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· 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.
· Policy Watch
OfS responds on B3, TEF, and indicator construction
Few changes but much of interest in the OfS’ consultation responses on B3, TEF, and indicators. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan read so you don’t have to.
With David Kernohan
· SUs · Members
The TEF and B3 consultation responses are out. Here’s what SUs need to know
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
How to respond to the consultation on renter’s reform
Back in June the government announced a raft of major changes to improve the rights of tenants in the private rented sector. Editor’s note: this consultation and Bill have since become the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. The h
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
101 ways to get the cost of living down for students
If you’re choosing between heating and eating when studying you’re certainly not volunteering or socialising. Jim Dickinson sources 100 ideas to help get the cost of being a student under control in the year ahead
· SUs · Members
Time to talk
With Livia Scott and Wonkhe SUs explainer