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Newest first, since August 2013 · page 4 of 132
· Wonk Corner
Another deep unfairness in devolved student loans policy
Not another one!
· Wonk Corner
How Westminster got away with slashing “devolved” spend on higher education
Back in 1990–91, Scotland’s universities received 14 per cent of the regular annual grant paid to Great Britain’s universities.
· Analysis
Going deeper: Student loans, public expenditure and the devolution funding gap
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland record far less student-loan expenditure than a population share of England’s would suggest. Jim Dickinson finds the difference lies in financing architecture, not funding
· Comment
The Treasury is bankrupting three nations’ universities
With funding reviews underway in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson worry none will examine the hidden accounting rules driving the crisis
With Justine Pedussel
· Wonk Corner
The Student Living Index is dead. The problems live on
Break out the bunting folks – NatWest has retired its Student Living Index.
· SUs · Members
Rights here, right now
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· SUs · Members
Can students use their work experience and/or part-time job to count towards their degree?
Jim Dickinson examines how universities are starting to recognise students’ part-time work and work experience within the degree itself, and what SUs can push for on their own campuses.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
Membership services special
This week on Working for Students – live from this year’s Membership Services Conference – we’re looking at what shifting recruitment patterns mean for students’ unions as higher-tariff universities expand, lower-tariff
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
Why do students take their rights problems to Reddit?
Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah examine why so few students turn to their students’ union when something goes wrong – and launch a new tool to close the gap
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Comment
The low-income parents funding the franchised recruitment market
Fraud headlines, franchise growth and a court defeat are dots that rarely get joined up. Jim Dickinson pulls together the data on the weekend delivery cohort – who was funded, by whom, and on whose terms
· SUs · Members
From should to must
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about a new report on student mental health
Jim Dickinson reports on the Policy Institute at King’s College London and TASO’s latest analysis of the Student Academic Experience Survey, which finds 18.9 per cent of UK undergraduates now report a mental health diffi
· Comment
Data lag and ambition aggregation means APPs are still fundamentally flawed
With OfS yet to publish any monitoring of its 2020–25 access plans beyond year one, Jim Dickinson assesses 945 targets against the dashboard – and finds most missed and a quarter in reverse
· SUs
England isn’t short of bedrooms. It’s short of somewhere to move to
With private PBSA occupancy at 85.4 per cent and England sitting on a 29 million bedroom surplus, Jim Dickinson argues that students and downsizers are competing for the same missing building
· The Post-18 Project
The Post-18 Project: Making Wales the best place in the UK to be a student
Gwenno Roberts and Jim Dickinson set out eight student ambitions for Welsh higher education and tests for the newly-commissioned review of Welsh HE
With Gwenno Roberts
· Wonk Corner
Spend it, save it or take a holiday
On Friday, The Times reported that “one in five student loans goes to foreigners”.
· SUs · Members
(Cost of) living in the past
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Comment
A fresh cost of living crisis is coming for students. You’d never know
With OfS’s proposed fairness condition under consultation, Jim Dickinson audits what universities tell applicants about costs – and finds silence, archaeology or arithmetic that doesn’t add up
· SUs · Members
What SUs (in England) need to know about the Office for Students’ guidance on freedom of speech (v4)
For subscriber SUs, here’s our comprehensive guide to the upshots and implications for SUs and students of today’s OfS free speech guidance
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Applicants whose courses don’t run have rights they can’t use
It’s August, so the posts on the forums have started popping up again.