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Freedom to speak or freedom from harm?
Mike Day and Jim Dickinson take a look back at the at the debate over the Education Act 1986, which was designed (but arguably failed) to curtail “No Platform” policies in SUs.
With Mike Day
· Comment
Time to rebalance funding, regulation and autonomy
Building on new research from Claire Callender and Paul Temple, Jim Dickinson sets his sights on higher education’s autonomy and a redrawing of the compact that has enabled a failed market.
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Politics isn’t fair, is it?
As the sector goes to war with politicians over higher education fees, Jim Dickinson calls for an alternative approach: one supported by the public and based on a respect for democracy and the politics (and politicians)
· Analysis
A degree of value?
Jim Dickinson reviews a new report published by Which? – the consumer rights organisation which offers a fresh insight in to students’ views of their experience of higher education and their relationship with universitie
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Research: Doing it better in SUs
Sam Nichols reflects on doing research better in SUs
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The promise to students
The Consumer Rights Bill currently working its way around the Houses of Parliament promises to give the sector one of the biggest shake-ups it has had in recent years. Yet with universities remaining oddly quiet about th
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Should unions run bars?
Should unions run bars? Jim Dickinson asks the question.
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Don’t judge me. Or do.
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Balancing power in the market
With the arrival of the Competition and Markets Authority to the higher education sector, debates about consumerism, regulation and the role of students and their institutions have intensified. In this piece, Jim Dickins
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HE as a kind of Cupid
· Comment
Willetts’ long march
Ahead of a likely Government reshuffle, Jim Dickinson looks back a key speech made by David Willetts in 2007. An important moment, he used the opportunity to heal the Conservative Party’s fractured relationship with stud
· Comment
Expanding the debate
Cheered on by the right-wing press, it is a widely-held belief that there are “too many graduates”. So what does HE expansion look like in that context and what form should it take? Not pulling the ladder up, but moving
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Regulation for all (apart from students)
Another week, another report is published on the gaps in regulation left by the Government’s interesting new take on consumer-focused reforms; triple fees, publish a white paper offering protections, fail miserably to im
· Comment
It’s like rain on your wedding day
Behind the army of wonkery that this blog serves is a body of academic understanding about policy and political goals that helps us understand and influence those around us. Some the academics involved would have us beli
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A glass of Sangria, my cake and some time to eat it please
Jim Dickinson takes a look at the all-too predictable debate about students as customers.
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