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· SUs · Members
How to respond to OfS’ consultation over its new strategy
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Changes announced to the Renters’ Rights Bill on upfront rent
The Renters’ Rights Bill (for England) will reach report stage and third reading on Tuesday – and there’s news with implications for students.
· SUs
The principled class approach
On the second evening of the Wonkhe SUs study tour in the Visegrad countries the team get try to work out if they have enough points for a dorm in Slovakia
With Mike Day, Alan Roberts and Mack Marshall
· SUs
When you’re building a house you don’t start with the roof
On Day Two of the Wonkhe SUs study tour in the Visegrad countries the team get community building and pot roasting
With Alan Roberts, Mike Day and Mack Marshall
· SUs
The cloudless fun of every freshman
On Day One of the Wonkhe SUs study tour to the Visegrad countries, the team put down some roots and building belonging at camp
With Mack Marshall, Alan Roberts and Mike Day
· SUs
Our prosperity must be sought here
On Day 0 of the Visegrad SUs study tour, Jim and team find students in the centre of both the past and the future for Hungary
With Mike Day, Alan Roberts and Mack Marshall
· Comment
When will the reasonable adjustments merry-go-round get fixed?
A detailed national dataset on the disabled student experience paints a bleak picture of progress on enabling access to education. Jim Dickinson tries to find the light.
· SUs
We want the EU not the KGB
On Day -1 of this year’s magical mystery tour around Europe and students, Jim Dickinson and team come across plenty of protests for democracy
With Alan Roberts and Gareth Hughes
· SUs · Members
Attending to a problem
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
De facto regulation of international agents is coming – but student voices are missing as usual
You’ll recall that Sunday Times story in February on international students in feeder providers.
· Comment
It’s the higher education Christmas movie and TV guide
Nothing on the TV? Jim Dickinson rounds up the higher education-themed movies and TV that you probably didn’t see in 2024
· Comment
Universities want more money upfront. DfE wants proof students are really there
As pressures on cash tighten, universities are keen to see more of the money that pays for teaching earlier – but the state is worried about ghost students. Jim Dickinson gets across attendance and yield
· Wonk Corner
Mayors will be told to have a plan. But not over student numbers…
One of the potentially very helpful things about the Renter’s Rights Act (in England, anyway) is going to be the new Private Rented Sector Database.
· SUs · Members
What’s all this about (home student) attendance policies?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
What are we learning about students earning?
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
What were Welsh students’ finances like three years ago?
Today the Welsh Government has published the results of its Student income and expenditure survey, which ran from September 2021 to August 2022.
· Wonk Corner
Non-continuation in some franchised partnerships is unacceptably high
The Office for Students (OfS) has published a pilot subcontractual partnership student outcomes dashboard.
· Comment
Complex and insufficient – Scottish student income doesn’t match the expenditure
The first proper intel on Scottish students’ income and expenditure in fifteen years has been published. Jim Dickinson finds students earning while learning at astonishing levels
· Wonk Corner
How to make the free speech act “workable”
The news is that the Westminster government is attempting to ensure that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act is “workable”.
· Wonk Corner
The OIA rides to the rescue on university restructures
You’ve got to hand it to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator.