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· Wonk Corner
Can Wales make its students stay or return?
It’s National Eisteddfod week in Wales – this year in Pontypridd.
· Wonk Corner
Living away from home is becoming less and less affordable
We can argue, I suppose, about what constitutes “affordable” when it comes to the setting of rent for student accommodation.
· Wonk Corner
Goodbye minimum service levels in universities. We never knew you
One of the last government’s more desperate wheezes was the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act.
· Wonk Corner
When does a university “know” about harassment or sexual misconduct?
Here in the UK, the Office for Students (OfS) is only just getting started with formal regulation over harassment and sexual misconduct regulation.
· SUs · Members
Summer update: Discharged
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new condition of registration on harassment and sexual misconduct
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Long read
St Andrews discharges its rector over Israel/Gaza
A Scottish ancient has “discharged” its Rector following a controversy over comments made on the Middle East. Jim Dickinson weighs up the reputational damage
· Comment
What’s missing from OfS’ new approach on harassment and sexual misconduct?
The Office for Students has a new way of regulating harassment and sexual misconduct on campus. Jim Dickinson identifies what’s not in the condition of registration
· SUs · Members
Purpose-built problems
With Mack Marshall
· Comment
This time OfS needs to keep its promise on broken promises
The new Chair of the Office for Students is promising action on student rights. Jim Dickinson wonders whether this will be the latest of the regulator’s broken promises
· Wonk Corner
Public sector pay increases are coming – will universities and students benefit?
Tomorrow, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to agree to above-inflation pay rises for public sector workers.
· Wonk Corner
The eight-year ADHD backlog at NHS clinics should cause HE to stop, think and edit
The news last week that many areas of the UK have such long backlogs for adult ADHD assessments that it would take at least eight years to clear them ought to give higher education pause for thought.
· Wonk Corner
What’s hiding in OfS’ data dashboards?
When the Office for Students’ Access and Participation dashboards were updated last week, the sector ought to have been popping corks.
· SUs
What does today’s announcement on free speech mean for SUs?
The government has announced that it is to pause implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act. SUs had been waiting for responses to three consultations, with a raft of questions about the duties will w
· Wonk Corner
Should sexual violence cases go to the OIA?
We are used to thinking about the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIAHE) as an alternative to the courts.
· Wonk Corner
The silence from OfS over free speech is deafening
In less than a week’s time, the duties on students’ unions and universities under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act kick in.
· SUs · Members
The Free Speech Act – getting ready for August 1st
· SUs · Members
Framing representation for influence and power
· SUs · Members
Protecting students in an age of cuts
· SUs · Members
How to be become indispensable