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This is what a hybrid student experience would really look like
Jim Dickinson and Eve Alcock imagine a future where students don’t have to choose between being a boarder or a commuter.
With Eve Alcock
· SUs
It’s all coming up: Nine issues for SUs to prep for in the year ahead
It’s impossible trying to predict the future – but you can prepare for it. For example, it’s hard to predict what the next higher education “culture wars” story will be that goes viral and global, or which issue or unive
· SUs · Members
Summer update: It’s all coming up
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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How to respond to OfS’ consultation on quality and standards
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
How universities can make re-opening safer in the autumn
There are five key factors that universities should consider ahead of the start of the new academic year, according to a new blog in the British Medical Journal.
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Trust is about making and keeping promises
If students feel betrayed over promises of “blended learning” that we couldn’t deliver, how do we rebuild the trust? Jim Dickinson takes a solemn vow.
· Wonk Corner
Some good news for international students (maybe) as DfE updates its Covid guidance
In some ways it’s reassuring that bits of it remain as baffling and unhelpful as ever.
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Ten things we learned from May’s OfS board papers
The Office for Students has published board papers for May, and David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have had a read so you don’t have to.
With David Kernohan
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How should universities support students with long Covid?
Students with long Covid may be more common than we think – with significant implications for universities, argues Jim Dickinson.
· SUs · Members
Summer update: Scramble!
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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In higher education, we need to know what full looks like
As universities prepare to enrol record numbers of students, Jim Dickinson asks what is stopping more from meaning worse
· Wonk Corner
Students in London pay £9.10 for a pint. Or do they?
Now obviously I think research on student mental health and the views of students on support services is important.
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Summer update: What does full look like?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
Ten issues for SUs to explore as universities prepare to expand
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· 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
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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
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Summer update: Don’t read the comments
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
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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.