Wonkhe explainers for SUs

This is a briefing for Wonkhe SUs subscribers.

There’s a lot of material both on the main Wonkhe site and on our subsite for SUs.

Every week we publish new explainer riefings for SUs on issues of concern to students and SUs.

We update this listing every six months or so – for the latest briefings go here. This index can be used to do a quick search for keywords – use CTRL+F.

If you’re searching for a subject, the first and best place to look is probably Wonkhe’s general search function via the search button at the top right hand corner of the site.

You can also always email us if you want to know if we have something on an issue, or want to know where you might be able to find something either from us or another organisation.

Articles

There are a number of collections of articles, blogs and briefings which are collected by tag. You can find tags to the left hand side of most articles on the site – but some of the most popular ones are:

Students

Students’ unions

Cost of living

Fees and funding

Student accommodation

Mental Health and Duty of care

Sustainability

Higher education in Wales

Higher education in Scotland

Data

The Teaching Excellence Framework

Race and ethnicity

Access and widening participation

The regulation of higher education

We also have archives of:

The Wonkhe show podcast archive

The Membership Services Show

Long reads

And some box sets of our audio series on the “Hidden History” of higher education.

And for students’ unions:

An archive of Wonkhe SUs blogs written by and about our SU sector

An archive of our Friday morning email briefings for SUs

Blogs on the future of SUs

An archive of our Webinars for SUs

An archive of the findings from SU research projects

Belong, by Cibyl and Wonkhe

Latest from Belong – students’ health is not OK, and that’s not OK

Latest from Belong – students are earning, but what are we learning?

Is the student experience out of time?

Some students have. Some students have not

Students need to feel more connected – to both the campus and each other

Disabled students need more than support plans and “fixing”

Students can’t get no sleep

What is Belong telling us about career confidence, belonging and student opportunities?

There may be serious sector problems when it comes to students and food

Students need to see themselves in their SU

The free speech problem is a crisis of confidence

Can students be bothered to come to campus?

Isn’t it time the sector showed it can learn too?

Research on value of SUs

Do students’ unions make a difference?

Opportunity Blocked: how student opportunities and SUs relate to student life, belonging and outcomes.

Opportunity blocked summary blogs:

Students’ unions

How lonely are students?

Commuters and London

The value of SUs

Student confidence and outcomes

Getting involved

How policy and politics works

OfS has got their funding guidance but what does it mean

Local elections in May 2025: What SUs need to know

Here’s what SUs in England need to know about buses and forthcoming changes to bus franchising

Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship

OfS is regulating again, here’s what SUs need to know

How to respond to OfS’ consultation over its new strategy

Here’s how to respond to the Department for Transport’s Integrated National Transport Strategy

Here’s what the Secretary of State for Education actually said when they increased fees (in England)

How the law works over tuition fee increases

How to respond to the NHS change consultation in the student interest

Here’s what SUs need to know about UUK’s new “blueprint”

How to respond to Medr’s consultation on its strategic plan

Twenty things that MPs won’t know about when it comes to student finance

What could the King’s Speech mean for students and SUs?

What is the Lifelong Loan Entitlement and how is it supposed to work?

It’s Freshers Week for new MPs – what do SUs need to know?

Finding your university in the data: Summer 2024 edition

It’s all coming up – ten things for SUs to prepare for in 2024

Here’s the latest intel on students and voting

A general election is on – here’s what SUs need to know

All about students and HE in Europe and the role of the EU

What do the public think about tuition fees?

What’s in the HE reform consultation response?

Reflecting on a decade of higher education policy and politics – and looking ahead

Here’s why understanding trends in applicant data matters for SUs

What is the Boycott Bill and why might it matter to students and SUs?

Are university campuses breeding grounds for extremism?

What are the four classic policy goals?

(Hear the drummer) get wicked problems

General election 2024

How to get the student vote out

General election 2024 manifesto watch: The SNP

The Wonkhe SUs 2024 general election student policy guide

General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Reform Party

General election 2024 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru

General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Labour Party

General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Green Party

General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party

General election 2024 manifesto watch: Liberal Democrats

Study tours

Study Tour 2025: Portugal

Study tour 2025: 48 hours in Stockholm

Study Tour 2025: Poland

Study Tour 2025: Czechia

Study Tour 2025: Slovakia

Study Tour 2025: Hungary

Spring 2024 Study Tour: Austria

Spring 2024 Study Tour: Serbia

Spring 2024 Study Tour: Slovenia

Spring 2024 Study Tour: Croatia

2024 Study Tour: Ireland

Study Tours 2024: Finland

Study Tours 2024: Estonia

Study Tours 2024: Latvia

Study Tours 2024: Lithuania

Scandi Mini Tour 2023: Denmark

Scandi Mini Tour 2023: Sweden

Study Tour 2023: Germany

Study Tour 2023: The Netherlands

Study Tour 2023: EU

Study Tour 2023: Belgium

Freedom of speech

Understanding the right to protest and the Youth Demand incident in London

Sussex, OfS and free speech – what might the implications be for SUs?

