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· Comment
Students have the right to set-off to university
Jim Dickinson considers whether university fee rules leave students with any meaningful leverage when course delivery is disputed
· Wonk Corner
Why are all the risks that students face being kept a secret?
A couple of weeks ago now, you may have seen that the FT picked up the stat that the Global Banking School is now the UK’s biggest HE provider.
· Comment
Curriculum reform is a wedge issue
With curriculum reform converging on fewer, larger modules across the sector, Jim Dickinson argues that consolidation solves institutional problems while reallocating regret onto students least able to absorb it
· SUs · Members
The essential guide to immigration reform for SUs
Jim Dickinson sets out how immigration policy now shapes recruitment, fees, and international students’ prospects after graduation, and what SUs need to understand about the reforms driving it.
With Sharanya Sivarajah and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Superseding a bad mark isn’t the same as deleting it
Friday is self-report day.
· SUs · Members
Frozen out
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Wonk Corner
Optional modules are not as optional as they look
The Competition and Markets Authority has published a revised version of CMA37, its general guidance on unfair contract terms.
· SUs · Members
What SUs in Wales, NI and Scotland can learn from a new quality report
Jim Dickinson looks at the QAA’s Quality Enhancement Review of Swansea University, and what it shows other SUs about getting inside the quality review process and the rights it implies for students.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Ministers are throwing students to the wolves
On Tuesday the government published its response to the Education Committee’s report on higher education funding and the threat of insolvency.
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about a new report on placements and professionalism
Jim Dickinson follows up on the British Medical Association’s research on sexism and sexual violence during clinical placements, and what it means for how SUs support students on placement.
· Wonk Corner
When the metric becomes the virtue, trust breaks
At one UK medical school, signing into placement at 9:01 earns a late mark.
· Wonk Corner
Labour’s growing enemy of opportunity
Earlier this year, Josh MacAlister, the now re-appointed DfE minister, explained what the government is doing for the poorest students:
· Comment
Northern Ireland’s cheap degrees come with hidden price tags
With the Treasury dangling £237 million and Ulster cutting 450 jobs, Jim Dickinson unpicks why Northern Ireland’s funding review is a set of trade-offs that cannot all be won at once
· SUs · Members
Check your contract: 12 legal clauses SUs should look at in their student-uni agreement (summer 2026 update)
Jim Dickinson updates Wonkhe’s guide to the 12 legal clauses SUs should check in their university’s student contract, covering what happens when a course changes, teaching is disrupted, or facilities close.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
24 things that MPs won’t know about when it comes to student finance
Jim Dickinson sets out 24 facts about student finance that MPs, MSPs, Senedd and Assembly members are unlikely to know, for SUs briefing politicians ahead of their engagements.
With Sharanya Sivarajah and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Great expectations, small microwaves
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Comment
The class of 2026 has clocked that they can’t have it all
Students were sold an education, a community and a transformation. Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah find a generation of student leaders working out those promises no longer fit inside one life
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Wonk Corner
Students and staff deserve candour over universities and the duty of candour
Andy Burnham was back on the green benches this evening, watching the Bill he first tabled as a Private Member in 2017 – updated and amended but recognisably his – finally clear the House.
· SUs · Members
And we danced all night
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Comment
The engine of employability is relational, not informational
Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah unpack new polling of over 18,000 students – and find that belonging, not the careers service, is what builds career confidence
With Sharanya Sivarajah