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· Wonk Corner
James Cleverly bans Hizb ut-Tahrir – twenty years after NUS banned it
The Home Secretary has announced that the government will ban Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK – some twenty years after the National Union of Students formally “no platformed” the group.
· Wonk Corner
Wholesale provider collapse should be the least of most students’ worries
In many ways, it’s not wholesale provider collapse that I’m most worried about. It’s what universities are doing to avoid collapse.
· Comment
We make tomorrow by fostering responsibility, courage, and collaboration
Reflecting on a week in the Baltics and Finland with SU officers and staff, Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott try to understand what’s stopping UK universities from trusting students with responsibility and power
With Livia Scott
· SUs · Members
Cha cha cha
With Livia Scott
· SUs
You represent you, your subject and your university
When our bus swung into the cap park at the Häme University of Applied Sciences in Hämeenlinna on this year’s SUs study tour, a student emerged from a building wearing an overall covered in patches – looking like he’d ju
With Livia Scott
· SUs · Members
All about students and HE in Europe and the role of the EU
With Livia Scott, Mike Day and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
It’s a popularity contest, but not as we know it
As SU elections season looms large back in the UK, here in Finland we’ve been to look at other democratic systems to see how things work. On first glance, the election held by TREY (“the guardian of Tampere University’s
· SUs
Good teaching and learning can only happen in cooperation
One of the perennial mailbase questions that used to do the rounds is how to persuade, encourage or incentivise students to complete module evaluation questionnaires. So it’s interesting that following lobbying from stud
With Livia Scott
· SUs
We never invaded anyone
Viewed from a UK perspective, the Baltic states’ student corporations feel really quite alien. In Latvia, Dzintra is a closed, academic, national organisation that unites students in lifelong friendship to maintain Latvi
With Livia Scott
· SUs
Gather a team of 3-4 friends, put on your favorite T-shirt
Agents lie and distort the reality, students struggle with housing, academic integration and the language, and some find it hard to support themselves financially. The problems faced by international students are pretty
· Comment
Students can’t get no sleep
Looking ahead to Wonkhe’s Secret Life of Students event in March, Jim Dickinson reviews polling results that suggest sleep, work and travel are key to students both surviving and thriving
· SUs
Nobody wants it to go nuclear
On Day -1 of this year’s magical mystery tour around Europe and students, Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott comes across experts, war, camping and lots of snow
With Livia Scott
· SUs · Members
A new day will dawn
With Livia Scott
· SUs · Members
Guessing games
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
The impact of immigration changes – your guess is as good as the Home Office’s
Just before the Christmas break, the Home Office published a paper on the estimated immigration impacts of the legal migration measures announced by James Cleverley in December.
· SUs · Members
Nothing on
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
What has the Covid inquiry been saying about universities and students?
We haven’t really heard much about higher education so far in the Covid Inquiry.
· Wonk Corner
Scotland’s HE settlement means “inescapably hard” choices for universities
I know it was only in loan form – but given it’s written off after 30 years and is only repaid once you’re earning over £27,660, last week’s hike in the value of the maintenance package for students from Scotland costs m
· Comment
It’s the higher education Christmas movie and TV guide
Nothing on the TV? Jim Dickinson rounds up the higher education-themed movies and TV that you probably didn’t see in 2023
· Wonk Corner
Wales makes the excel sheet add up by increasing student debt – and a tuition fee hike could be coming
Presenting Wales’ draft 2024-25 budget in the Senedd today, Finance Minister Rebecca Evans said tha ministers had faced the “most stark and painful budget choices for Wales in the devolution era”.