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· Wonk Corner
What is the student voice?
There’s some cracking lines in HEPI’s fun new collection of essays on the student voice.
· SUs · Members
Switching from exams to coursework narrows the Black awarding gap
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
External examiners are in the last chance saloon
Is the UK’s external examiner system fit for purpose? As a new review is launched to make improvements, Jim Dickinson wonders if he’s seen it all before.
· Comment
Sixteen things we learned from March and April’s OfS board papers
The Office for Students has published board papers for March and April, and David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have had a read so you don’t have to.
With David Kernohan
· SUs · Members
Summer update: Don’t read the comments
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
You can’t replace hands-on experience with booksmarts and box sets
Jim Dickinson reviews the latest batch of complaints summaries from the ombuds, and concludes that it’s students that will pay for pandemic failure.
· Comment
Why do we hate the students we’re trying to motivate?
What can we do about vaccine refusal and hesitancy among students? The opposite to what we’re doing now, argues Jim Dickinson.
· Wonk Corner
Boris Johnson proposes compulsory vaccination for students
Today the Times reports that students (In England) will have to be fully vaccinated to attend lectures or stay in halls of residence if Boris Johnson gets his way.
· Wonk Corner
Another BAME student participation gap emerges – this time over Covid testing
I don’t think I’m being especially unfair to observe that universities appear to have more sophisticated well resourced communications operations for prospective and former students than they do for current students.
· Wonk Corner
How are we doing on getting students registered to vote?
The last day of the parliamentary term usually sees a flood of government reports, ministerial statements and consultation announcements – and is often referred to as “taking out the trash” day, even though the flurry of
· SUs · Members
Summer update: Who’s listening?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
How to submit evidence on the Freedom of Speech Bill
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
When do culls of module catalogues become material?
Lots of students face significant change to the range, depth and nature of their module options while on their course. Jim Dickinson considers the protection they need.
· Analysis
Do problems in private schools fuel sexual misconduct in universities?
When Jim Dickinson dug into HEPI survey data on sexual consent and misconduct in universities, he found a disturbing story centred on privately educated men.
· Policy Watch
Are proposals on quality really in the student interest?
OfS has new proposals out on quality and standards. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan get into the detail, and wonder who they’re really designed to serve.
With David Kernohan
· SUs · Members
Agree to disagree
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Yes but what are students dissatisfied about?
The thing about the National Student Survey is that it uses the five-point Likert scale.
· Wonk Corner
The Free Speech Bill gets marked – three weaks and a satisfactory
When you work at Wonkhe, every day’s a school day.
· Wonk Corner
Forget masks. It’s on vaccine mandates where the really big decisions are.
Now that in England the government has started to explicitly devolve decision making over the pandemic “down”, one of the difficulties now facing university decision makers concerns what we might call the size and shape
· Wonk Corner
Does the free speech bill give legal protection to hate speech on campus?
Six references to “Voltaire”. Am I at a Russell Group students’ union debate on “No Platform” in the mid-1990s?