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What SUs need to know about a new framework for surveying students
Jim Dickinson reports on Wonkhe and evasys’s new framework for surveying students, aimed at closing the loop between feedback raised through reps and what shows up later in the NSS.
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Finding your university in the data: Summer 2026 edition
Jim Dickinson updates Wonkhe’s guide to finding your own university in David Kernohan’s sector data, for building induction, handover, or presentation material.
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What SUs in Wales can (and should) do on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWAG)
Jim Dickinson reports on Medr’s new self-evaluation framework for violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence, and what Welsh SUs can do ahead of the August registration deadline.
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Podcast: TEF, student experience, demographics
This week on the podcast we examine the next phase of the Teaching Excellence Framework, as the Office for Students confirms its first decisions on a revised approach to assessing education quality
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Top ten takeaways from the 2026 Student Academic Experience Survey
Jim Dickinson picks out the ten key findings from Advance HE and HEPI’s 2026 Student Academic Experience Survey, including who is still being left behind despite improvements elsewhere.
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Careers, credit and curricula – examples of practice from European SUs and unis
Jim Dickinson compiles examples of careers events, academic credit for volunteering, and embedded work experience drawn from Wonkhe’s European SU study tours.
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Podcast: Public opinion, missing middle
This week on the podcast a third of the public now thinks a university education just isn’t worth the time and money it usually takes
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Podcast: Cuts, international, friends
This week on the podcast we discuss the scale and shape of cuts across UK higher education
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Deposits, instalments and hardship: the full picture for home and international students
Jim Dickinson reports on provider-level data gathered from 171 institutions on fee instalment arrangements and hardship support, including how far these extend to international students.
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Podcast: LLE, Milburn review
This week on the podcast the final pieces of the Lifelong Learning Entitlement puzzle are falling into place
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Podcast: Starmergeddon, insolvency, Europe
This week on the podcast we talk a turbulent week in Westminster, as Labour’s poor performance in the national and regional elections intensifies pressure on Keir Starmer
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Podcast: Antisemitism, AI and graduate jobs, universities and working class voters
This week on the podcast the government turns up the heat on universities over antisemitism – but with enforcement details still to come, what does Starmer’s zero-tolerance pledge mean in practice?
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How (and why) to respond to the NMC’s consultation on nursing and midwifery practice learning standards
Jim Dickinson sets out what the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s consultation on nursing, nursing associate, and midwifery practice learning standards covered before it closed on 23 July 2026.
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How the National Review of Awarding Arrangements will work in Scotland (and why/how SUs can be involved)
Jim Dickinson explains how Scotland’s National Review of Awarding Arrangements developed in response to the QAA’s findings on the University of Glasgow, and how SUs could get involved before the May 2026 deadlines passed
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Two more quality reviews in Scotland tell us more about the rights students should enjoy
Jim Dickinson continues Wonkhe’s series on Scotland’s Tertiary Quality Enhancement Reviews, this time covering Edinburgh Napier and Aberdeen, both judged effective, and what the findings mean for SUs across the devolved
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Podcast: Holyrood and Senedd elections, OfS v Sussex
This week on the podcast as voters in Scotland and Wales head to the polls on 7 May, what do the manifestos mean for higher education?
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Rights to exit student accommodation in England “early” as of May 1st 2026
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Ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting is coming – what SUs need to know
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Podcast: System issues, research grants, governance
This week on the podcast John Blake, Director at the Post-18 Project has published his first paper arguing that English higher education’s crisis stems from thirty years of policy failure
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A beefed up weapon against rogue landlords – a guide to Rent Repayment Orders for SUs in England
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