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OfS must dig deeper in its attempts to listen to students
Jim Dickinson breaks down the implications of the newly announced student panel that is set to inform the work of the Office for Students.
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Getting behind the headlines of the NSS
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Making student led scrutiny work
Michael Gale, Head of Engagement at Birmingham City University Students’ Union (BCUSU) recently presented a session at Membership Services Conference on their new Scrutiny Group and this article summaries that session.
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The OfS should make university governance a top priority
Many of the criticism’s recently levelled at universities could be fixed with improved governance, but will the new regulator be sufficiently ambitious to ensure reform? Jim Dickinson suggests some ways forward.
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Demonstrating outcomes
In this fascinating piece John Schless, CEO at Greenwich SU talks about how he set about demonstrating outcomes from the SU’s work as part of the strategic planning process.
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Scandilove- tales from the frozen north
When we are at conferences comparing Boards, many of us and our officers tend to compare structures- who chairs, how many students, etc. But there are other ways to look at Boards and strategy?
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Contracts, complaints and unintended consequences
Jim Dickinson reflects on former OIA chief Rob Behrens’ new book, in the context of Jo Johnson’s latest pledge to further students’ rights.
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Good news for the student rights let out of a (mixed) bag
After Jo Johnson’s speech this week, Jim Dickinson applauds the return of charters and some signs that OfS could deal students a fairer hand of cards.
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A new Charity Governance Code
In this piece Jim Dickinson from UEA and Ben Ward from Manchester look at the new Charity Governance Code and consider how it might be used in our sector
With Ben Ward
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Is it true that there has to be an SU in an HEI?
Are students’ unions compulsory?
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Students don’t need more markets, but collective choice and voice
The government and OfS’s apparent obsession with applicant choice risks undermining a decade’s worth of progress in developing student voice, argues Jim Dickinson.
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What should we be looking for in Uni Mental Health strategies?
As part of work at his institution, here changeSU editor Jim Dickinson notes down his findings from a review of UK guidance, student feedback and over 30 UK, Australian and US mental health strategies.
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Free speech instruction is a needless endorsement of the media’s culture wars
As Jo Johnson asks universities to “take responsibility” for freedom of speech, Jim Dickinson argues that they’ve been doing just that for decades.
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Academic freedom is holding back fair access to the professions
Why is it that OFFA cannot target individual departments in its efforts to widen access? Jim Dickinson looks at the intersection of fairer access and academic freedom.
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Time for some quality conversations?
In this piece changeSU editor Jim Dickinson describes UEASU’s weekly data gathering scheme involving all career staff.
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You only get what you pay for. Or do you?
Following a recent ruling by the CMA, Jim Dickinson argues that students are quite right to demand value for money, a decent amount of contact hours, and a fairer service all round.
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Lessons from the A47 (and the university bubble)
Spending time on the road in places where “university” seems remote, Jim Dickinson has been thinking about life outside the HE bubble and how we might reframe the way we think about our communities.
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Looking ahead again
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Our Sector: “Block means Block”…but what does Block mean?
In this piece Mark McCormack from Cambridge SU continues to mine his MSc research from last year to inform reflections upon the Student Movement. One such bundle of data relates to definitions of “block grant” across the
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External examining should no longer exempt universities from proper scrutiny
Jim Dickinson continues our debate on external examiners, arguing that academic freedom should no longer be universities’ excuse for the unreliability and inconsistency of the system.