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· Wonk Corner
Four things we found in 2025’s SLC board papers
September and October’s Student Loans Company (SLC) board papers are out, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to review everything published from 2025, along with the Annual Business Plan for 2025-26.
· Wonk Corner
The student paid. The system still said no
Anecdotally, we know that every year there are international students who, for whatever reason, fail to get their fees paid on time.
· SUs · Members
What makes module feedback feel worth giving
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
Student-on-student complaints are overwhelming SUs
From WhatsApp spats to panel hearings, Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall unpack the growing complexity of student complaints – and the challenge for SUs in managing systems designed to protect without being overwhelmed
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
How to improve things for PGRs that teach
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Students are being asked to gamble with their lives
I was leafing through some student protection plans the other night (as you do), and in amongst the risk obfuscation and wafer thin mitigations, there was one that made me swear in front of my children.
· SUs · Members
What do students on placement get for their money?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Long read
The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation
Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies
· SUs · Members
Generation E
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Student inflation v the others, October 2025
Every year when it publishes rates for increases in maximum maintenance loans, the Department for Education (DfE) issues an equality analysis a few days later.
· Wonk Corner
The OIA steps in to fill gaps in harassment regulation
The Office of the Independent Adjudicator has a new consultation out on handling harassment and sexual misconduct reports.
· Analysis
Universities now need to be much clearer about the total cost of a course
As maximum fees increase for English undergraduates, Jim Dickinson explores how new price transparency rules under consumer law change the rules on what universities must tell students about the cost of HE
· Wonk Corner
Student finance changes in the budget – director’s cut
As well as the headlines on grants, fees and loans, the budget announcements on student support contained various other measures of note.
· SUs · Members
Budget 2025 and what it means for SUs, students and graduates
With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Reclassification ghosts and jam tomorrow at stage 2 of Scotland’s tertiary bill
Today brought the first day of Stage 2 consideration of Scotland’s Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) Bill.
· Wonk Corner
The totem of the perfect grant is the enemy of the loan good
Later today, it’s pretty much nailed on that Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce a levy on international fee income.
· SUs · Members
If students can’t use AI, should staff be able to?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Scotland’s Tertiary Bill at Stage 2: What SUs need to know
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
The rights stuff
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Amendments are in on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill
Post-school reform continues in Scotland, where ministers have been attempting to strike a balance between “juicing up” the Scottish Funding Council’s role while preserving university autonomy.