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· Comment
Disabled students need more than support plans and “fixing”
Jim Dickinson gets into the GTI/Cibyl polling underpinning the UPP Foundation’s Student Futures 2 report – and finds collective strategic challenges for universities’ growing group of Disabled students
· SUs · Members
What’s the craic?
With Livia Scott
· SUs · Members
The latest for SUs on holiday pay
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
2024 Study Tour: Ireland
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
We know, it’s bananas
On Day Two of our study tour to Ireland, Jim Mike and Livia come across partnership work, peer support and a cost of living initiative full of fruit
With Livia Scott and Mike Day
· Comment
Will international recruitment fall even further?
Jim Dickinson reviews the latest official immigration figures – and finds an international education sector in the throes of a rapid and painful contraction
· SUs · Members
Sustaining a crisis?
With Livia Scott
· SUs
Please vote and we will shut up
Jim Dickinson, Livia Scott and Mike Day report back from Day 1 of our mini tour of student organisations around the Irish capital of Dublin
With Livia Scott and Mike Day
· Wonk Corner
Postgrad pilot NSS results finally revealed
I’m over in the Republic of Ireland this week, where over the last 6 years, 232,450 students have completed StudentSurvey.ie, each answering over 60 questions about their experiences of higher education.
· Wonk Corner
Scotland’s review of student accommodation emerges. Sort of
Well this is surreal.
· Wonk Corner
A new national ombuds will get tough on providers over sexual misconduct
I’ve banged on at length on the site about the snail’s pace that characterises the Westminster government and England regulator’s progress on harassment and sexual misconduct.
· Wonk Corner
OfS u-turns on free speech guidance
Well here’s a thing.
· SUs
School plays sell out
Jim Dickinson reflects on a visit to Paisley and wonders why more SUs and universities don’t prioritise student led community activity at subject level
· Wonk Corner
The student group claim is off to court
You’ll recall the long running saga of students attempting to take legal action over claims their education was damaged both by the pandemic and UCU strikes.
· Wonk Corner
Here’s two easy ways to fix the Renters (Reform) Bill
The Westminster government’s Renters (Reform) Bill is about to hit Report stage in the Commons before moving off to the Lords.
· SUs · Members
Here’s what SUs need to know about the progress of the Renter’s (Reform) Bill in England
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
How thin is Scottish student funding being spread?
Students in Scotland will be able to spread student finance over 12 months – just as spend on their education is often spread over four years rather than three. Jim Dickinson gets across the numbers
· Comment
The campus culture see-saw is about to snap
Ministers are proposing that incidents of harassment on campus be logged by a regulator that has taken five years to fail to act on the issue. Jim Dickinson argues that students are running out of patience
· SUs · Members
SUs, free speech, the equality act, controversial beliefs and the interactions with democracy
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
For SUs, free speech regulation is a terrible mess
Jim Dickinson reflects on a new legal case that highlights the importance of democratic debate and the right of citizens and members to discriminate on the basis of others’ beliefs