Sunday 4 October 2026
Jim Dickinson

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Jim Dickinson

Associate Editor (SUs)

2,615 pieces

Newest first, since August 2013 · page 98 of 131

  1. · SUs · Members

    Who cares?

    With Wonkhe SUs explainer

  2. · Wonk Corner

    Why can’t we get financial support for disabled students right?

    A particularly sorry tale concerning the financial support that disabled students get got a little bit closer to being resolved earlier this week.

  3. · SUs · Members

    What restrictions might remain on students and universities after “freedom day”?

    With Wonkhe SUs explainer

  4. · Wonk Corner

    Woke universities and woke students – chicken and egg?

    At the weekend the Telegraph told us that a majority of the public would want those who make offensive remarks in their teens to be “given a break”.

  5. · Wonk Corner

    More questions than answers for students at the Freedom Day presser

    The first question for the PM at the “delay freedom day by a four weeks” presser was about universities and students.

  6. · Comment

    What do we mean when we say it’s just student politics?

    Is there a way out of the damaging and exhausting campus culture wars? Jim Dickinson looks to football for inspiration.

  7. · Wonk Corner

    Are freshers’ weeks in September going to be banned?

    Student migration into student halls in Scotland represented a risk for areas hosting the halls and for their surroundings. The outbreaks were ultimately dealt with, but the adverse direct and indirect health effects and

  8. · SUs · Members

    Little platoons?

    With Wonkhe SUs explainer

  9. · Comment

    Students will build back community better – if we support them to do so

    How should we encourage and strengthen students’ contribution to their own and their wider communities? Patrick O’Donnell, Richard Brabner and Jim Dickinson look to the future.

    With Richard Brabner and Patrick O’Donnell

  10. · Wonk Corner

    Should we charge graduates £10k more each (unless they’re rich)?

    They need to pay more in their twenties and pay more in their fifties, basically.

  11. · Wonk Corner

    Now they’ve cancelled the Queen

    As David Davis MP said when he launched his private members’ bill on universities back in February, the principal reason that our kingdom is a great nation can be encompassed in one word – freedom.

  12. · Wonk Corner

    Franchising, collegiate colleges and harassment and sexual misconduct

    One of the questions that arises out of ongoing coverage of allegations of misconduct at Drama schools is that of responsibility for both prevention, and complaint investigation and disciplinary processes.

  13. · Wonk Corner

    50 new universities and the return of polytechnics

    46 new universities in the towns in England with a population of over 80,000 that don’t already have one, and the transformation of further education colleges into polytechnics – place-based vocational centres of excelle

  14. · SUs · Members

    Buckle up

    With Wonkhe SUs explainer

  15. · Comment

    Students deserve a seatbelt when it comes to the autumn

    As talk of a third wave hitting the young intensifies, Jim Dickinson argues that we owe students protection over provision this September.

  16. · SUs

    Ten notes of caution about a blended autumn and winter

    Jim Dickinson has been reading all the announcements about teaching and learning in 2021/22, and the feedback they’re generating from students, so has his synthesizer out.

  17. · Wonk Corner

    Has the new free speech bill been properly thought through?

    As “niche audience” posts on Wonkhe go, this one is right up there – but it does tell us a thing or two about the depth of thinking that’s gone into the impact assessment for the Freedom of Speech (Higher Education) Bill

  18. · Comment

    How to address the sexual and racial misconduct crisis out of the drama

    A spate of harassment and sexual misconduct cases in Drama schools should concern the whole of the higher education sector, argues Jim Dickinson.

  19. · Wonk Corner

    Nightclubs, halls and three months til September

    We are now only three months or so away from universities beginning to welcome students onto campus for the autumn term.

  20. · Comment

    Would changes to student loans be progressive?

    Jim Dickinson reviews work to deliver a cash “fee rebate” to students, and uncovers some fascinating realities about England’s student loan system along the way.