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· SUs · Members
What’s going on with the UCU industrial action?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
In the campus culture wars, is the process the punishment?
One of the things we hear a lot of in the campus culture wars is the idea that “the process is the punishment”.
· Wonk Corner
A broken student housing market can’t deliver safety
There was a fun little piece in the Sunday Times at the weekend that profiled Philippa and Tom Charrier – property developers “on a mission to improve student wellbeing”.
· Wonk Corner
Step up fight against antisemitism, universities told
A “renewed and concerted” effort is required across all UK universities and colleges to make Jewish students safe and feel safe on campus.
· SUs · Members
A gem of a meeting
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Brief, but not a lot of insight at OfS’ free speech shindig
The Office for Students’ insight event on Free Speech was, all things considered, a bit weird.
· Comment
How to take strategic action to deliver equality of opportunity for Disabled students
Endless reports have promised progress on access failures for Disabled students – but how much difference has been made? Meg Darroch and Jim Dickinson take some regulatory ideas for a spin
With Meg Darroch
· Comment
Graduate tax gets floated, and shot down again, all in one morning
It was a trip down memory lane as graduate tax – and all the reasons to reject it – were rehearsed at a sector event. But the sector needs some bigger thinking on fees and funding soon, argues Jim Dickinson
· Wonk Corner
Is the “way forward” an end to access and participation plans?
Always important to get rid of waste, if we can.
· SUs · Members
Can’t buy their silence now
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
What if they’re all part-time students now?
Why are increasing numbers of academic staff reporting lecture theatres and seminar rooms as empty of students these days? Jim Dickinson gets real.
· Comment
NDAs and the Tort are out as the Free Speech Bill clears Lords’ report stage
Report stage in the Lords for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill brought a big surprise and a hefty government defeat. Jim Dickinson tries to avoid crashing the car.
· Wonk Corner
OIA (almost) bans NDAs for all complaints – not just those that concern sexual misconduct
When handling complaints, providers have a duty to act fairly – and that means that decision-making should both be unbiased and, importantly, should be seen to be unbiased.
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about changes to OIA’s Good Practice Framework
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Do 40 per cent of international students stay in the UK?
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick was on GB News this morning, in which he said that one of the areas that is “ripe for reform” is the number of students coming into the UK, partly given how “easy it is for them to bri
· SUs · Members
Not another one
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
What is behind the remarkable rise in students coming from Nigeria to study?
There’s been a ten-fold increase in the number of Nigerians coming to study in the UK. Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott try to work out what’s driving that demand.
With Livia Scott
· Wonk Corner
Have students got a problem with food?
More than six in ten 17- to 23-year-olds have “possible problems with eating”, and the problem is worse in the upper half of that age bracket.
· Wonk Corner
The poorest students are getting £1,500 less in loans than they should be
Remember all those campaigns during the pandemic about “forgotten students”?
· Comment
18 things we spotted in the September 2022 board papers
OfS keeps publishing board papers – David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson keep reading them. Here’s the highlights from the only board meeting held under Liz Truss’ premiership.
With David Kernohan