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· Comment
Are students being protected from course cuts and closures?
Students in England are supposed to be protected when their course gets cut. Jim Dickinson reads the plans in place to determine if that’s happening in practice
· Wonk Corner
Outside of academic contexts, proportionate interference in free speech may be both OK – and expected
If you work at the Office for Students (OfS), it must be tricky adapting culture wars newspaper stories for scenarios for free speech guidance.
· Wonk Corner
Fees in Wales will rise to £9,250 in September. Except where they won’t
Universities in Wales have been lobbying for, at the very least, an increase in the maximum permitted undergraduate fee from £9,000 to England’s £9,250 for some time.
· SUs
On site, in-house training for SUs: Summer 2024
Our subscriber SUs are each entitled to a full day’s “in house”, in-person training delivered by one of us at Team Wonkhe. We believe passionately that SUs know what’s going on, and understand what’s going on, they are b
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
Wonkhe SUs training and induction Summer 2024
When SUs know what’s going on, and can understand what’s going on, they can influence what’s going on in the student interest. Here’s how we’re supporting that this summer.
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
Free speech consultations
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
The Renter’s (Reform) Bill gets watered down even further – and it’s students who will lose out
With grim inevitability, it looks like England’s Renters (Reform) Bill is about to lose one of the few good bits that was in there for students.
· Wonk Corner
Some respite for students in Scotland in its new Housing bill
The Scottish Government has published its new Housing Bill – and it’s fairly useless when it comes to students.
· Wonk Corner
You can’t say that. Or can you?
Probably my favourite part of the Office for Students (OfS) consultation on guidance over free speech is Paragraph 100 on governance.
· Wonk Corner
What’s going on inside UKVI?
There are plenty of sector eyes on the Migration Advisory Committee’s review of the graduate route, due to appear in May.
· SUs · Members
Understanding and responding to OfS’ consultation on guidance on SU free speech duties
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
OfS consults on guidance over free speech. Confused? You will be
OfS has guidance out on securing free speech on campus. Jim Dickinson fears that its underpinning of mistrust and lack of understanding of those it regulates renders it meaningless
· Comment
There may be ways to make UK higher education cheaper to run
Is UK higher education really the world’s third most expensive way of getting a degree – and if it is, what might the alternatives look like? Jim Dickinson explores the hypotheses
· Wonk Corner
Will Labour repeal the Free Speech Act?
Labour’s opposition to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill was always pretty muted – as it weaved its way through both houses, it sounded like the shadow front bench was keen to not be seen to be on the side of
· SUs · Members
What just happened?
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
OfS is refocusing on the students in its title
I was at the Association of College’s HE in FE conference yesterday, where the event opened with Office for Students’ CEO Susan Lapworth on the latest date of the regulator’s ongoing sector engagement tour.
· Comment
Is it time to slap VAT on tuition fees?
As the debate on private schools fees and VAT continues, Jim Dickinson considers the bargain that the richest are increasingly getting out of higher education
· SUs
Sabb elections are almost over for 2024. What happened?
One of the questions we get asked a lot is about whether what’s going on in your SU is reflected in other places. And it’s a question that comes up a lot during and after (sabbatical) election season. Easter is almost he
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
US Republicans copy and paste England’s Free Speech Act
Given that much of the framing and panic over the campus culture wars appears to be a US import, in a way it’s nice to be able to give something back.
· Wonk Corner
The government demands a crackdown on the SWP – having adorned it with new campus rights
There’s a good example of the mess the government’s in on campus culture in the press this weekend.