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· Wonk Corner
Another provider loses access to the loan book. Should students have been warned?
The Office for Students (OfS) has announced that students at Brit College have been told that their higher education courses will no longer be “designated” (i.e. for funding) by the Department for Education (DfE) from 4
· Comment
Data lag and ambition aggregation means APPs are fundamentally flawed
How are universities doing on efforts to widen access and support disadvantaged students to succeed? Jim Dickinson goes hunting for performance against target – and finds worrying results
· SUs
What happened at ESU’s last board meeting (and why it matters to UK SUs)
Jim Dickinson reviews the elections, statements and policies agreed at the European Students’ Union’s last big board meeting – and explains why they may be helpful for UK SUs
· SUs · Members
Making connections
With Mack Marshall
· Comment
Our drop-out and pace miracle is harming students’ health and learning
As universities are again urged to provide support to struggling students, Jim Dickinson reviews the evidence – and finds our system of rapid graduate production a key potential cause of pressure and harm
· SUs · Members
Sabbs as trustees, codes of conduct, free speech and the St Andrews Rector case
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
The new OfS chair identifies ten trends
Edward Peck’s final outing as the Department for Education’s Higher Education Student Support Champion arrives at an interesting moment – for him, for the sector, and for students.
· Wonk Corner
Should governance reform be horizontal or vertical?
Governance is the new blame thing. Asked whether the government might “bail out” a failing provider a few months back, skills minister Jacqui Smith argued that:
· Wonk Corner
Poor quality teaching and student outcomes. But where?
Back in February of last year, the Office for Students (OfS) announced that it had opened an investigation into Leeds Trinity University.
· SUs · Members
We knew that already
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
International students are now a big part of the immigration story
The case for removing international students from net migration figures was always pretty shaky – for two reasons.
· Wonk Corner
Mark your calendar: December 3rd will be sleeping bags to get a house day
We are now just days away from Report stage of the Renter’s Rights Bill – but major trouble may well be coming when it comes to students.
· Wonk Corner
What have coroner’s reports said about student suicide?
One of the things that is especially bleak about the national review of student suicides is that to some considerable extent, it tells us what we already know.
· Comment
A review of student suicides suggests that standards are now necessary
A national review has found a raft of issues in the way that universities prevent and learn from student suicides. Jim Dickinson evaluates whether voluntary urges for change will ever be enough.
· Comment
EHRC is consulting on sex in the Equality Act. Universities should too
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is seeking views on its guidance on single sex spaces and services. Jim Dickinson urges universities to do the same
· Wonk Corner
Why are we so embarrassed about Erasmus?
Apparently, both the UK and the EU “share the view” that it is in the mutual interest to deepen our people-to-people ties, particularly for the younger generation.
· Wonk Corner
A brutal budget for strategic priorities from the Department for Education
Last year the then Secretary of State Gillian Keegan delivered a £53m real terms cut to the dwindling bit of funding that the Office for Students (OfS) allocates to providers in England.
· Comment
Euro visions: Austrian HE has much to give, but the love is wasted
For the final day of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson takes a look at winning country Austria’s higher education system – where coalition politics looks set to get a grip on who’s studying what and where
· Comment
Euro visions: Social responsibility in St Gallen
For Day Five of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson takes a trip to northeastern Switzerland to see a university where brutalist buildings meet corporate social responsibility
· SUs · Members
International students still choose the UK
With Mack Marshall