chairs is revising its governance code for universities. Jim Dickinson wonders if it goes far enough.
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Access and participation to… postgrad study?
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With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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Performance-based funding for higher education – could it happen here?
The province of Alberta, in Canada, is designing a new performance based funding model. Jim Dickinson finds some eerie similarities with UK debates.
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Wicked problems: do we get the leaders we deserve?
Jim Dickinson looks at the work of the late David Watson to ask what kind of leadership can solve the sector’s wicked problems
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Aalto people forever
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· SUs
Case study: what we can learn from Aalto SU?
At Aalto SU, Jim Dickinson finds an impressive set of academic societies
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Great news for university business officers might not mean great news for students
The good news is that university business officers are reporting that income is up. But Jim Dickinson thinks there might be a downside for students.
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Wicked problems: the solutions on offer need to improve
Local and national policymakers in HE tend to face hostility and resistance. Jim Dickinson wonders if there’s anything we can do about it.
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European cooperation means students and professional services too
European cooperation means students and professional services too – Jim Dickinson reflects on a week around the Baltics and Finland with SUs
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We must be able to make it possible for students to build a fairer world now and in the future
It’s the final day of the Wonkhe SUs European Study Tour
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Blow your whistle
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· SUs
Everyone has a right to a cheap hot meal
Day four of the Wonkhe SUs European Study Tour
· SUs
Once a year we sing our hearts out
Day 3 of the Wonkhe SUs Baltics and Finland study tour
· Policy Watch
The Office for Students is toughening up on harassment and sexual misconduct
Jim Dickinson thinks through the implications of new OfS guidance for students and universities.
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Women are more important here
Day 2 of the Wonkhe SUs Baltics and Finland study tour