Protected beliefs – when can an SU censor a member of staff?

What can SUs learn for the future from the encampments of 2024

How the “Prevent” duty actually works in universities and SUs

Gaza campus protests: two human rights law experts write new principles for universities

The essential (revised and updated) guide for SUs to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023

SU staff and the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act

Free speech act and SUs – fines and recovery of costs by OfS

What happened in OfS’ free speech guidance webinar for SUs?

Understanding and responding to OfS’ consultation on guidance on SU free speech duties

Understanding the free speech legal balance

Can students send “grossly offensive” emails to SU officers and claim “free speech”?

SUs, free speech, the equality act, controversial beliefs and the interactions with democracy

OfS consults on (and answers questions on) free speech

How to respond to OfS’ consultation on new free speech duties for SUs

How to respond to OfS’ consultation on its new free speech complaints scheme

How will complaints in SUs work in England under the free speech bill?

When is it right to “interfere” in the free speech of student activists, officers or student groups?

England’s Free Speech Act – what happens now

Understanding new “legal briefings” on SUs and free speech

How to feed in on your university’s approach to free speech

Student views (and student types) on campus free speech

Should there be new law to protect debate on campus?

A legal view on “no platform” policies

Teaching and learning

The OfS takes a position on AI, here’s what you need to know

Here’s what university policies say about anonymous marking

The games students play: How SUs can use research into students’ subject engagement

What students are saying about AI – and the implications for SUs

Here’s what universities are doing to change assessment and feedback

What’s all this about (home student) attendance policies?

Here’s what students think about AI

We looked at 26 university “fit to sit” policies. Here’s what we found

Here’s every AI policy in UK universities and what support there is for students

Round one of OfS’ quality reports are complete – here’s what we learned

We’ve read every university’s policy on extensions and late submission. Here’s what we found

A new episode of OfS quality assessment reports has dropped. Here’s what SUs need to know

How to become competent over competence standards

Can ChatGPT help to analyse module feedback and free-text comments?

Do students who use their phones during lectures just lack self-control?

Post-pandemic students have different expectations when it comes to teaching

Slow email responses, deadline bunching and unsuitable IT – driving change via OfS’ latest inspection reports

Interventions that reduce academic misconduct

What is the Lifelong Loan Entitlement and how is it supposed to work?

OfS has a new inspection report out – here’s what SUs and their reps need to know

What exactly does “student success” mean

What SUs need to know about “block” teaching

What students want to see in academic integrity policy in an age of AI

More ways to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students

The upside of AI for students – getting students engaged in the future

What did the TEF panel really notice in SU submissions?

Imagine if there was a subject-level TEF

This new model could be great for course reps wanting to make a difference

There’s a new “student needs framework”. Here’s what SUs need to know

How to interrogate the student experience at subject level

Expectations and anticipations – how to not let students down

How do we make assessment more “authentic” given the rise of the robots?

What do students think would make university more engaging?

A beginner’s guide to university policies on Generative AI

What are students saying about generative AI ?

How do staff and students feel about lecture recordings?

How do early morning classes affect student attendance and attainment?

Timetabling is stopping students from getting a job

Seven big takeaways for SUs from the 2022 UK Engagement Survey

Reviewing policies on lecture capture

What SUs need to know about a revised Quality Code

All the TEF 2023 student submissions in one place

The Welsh government is slowing down the creation of CTER – here’s what SUs need to know

How to use OfS inspection reports to drive change for students

Weighing up types of teaching in the student interest

Can we (and should we) measure how much students learn?

What is “socio-educational well-being” and do university classrooms affect it?

Learning through successful feedback

What do students want from assessment feedback?

Does lecture capture mean fewer students are turning up (and so what if it does?)

Do learning analytics help us spot students in trouble?

Could moderation make marking fairer and mean more consistent feedback?

What the research says about lecture capture

What do students want from library refurbs?

Timetabling, soft skills and student support: does the new “football uni” have the answers?

Can we “nudge” students towards better grades?

How are degrees calculated – and why does it matter?

A code for quality

How many students cheat – and what approaches work?

Why should I care about QAA and HESA?

What’s all the fuss about grade inflation?

Should we manage, meet, or transform student expectations?

A quick guide to qualitative data

A look at personal tutoring policies

University management, strategy and governance

Here’s what UUK has to say about university cuts

How digital transformation happens at universities

What can SUs learn from the approval of new providers?

Levers to pull to get universities to ethically invest

Here’s why bad scores on student continuation, completion and progression matter to universities and their SUs

The Scottish Funding Council has a new Outcomes Framework. Here’s what SUs need to know

What do students think of uni comms (inside and outside of a crisis?)

