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· Wonk Corner
The Student Living Index is dead. The problems live on
Break out the bunting folks – NatWest has retired its Student Living Index.
· SUs · Members
Rights here, right now
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· SUs · Members
Can students use their work experience and/or part-time job to count towards their degree?
Jim Dickinson examines how universities are starting to recognise students’ part-time work and work experience within the degree itself, and what SUs can push for on their own campuses.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
Membership services special
This week on Working for Students – live from this year’s Membership Services Conference – we’re looking at what shifting recruitment patterns mean for students’ unions as higher-tariff universities expand, lower-tariff
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
Why do students take their rights problems to Reddit?
Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah examine why so few students turn to their students’ union when something goes wrong – and launch a new tool to close the gap
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Comment
The low-income parents funding the franchised recruitment market
Fraud headlines, franchise growth and a court defeat are dots that rarely get joined up. Jim Dickinson pulls together the data on the weekend delivery cohort – who was funded, by whom, and on whose terms
· SUs · Members
From should to must
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about a new report on student mental health
Jim Dickinson reports on the Policy Institute at King’s College London and TASO’s latest analysis of the Student Academic Experience Survey, which finds 18.9 per cent of UK undergraduates now report a mental health diffi
· Comment
Data lag and ambition aggregation means APPs are still fundamentally flawed
With OfS yet to publish any monitoring of its 2020–25 access plans beyond year one, Jim Dickinson assesses 945 targets against the dashboard – and finds most missed and a quarter in reverse
· SUs
England isn’t short of bedrooms. It’s short of somewhere to move to
With private PBSA occupancy at 85.4 per cent and England sitting on a 29 million bedroom surplus, Jim Dickinson argues that students and downsizers are competing for the same missing building
· The Post-18 Project
The Post-18 Project: Making Wales the best place in the UK to be a student
Gwenno Roberts and Jim Dickinson set out eight student ambitions for Welsh higher education and tests for the newly-commissioned review of Welsh HE
With Gwenno Roberts
· Wonk Corner
Spend it, save it or take a holiday
On Friday, The Times reported that “one in five student loans goes to foreigners”.
· SUs · Members
(Cost of) living in the past
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Comment
A fresh cost of living crisis is coming for students. You’d never know
With OfS’s proposed fairness condition under consultation, Jim Dickinson audits what universities tell applicants about costs – and finds silence, archaeology or arithmetic that doesn’t add up
· SUs · Members
What SUs (in England) need to know about the Office for Students’ guidance on freedom of speech (v4)
For subscriber SUs, here’s our comprehensive guide to the upshots and implications for SUs and students of today’s OfS free speech guidance
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Applicants whose courses don’t run have rights they can’t use
It’s August, so the posts on the forums have started popping up again.
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about a new study on students’ use of AI
Jim Dickinson reports on an Edinburgh Napier-led survey of 6,610 students across seven UK institutions, which found a third had never used generative AI for their studies at all.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Policy Watch
The absolutism is watered down in OfS’ amendments to its free speech guidance
With OfS’ free speech complaints scheme opening on 1 September, Jim Dickinson finds a regulator retreating from absolutist positions on campus expression
· Comment
The Miller judgment draws its line through students
Jim Dickinson reads the Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment on David Miller’s dismissal – and finds one half setting out what a university can’t touch, and one what it still can
· SUs · Members
How (and why) to respond to the Scottish Government’s consultation on Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) notice periods
Jim Dickinson sets out what the Scottish Government’s consultation on early termination of PBSA tenancies covers, and how SUs in Scotland should respond before it closes on 22 October 2026.