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· Comment
What is student financial support for in 2025?
A record number of students plan to stay at home, with new UCAS data exposing inequalities by income and location. Jim Dickinson explores what this means for access, and whether financial support is doing what it’s suppo
· Comment
Euro visions: Is the Georgian Dream a nightmare or saviour for HE?
As Georgia promises “free” education, Jim Dickinson unpacks a series of policy changes that critics say centralise power, limit academic freedom and risk isolating the country’s universities from the world.
· Wonk Corner
Fix the governance or fix the governors?
There’s a couple of meetings of the Board of Governors I remember from when I was a student officer at UWE in the late 1990s.
· Wonk Corner
Youth matters. Students don’t
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has published the first attempt at a comprehensive youth strategy for England since 2011
· SUs · Members
What a new report on student governors means for SUs
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Weekend courses can’t get student loans
Notwithstanding that in a sector where two-thirds of full-time undergrads are now working during term time, now and again we circle back to an age old question – what is a full-time course?
· Wonk Corner
For a 35k family, degrees cost more in Scotland
The quote about insanity being doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is usually attributed to Albert Einstein.
· SUs · Members
Pass/fail is better for learning and better for mental health
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Learner protection in Scotland? Not really
The second day of Stage 2 consideration of the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) Bill was dominated by apprenticeship funding.
· Wonk Corner
Ticking boxes misses the point
Back in July 2022 the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) announced that it would no longer consent to be England’s designated quality body from March 2023.
· Wonk Corner
Study a Bachelors DEGREE without paying a single penny? You’re on
On Instagram, prospective students are told that they can:
· SUs · Members
Learning to be human
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
How to leave a legacy when there’s six months left
As sabbatical officers hit the halfway mark, Jim Dickinson explores how leaders move from diagnosis to delivery – and why that transition matters now
· Wonk Corner
There’s a new code out on governors doing the right thing
The Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU) has published the final version of a new Code of Ethical University Governance.
· Long read
Whatever happened to the New Universities Challenge?
Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education
· Wonk Corner
You can’t fix OfS’ quality proposals without fixing the NSS
There’s a lot wrong with OfS’ proposals on quality regulation – like the punishment of students in providers that get Bronze, the abandonment of educational gain despite students repeatedly requesting it, the timeline th
· Wonk Corner
Westminster forgets that buses go to universities
The Bus Services Act 2025 received Royal Assent in October, giving English local transport authorities new powers to franchise bus services and escape the failed deregulated market.
· 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