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Check your contract: 12 legal clauses SUs should look at in their student-uni agreement (summer 2026 update)
Jim Dickinson updates Wonkhe’s guide to the 12 legal clauses SUs should check in their university’s student contract, covering what happens when a course changes, teaching is disrupted, or facilities close.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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24 things that MPs won’t know about when it comes to student finance
Jim Dickinson sets out 24 facts about student finance that MPs, MSPs, Senedd and Assembly members are unlikely to know, for SUs briefing politicians ahead of their engagements.
With Sharanya Sivarajah and Wonkhe SUs explainer
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Great expectations, small microwaves
With Sharanya Sivarajah
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The class of 2026 has clocked that they can’t have it all
Students were sold an education, a community and a transformation. Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah find a generation of student leaders working out those promises no longer fit inside one life
With Sharanya Sivarajah
· Wonk Corner
Students and staff deserve candour over universities and the duty of candour
Andy Burnham was back on the green benches this evening, watching the Bill he first tabled as a Private Member in 2017 – updated and amended but recognisably his – finally clear the House.
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And we danced all night
With Sharanya Sivarajah
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The engine of employability is relational, not informational
Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah unpack new polling of over 18,000 students – and find that belonging, not the careers service, is what builds career confidence
With Sharanya Sivarajah
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What the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations means for SUs
Jim Dickinson explains the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s updated Code of Practice, which reflects the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling, and what it means for SUs as associations.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Student loans can no longer be patched up. The system is rotten
Fewer entrants, worse earnings and a franchising crackdown collide in this year’s student loan forecasts. Jim Dickinson asks who ends up carrying the cost
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What SUs need to know about the Treasury Committee’s report on student loans
Jim Dickinson reports on the House of Commons Treasury Committee’s verdict that the student loan system is broken and unfair, and what its recommendations could mean for SUs.
· Wonk Corner
I’ve stopped believing in Father NSSmas. Here’s why
I remember a time when NSSmas was more magical.
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Ten things buried in the NSS SU question’s best year ever
Jim Dickinson digs into four years of full NSS data behind the SU question’s record 78.7 per cent score, and what officer and staff teams should take from the detail rather than the headline.
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What SUs need to know about a new report on AI and assessment
Jim Dickinson reports on the QAA’s UK-wide research into generative AI, assessment, and academic integrity, drawn from focus groups with 26 students and roundtables with 74 staff.
With Sharanya Sivarajah
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It feels like nothing ever changes: How to address the student voice section of NSS
Jim Dickinson uses students’ own NSS comments on feeling unheard to set out how SUs can address the student voice section of the survey.
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The Treasury committee proposes tinkering with student loans
Jim Dickinson argues that the Treasury Committee has diagnosed the student loans system as broken and unfair, but stopped short of confronting the accounting incentives that keep making it worse
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The market may be working as intended – and that’s the problem
Jim Dickinson tracks three years of course openings and closures across the Discover Uni dataset – and finds the losses concentrated in the places and subjects that had least to begin with
· Wonk Corner
Stop inducting students into a system that doesn’t fit them? No, start
One way to respond to the interim report of the Pre-arrival Academic Questionnaire pilots is to conclude, as its authors do over on HEPI, that we should “stop inducting students into a system that doesn’t fit them.”
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Northern soul-searching
With Mack Marshall
· Wonk Corner
The Decent Homes Standard arrives in… 2035
One in five privately rented homes in England fails the decency standard.
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Commuter student policy is three problems locked together
A new study treats commuting, dwelling and studying as one interlocking system. Jim Dickinson runs through what that means for SUs lobbying universities still chasing commuters students with pizza and lounges