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· SUs · Members
The coming cost of living crisis will hit students hardest – unless SUs act now
Jim Dickinson warns that students risk being left out of the 2026 cost of living support architecture as they were after the 2022 energy price spike, and sets out what SUs can do about it.
With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Universities are curbing free food for students
Jim Dickinson reports on research finding that 63 per cent of surveyed universities run a food bank and 59 per cent issue food vouchers, and looks at who is funding and running that provision.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
For the next 48 hours, the city belongs to students
From Uppsala’s raft race to Coimbra’s midnight fado, Jim Dickinson surveys Europe’s May student traditions – and finds a continent that still knows how to build belonging
· Comment
Why OfS got the meaning of free speech within the law absolutely wrong
OfS lost Sussex on a technicality, the lines go. Jim Dickinson sees an architecture built to deliver one answer, and a regulator that played its part
· SUs · Members
How to respond to OfS’ consultation on “treating students fairly”
Jim Dickinson sets out what the OfS’s proposed condition C6 on treating students fairly would replace, noting that the consultation closed on 9 July 2026 with decisions due in autumn 2026.
With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
On free speech, universities need jaw-jaw not see-saw
It would be very easy, after the Office for Students (OfS) v University of Sussex, to gloat.
· Comment
Non-medical help works – but cuts are still coming
With DSA reductions already underway, Jim Dickinson argues that new research describes essential disabled student support that DfE is preparing to cut without a replacement plan
· SUs · Members
Why SUs need to respond to DfE’s consultation on software and Disabled Students Allowance
Jim Dickinson explains the Department for Education’s proposal to restrict Disabled Students’ Allowance funding for assistive software to exceptional circumstances, and why SUs needed to respond before it closed on 18 Ju
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
What the Carnegie citizens’ jury concluded about Scotland’s higher education system
One of my (least) favourite moments in many an HE conference is that bit where the chair throws to the floor, and a man (it’s always a man) grabs the mic and delivers a six minute soliloquy declaring that we need to go b
· Analysis
Sussex wins in free speech high court challenge
The Office for Students made “errors in law” and showed possible bias in investigating and fining the University of Sussex. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have the details from the judgment, and ask what comes next
With David Kernohan
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know about the Sussex free speech judgment
The High Court has quashed OfS’s £585,000 fine against Sussex. Jim Dickinson explains what that means for SUs trying to keep equality commitments legally defensible
With Mack Marshall and Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
What SUs can learn from complaints summaries in the OIA’s annual report 2025
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
The OIA is getting faster while the system it depends on gets slower
With OIA complaints hitting a record and the per-student rate four times its 2008 level, Jim Dickinson argues the external scheme is being asked to carry a load it was never built for
· Comment
A graduate tax is coming after all. For Muslim students
Jim Dickinson gets across DfE’s latest news on Alternative Student Finance – and finds the government has accidentally reinvented the graduate tax for Muslim students
· SUs
On site, in-house training for SUs: Summer 2026
Our subscriber SUs are each entitled to a full day’s “in house”, in-person training delivered by one of us at Team Wonkhe. We believe passionately that when SUs know what’s going on, and understand what’s going on, they
With Mack Marshall
· SUs
Summer training 2026
Working with SUs to develop understanding of key policy and knowledge areas is a core function of our work at Wonkhe SUs – because when SUs know what’s going on, and can understand what’s going on, they can influence wha
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
Cap in hand
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
Dues diligence
With Mack Marshall
· SUs · Members
The weekend delivery issue and students’ rights (updated)
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Students should be partners in mergers, not subjects or consumers
Jim Dickinson works through Advance HE’s new merger governance resource phase by phase – and finds a framework that reserves the language of partnership for everyone except students