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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.