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· Analysis
Tackling sexual violence and harassment in HE: work still to do
UUK’s report on sexual harassment and violence is honest about UK universities having a problem, and proposes some fairly crunchy solutions, but there is still some way to go to move universities from recommendations to
· Comment
Critics of the graduate tax are shouting at straw men
Jim Dickinson responds to the legions of public critics of Owen Smith’s plans for a graduate tax, arguing that there are just as many problems with the current fees and ‘vouchers’ system.
· Comment
How to turn the hot air of parliamentary debate into real change
The second reading of the Bill has now taken place, and outside the hot air of the marathon session, Jim Dickinson looks for where MPs’ proposals can be turned from rhetoric to real policy measures.
· Comment
Plan for the worst and hope for the best
Universities have over-relied on growth to see themselves through tough times. The safer option now is to consolidate and see out the coming crisis, argues Jim Dickinson.
· SUs · Members
SUs need leadership and talent
We need a clear strategy around attraction, recruitment, induction, development and exit. say Ben Ward and Jim Dickinson
With Ben Ward
· SUs · Members
Expanding won’t save us now. Not all of us, anyway.
In this piece we look at some likely implications of Brexit and what to research and look out for in your own context as student officers start to attend meetings on the impacts for your institution.
· Comment
Gaps in the White Paper that will undermine students
For students and students’ unions, it is perhaps what’s missing from the White Paper that is so instructive about the government’s approach to students in the developing HE system.
· Comment
It’s the children who are wrong
Jim Dickinson responds to Jonathan Haidt who argued at the weekend that “young people are demanding a censorship on campus that shuts down argument in a dangerous way”. Is he right?
· SUs · Members
What have school parent governors got to do with SUs?
Jim Dickinson on why SU managers need to stop lauding ourselves simply as technocratic “grown ups” that can run things efficiently and know the law whilst the amateurs sort the interests of beneficiaries.
· Comment
HEFCE’s new quality system gives students a role but robs them of power
Jim Dickinson argues that the new quality assessment system gives students a tokenistic role in quality and fails to understand how and why student representation works,
· SUs · Members
Freedom of speech and SUs- what’s really going on?
Jim Dickinson finds out the truth behind the hype over Freedom of Speech on campus
· Analysis
Freedom to speak or freedom from harm? The history of the No Platform debate
Jim Dickinson and Mike Day take the long view of the debate over the No Platform Policy – from the tumultuous debates of the 80’s and 90’s to today’s battles over free speech on campus and Government initiatives to crack
With Mike Day
· SUs · Members
22 ideas for collaboration in Students’ Unions
In this piece Jim Dickinson shares the scribblings from his notebook full of collaboration ideas between unions.
· Comment
Happy New Year, Generation K
Who are Generation K and why are they right to fight for a better world in universities today? Jim Dickinson asks whether the increasingly indebted students of today should stand up and be counted despite opposition from
· Comment
Redress must be at the heart of future HE regulation
Following the Green Paper’s proposals to create an Office for Students, Jim Dickinson argues that the sector and the government will need to go much further if they intend to properly protect students, and give them a vo
· SUs · Members
Are we all allies or are we the problem?
Reflections on the SU staff-officer relationship
· Comment
Time to get real about sexual assault on campus
As the Secretary of State takes action against lad culture on campus, Jim Dickinson argues that the sector needs to take up his challenge but go even further to clear out the perpetrators of sexual violence.
· SUs · Members
Helping officers to develop political goals
In the latest in a series on supporting elected officers Jim Dickinson looks at the process of developing political goals with officers
· Comment
Regulation should be more independent, not less
As rumours fly of the sector abandoning QAA and quality review, Jim Dickinson re-assesses his own view about quality and regulation of universities – and calls for stronger more independent regulation.
· Comment
Dear students, only the Lib Dems can save you now
Jim Dickinson on political parties and the promises (and pledges) they make to students.