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· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about our new research on students, assessment and AI
With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
An accountability moment is what makes AI work for learning
Students aren’t confused about AI – they’re making rational choices in a system that has removed the incentives to learn. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall preview findings from new research on learning in an age of AI
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Amber isn’t a buffer zone in the new international RAG system – it’s a ledge
Draft guidance on new student sponsor RAG ratings has been floating about.
· Wonk Corner
One in five students would be reluctant to share a house with a Jewish student
The Union of Jewish Students has today published Time for Change – a report combining polling of 1,000 students with qualitative testimony from Jewish students, and the above has very much caught the headlines.
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about the UJS Time for Change report
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Did Diamond work? Depends what you mean, and who you ask
Jim Dickinson considers what two new reports reveal about Wales’ Diamond student reforms, and what they leave unanswered
· Wonk Corner
Rachel Reeves on student loans isn’t even arguing with herself yet
Last week the Treasury Committee launched an inquiry into student loan repayment terms and the taxation of graduates.
· Wonk Corner
Can judicial review force OfS to regulate bible colleges?
The National Secular Society is preparing to take the Office for Students to court over its failure to act on complaints about a dozen bible and theological colleges on the register – complaints it first raised five year
· Wonk Corner
A tuition fees row could sink the UK’s Brexit reset
This week is supposed to be “Brexit reset week” for the Westminster government.
· Wonk Corner
St Andrews’ Rector is reinstated (again)
Back in January, the University of St Andrews attempted to remove its Rector from its governing body for a second time – and for a second time, it hasn’t stuck.
· Wonk Corner
Chancellors keep reaching for the same lever on student loans
The news that the Commons Treasury Committee is launching a new inquiry into student loans was music to my ears.
· Wonk Corner
Scotland’s review of part-time and disabled student support is an exercise in running down the clock
The Scottish Government has published its long-awaited look at support for part-time study and disabled students – with just fourteen days until Holyrood goes into pre-election recess.
· Wonk Corner
Has Scotland’s medical student expansion outgrown its quality system?
Sometimes people have to sit on the floor in lectures, there have sometimes been upwards of 8-12 students on one ward at a time.
· SUs · Members
How (and why) to respond to the Treasury Committee’s call for evidence on student loans
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Nudge emails don’t work but humans do
It’s University Mental Health Day today, and two new reports from Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) offer up an interesting contrast in approaches.
· Wonk Corner
OfS unveils registration condition on subcontracting
DK and Jim get stuck in to new condition E10
With David Kernohan
· Policy Watch
What the government’s Social Cohesion Action Plan means for universities and students
Jim Dickinson explores how the government’s latest social cohesion plans revive longstanding tensions on campus between Prevent compliance and free speech duties
· Comment
An office that bears students’ name ought to be acting in their interests
Jim Dickinson compares OfS approach to students against other UK regulators – and finds a regulator that lacks the mechanisms, the rigour, and the will to act on what students are telling it
· Comment
Is it a loan or a tax? It wasn’t supposed to be either
A new poll shows widespread dissatisfaction with student finance, but little agreement on the remedy. Jim Dickinson suggests the divide reflects competing mental models of the system
· Wonk Corner
On the Graduate Journey, you can’t win
Looking for Growth (LFG) is a UK campaign group focused on graduate outcomes, student debt, and what they characterise as systematic government dishonesty about the value of higher education.