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· Wonk Corner
What is happening to the SSR?
I was delivering some training for some student reps the other day when the objective of “improving academic support” emerged on a post-it note.
· Comment
Europe’s cautionary merger tales through student eyes
While university mergers promise unification without disruption, Jim Dickinson examines a wealth of European evidence that warns otherwise – and argues that students must be true partners in shaping what comes next
· SUs · Members
The one-year loophole: How students can escape PBSA contracts in 2025/26
A temporary shift in tenancy law will gives students in halls in England an extraordinary, if fleeting, new right. Jim Dickinson explains why most won’t know it’s coming – and why it matters
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Why are we panicking about mature student participation?
I often read concerns about declines in mature students over the past decade.
· Wonk Corner
Bridget, Liz and Steve need to go for a coffee
Who knows if it matters now that he’s off to be Business Secretary in the reshuffle.
· SUs · Members
“All your loan goes on rent”: what SUs need to know about Unipol’s house hunting research
With students paying £36 a week more than planned and 62% unaware of looming rental reforms, Jim Dickinson explains the affordability crisis threatening access to higher education
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
RIP democracy
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
What about postgrad care leavers?
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
Summer update: Protection in Scotland
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
The exploitation of international students begins before they enrol
Imagine you’re an international PGT applicant who’s changed their mind about the course they applied for.
· Comment
For student leaders, it’s been a Cruel Summer
Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson chart a summer of startling student stories – from hidden hardship to systemic neglect – and warn that silence in higher education is costing students dearly
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
A cycle of silence is destroying progress on addressing students’ problems
Jim Dickinson explores how structural and cultural pressures create a “conspiracy of silence” around the student experience – and why SUs could choose truth-telling over reputation management
· Comment
Partnership? Students in Scotland need protection
As funding pressures mount, Jim Dickinson argues that Scotland’s celebrated model of student partnership is no longer enough – and students now need real, enforceable protections
· Wonk Corner
Finally, a politician who gets it. Not that one
As I type, the Mail is running with the above headline to signal that its readers should be pleased with the Reform Party’s “plan” to deport 600,000 asylum seekers.
· SUs
The Wexley 450 – a media handling exercise
The scenario It is 9.40am on Tuesday of clearing week. An hour ago the University of Wexley – a large post-92 institution with 24,000 students – emailed all staff announcing a “Shaping Wexley’s Future” programme. Around
· SUs · Members
Now here’s a way to generate some additional study space when deadlines and exams loom
Jim Dickinson explores how Antwerp’s Study360 turns underused city spaces into thriving pop-up study hubs – offering UK students’ unions a compelling model for community-connected academic support
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Summer update: Make work (-based study) pay
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
Breaking the “meritocracy of difficulty” – what could a survey on culture at your university help to kick off?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
OfS pushes ahead with two tier fairness for students
Jim Dickinson explores how the Office for Students’ latest reforms raise the bar for fairness in England – just not for the majority of students already in the system
· Comment
Beware the sharing issue in the depths of the higher education iceberg
Jim Dickinson explores the hidden depths of the higher education iceberg – from misconceptions about value to the quiet crisis of overstretched resources and shrinking provision