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· Wonk Corner
Wales announces student loan rates for 2023
Given the announcement on April’s increase to the National Living Wage was made last November, it’s not immediately clear why it’s taken until now to announce the student finance package for Welsh students.
· SUs
You can’t learn on an empty stomach
Our penultimate stop on this year’s Wonkhe SUs European Study Tour took us to Münster, where we spent a morning in one of the impressive facilities run by the city’s Studierendenwerk. Unlike in the UK’s stratified and of
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
Every household in the UK gets £400. Except students
It’s finally official. Students in halls are to be singled out as the only people in the UK that won’t be getting a form of financial help that pretty much everyone else will be getting this winter.
· SUs
They are so proud of us
Across the Netherlands every May, elections for the student and staff places on each university’s Council take place. Terminology alert – Council here is the equivalent of our Academic Board or Senate, ie the self govern
With Livia Scott
· Comment
As the sector expands, why are we letting more mean less?
Are we making compromises to the student experience just to make the numbers add up? Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott reflect on a week in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany with student leaders.
With Livia Scott
· SUs · Members
Sharing is caring
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
A “very damning indictment of the presence of anti-Jewish racism at the heart of student politics”
NUS has published a long-awaited independent investigation into antisemitism in the union, commissioned following a high-profile speaker controversy at its annual conference last year.
· SUs
It’s the most important five days of your life
At Vrije University in Amsterdam, undergrads get to know fellow students before their studies begin. Its “Bachelor Introductiedagen” programme ensures that you “no longer feel awkward” – because when you walk into the le
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
A miserly increase to student maintenance loans is coming
This morning – just 13 days before the main UCAS deadline – the Westminster government confirmed that it will uprate the maximum maintenance loan (as well as the postgraduate loan and max Disabled Students’ Allowance) by
· SUs
Students will go if other students have organised it
Gone are the days when studying equaled solitary confinement. More and more students choose to study together so they can support each other. But space can often be an issue. Those aren’t my words conference – they’re wo
· SUs
It’s like Karaoke, but more about community
One of the oldest and most important student traditions in Belgium involves events organised by student associations that combine singing songs and drinking beer – although these days non-alcoholic options are available.
With Livia Scott
· Comment
Should students and staff trust a university’s review of gender-based violence?
An external review praises the intent but criticises the implementation of a strategy on gender-based violence. Jim Dickinson wonders whether it understands power.
· Comment
What kind of student experience will be valuable in the next decade?
Jim Dickinson digs into the data on students’ attitudes and what it means for the major political parties ahead of the next election
· SUs · Members
Night in armour
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
TEF Student Submission Catch Up #4
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
It’s all coming up – 10 things for SUs think about in 2023
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
The essential guide for SUs to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
How (and why) to lobby the Lords over the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Numberwanging on about free speech and academic freedom
Here we go again. Today’s run at restoring the tort to the Free Speech Bill when it pongs into the Commons comes from a group of academics who are, it says here, “too scared” to challenge the decolonisation of the maths
· Wonk Corner
A crackdown is coming on international students
Just before we broke up for Christmas, new Education Committee Chair Robin Walker used his first meeting between the select committee chairs and the Prime Minister to grill Rishi Sunak on international students.