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· Wonk Corner
More consumer rights cases emerge from OfS and NTS
Two higher education providers have changed the terms and conditions in their student contracts after the Office for Students (OfS) referred concerns to National Trading Standards (NTS).
· SUs · Members
Reach for the PGRs
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Wales’ international students may get a guarantor for their rent
Jayne Bryant, Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government in Wales, has today published a White Paper on Adequate Housing, Fair Rents and Affordability for consultation.
· Comment
SU bars in hospitals or hospitals in SU bars?
Jim Dickinson might have taken the opportunity to feed into the NHS 10 year plan ideas platform a bit too seriously. Or maybe not
· SUs · Members
What the Renters Rights Bill committee heard about students in its first major meeting
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Welsh student housing is a problem. Spain may be a solution
A Senedd Committee is calling for private renters to be given more rights, including the possible right to compensation if they are evicted, in a new report out today.
· Wonk Corner
Forget students and universities. We certainly will
While this parliamentary session doesn’t have much that’s directly aimed at students or universities, there’s a raft of other bills with the potential to make the experience of higher education better or worse.
· Wonk Corner
Putting up fees is like putting up the price of a second class stamp
I was at my mum’s at the weekend, and one of the things we were both moaning about in equal measure was the failure of the Royal Mail to deliver a letter she’s been waiting on from the council.
· SUs · Members
Runners up not losers
With Mack Marshall
· Comment
Yes but where does all the time go?
Jim Dickinson has been to a teaching and learning conference – and like the sector as a whole, lost track of time
· Wonk Corner
The London Student Oyster card fiasco will hit attendance – and may cause drop-out
It’s very difficult to be a student in London without a Student Oyster photo card.
· Wonk Corner
And you thought that crackdowns on rip-off degrees were dead
The Conservatives are so used to announcing a crack down on rip-off degrees every six months or so that even its leadership contenders in opposition can’t wean off.
· Wonk Corner
2022 broke the student housing market. Here’s how to avoid a repeat
The release of HESA stats on where students have been living is always an interesting moment.
· Wonk Corner
The almost-ban on staff student relationships needs clarifying and simplifying
In the Office for Students’ (OfS) new condition of registration on harassment and sexual misconduct, there’s almost a ban on staff-student relationships.
· SUs · Members
Visegrád in January
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
Visegrád in January
Morning. We’re off to Europe in the new year for our SUs study tours – and we’d love you to join us. There’s a new push on representing students city-wide. And student housing has been discussed in Parliament – we’ve an
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
A league table on sexual misconduct could be coming
A new national survey will measure the prevalence of sexual misconduct in higher education in England.
· Policy Watch
New employment rights are coming – but students need something specific
As the Westminster government unveils its Employment Bill, Jim Dickinson weighs up the implications for universities – and laments the lack of a proper strategy for students
· SUs · Members
There’s a new employment rights Bill out. Here’s what SUs need to know
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Won’t somebody think of the landlords
The Renters’ Rights Bill got its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday.