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· 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
· Wonk Corner
What are students’ rights over MAB mitigations?
Where non-participating staff in a department can’t be found to cover those taking action, types of tactic have emerged to mitigate the impacts of the UCU marking and assessment boycott (MAB).
· Wonk Corner
Does the MAB mean students can claim a refund?
If we think about the marking and assessment boycott in consumer law terms, the situation is… interesting.
· SUs · Members
How to be an influential and effective SU officer
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
And the winner is
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
Why isn’t the MAB making a difference?
One of the things I’ve been talking to people about in recent weeks is why arguably the biggest marking and assessment boycott since the mid noughties hasn’t yet resulted in progress.