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Euro visions: A playbook to fight the populists in the Netherlands
For Day Four of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson reaches the Netherlands – where universities are challenging budget cuts and nationalist policies imposed by the populists
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Euro visions: Everything’s going on in Basel but the rent
For Day Three of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson reaches host city Basel – where a debate over a men’s only fraternity has reached the Supreme Court
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Euro visions: In Poland in May, cities belong to students
For day two of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson takes a trip to Poland to see how its student-led Juwenalia festivals create leadership, community, civic engagement and culture
· Wonk Corner
There are lots of ways to be more transparent about university finances
In the Telegraph yesterday, skills minister Jacqui Smith seemed to suggest that being clearer with students about where the money goes should be a priority.
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Euro visions: What the hell just happened?
As Eurovision week gets underway in Switzerland, Jim Dickinson reviews where negotiations with the EU are up to over youth mobility, Erasmus+ and wider issues of fees, funding and mobility
· Wonk Corner
The funding debate in Northern Ireland is nowhere near as simple as it seems
A funding debate is kicking off in Northern Ireland.
· SUs · Members
It’s a kind of magic
With Mack Marshall
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Academic judgement? Now that’s magic
Jim Dickinson questions whether academic judgment can hold in the AI era, as flawed detection tools create a system where students can’t challenge misconduct allegations
· Wonk Corner
Major wins for students (and defeats for halls operators) in Scotland
The Housing (Scotland) Bill is slowly making its way through the Scottish Parliament – today saw Day One of amendments at the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee.
· Wonk Corner
Free speech, not free for all
One of the frustrating and unhelpful aspects of the Office for Students’ approach to freedom of speech thus far has been its obfuscation over the different weight placed on freedom of expression by the courts in the diff
· Wonk Corner
Plaid has a plan to fund Welsh universities – more student debt if its students leave Wales
The next Senedd election is due to be held by 7 May 2026 – and will be the first held under a new proportional representation system, with 96 Members of the Senedd elected across 16 six-member constituencies.
· Wonk Corner
Hard raindrops keep falling on my head
A lot of government policy, and media coverage of ministers – especially after a difficult set of elections – seems to involve re-announcing the same failed ideas over and over again, presumably in the hope that the publ
· SUs · Members
FAIREs fair
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
St Andrews rector wins appeal
Last August it was announced that the University of St Andrews had dismissed its Rector – now it has emerged that Stella Maris has won an appeal against that decision.
· SUs · Members
What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Study Tour 2025: Portugal
With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
To be FAIRe, there was plenty to learn in Portugal
On the way home from this year study tour to Portugal, Jim, Mack and team reflect on what UK SUs might learn from the country’s impressive systems and culture of student organising
With Mack Marshall, Mike Day and Alan Roberts
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Democracy lives in the daily life of our university
Following two days with SUs visiting universities in Portugal, Jim Dickinson and team reflect on a sector tackling housing, brain drain, skills and student participation with ambition, urgency and an eye on both the past
With Mack Marshall, Mike Day and Alan Roberts
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Latest from Belong – students’ health is not OK, and that’s not OK
Jim Dickinson explores new polling that reveals a worsening picture of students’ physical and mental health, undermining their academic success
· SUs · Members
Summer is coming
With Mack Marshall