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· Wonk Corner
Are we helping student nurses cope with cost of living?
Let’s take a quick look at the cost of living / inflation situation for students studying nursing, midwifery and allied health professional (AHP) courses.
· Comment
What we learned on your summer holidays
Livia Scott and Jim Dickinson spent the summer talking to this year’s crop of student leaders. Here’s what they found out.
With Livia Scott
· SUs · Members
Still a crisis
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
How to respond to OIA’s consultation on its Good Practice Framework for complaints
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Student involvement in disciplinary processes
How involved should students be in disciplinary processes? Jim Dickinson and Sunday Blake review the background of this topic and question what SUs should think about in disciplinary policy reviews.
With Sunday Blake and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
Fifteen reflections on postgraduate representation in SUs
The news that UKRI (Uk Research and Innovation) funded PhD students are to get a 13 percent YOY increase on their stipends to £17,668 FTE tax free is important for all sorts of reasons – not least because of the way it w
· Comment
25 things we spotted in May’s OfS board papers
A new set of board papers from way back in May 2022 have appeared. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson are your guides.
With David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
Vice chancellors call for the return of the student grant
I’m often critical of Universities UK’s almost exclusive focus on the finances of universities in its lobbying and campaigning work – but this year’s eve-of-conference push is all about the principal beneficiaries of the
· Wonk Corner
PGRs get a 13 per cent increase on their stipends
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is increasing its minimum student stipend by 10 per cent on the previously announced level for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
· SUs · Members
Higher and higher
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Are safer homes and better rights for students about to be traded off in an accommodation supply crisis?
Earlier this week students due to enrol at Manchester Met in a few weeks received a message saying housing demand in the city is “currently the highest” they have ever experienced.
· Comment
Can rapid collegiality help address permanent volatility?
Does the energy crisis make it more or less likely – and more or less necessary – to be online or in-person? Jim Dickinson is never going back to normal.
· Wonk Corner
How much are we expecting parents to put in in the coming year?
For students from England, the most oft-quoted maintenance figure is that for undergraduate students who are studying away from home and outside of London.
· Wonk Corner
There isn’t a free speech problem on campus after all
I’ve seen the future, folks, and it’s one where politicians are less worried about free speech on campus than they are now.
· SUs · Members
It’s good to talk
With Livia Scott
· Comment
Another huge rise in the energy price cap. Now what?
As Ofgem announces a record new high for the energy price cap while ministers go missing, Jim Dickinson considers the kind of local leadership required to get students through the winter
· SUs
Talking to student officers about manifestos
Jim Dickinson talks Binley Mega Chippy, officer manifestos, divergent thinking and the components of political action.
· SUs · Members
Tell me a secret
With Livia Scott
· SUs · Members
What are students’ rights if their all-inclusive bills go up?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
We need to talk about non-continuation and interruption
I seem to write a version of this article every year – but particularly here in 2022 as we enter an autumn set to be dominated by a cost of living crisis, I think we need to think carefully about interruption and drop-ou