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The Home Office owes international students £170 million. Here’s how to get it back
Jim Dickinson explains how international students were overcharged on Student and Child Student visa fees between late 2023 and April 2026, and sets out how they can claim back a share of the roughly £170 million owed.
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Comparing the financial help that universities give to students (In England)
What do providers spend on student financial support? Jim Dickinson has the comparison data you need
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While Bridget Phillipson is in a letter writing mood…
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has referred the early years childcare market to the Competition and Markets Authority, asking it to examine hidden charges that are undermining the government’s funded hours offer.
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Cash help for students is falling fastest where it’s needed most
With universities cutting bursaries and hardship funds as budgets tighten, Jim Dickinson finds support shrinking fastest, in real terms, exactly where students need it most
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(Not) only the lonely
With Mack Marshall
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The international student boom is over – and the bust is being delivered by stealth
With refusal rates spiking, withdrawals surging, and universities pre-emptively retreating from high-risk markets, Jim Dickinson finds an international contraction engineered through plumbing rather than policy
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Students lose procedural rights in the OIA’s drive for simplicity
The OIA is consulting on a shorter, more flexible complaints scheme – but Jim Dickinson finds that most of the flexibility created depends on the adjudicator’s benevolence
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Euro visions: Bangaranker
On the final day of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson celebrates Bulgaria’s historic win with a look at its higher education map
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Euro visions: Technology made beneficial to society
On Day Five of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson has a mooch around Austrian HE to work out what it’s built on – and what staff and students do on top
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Moldova is on duty
With Mack Marshall
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Are financial sustainability and student protection compatible?
There are various frustrating aspects of this week’s Commons’ Education Committee report on “Higher Education and Funding: Threat of Insolvency and International Students”.
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Euro visions: Saluti a tutti, Moldova is on duty
For Day Four of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson goes from Bucharest to Chișinău to get across the HE reform agenda for Europe’s least visited country
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Welsh student welfare: What new rules require – and what SUs can now push for
Jim Dickinson sets out Medr’s new staff and learner welfare condition for Welsh universities, in force from 1 August 2026, and what Welsh SUs can push providers on as they carry out their annual self-evaluation.
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More straw clutching from the free speech absolutists
The latest of the increasingly desperate attempts to shore up both the Office for Students (OfS) and its free speech tsar Arif Ahmed comes from Abhishek Saha, who’s a professor of maths at Queen Mary and a founder member
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Euro visions: Liberté, égalité, déjeuner
For Day Three of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson tours Europe’s student meal subsidies – and finds the UK alleviating student food insecurity via declining food banks and the odd free apple
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Euro visions: Knowledge creates the future, the future needs democracy
On Day Two of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson reports from Vienna on a higher education strategy that names democracy as a core mission – and asks what happens if the populists it opposes form the next government
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Euro visions: Key changes and wind machines won’t save the sector
With populism closing in on Europe’s universities, Jim Dickinson reads finds a new King’s volume that grasps only half of a post-war bargain breaking on both sides
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Preventing sexual misconduct is about risky people and places, not bulletproof policy
As OfS publishes a second cut of its sexual misconduct survey, Jim Dickinson argues the data offers providers a risk-assessment framework rather than a compliance scorecard
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NMC splits the difference on nursing and midwifery hours
Jim Dickinson unpacks the NMC’s nursing and midwifery proposals – and finds a regulator setting standards without the funding architecture to deliver them