What are universities doing about climate change?

How to respond to OfS’ review of admissions (and why SUs should bother)

UUK has been polling people on what they think about admissions

The fast way to understand debates about post-Brexit immigration and universities

Half of universities have made “divestment” commitments. Has yours?

Higher education, students, and a sense of place

Make me an offer – how students get recruited to universities and why it matters to SUs

Are universities a sinister cult, and can you have a “neutral” education?

It’s all coming up – ten things we think will happen next term

What (and where) on earth is TNE?

Data for the terrified- where to find facts, figures and numbers about unis

An overview of the regulatory framework for England

Where are we at on student period poverty?

What is a healthy university – and why does it matter?

Do students look at the feedback they get?

Augar is here: what do SUs need to know?

How much should my VC get paid (and should students have a say?)

Are university league tables broken?

A beginner’s guide to HESA data

Cost of living

When medicine meets poverty – what to do about medical student hardship

Paying more to live further away – UK student housing in 2025

There’s new insight about the impact of hardship funding for students – and why not having restrictions on funding spend matters

Here’s what students spend their financial support funds on

What’s happening to period product funding in universities in Scotland?

Hardship funds in UK universities – here’s what what we found

What does the rest of Europe do about PBSA contract exit, guarantors and upfront rent for students?

Food insecurity is on the up. What should SUs say or do?

What SUs need to think about when deciding how to allocate hardship funding

Which students are more likely to run out of food?

Here’s the latest that SUs need to know about student poverty

Comparing the financial help that universities give to students

How to approach discussions on university rent setting

50p a week to live on after rent

How do students spend bursaries and hardship funds?

The student money survey 2023 is out. Here’s what SUs need to know

The Wonkhe SUs student cost of living resource hub

How to ensure students benefit from the Household Support Fund

A new report covers student cost of living information – here’s what SUs need to know

What is polling on students and the cost of living crisis telling us?

Helping students with cost of living pressures improves their sense of belonging

How to apply for the Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund (England)

What are universities doing on the cost of living crisis?

What’s in the APPG students report on students and cost of living – and why it matters

The cost of living crisis is hitting students’ grades

Cost of living and mental health and closely related

Sixteen things that prospective MPs won’t know about when it comes to student finance

Here’s what SUs need to know about digital poverty

How to establish a student basic needs agenda (and centre)

Pay and rights for PhD students across Europe

The latest for SUs on holiday pay

3 per cent of students have enough money

Will Sharia-compliant student finance ever happen?

Hidden course costs and consumer law

Make it make sense – understanding England’s system of student finance

Students unions

Sabbs as trustees, codes of conduct, free speech and the St Andrews Rector case

A guide to generative governance for SU boards and student governors

Four things that help make a student trustee a changemaker

Here’s what SU officers need to know about a new duty to prevent fraud

What (incorporated) SUs need to know about changes to company law

Martyn’s Law: What SUs need to know

The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), SUs and international societies

The Village People from the Agency: What research on SU governance tells us

Twenty four reasons why SUs are different – and why that’s probably OK

It’s all coming up: Seven things for SUs to prep for in the year ahead

How to review your SU’s code of conduct or disciplinary complaints procedure in light of new OfS regulation

Live players, dead players and influencing tactics and skills

Membership Services Conference 2024: Slides

Check your contract: Legal clauses SUs should look at in their student-uni agreement

How to be “positively pushy” to get things done for students

You’ll spend a lot of time in useless meetings. Here’s how to make them even worse

Do SUs help students pick up the skills that employers need?

Lessons for SU trustees from the Save the Children harassment investigation

What are the development needs of sabbs?

Sports teams and homophobia – still a problem?

How representative are SU officers?

SUs as charities and external advertising

What’s the secret to keeping SU staff?

What is deliberative democracy and why should SUs think about it?

What can SUs learn from Essex Uni’s antisemitism review?

Six things to bear in mind about NSS Q26

The way holiday pay is calculated is changing and it will affect students

What would an “assertive” partnership with a university look like?

Why can’t SUs campaign on whatever they like?

Need to know – the law on students’ unions

Changes to employment law

Making the town or city where you study better

How to be “positively pushy” to get things done for students

You’ll spend a lot of time in useless meetings. Here’s how to make them even worse

A new “civic healthcheck” for your uni and SU

What makes a powerful SU officer, team or organisation?

How empowered SUs could transform the student experience

What are the basics that all higher education SUs should have?

How to support student officers to transition out of their role

Membership Services Conference 2023: Slides

How to develop urban advocacy projects in an election year

Meet the SU with a €4m block grant and hundreds of sabbs

How to develop a student urban advocacy agenda

Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) and new “foreign influence” regulation

Student casuals are to get a right to request predictable hours: Here’s what SUs need to know

There’s new formal guidance on the use of social media. Here’s what SUs need to know

Martyn’s Law: What SUs need to know

What are this year’s Freshers thinking?

