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· Wonk Corner
Changes to PIP could hit some disabled students hard
Changes to the benefits system don’t tend to prompt much discussion in higher education – because they tend to be separate from the student finance system.
· Comment
Explaining Sussex v the Office for Students
Sussex is formally challenging OfS’ £600k free speech fine. Jim Dickinson explains the case that could redefine the limits of university autonomy and regulatory oversight
· Wonk Corner
Consumer protection law has changed, and the changes apply to universities now
Back in December the Competition and Markets Authority launched a consultation to gather feedback on its draft guidance for the unfair commercial practices (UCP) provisions in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consume
· Comment
It’s students that suffer when those supposed to protect them fail
England’s universities regulator has found measures designed to protect students to be outdated, insufficient and ineffective in practice. Jim Dickinson wonders if it will do anything about it
· SUs · Members
Let’s get lobbying
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
In staff-student relationship policies, are sabbs staff or students?
Jim Dickinson argues that, in navigating staff-student relationship policies, sabbs in SUs should avoid abuse of power in more directions than standard policies might point
· Comment
Thirty ways for DfE to deliver the manifesto and raise the standards of teaching
Some day soon, DfE will need to set out how it’s going to deliver on its promise to “raise the standards of teaching” in universities in England. Jim Dickinson sets aside the money for a minute
· SUs
The lab rats in the department store
What’s in a name? Jim Dickinson considers what SUs tend to be called across Europe, and gets worried about depending on Debenhams as a brand and operating principle
· Wonk Corner
25 unanswered questions about the collapse of ABA
The Office for Students (OfS) has finally published its investigation report into the Applied Business Academy (ABA) – but it’s what it doesn’t tell us that might be more important than what it does.
· Comment
Hindsight is a wonderful thing – but foresight is better
New research on regret explains why students make the wrong choice. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall are not convinced that the benefits of hindsight have been realised
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), SUs and international societies
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Students are a bit more woke than non-students. Chicken? Egg?
Here’s a question. Is it true that young people/Gen Z/students are more sexist than they used to be?
· Comment
DfE and OfS are running out of road on regulating a “free market” effectively
Universities serve purposes beyond market demands. Jim Dickinson asks if the pendulum between planning and markets is about to swing back – and what that should mean to protect student interests
· Comment
Effective regulation requires a degree of trust
Jim Dickinson reviews the codes and literature on effective regulation – and finds plenty of problems in the theory of change surrounding the Sussex fine over free speech
· Wonk Corner
The Sunday Times publishes the six universities with the highest lost loan fraud
Last week the Sunday Times splash was “walk-in degrees, sham students and a giant university fraud scandal”.
· Wonk Corner
Universities should shop themselves to OfS now over free speech. Maybe
One of the reasons Sussex was fined was because it failed to proactively report itself over the potential breaches of the regulatory framework re its policy wording and governance to the Office for Students (OfS).
· SUs · Members
Building bridges
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
The failure to fix university and student finances is Donald Trump’s fault
Earlier this week, the Office for Budget Responsibility cut its inflation projection for inflation next year.
· Wonk Corner
Chilling and Kafka-esque? You bet
Let me give you an example of the ways in which the campus culture regulatory see-saw is impacting actual students.
· SUs · Members
Sussex, OfS and free speech – what might the implications be for SUs?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer