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· Wonk Corner
On student housing, DfE just doesn’t have the heart
This morning we learn via Unipol and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) that the maximum student loan (£13,348) is now less than the average student rent (£13,595).
· SUs · Members
What SUs can learn from complaints about student transfers
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Every student on every placement should be paid for their labour
I remember vividly completing the feedback form on my work experience in secondary school.
· Comment
It’s okay not to be okay sometimes
What happens when collective acts of reassurance and optimism mask a growing crisis beneath? Jim Dickinson attempts to analyse the incentives
· Research
Latest from Belong – students are earning, but what are we learning?
Jim Dickinson assesses the findings of new polling from Belong on students’ experiences of and impacts from being at work
· SUs · Members
Yes but what do students think?
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
Yes but what do students think?
With Mack Marshall
· Comment
DfE reaches its “second” stage milestone on mental health. Are we nearly there yet?
A new report details progress made by a taskforce set up to tackle student mental health. Jim Dickinson assesses the progress
· Wonk Corner
Another brutal budget in Scotland – for universities and students
During the pandemic, the Scottish Government increased the number of funded places at university to avoid disadvantage to school-leavers in light of higher than anticipated SQA grades
· Wonk Corner
Wales ditches Diamond and robs students to pay universities
Hot on the heels of England’s announcement on maintenance and fees, the Welsh Government has published its rates for students and universities.
· SUs · Members
Work to do
With Mack Marshall
· Comment
What went up then came down
The Home Office’s quarterly immigration stats are out – and it’s reductions in students and their dependants that have helped get net migration down. Jim Dickinson crunches the numbers
· Wonk Corner
Reforms to Disabled Students Allowance are turning into a costly crisis
One of the things going on in the background of higher education that few recognise or understand the implications of is processing times for Disabled Students Allowances via the Student Loans Company (SLC)/Student Finan
· Wonk Corner
Should applicants know the prevalence of sexual misconduct at the providers on their UCAS form?
In the new year, the Office for Students (OfS) is going to ask all final year students across England to complete a pilot survey on sexual misconduct in higher education.
· SUs · Members
How (and why) to respond to the Employment Rights Bill call for evidence
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Cardiff council says the quiet part out loud
I don’t think I’m being unfair when I argue that local politics rarely seems to take students into account.
· Wonk Corner
Getting Britain Working (except for students, as usual)
Today the Westminster government will publish its “Get Britain Working” white paper, which will include a “youth guarantee”.
· Comment
Our job is self-actualisation. Or is it?
Do big cross-subsidies make individuals not on the receiving end of help resentful? Jim Dickinson debates whose job the bottom end of Maslow is
· Wonk Corner
Get on up, when you’re down
It happens a lot. There I was, doomscrolling through TikTok this afternoon, when I came across another advert for UK higher education.
· SUs · Members
The problems on the bus go round and round
With Mack Marshall