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· Wonk Corner
Investment in the sector is on the up in some countries. Why?
Right across the continent, things are looking bleak when it comes to university finances and investment in the sector.
· SUs · Members
It’s time to push for a rewrite of your university’s Student Protection Plan
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
North of 49: A guard spotted nail polish
On an unexpected bonus day in Toronto, Jim Dickinson finds a tale of two student centres that tell a layered story of who gets to belong
· SUs
North of 49: Ten minutes before the deadline
Across Canada, graduate students are not just surviving but reshaping universities. On the final day of his tour, Jim Dickinson reports on strikes, social spaces, peer advice and political autonomy
· Comment
Change in higher education requires rapid collegiality
On a thought-provoking tour of Canadian HE, Jim Dickinson reflects on missed metaphors, messy governance, and why trusting students with power might just save universities from themselves
· SUs
North of 49: Youth has the power to affect the world
On Day Two of his mission to explore Canadian student life, Jim Dickinson finds one campus grounded in legacy and mission, and another in flux — still negotiating what it means to belong
· Comment
Will the student protection stable door ever get closed?
Jim Dickinson unpicks OfS polling on cost-cutting impacts and finds the regulator has been documenting the same problems since 2019 – while real student protections remain perpetually on the horizon
· SUs
North of 49: There’s no such thing as the unknown
On Day 4 of his deep dive into Canadian student life, Jim Dickinson meets William Shatner – and unpacks how Canada’s student associations combine grassroots spirit with institutional heft to shape national policy and the
· SUs · Members
What does the 2025 Access Insights report mean for SUs?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Universities need to get a grip on reasonable adjustments
Jim Dickinson examines new research on access at universities, and asks why improved attitudes toward disabled students have yet to translate into reliable, systemic support
· Wonk Corner
Student loans are about to look a lot more expensive for the taxpayer
I’ve written before about some of the less overt aspects of the student loan system – not least the cost of borrowing the money to then lend to students that the Treasury now has to factor in.
· Comment
Scotland orders sector-wide assessment review after Glasgow QAA findings
Following the tragic death of a student, a new report identifies failures in academic governance at the University of Glasgow. Jim Dickinson examines the implications
· SUs
North of 49: Forbidden to even touch the sacred leather
On Day 2 of his tour of Canada Jim Dickinson visits Queen’s University, where an SU steeped in tradition runs like a well-oiled machine – but raises quiet questions about who speaks for students in the classroom
· SUs
North of 49: Crazy Marxist nonsense
On Day 3 of his poke around Canadian student life, Jim Dickinson explores the clash between student autonomy and political interference in Ontario, where York University’s gleaming student centre stands at the heart of a
· SUs
North of 49: To be honest, I’m a bit of a mess
On Day 2 of Jim Dickinson’s mooch around Canadian student life he gets across a university ecosystem where co-operative education, student governance, and grassroots services blur the lines between study, work and care
· SUs
North of 49: We believe students have the power to change the world
On Day 1 of Jim Dickinson’s trek across Southern Canada, visits Western University’s SU in London, Ontario — an organisation reshaped by crisis and powered by students
· Comment
What’s missing from the UK’s international student offer?
Jim Dickinson compares fifteen countries’ approaches to international education and finds the UK lacks the frameworks, data, and infrastructure that competitors have developed
· Wonk Corner
How to fix student loans
Maybe it was just a new year coincidence, but maybe we’ll look back on January 2026 as the month when England’s (and by extension, developed nations’) student loans systems’ complexity and injustices finally caught the i
· SUs · Members
It couldn’t happen here
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
Well that will never work. Why is creativity so hard in SUs?
Jim Dickinson explores how students’ unions have professionalised themselves into creative paralysis – and what continental counterparts can teach us about embracing experimentation, silliness and survivable failure