How to speak on a panel or deliver a keynote with confidence and impact

How to be an influential and effective SU officer

All the latest research on the value of extra curricular activities

Why do students get involved in stuff?

Thirty ideas for revitalising welcome week from across Europe

Students’ union strategies

How do universities recognise student volunteering?

Here’s why activities, events, groups or reps for a particular group aren’t unlawful

Workplace equality for SUs in the time of coronavirus

Knowing your DSARs from your elbow: Data subject access requests

Postgraduate students

Change is coming for PhD students

How do PGR students get supervised – new intel

Should there be standards in PGR supervision?

What is it like being a PGR/PhD student in the UK?

Improving the relationship between PGR students and their supervisors

A whole bunch of extraordinary facts about postgraduate study in the UK

What about postgrads that teach?

What about postgrad student mental health?

The headlines from the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2019

The headlines you need from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2019

Why postgraduate taught students are about to move up SUs’ priority list

PGR students and their supervisors

The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2018

Charity Commission: Serious incident reporting

Charity Commission- serious incident reporting

Understanding and responding to the independent review of the TEF

Is this a turning point in the campus culture wars?

What makes a powerful SU officer, team or organisation?

New freedom of speech guidance – implications for SUs

Students and employment

The government is amending the Employment Rights Bill – here’s what SUs need to know

How (and why) to respond to the Employment Rights Bill call for evidence

There’s a new employment rights Bill out. Here’s what SUs need to know

10 things SUs can do to support students who are working

What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?

Labour is promising to improve workers’ rights and pay. Here’s the implications for SUs

Students need more financial support on work placements

What sort of conditions do students face at work – and what can universities and SU do about it?

Does paid work boost students’ confidence?

What exactly is “graduate employability” anyway (and what gets graduates employed?)

What on earth is “graduate outcomes” data and why should SUs care?

Students need jobs – but what sort?

Are graduates hitting the world of work underprepared?

Students want jobs and Advance HE has a framework for that

It’s name is LEO

Misconduct and protecting students from harm

What SUs can learn from complaints about harassment and sexual misconduct

A new duty on SUs is coming re sexual harassment. Here’s what SUs need to know

Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new condition of registration on harassment and sexual misconduct

What are “romantic advances” and why might they harm students?

Staff sexual misconduct – improving students’ rights

Ten things to note in UCL’s new policy on staff student relationships

BUCS is intervening on “problem initiations”

Here’s what universities are doing about online abuse of students

What should SUs interrogate when it comes to student data?

HEPI/Youthsight research on student cybersecurity

Making staff sexual misconduct more visible

How much progress has your uni made on “changing the culture”?

Universities UK guidance on initiations at UK universities

UUK on tackling online harassment

How to respond to the Government consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Nine big issues for reviews of harassment procedures

How to use the evaluation of OfS projects on student safeguarding locally

So your uni’s reviewing disciplinary procedures

Student disciplinary procedures in focus

What is Title IX and what have US universities learned?

Changing the culture – the UUK taskforce report

Student experience

What could a cheat sheet for the secret codes to university actually look like?

Top ten takeaways from the 2025 Student Academic Experience Survey

100 ways to build (and bridge) community on campus

Could “Freshman Learning Communities” help students transition to university?

Perceptions of fairness can make a huge difference to student satisfaction

All the top takeaways from Jisc’s student digital experience insights surveys

What SUs need to know about the students arriving on campus in September

What SUs need to know about the students arriving on campus in September

Top ten takeaways from this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey

How city planners think about student accommodation

Here’s the latest intel on student accommodation

How to use UUK’s guidance on student accommodation to win a local housing strategy for students

Here’s what SUs need to know about PTES 2023

PGRs are lonely and hard up too

Student views of the affordability of plant-based diets

What do students think about learner analytics?

Understanding the “new deal” for PGR students

What to think about if you’re feeding in on a new building or refurb on campus

Here’s what part-time, distance learner and commuter students need their SU to focus on

Top ten takeaways for SUs from the Student Academic Experience Survey 2023

Exploring the transition from PhD student to academic

How to fix the student engagement problem

What SUs need to know about a new report on campus antisemitism

Understanding students and eating disorders

Not all student carers are the same

Supporting students to transition well into university

What about the Covid student doctors?

Do students hope for value for money?

Students are vulnerable to fraud – and need better protection

What are universities doing to close degree awarding gaps?

The essential findings in this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey

A major digital divide is opening up between students

Can social networks be used as an educational resource?

Why are we so negative about students “dropping out”?

Does sleep affect academic performance?

