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· SUs · Members
What’s going on with students and guaranteed hours in the Employment Rights Bill?
The Employment Rights Bill is nearing Royal Assent – but as Team Wonkhe explains, student employment patterns are straining the limits of its one-size-fits-all model
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
Engage, learn and develop: Our European Study tours in 2026
From democratic structures to student services, Jim and Mack make the case for international collaboration — and invite SUs to join an inspiring series of study tours across Western Europe and Iceland in 2026
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
What goes on tour
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
The costs of failure. How much does it cost students to repeat, resubmit etc?
With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
For students, the costs of failure are far too high
What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality
· Wonk Corner
The othering of students is getting worse
When people talk about civic work, they’re sometimes thinking about an academic in a shopping centre with a model volcano.
· Wonk Corner
Awaab’s law is coming. But not for students in halls
As I’ve noted on here before, student renters in England are about to end up with five different sets of rights depending on the type of property they live in.
· SUs · Members
Tensions on campus and beyond – legal rights and regulatory risks for SUs
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
The more you work, the more you regret your HE
The headline in this year’s HEPI/Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey was that over two-thirds of students now undertake paid work during term time, an increase of more than 12 per cent from 2024.
· Wonk Corner
We promise not to raise fees. Until we raise them
Given that, as far as I can tell, all of the Access and Participation Plans for universities in England have now been published, I’ve been taking a look at them.
· SUs
Engage, learn and develop: Our European Study tours in 2026
From democratic structures to student services, Jim and Mack make the case for international collaboration — and invite SUs to join an inspiring series of study tours across Western Europe and Iceland in 2026
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
Get involved in our national student experience research
Team Wonkhe explores how a revamped national survey and an innovative real-time feedback pilot are reshaping how students’ unions understand and act on the student experience.
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
My grant cheque lies over the ocean
With Mack Marshall
· Comment
Visa oversubscription at UCL may be more than just a PR problem
Jim Dickinson explores how UCL’s oversubscription crisis has left hundreds of international students in limbo – raising fresh questions about whether UK universities are operating within consumer law
· Comment
OfS rebalances the free speech/harassment see-saw on antisemitism
A probing exchange with OfS director Arif Ahmed exposes the legal and practical tensions at the heart of campus free speech guidance. Jim Dickinson looks at when happens when promises to Jewish students meet regulatory a
· Wonk Corner
Maybe the levy just moves money to where it’s needed most
I’ve seen a lot written – including here on Wonkhe – on what the proposed 6 per cent levy on international students’ fees might cost universities.
· Wonk Corner
The Augar review is back, baby. Just don’t about talk yourself
With the rest of the team covering the sector essentials, I have as ever been off higher educations’ beaten track at this year’s Labour Conference in Liverpool.
· Wonk Corner
Students are being othered again – and everyone loses out
Other than “raw” economic growth, the other big theme at Labour Conference 2025 has been on communities, place and social cohesion.
· Wonk Corner
Have universities got the capacity and cash to respond to the government’s agenda?
In Liverpool for Labour Conference, the last big fringe meeting of the week before the leader’s speech – at least for higher education types – saw skills minister Jacqui Smith pretty much confirm what we’d guessed 20 hou
· Wonk Corner
How much should the new maintenance grant be?
One question that we didn’t tackle in our rapid write up of the return of the maintenance grant is how much the maximum should be.