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· Wonk Corner
Tough corners and tight spots – how do you regulate universities during strikes?
What will OfS be doing over this coming round of ASOS and strikes, I hear you ask.
· SUs · Members
You are so selfish
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Policy Watch
The next few years of OfS will be the same, but harsher
OfS is consulting on a new strategy for 2021-2025. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan identify a curious lack of vision
With David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
Are four in ten students online-only this term?
How can it be that four in ten students are experiencing zero hours of face to face teaching?
· Wonk Corner
MPs debate (student) spiking in nightclubs
As stories of incidents of “student spiking” in nightclubs continue to dominate in particular the regional press, last night MPs debated the issue in Westminster Hall.
· Wonk Corner
The Money Saving Expert sounds the win bell – but at what cost?
It’s always nice to see a former students’ union officer secure a win.
· Comment
We need an alternative to human capital theory as a basis for university funding
Are students getting “value for money” from their “investment” in higher education? Jim Dickinson reads another report where the frame is more important than the findings.
· SUs · Members
Formal complaint
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
Taking action on complaints in SUs
Today we’re launching a new project aimed at helping students’ unions to navigate the challenges of student complaints. Much of what is published about the so-called campus “culture wars” appears to have been written by
· Comment
Academics and frontline student support staff should need a licence to practise
How do we stop serial abusers from moving around universities with impunity – while giving confidence to victims of staff-student misconduct? Jim Dickinson has a solution.
· Policy Watch
Here comes the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
We’ve been waiting since the trailer came out last July, and now it is finally here. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson get to grips with TER(W)
With David Kernohan
· SUs · Members
Scanditour 2022: Latest emails
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
How much financial help should we give to students?
Even with income-contingent loans to help out with maintenance, is university affordable from a day-to-day costs perspective?
· SUs · Members
When will it end?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
After the boycotts, what happens next?
For those us that have been working in and around SUs and the issues of sexual harassment and misconduct for some time, the explosion of activism embodied in “Girls Night in” groups and their venues boycotts has been ins
· SUs · Members
Ten ways to improve institution-level student representation
This is a briefing for Wonkhe SUs subscribers. To find out more go to the SUs page in the menu above.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Do a quarter of students have an eating disorder?
In amongst all the budget excitement today, an interesting (and in some ways very worrying) little curio has appeared from the Office for National Statistics.
· SUs · Members
Fee refunds?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Lots to complain about at the debate over fees
Last night six MPs struggled to fill both the time and space allocated in Westminster Hall to hold a petitions committee debate on tuition fees, student representation and student rights signed by over half a million peo
· Comment
Which levers might ministers dare to pull in the post-Augar settlement?
After a decade of demand-side strategy, ministers might be about to intervene in the supply of higher education. Jim Dickinson considers their options.