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Help yourself
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
Home Office reforms to English language testing will only fix one end of the problem
All sorts of people argue that some international students struggle with their English.
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Live players, dead players and influencing tactics and skills
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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PhD students are getting organised over pay and conditions. Just not in the UK
Doctoral students in the US are joining or forming trade unions at a record rate in the USA. Jim Dickinson looks at why, and whether it could or should happen here
· Comment
Students leaders want a framework to help themselves
Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson have read the manifestos of this year’s student leaders – and find students yearning for connection and lower costs
With Mack Marshall
· Comment
How to resist the enshittification of higher education
Once you lock in users and suppliers, to reduce costs to shareholders you make the user experience worse. Jim Dickinson applies the idea of enshittification to universities – and wonders what it would take to halt it
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Going global?
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Scotland needs to inject some subtlety into its symbolism over fees
Scottish ministers are threatening further cuts to universities while cranking up living costs loans. Jim Dickinson works out how, why and what might happen next
· Wonk Corner
Universities (and SUs) still need answers on freedom of speech
The “start” of the summer saw the new Westminster government announce that it intended to pause implementation of, and ultimately repeal, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act.
· Wonk Corner
The universities where 99% haven’t repaid their student loan
Great news! The Sunday Times has found a new and deadly way to attack “lower ranking institutions”.
· Comment
Internationalising HE must mean more than banking the cash
Jim Dickinson has been talking to international student reps this summer – and has tales of of the ways in which systems and structures have adapted to get them in, but not so much to get them on
· Wonk Corner
As international students fall, rents start to fall
We’re used to seeing student rents rise and rise, almost always by more than inflation, seemingly with no end in sight.
· Wonk Corner
The golden age of universities is over says new OfS chair
On the front page of the Sunday Times today, new Office for Students (OfS) interim chair David Behan says that the current funding crisis means the “golden age of universities is over”.
· Wonk Corner
Living costs information for students – Director’s Cut
It’s crucial that students understand how much university is likely to cost them.
· Wonk Corner
A fees increase is “unpalatable”
On Sky News the other day, Secretary of State Briget Phillipson told Sky News that a tuition fees increase in England would be “unpalatable”.
· Wonk Corner
Longer hours, higher bills – but don’t base your budget on this twaddle
Stop the press. The amount of time that students spend in part-time work has increased on average by 154 per cent in one year.
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Blake’s 7
With Mack Marshall
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John Blake gets interested in students – but what’s his theory of change?
The Office for Students is changing its relationship with students. Jim Dickinson wonders if they’ll end up with any more power
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Extra time and your kiss
With Mack Marshall
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The sector is still struggling to explain the costs of higher education
Have higher education providers got better at explaining the costs that students will face while at university? Jim Dickinson whiles away the hours to find out