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· Wonk Corner
Is there any actual policy behind the politics of in-person teaching?
Michelle Donelan’s rhetoric on in-person teaching has stepped up a gear in recent days.
· SUs · Members
What can SUs learn from the latest batch of OIA-adjudicated complaints?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Universities have a complaints problem. Here’s how to fix it
Jim Dickinson reviews the annual report of England and Wales’ student complaints body, and concludes that structural change is needed to build confidence in the decisions made by universities when things go wrong
· SUs · Members
Demokrati og politik
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Are we protecting students from the risks inherent in new providers?
For a brief moment last weekend, online betting aggregator Oddschecker had Jesse Norman – Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire – as the favourite for next Conservative leader.
· SUs
How Scandinavian SUs do policy and democracy (not elections)
Swinging from open forums (that no-one attends) to formal motions (that no-one writes) isn’t healthy. Jim Dickinson searches for alternatives to student councils in the frozen north.
· Wonk Corner
Isn’t it time for a #LiveableNHSBursary?
Imagine being a (home domiciled) full time student on a demanding course – the sort where you’re advised not to get a part-time job because of the demands of placements and whatnot – and only having £5,500 to live on.
· Comment
When does free speech about harassment become harassment itself?
What should students expect from universities when it comes to protection from each other? Jim Dickinson reviews the case of Raquel Rosario Sanchez v the University of Bristol.
· SUs · Members
Understanding and influencing Access and Participation plan “variations”
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Next slide please
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Every bit of the UK needs to tackle fiscal drag on its student financial support
What a drag. Jim Dickinson reviews student financial support arrangements around the devolved nations and finds that everyone is struggling to keep pace with earnings and inflation
· SUs
What can we learn from Scandinavia and from students?
Jim Dickinson asks what SUs might take from visiting and experiencing other SUs around Europe – and what the implications might be for services, strategy and governance
· Wonk Corner
Never mind the interest rate, feel the repayment threshold
Last week a lot of people got very upset about a quirk in the way that the interest on student loans is calculated.
· Wonk Corner
Student loan interest will rise to 12 percent
I don’t think it’s unfair to say that the English (and, by dint of the fact that its ministers can’t really dictate what the Student Loans Company does, Welsh) student loans system is in a huge mess.
· Wonk Corner
OfS invites variations to access and participation plans
The Office for Students (OfS) has written to England’s higher education providers asking that they submit variations to access and participation plans (APPs).
· SUs
His Majesty the Pig writhes out of his whimsical reclusive binge
The Wonkhe SUs tour of Scandinavia reaches Norway, where students run a huge arts centre in Oslo
· Comment
Why do we treat students like children?
Should we lean in or back away when students need support, or food, or friends? Jim Dickinson reflects on a week in Denmark, Sweden and Norway with student leaders.
· SUs
Blankets are available
If you’re a student in the UK that’s not in a hall of residence and you miss the Freshers’ Fair, unless your coursemates are particularly friendly or you happen to find a friend while the SU wristband club night is playi
· SUs
A study time to remember and an education to be proud of
Sweden has always taken student influence seriously – so when Gothenburg University was founded in 1891, for example, an independent students’ association was formed at the same time as an important component of the new
· SUs
Sometimes we have to get loud
You know what it’s like when you visit another country – at first you’re looking for similarities and differences (“Look, a foodstuff that sounds rude!”) but a couple of days in, you start to develop a deeper understandi