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· 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
· SUs · Members
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.
· SUs · Members
Live players, dead players and influencing tactics and skills
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
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