It’s a myth! Made up things about students and universities FINALLY REVEALED

How can uni and SUs bridge the gap between school/college and uni?

Are students turning to private debt to pay rent?

What about the voices of part time students

“Inappropriate influence” and the NSS

What are the benefits to “mixing people up” in halls?

How do people get on when they study more than one subject at uni?

Want better grades? Get more sleep

The type of student accommodation you live in affects your grades

Closing the gap between student expectations and reality

Are housemates the key to student wellbeing?

Ten takeaways from Advance HE’s students statistical report 2019

Students and tech – Jisc’s digital insights survey

The new realists: the 2019 HEPI/Unite Students insight report

Drinking and peer pressure

What do we know about student living costs?

Are student homes fit for habitation?

Do bursaries work?

What has Plato got to do with student rights and expectations?

Students are more skint than ever before

What can London tell us about commuter students?

What can London tell us about retaining students?

The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: welfare disclosure

The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: value for money

The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey on: learning and teaching

How to read (and use) the HEPI survey results

The hits and misses from the 2019 Student Academic Experience survey

Mandatory affordability strategies

Will Hinds beat the cheats?

What happens to students if there’s “no deal”?

Supporting students and student mental health and wellbeing

What SUs need know about the national review of student suicides

What students want their SU to push for on health

Here’s what universities need to do to support students with experience of children’s social care

There’s new findings in the annual student gambling survey

Here’s where the Department for Education’s mental health taskforce is up to

Here’s where universities are going wrong (and right) on student mental health

Welfare, wellbeing, sexual misconduct and racism in Wales

Student mental health is declining, here’s what SUs need to know from a new study

This is the support that care experienced students need and should get

Scabies is on the rise – and students are among the worst affected

New guidance on preventing student death by suicide – here’s what SUs need to know

Avoiding academic burnout? It’s belonging again

Mpox is a global health emergency – what should universities and SUs do?

Some students are single parents. What are they going through?

How to improve rights for students who have a placement

Which students are suitable candidates for mental health services?

How to measure the mental health of students

First-generation students may need different mental health support

Student mental health, clubs and societies and drugs

A consistent standard of mental health support for students in Wales – here’s what SUs need to know

The latest headlines on student mental health

How to be better at supporting Black students’ wellbeing

What has personality got to do with belonging (and why it might matter to SUs)

Meet the SU with 1500 student leaders and a focus on subject belonging

Facilitating interactions and connections between students outside of the classroom is crucial for belonging

What is Belong telling us about career confidence, belonging and student opportunities?

Belonging is partly about space

Belonging and retention: what does the evidence tell us?

How do you build belonging in a blended environment?

How does students’ socioeconomic status impact their sense of belonging?

Exploring approaches to promoting belonging

Here’s what SUs need to know about the progress of the Renter’s (Reform) Bill in England

Making student housing affordable – rooms that are 10m squared

Here’s the latest intel on student housing

Students from lower socioeconomic backrounds have worse sleep

Why do students pre-drink?

This is why better sleep should matter more to students (and their universities)

Why a basic needs approach may be key to shifting the dial on student support

The university experiences of care experienced students

Are campus nap pods an actual thing?

How to respond to the Welsh government’s consultation on housing rent and supply

Understanding loneliness stigma

Peer support builds connection, community and confidence

What type of interventions best address student loneliness?

The renters (reform) bill – here’s what SUs need to know

What is happening to students in the private rented sector?

Here’s what the implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act means for students and SUs

How to improve safety for students in local pubs and clubs (update)

Women VCs increase reporting rates of gender-based violence on campus

Why do students self-harm?

How to implement a harm reduction approach over drugs and alcohol

What difference do “personal tutors” make – and how?

Does “mindfulness” training help with exams?

Almost half of students have had “a serious psychological issue”

Wellbeing and burnout: is it worse for medical students?

How to tackle student loneliness before term starts

Guess what: there’s a link between the academic experience and mental health

The essential guide to the Student Minds University Mental Health Charter (Part 2)

The essential guide to the Student Minds University Mental Health Charter (Part 1)

Are some subjects worse than others for student mental health?

How to embed mental health in the curriculum

How to close the student mental health attainment gap

Norman Lamb has stats on uni mental health services

Where should we start on student mental health?

What role do teaching and academic staff play in mental health strategies?

Co-producing mental health strategies with students

Inclusion, liberation and equality

What the Supreme Court ruling on “woman” means for SUs

A beginner’s guide to reasonable adjustments and competence standards for disabled students

Disabled students find community online – results of a new study

What SUs need to know from Disabled Students’ UK’s annual access insights report

Here’s what you need to know about Scottish universities tackling inequalities

Decolonising the curriculum hasn’t closed the gap between Black and white students – here’s what might

Online learning, neurodivergent students and “cognitive load”

There’s new findings on the LGBTQ+ student experience that SUs need to know

There’s new findings on the LGBTQ+ student experience that SUs need to know

After Abrahart: What should SUs push for to improve support for Disabled students? (June 2024 update)

Polling and practice from UUK on students’ experiences of racial harassment

Here’s how SAs in Scotland can “tackle persistent inequalities together”

Are perceptions of teaching excellence impacted by gender?

