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· Wonk Corner
Students need no help this winter
Winter can be a particularly challenging period, which is why the government has put in place a package of immediate support for vulnerable households over the coming months.
· Comment
There may be serious sector problems when it comes to students and food
Jim Dickinson presents polling results suggesting that students are struggling with the cost of food – and many may have eating disorders too
· Wonk Corner
We increased rents at a rate of double than we originally intended
Student housing was one of the best performing sectors during the global economic downturn and is becoming a significant asset class on the world stage.
· SUs · Members
Away with the homers
With Livia Scott
· Comment
We do need to know where students are at
The old binaries of “away from home” and “commuter” may mean we miss those that are both. Jim Dickinson gets on Teletext
· SUs · Members
The Welsh government is slowing down the creation of CTER – here’s what SUs need to know
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
A new law passes on sexual harassment in the workplace – here’s what SUs need to know
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Student suicides review has “significant shortcomings”
Just three months after launching it at a debate on a statutory duty of care for students in the Commons, the Westminster government’s National Review of Student Suicides is in some trouble.
· Comment
What is the rest of Europe doing about student housing?
Shortages of student accommodation are being faced by universities across Europe. Jim Dickinson reviews the supply and demand side interventions being taken by politicians across the continent
· SUs · Members
Spilling the PGTea
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
Can Hizb ut-Tahrir be banned from campus?
The big domestic story of last weekend concerned the emergence of a video on social media of a protest where a member of the crowd could be heard chanting words including “jihad, jihad”.
· Comment
Universities must focus on trust when wielding power over conflict on campus
Dangerous times are ahead for culture on campus. Jim Dickinson calls for caution and care when exercising power over it
· SUs · Members
When is it right to “interfere” in the free speech of student activists, officers or student groups?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
OfS turns its attention to franchised business courses with a foundation year
England’s higher education regulator has announced its areas of focus for its next round of inspections. Jim Dickinson reads the runes
· Wonk Corner
We should look forward to writing not mattering as much as it does
When I was a kid, I begged for a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
· Comment
Who broke the student housing market?
Student rents are up 15 per cent in two years. Jim Dickinson goes on the hunt for the cause to find an answer to a growing crisis
· SUs
SUs are being placed in an impossible position over free speech
SUs are being asked to make complex and nuanced judgements over free speech, harassment and extremism. Jim Dickinson argues it’s time for universities to step up to support
· Wonk Corner
In the Commons, debates about students are all about perspective
Three things have come to characterise universities minister Robert Halfon’s approach to education questions in the Commons.
· Wonk Corner
Are international students crowding out Scottish students? Not in the way the Scottish Conservatives think
The Scottish Conservatives have been on the offensive again over the weekend over international students.
· Wonk Corner
A compromise over students emerges on the Renters (Reform) Bill
Earlier on today on here I noted that Universities UK was calling for amendments to the Renters (Reform) Bill – due to return to the Commons for second reading next week.