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Newest first, since August 2013 · page 81 of 131
· Wonk Corner
DfE’s magic money twig stages an inadequate comeback
Terrible news, dear readers. The Department for Education is up to its old tricks again, rolling out a bit of money that was already earmarked for something else as an answer to a contemporary crisis.
· Wonk Corner
Ireland has a full-blown student housing crisis. Is the UK next?
It looks like there are proper private rental crises on in Glasgow, South Belfast and St Andrews – but we should look to the Republic of Ireland to see just how messy this can get at pace.
· Comment
Is the international expansion miracle about to push up against capacity constraints?
Has anyone planned properly for the impacts of more international students that stay longer because of the graduate route visa – and what if they haven’t? Jim Dickinson worries that the balloon may be about to burst.
· Wonk Corner
Yes, international students are displacing home students
“If your child isn’t being discriminated against because you were stupid enough to have a successful career and go to a private school or buy a family home in a leafy postcode (NB: remember to purchase flat on sink estat
· SUs · Members
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about the new Building Safety Act
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Tighter finances will impact students. Should we warn them?
How efficient can higher education become before a quality line is crossed? Jim Dickinson considers the problem of students paying more when government offers less.
· SUs
Students need to know what SUs think about things
Jim Dickinson puzzles over the lack of public agenda and opinion emanating from students’ unions and their elected representatives
· Wonk Corner
Student rents in Edinburgh fall to £200 a month, and the price of a pint in London halves. Apparently.
Today was supposed to be a chilled out summer’s day in the North East doing planning with my Wonkhe colleague Livia Scott, but I can feel my blood pressure rising again.
· SUs · Members
Me neither
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Is OfS interested in extracurricular activity or not?
Does the higher education regulator care about what happens outside of the “classroom”? Jim Dickinson tries to make it all make sense
· SUs
Are you free this coming freshers’ week?
Jim Dickinson asks if there’s a way to deliver a welcome week experience for students in a cost of living crisis that doesn’t involve the expense that it usually does
· Wonk Corner
The ICO lifts the lid on the workings of equality schemes
In theory, any day now, Oxford University will have to publish the scores and feedback it got from Stonewall as part of its workplace Equalities Index scheme.
· SUs · Members
Daylight robbery, barefaced lies
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
The poorest students are being fiddled out of £2,000 this autumn
You’ll recall that there are three big problems with the way that the Department for Education (DfE) updates and uprates maintenance for English domiciled students.
· Comment
Is poor information about student costs careless or calculated failure?
Jim Dickinson goes on the search for cost of living advice from universities – and finds the sector coming up short in more ways than one
· Wonk Corner
Should Scotland scrap free tuition?
Free tuition in Scotland is capping places for Scottish university applicants
· SUs · Members
Cost of living
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Fifteen ways to improve the National Student Survey
As OfS consults on a new National Student Survey, Jim Dickinson scratches up a bunch of ideas to improve it that are missing in the documents
· SUs · Members
How to respond to the consultation on the NSS
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Should universities be charging master’s deposits?
A particularly upsetting story has emerged on social media that suggests that an applicant to a masters programme may have died by suicide having had a deposit for the tuition fees retained.