How do students cope with racism and racial inequality on campus?

How to respond to the consultation on improving non-medical help for disabled students

Expectations on Welsh universities over EDI – what SUs need to know

How to use the new Disabled students commitment

How proposed changes to the Equality Act could impact universities and students

There’s a new report on transition and reasonable adjustments for disabled students. Here’s what SUs need to know

Everything SUs need to know about the student experience of trans and non-binary students

The lived experiences of BAME LGBTQ students

What help is there for students with ADHD – and what should there be?

Seminar attendance, lecture capture and disability adjustments

This is what inclusive education should look like

Do students have a voice in diversity policies?

Hidden marks – the contribution of student leaders to tackling gender-based violence on campus

Financial literacy and the “ethnicity gap” among UK students

Here’s why results from the Disabled Student Survey 2023 matter to SUs

What happens when you ask students themselves about “inclusion”?

OfS has uncovered more gaps in getting in and getting on

You think Oxbridge, you think privilege

Mental health among transgender students

Students these days are so “super complex”

How can students feel safe and not safe all at the same time?

How to improve diversity on campus

Guess what. There’s a religion and belief attainment gap too

Why are LGBT+ students dropping out of uni?

Revealed: The big differences in student satisfaction between types of student

Revealed: what different types of students think of SUs

Are parts of HE turning a blind eye to racism?

This is why men do better when they appeal

How to make a difference for disabled students

Straight white men and diversity projects

Racial harassment at UK universities – summarising the report

Racism on campus – the role of SUs

Understanding the BME attainment gap

Are unis doing enough for disabled students?

Disabled students and living up to the “hype”

Ten takeaways from Trendence research on LGBT+ students

How co-creation can support underrepresented students and equitable practices

How to run research projects on gender-based violence

Decolonising the curriculum means decolonising the library too

Why are my lecturers so white?

Closing the gap: the UUK/NUS attainment report

Is it possible to “liberate the curriculum”?

Ensuring discrimination, harassment and non-reporting policies work for all students

Student representation and voice

A round up of student influence, voice and representation policies from our eurotours

What’s it like being on academic board/council/senate?

The five frames of student representation

A quick guide to university governance

It’s time to unlock students’ voices

Can SUs be truly representative of their student bodies?

Does your university need a student consultation framework?

Lip service and bottlenecks – what is it like being a student representative?

Student-staff co-creation in higher education

Responding to student voice: insights into international practice

Unbiased, reliable, and valid student evaluations can still be unfair

Ten ways to improve institution-level student representation

Partnerships that support student led projects

How to respond to OfS’ consultation on student consultation

Where does student voice go?

Student rights and protections

There’s a new framework to support students in distress – here’s what SUs need to know

What’s still wrong with the Renter’s Rights Bill (and what would fix it)?

What SUs can learn from complaints about student transfers

What the Renters Rights Bill committee heard about students in its first major meeting

The Renters Rights Bill is almost done – what should SUs do to prepare?

24 things that SUs need to know about new rights in (some) university halls

Here’s the latest on the Housing (Scotland) Bill

What’s been happening in the Lords re the Renter’s Rights Bill?

What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?

How to respond to the consultation on standards and rights in privately-run halls

Here’s all the amendments the Lords have submitted for the Renter’s Rights Act

It’s time to push for a rewrite of your university’s Student Protection Plan

Here’s what SUs need to know about the Online Safety Act

How to respond to OfS’ new consultation on fairness for students

What are students’ rights over closed modules, campuses and courses?

How to respond to the Renters’ Rights Bill call for evidence

What SUs can learn from complaints about service issues

If that then that – here’s what amendments to the Renters’ Rights Bill could look like for students

This is what SUs (mainly in England) need to know about the new Renter’s Rights Bill

Interventions that reduce academic misconduct

Learning and rights from complaints from postgrads

Tackling violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in HE in Wales: What SUs need to know

The ten failings in a recent “duty of care” case over allegations of sexual assault

A new law passes on sexual harassment in the workplace – here’s what SUs need to know

Broadening our understanding of sexual violence on campus

Round table report: Harassment and sexual misconduct

How to respond to OfS’ proposals on harassment and sexual misconduct

How do students define sexual consent?

Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new proposals on harassment and sexual misconduct

How impactful is mandatory sexual misconduct training for students?

What can SUs learn from complaints concerning halls?

What can SUs learn from complaints concerning non-academic misconduct?

