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· SUs · Members
How to review your SU’s code of conduct or disciplinary complaints procedure in light of new OfS regulation
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Some student midwives are putting in 70 hours a week
Financial pressures are forcing student midwives out of their chosen career, with increasing numbers leaving their courses before completion because they can’t afford to continue.
· Wonk Corner
Scotland publishes an action plan on student mental health
In 2018’s Programme for Government, the Scottish Government said that mental health support for young people in particular was “not good enough”.
· SUs · Members
Housing a headache
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
Twenty ways to deliver on Labour’s opportunity mission by making student housing better
The UK has no strategy for student housing – unlike many of its European counterparts. Jim Dickinson identifies what could be in it – along with protections that could be built into England’s Renter’s Rights Bill and Sco
· Comment
Disabled students aren’t time travellers. And extra time isn’t yours to give
The number one way to accommodate disabled students is by giving them extra time – but it’s increasingly time they don’t have. Jim Dickinson runs the numbers and assesses the impacts
· Comment
Labour’s plans for renting won’t work for students. Here’s how to fix them
Jim Dickinson laments the state of proposed renters’ reforms when considered through a student lens, and considers how they might be repaired
· SUs · Members
Levers to pull to get universities to ethically invest
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
We spend a lot on HE. Or do we?
The OECD’s Education at a glance report for 2024 is out, and something can’t be right.
· Wonk Corner
The ethnicity awarding gap is getting bigger and bigger
There was a time when the sector seemed worried about the awarding gap between white and non-white students.
· Wonk Corner
Is higher education producing long-term sick graduates?
If you were reading the Times this morning (or one of the many news outlets that have remixed the story), you’d have been confronted with the headline “Thousands go straight from university to long-term sickness”.
· Wonk Corner
Changes to immigration rules represent breathtaking thoughtlessness over student poverty
Something astonishingly, catastrophically, monumentally stupid has happened. And it could have profound impacts on some of the most vulnerable students in the sector.
· SUs · Members
Got any change?
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Would the free speech act have ushered in antisemitism?
At the weekend the Telegraph reported that the government is facing a “High Court showdown” with its free speech tsar.
· Wonk Corner
What would £12,500 UG fees in England really mean?
It was either really clever or really daft – but King’s VC Shitij Kapur’s speech to UUK conference both said that tuition fees in England need to rise to £12,500 to meet universities’ teaching costs, and that saying so o
· SUs
The SU theory of change is broken. Nudniks might fix it
Students have problems, they raise them with reps, those reps raise them with decision makers and the problems get fixed. But what if the theory change is faulty? Jim Dickinson identifies an alternative
· Wonk Corner
Brace brace. Another review of quality is coming in England
Whatever you think about each of the Office for Students’ strands of work on quality, you’d be hard pressed to judge them as “integrated”.
· Comment
Jacqui Smith goes searching for funding options in Reading
The new universities minister has been speaking to Universities UK conference about funding and finance. Jim Dickinson goes on the hunt for the least-worst options
· Wonk Corner
Not doing much franchising? I wouldn’t be complacent
I think there’s a danger that most mainstream providers in the sector will look at OfS’ insight brief on franchising and think “well, they don’t mean us”.
· Comment
OfS’ insight on the risks of franchising fall short at addressing the incentives
The Office for Students has published data and insight into franchising – but is it enough? Jim Dickinson invades the pitch