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· Wonk Corner
Wales should avoid making the same mistakes as England on student protection
When the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 was being introduced, the Department for Education (DfE) promised that its new regulator would use its powers to protect students.
· SUs · Members
How the “Prevent” duty actually works in universities and SUs
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
A blueprint for change needs students at its centre
Can proposals for the future of universities succeed without considering the role that students should play in them? Jim Dickinson considers the partnership that’s missing in the blueprint
· Wonk Corner
The poverty gap between students and the universities they attend is getting wider
The headline undergraduate funding proposal that appears to be cutting through in England is to let fees rise by inflation and to reintroduce maintenance grants.
· Wonk Corner
The Home Office underestimated the impacts of the dependant ban – but don’t expect changes
When, in December 2023, then Home Secretary James Cleverly announced and confirmed a range of restrictions on immigration impacting international students, we only got a “high level” impact assessment.
· SUs
Get involved in our national student experience research
We’re inviting our subscriber SUs to take part in our new student research platform, Belong. Here’s how it will work
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Glacial progress on student mental health is in sharp contrast to ministerial promises
Back in June 2023, then universities minister Robert Halfon announced to MPs that he’d set a target date for universities to sign up to the University Mental Health Charter – September 2024.
· Comment
Who should pay for relief for students and universities?
A new paper proposes that graduates start repaying student loans when jobless or bedridden. Jim Dickinson goes searching for something less regressive
· Wonk Corner
More sharp suits than a Burton’s window
One thing about Labour Conference that was so unsettling this year wasn’t so much the capitalism that was around – money always follows power around and buys a stall at these sorts of things.
· Wonk Corner
Students should expect less of universities and more of everyone else
If you have an interest in the over 2m people in the UK that are students, there’s two ways of approaching political party conference fringes
· Comment
University survival will be pointless if students don’t
Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson spent the summer training up this year’s batch of student leaders. There wasn’t much discussion about the future.
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Could caps on international students come to the UK?
Until recently, the always excellent (and in the programme for our festival in November) Canadian higher education expert Alex Usher would regularly take to Twitter to mock the UK’s immigration policies over internationa
· SUs · Members
Moan moan moan
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
On the ABA closure, were lessons learned since GSM London’s closure in 2020?
Since the announcement of the closure of the Applied Business Academy’s courses earlier in the week, a whole set of questions have started to emerge about the affair.
· Comment
How to actually learn from student appeals
Students tend to overcome the barriers to complaint-making when they fail – but what happens when they do? Every day’s a school day for Jim Dickinson
· SUs · Members
This is what SUs (mainly in England) need to know about the new Renter’s Rights Bill
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Should the government get on and raise fees?
While Universities UK has been lobbying its socks off this week to get tuition fees in England to go up, both NUS and UCU have been condemning the idea.
· Wonk Corner
Is the student grant on its way back?
In the debate about undergraduate funding in England, there’s a wax and wane between an emphasis on calling for fees to increase and a call for grant funding to go up instead.
· Wonk Corner
Universities will be told to “double down” on sharing things
For some reason (the reason presumably being to maximise coverage ahead of Labour Party Conference) Universities UK seems to be dribbling out bits of its funding blueprint to multiple media outlets this week.
· Wonk Corner
Rich men got a massive (graduate) tax cut. Can Reeves and Phillipson reverse it?
I’ve talked before on here about the (relative) absolute bargain that the undergraduate fees freeze in England represents to those who put their kids through private schools.