What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?

What can SUs learn from complaints concerning academic misconduct?

What can SUs learn from complaints summaries in OIA’s annual report?

What are students’ rights if cuts are proposed or implemented?

How to improve your university’s handling of allegations of sexual misconduct

How to protect students from the cuts that are coming

Understanding students’ experiences of violence on and off campus

Making major changes to courses just got a lot harder

Is it time to review your university’s student protection plan?

Ten things to note from OIA’s annual report

What do students think about the so-called “value for money” agenda?

The Consumer Rights Act 2015 and Industrial Action

How are SUs handling term two of strike action?

How much profit does your university make out of students?

How to respond to the OfS consultation on harassment and sexual misconduct

How to respond to OIA’s extenuating circumstances consultation

How to tell students where their tuition fees go

Fitness to practise – case studies from OIA

Understanding “fitness to practise”

Should students who owe their university money be able to graduate?

Fitness to practice and unsual academic regs

Essential welfare intervention or surveillance state?

Attendance monitoring at university

Hidden course costs and consumer law

International students

International students and new consumer rights

Fifteen things that SUs need to know about the immigration white paper

For international students career support is a priority, here’s how SUs can support them

New research on international disabled students – what SUs need to know

How to protect international students from harassment and sexual misconduct

UKVI confirms new attendance rules for international students

Here’s what SUs need to know about upcoming regulation of international agents

Here’s what SUs need to know about international postgraduate research students

Where international students can pay by instalments (and how many)

The government response to the graduate review is out – here’s the upshots for SUs

What to look out for in the MAC review

Will lecture recordings for international students be banned in the future?

Here’s what SUs should argue for on international students and technology

How to run impactful focus groups with international students

How to sponsor international graduates as “skilled workers”

The rules when international students become sabbs

Internationalisation at home: Here’s what SUs need to know

Who’s offering hardship funding for international students?

Where international students can pay by instalments (and how many)

How big is the international attainment gap at your university?

What are international disabled students entitled to?

Here’s what UUK says universities should do when recruiting international students

How to define and measure international student precarity

Improving the narrative around internationalisation

International students’ digital experience – what SUs need to know

Supporting and enhancing the experience of international students

International students need tailored support when it comes to sexual violence

Is international integration all about pairing?

Helping international students to achieve academic integration

How to improve international student integration and experience

Here’s what SUs need to know when making sense of recent immigration figures

Ten things to remember about temporary changes to immigration rules for international students

Do we need an international students integration index?

How can we promote international integration on campus?

Do international students think Britain is drunk?

Strikes and industrial action

Everything SUs need to know about industrial action in the sector

Industrial action latest statements

Thorny issues to think through in the run up to industrial action

Student rights and industrial action

Implications for SUs of summaries of strike complaints

Compensation and industrial action

Policy forums and round tables

Policy forum: Wellbeing and liberation officers and staff

Policy forum: Academic representation and voice

Policy forum: Advice managers

Policy forum update: PGR student experience

Policy forum update: Building belonging and tackling loneliness

Policy forum update: Harassment and sexual misconduct

Policy forum update: AI and assessment

Policy forum update: Student cost of living

Policy forum report: Course rep coordinators

Policy forum report: Advice managers catch up

Policy forum report: International

Round table report: Supporting Disabled sabbs

Round table report: EDI in clubs and societies

Access and participation

Takeaways for SUs from OfS’ latest webinar on access and participation

Is there a link between gender-based violence and access and participation?

Here’s what SUs need to know about OfS’ new regulation of access and participation

Amended guidance on APPs – here’s what matters to SUs (Jan 2024 UPDATE)

Student engagement in OfS’ new APP process

So did universities build student engagement into access and participation plans?

Access and participation to… postgrad study?

Plums on the tree – what’s going on with social mobility?

What helps first in the family students to succeed?

Helping under-represented students navigate academic culture

Revealed: how to stop WP students from dropping out

What do published access and participation strategies say about SU and student involvement?

What’s the Sutton Trust saying about prospective students?

Contextual admissions – a quick explainer

What’s all the fuss about unconditional offers?

General election 2019

The Wonkhe SUs 2019 general election student policy guide

There’s a new “ranking” out on voter registration

Update from the Cabinet Office on electoral registration and NI numbers

SUs, elections and charity law: nothing to worry about

The electoral commission has clarified some things for charities

Getting students registered to vote is an urgent priority

General election 2019 manifesto watch: Plaid Cymru

General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Conservative Party

General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Brexit Party

General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Labour Party

General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Liberal Democrats

General election 2019 manifesto watch: The Green Party

Covid-19

Next academic year and the “structure of learning”

Inducting, socialising and engaging students in the “new normal”

Student views on Covid-19 and implications for SUs

Ten important findings about young people and education from ONS research into the impact of Covid-19

Students are keen to come back – with caveats

What are universities planning and are students still coming?

