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· SUs · Members
What the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations means for SUs
Jim Dickinson explains the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s updated Code of Practice, which reflects the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling, and what it means for SUs as associations.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Student loans can no longer be patched up. The system is rotten
Fewer entrants, worse earnings and a franchising crackdown collide in this year’s student loan forecasts. Jim Dickinson asks who ends up carrying the cost
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about the Treasury Committee’s report on student loans
Jim Dickinson reports on the House of Commons Treasury Committee’s verdict that the student loan system is broken and unfair, and what its recommendations could mean for SUs.
· Wonk Corner
I’ve stopped believing in Father NSSmas. Here’s why
I remember a time when NSSmas was more magical.
· SUs · Members
Ten things buried in the NSS SU question’s best year ever
Jim Dickinson digs into four years of full NSS data behind the SU question’s record 78.7 per cent score, and what officer and staff teams should take from the detail rather than the headline.
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about a new report on AI and assessment
Jim Dickinson reports on the QAA’s UK-wide research into generative AI, assessment, and academic integrity, drawn from focus groups with 26 students and roundtables with 74 staff.
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· SUs · Members
It feels like nothing ever changes: How to address the student voice section of NSS
Jim Dickinson uses students’ own NSS comments on feeling unheard to set out how SUs can address the student voice section of the survey.
· Comment
The Treasury committee proposes tinkering with student loans
Jim Dickinson argues that the Treasury Committee has diagnosed the student loans system as broken and unfair, but stopped short of confronting the accounting incentives that keep making it worse
· Comment
The market may be working as intended – and that’s the problem
Jim Dickinson tracks three years of course openings and closures across the Discover Uni dataset – and finds the losses concentrated in the places and subjects that had least to begin with
· Wonk Corner
Stop inducting students into a system that doesn’t fit them? No, start
One way to respond to the interim report of the Pre-arrival Academic Questionnaire pilots is to conclude, as its authors do over on HEPI, that we should “stop inducting students into a system that doesn’t fit them.”
· SUs · Members
Northern soul-searching
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
The Decent Homes Standard arrives in… 2035
One in five privately rented homes in England fails the decency standard.
· SUs · Members
Commuter student policy is three problems locked together
A new study treats commuting, dwelling and studying as one interlocking system. Jim Dickinson runs through what that means for SUs lobbying universities still chasing commuters students with pizza and lounges
· SUs · Members
Devolution is coming to the regions – a guide for English SUs on getting to the table
Jim Dickinson explains Andy Burnham’s plans for a devolved hub in Manchester and English devolution more broadly, and sets out how SUs can get themselves a seat at the table.
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· SUs
Welcome is the moment to name a fight, not describe a structure
As students’ unions roll out their 2026 welcome videos and officer profiles, Jim Dickinson argues representation is described in theory while the fights students actually face stay below the waterline
· Wonk Corner
France puts a fivefold fees increase on the table, and then takes it off again
French higher education is in trouble.
· Wonk Corner
A new minimum English language requirement for student finance
I regret to inform you that the Skills Minister has been writing letters again.
· Wonk Corner
The degree is being outrun by the inheritance
There’s a fascinating new briefing out on how younger Millennials and Gen Z are faring.
· SUs · Members
What do the students coming in September want and need?
Jim Dickinson reports on Unite Students and HEPI’s Applicant Index 2026, a survey of 2,200 prospective students, and what it suggests incoming students will want and need from their SU.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
The maintenance loan fades into the background
Income from employment is now expected by students to be as important as the maintenance loan as a source of living cost support.