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· Comment
The chilling effects of the free speech bill could be very extreme
Surveys of staff and students are the central tactic being used to prove that there’s a free speech problem on campus. But what are they telling us? Jim Dickinson ticks the boxes.
· SUs · Members
Nuts and gum
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Good work, great job – a renewed agenda for student employment
If students need to work during term time, how can we ensure those jobs are high quality and well paid? Jim Dickinson sweats the asset.
· SUs
One way to think about post-pandemic “blended” learning
Last year’s rare rail journeys produced a back-of-a-fag-packet scribble that helped a few people think about the student experience being planned for September rather than just the “provision”. A much better model was th
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
What if students aren’t happy about lectures moving online in September?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
DfE issues revised guidance for higher education in England after Step 4
The good news is the Department for Education has issued a revision to the guidance for higher education in England, to apply from “Step 4” which is likely to kick in on July 19th.
· Comment
A blended future is possible. Just not by September
As legal restrictions in England look set to be lifted, Jim Dickinson asks what we mean by “hybrid” and “blended” and wonders whether any of it will be really possible by September.
· SUs · Members
This is what SUs (in England) need to know about the new Building Safety Bill
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Visa concessions – but will they enrol?
The volume of international students from red-list countries due to enrol into UK universities this autumn has been described as a “time bomb” for the government today, despite newly allowed visa concessions designed to
· SUs · Members
Ticking off
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Scotland gets guidance on risk reduction next year (and bubbles are back in Wales)
Jim Dickinson reviews guidance for Scottish universities on the new academic year and questions some of its sillier assumptions.
· Wonk Corner
What does “learning to live with Covid” mean for higher education?
I keep hearing people say they’re waiting for guidance from government before they move ahead with plans for September.
· Wonk Corner
Student mental health – are things better or worse in wider society?
One of the questions that increasingly surrounds surveys of students – on everything from sexual misconduct to freedom of speech – is whether things are any worse (or better, or different) for those of otherwise similar
· Comment
Student experience during the pandemic could have been worse
Jim Dickinson reflects on regulation during the pandemic and wonders if things really could have been any worse.
· Wonk Corner
OfS Chair James Wharton busts out another chartbusting hit
Student mental health is through the floor and their perceptions of value are at an all time low, but at least students can reassure themselves that OfS is picking up some of the bigger and more important issues swirling
· SUs · Members
Value judgements
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· Wonk Corner
What did Williamson say at HEPI conference?
It says here that Gavin Williamson spoke to the HEPI conference on the importance of learning from the pandemic, but apparently didn’t reference the HEPI/Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey with its feedback fr
· Comment
Universities got more than they paid for. Students didn’t.
The results of this year’s HEPI/Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey are here. It’s not good news, finds Jim Dickinson.
· Comment
Is the hippocratic oath an answer to the student mental health question?
Jim Dickinson reviews a new report on student mental health with a refreshingly actionable set of recommendations.
· Wonk Corner
The culture wars come to the Education Committee
Anyone that’s been following the progress of the Commons Education Committee’s inquiry into the “educational underachievement of white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds” would probably have been able to write the fin