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· SUs
From Oslo to Hamburg – our January 2027 study tour
Ten years after the first Wonkhe SUs trip north, Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah set out the route, the hosts and the costs for 2027’s study tours
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· SUs · Members
A climate film is touring the country and SUs could be shaping what happens after it
With more than 3,500 screenings held or planned, Jim Dickinson sets out what the People’s Emergency Briefing is, who is behind it and how SUs could use it on campus
· SUs · Members
Ten things academic communities could do for students and their SUs
Drawing on years of study tours, Jim Dickinson sets out ten functions, six foundations and a menu of roles for academic communities in UK SUs
· Wonk Corner
At Labour conference, students were counted as supply and forgotten as people
As you might expect, I’ve spent Labour conference here in Liverpool looking for students.
· Wonk Corner
Does Labour want student votes?
Students have been hard to find at Labour conference.
· Wonk Corner
Student poverty is feeding the NEETs crisis
Over on the Post-18 Project, Director John Blake has some reflections on what he’s seen and heard here in Liverpool.
· Wonk Corner
It’s the hope that kills you, Lucy
I’m sure most readers have taken part in one of those in-tray exercises at some stage in their career.
· Wonk Corner
Charging international students deters them but rarely pays
Bern nearly tripled its fee for international students and lost more than a third of its new entrants. Europe keeps relearning the same lesson
· Wonk Corner
The soft bigotry of low expectations comes to student accommodation
The Department for Education (DfE) has published a statement of expectations on student accommodation.
· Comment
Students are working more than ever. Or are they?
Torsten Bell and Alan Milburn say fewer students are working. Jim Dickinson goes down the Labour Force Survey rabbit hole to find out why purpose-built surveys say the opposite
· SUs · Members
Webinar: Understanding OfS’ latest free speech consultation
· SUs · Members
More landlord antics to watch out for over the Renters Rights Act
· SUs · Members
The Quality Code’s new advice is an audit tool for manifesto goals
QAA has finished publishing Advice and Guidance for all twelve principles of the Quality Code. Jim Dickinson reads it for what students can expect
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
The ultimate (updated 2026) guide to students’ rights over industrial action
Jim Dickinson updates Wonkhe’s guide to students’ rights during industrial action, covering strikes, marking and assessment boycotts, and the compensation and complaints routes open to students in all four nations.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Whose degree is it anyway?
The other day I was talking to an international student leader enrolled on a Business Analytics degree.
· Wonk Corner
The mental health taskforce has no budget
You may (or may not) have been wondering what has been happening with the Higher Education Mental Health Implementation Taskforce.
· SUs · Members
How (and why) to respond to OfS’ consultation on new conditions of registration for free speech
Jim Dickinson explains what the Office for Students is consulting on ahead of its new free speech conditions E11 and E12, and what SUs should say in response before the consultation closes on 23 November.
· Wonk Corner
Students feel free to speak – unless they’re training to be doctors
Elsewhere on the site today I’ve been picking through the Office for Students’ (OfS) consultation on its two new free speech conditions of registration.
· Policy Watch
The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn’t
Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS’s consultation on the free speech conditions of registration
· SUs
How to deliver a terrible freshers induction talk
As sabbs take the stage for induction week, Jim Dickinson offers a guide to delivering the SU slot so that nobody remembers a word of it