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· Wonk Corner
What’s going on with OfS’ performance measures?
Yesterday saw the release of two new Key Performance Measures from the Office for Students (OfS), and updates to four others.
· SUs · Members
Part time support?
With Livia Scott
· Comment
Can students be bothered to come to campus?
For much of the year universities have been worried about students not coming to classes. Jim Dickinson reveals the results of new research on why that might be
· SUs · Members
Policy forum report: Advice managers catch up
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Round table report: Supporting Disabled sabbs
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Policy forum report: International
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Universities are changing size and shape very rapidly. Can anyone keep up?
New English student numbers figures show how rapidly universities are changing size and shape. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson consider if the regulation can keep up
With David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
Student hardship’s greatest hits in a 4 CD set
The government should provide immediate additional hardship support for students, increase maintenance loans and raise the household income threshold entitling students to the maximum loan.
· Wonk Corner
The tort is back – but will it survive the Commons?
In the Lords, the free speech Bill now has had its tort reinstated, albeit in a “soft” variety.
· Wonk Corner
Can marking be antisemitic?
A Jewish student who sued the University of Leeds over the way an essay was marked has settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
· SUs · Members
Under pressure
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
More insight but little regulation over cost of living
Cold on the heels of similar polling from Universities UK, the Sutton Trust, Russell Group SUs and the Office for National Statistics, the Office for Students (OfS) has published its own study – and at this stage you can
· Comment
An avalanche really is coming this time
The model of academics as affable all-rounders may be impossible to sustain in a mass higher education system bedevilled by generative AI, argues Jim Dickinson
· SUs · Members
What are the basics that all higher education SUs should have?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Students involved in allegations of misconduct need support
There are all sorts of aspects of the Office for Students’ ongoing consultation over harassment and sexual misconduct that haven’t really caught the eye of most onlookers.
· Wonk Corner
More cash for Scottish students, but fewer of them get it
Students from Scotland are to get an 11 per cent uplift on their maintenance package – taking the total in bursary and loans for students from the lowest income backgrounds to £9,000.
· Comment
No elections, but plenty of debate in Harrogate
Reviewing policy proposals presented to the National Union of Students conference, Jim Dickinson finds a student movement in rude health
· Comment
Isn’t it time the sector showed it can learn too?
What have feelings of belonging and community got to do with assessment fairness? Quite a bit, discovers Jim Dickinson, as we launch a major new student research project with partners at Cibyl
· SUs
SU complaint, disciplinary procedures and codes of conduct may need to change
Jim Dickinson explains the thinking behind a recommendation on the reform of SU membership codes of conduct
· SUs · Members
Home or away
With Livia Scott