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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.
· SUs · Members
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.
· Comment
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
· SUs · Members
Research: Doing it better in SUs
Sam Nichols reflects on doing research better in SUs
· Comment
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
· SUs · Members
Should unions run bars?
Should unions run bars? Jim Dickinson asks the question.