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· Wonk Corner
Some international students are squeezed in the mess of the marking boycott
Given the threat of having to leave the country, it was always going to be international students among those hit the hardest by a Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB).
· Comment
The war on “low-value” students continues
Jim Dickinson looks back at FE reform and a drive to improve success rates in the 2000s for context over the fresh crackdown on “low value” courses
· Wonk Corner
Are universities allowed to limit liability over strikes or not?
Where students call for partial refunds on tuition fees over this year’s industrial action, they are almost always blanket-denied.
· Wonk Corner
A public sector pay deal balanced on the backs of students from the Global South
Ahead of the summer recess, Rishi Sunak has announced a raft of new offers to settle ongoing public sector pay disputes.
· Wonk Corner
It looks like you’re writing a disciplinary letter. Would you like help?
I chaired a fascinating debate at the University of London on Monday night on AI in education.
· SUs · Members
What is the Boycott Bill and why might it matter to students and SUs?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Cost of lying crisis
With Livia Scott
· Comment
Some universities are getting worse over info for students on costs
Eighteen months into the biggest cost of living crisis the UK has seen in decades, Jim Dickinson tries to work out if university advice on the costs that students will face has improved
· Wonk Corner
You can no platform Andrew Tate. Or can you?
The other day we got news of an exciting Policy Exchange event.
· Wonk Corner
The boycott bill gets a mauling
“This hands over to the Office for Students, the Secretary of State, and the Treasury, greater powers than those available to the security services.”
· Wonk Corner
What’s in the NHS Workforce Plan for higher education?
On Friday Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gave a speech on the future of the NHS in England
· Wonk Corner
172,000 fewer international students?
Making a big splash across the media this morning is a new plan to cut UK immigration, which if enacted would have major impacts on higher education and students.
· Wonk Corner
Watching people doing things may become an essential, not a luxury
Amidst prolonged and intense industrial action in parts of the sector, there have been some pretty shocking stories on social media in recent weeks detailing the way that students’ work has apparently been marked to get
· SUs · Members
Prep rally
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
Beware starting a full-time course in March
When Westminster ministers talk about the Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE), they trumpet its future flexibility – arguing that it will allow adults to “upskill later in life in a way that suits them”.
· Wonk Corner
Sometimes it’s the subject subcultures that really matter in a university
When providers are asked to think about access and participation, and when data sets are published on the subject, we are almost always invited to reflect on provider level numbers.
· SUs · Members
Community on (and off) campus
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
A more flexible funding system needs to apply to maintenance not just tuition
There was a pretty silly policy floating about a few weeks back.
· Wonk Corner
What did Robert Halfon have to say to HEPI?
The ministerial address at sector conferences is increasingly being delivered as a pre-record rather than an in-person Q&A.
· Analysis
Average experience scores belie a bifurcating cohort of survivors and thrivers
The 2023 Student Academic Experience Survey is out, and Jim Dickinson finds that differences in students’ ability to access a great experience are becoming increasingly marked