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· 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”.
· Wonk Corner
More unspeakably grim numbers on student financial support
Any day now, we should be getting detail on next year’s maintenance loan increases for students in England.
· Wonk Corner
Do better student housing rights hit supply of beds? It doesn’t look like it
If you’ve been following the debate over the Renter’s (Reform) Bill in England, you’ll have been regularly confronted with an assertion surrounding similar reforms in Scotland.
· Wonk Corner
The Home Office announces a package of measures on spiking
You’ll recall that back in October 2021, a significant panic swept both university campuses and the media over both drink and needle spiking.
· Comment
Higher education needs a plan for growth
Can higher education escape the traps (and trappings) of a glorious but lost past? Jim Dickinson makes the case for a plan for growth
· Analysis
What TEF submissions told us about the student experience
Many provider TEF submissions describe innovative, co-created initiatives. Livia Scott, Sunday Blake, and Jim Dickinson found that – in comparison – the student submissions told a slightly different story
With Livia Scott and Sunday Blake