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Amended guidance on APPs – here’s what matters to SUs (Jan 2024 UPDATE)
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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We could change the governors, we could change the governance
Reflecting on a report that reveals the “wrong kind of compliance culture” in some university governing bodies, Jim Dickinson identifies culture and practice around the table that could help
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More ways to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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What can SUs learn from complaints concerning halls?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Canada slashes international student visas – with a crackdown on franchising in the mix
On Monday Marc Miller, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced a cap on international students over the next two years.
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How to improve safety for students in local pubs and clubs (update)
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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Jo Phoenix wins tribunal case against the Open University
A gender-critical academic has won a tribunal case against the OU, finding discrimination, harassment and constructive dismissal. Jim Dickinson explains the judgement
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There are too many student reps in this country. And also not enough
Is “partnership” with students an unaffordable luxury for them and their university in an age of HE austerity and massified standardisation? Jim Dickinson is off for a Twix
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Going global at home
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When students are tutors belonging is built
OfS is urging universities to think hard about impactful work on belonging. Jim Dickinson finds inspiration from friends in Europe.
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Fraud, organised crime and TikTok – the NAO on franchising
The NAO has uncovered what it thinks is fraud and criminality, ghost students and dodgy sales tactics in university franchising. Jim Dickinson finds an absence of safeguarding.
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Study Tours 2024: Finland
With Livia Scott, Alan Roberts, Mike Day and Wonkhe SUs explainer
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Study Tours 2024: Estonia
With Livia Scott, Alan Roberts, Mike Day and Wonkhe SUs explainer
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Study Tours 2024: Latvia
With Livia Scott, Mike Day, Alan Roberts and Wonkhe SUs explainer
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Study Tours 2024: Lithuania
With Livia Scott, Mike Day, Alan Roberts and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· 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.
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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
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Cha cha cha
With Livia Scott
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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