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· 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.
· 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