Bolton or Cambridge? Announcements on lifting lockdown tested

Will students defer or switch if September is socially distant?

How is Covid-19 impacting disabled students?

Is the penny starting to drop for students re September?

What sort of impact is the pandemic having on PGRs?

What should universities be doing for PGR students during the pandemic?

Would students be happy if next term was online?

How many students are already locked into accommodation contracts next year?

What impact is Covid-19 having on students (and what do they think of their university’s handling of it)

How confident is the Covid cohort when it comes to finding a job?

It looks like international students are desperate to defer

What are prospective students saying about universities and student support?

Digging into research on student views on Covid-19 handling

Covid-19 mitigations and deaf students

Are “student compacts” an answer to some of the September student questions?

Students, spring break, science and September

Are students worried about their uni going bankrupt?

There’s a briefing out on mental health and Covid-19

How to reopen universities in September

NHS Test and Trace and the major questions for students

The practicalities of a socially distant campus

What can we do about the graduate unemployment crisis that’s coming?

What bespoke support should be in place for disadvantaged students during the crisis?

It’s a small world – how contagious are university campuses?

Preparing to discuss your university’s finances

Holding meetings during the Covid-19 lockdown

As everything moves online, do you know your data rights?

What you need to know about the furloughed workers scheme

How should SUs manage risk in the current climate?Changes being made to teaching and assessment have to last beyond the lockdown

OIA has new guidance out on how it will approach Covid complaints

Students need detail about September – but is that possible?

DfE has published guidance on reopening universities in the autumn

QAA has guidance out on courses and assessment next year

UUK has published some principles and considerations on emerging from lockdown

QAA has published briefings on years abroad and placements

What are FE colleges being told about opening – and why might it matter for HE?

There is new guidance on student (and staff) mental health and wellbeing

QAA has guidance out on placements, years abroad and apprenticeships

QAA has guidance out on practice and lab-based assessment

QAA has guidance out on academic standards and supporting student achievement

OfS publishes guidance on teaching, assessment, student support and consumer rights during Covid-19

Key points from QAA’s guidance on Covid-19 and the student learning experience

Student rights and Covid-19: OIA on complaints during the pandemic

Coronavirus and protecting students’ interests

What are universities being advised about coronavirus and what are the implications for SUs?

Complaints, compensation and Covid-19

SUs blog listing

Why do UK SU sabbs start (and finish) in the summer?

Launching a definition of Islamophobia

Mixed category trustee boards aren’t working. Here’s what would

Parental Advisory: Why empowering parents might be central to SU campaigning

What happened at ESU’s last board meeting (and why it matters to UK SUs)

Reflections on leading a students’ union as an insider

Celtic connections: Time for some new rules

Celtic connections: School plays sell out

Celtic connections: Building belonging is about starting small

Celtic connections: From data to humans

Celtic connections: Futurecasting can be fun and useful

Celtic connections: Do SUs need a new vision for the student experience?

Students’ views on AI vary more than you think

It’s time for the university to give back to elected officers

Reflections on my first year leading a students’ union as an outsider

Student housing co-operatives would take the pressure off

Getting past survey fatigue by going unfiltered

A student leadership revolution is overdue

International students still choose the UK – but for how much longer?

From boardroom to bedroom – how sports survived the death of the office

Here’s how we’re meeting students’ basic needs at Leeds

Five reflections from Portugal

To be FAIRe, there was plenty to learn in Portugal

A praxe é para quem quer!

Students should be co-authors of their education

Wonkhe SUs training and induction Summer 2025

On site, in-house training for SUs: Summer 2025

Those who fight don’t always win, but those who don’t fight always lose

Should reps be paid?

In staff-student relationship policies, are sabbs staff or students?

The lab rats in the department store

It’s OK to be unreasonable

Here’s ten different ways to lobby on everything in Parliament right now

Why is higher education sidelining sport?

Students are citizens of their cities too

Now that’s what I call The Secret Life of Students 2025

Should module evaluation be mandatory?

How to survive the student rep apocalypse

We’re taking action to strengthen free speech on campus

Were students heard in TEF 2023?

A postponement of a graduation or a problematic work environment means a lot

There is no contradiction between being radical and being responsible

Siv’s attitude gives him hope

How (and why) to build tradition on campus

An autonomous agitator within the corporate ambition of the university

We’re losing the international student argument

Is a burger in a campus bar educational? Depends

What is organisational design and governance and why does it matter to SUs?

Enabling students to succeed isn’t mollycoddling

Should you be student-led for student-led’s sake?

Our students are ambitious. They need an SU that channels that

Now! That’s what I call a student leader 2025

Inside the student blockades in Serbia

Are SUs neoliberal – and so what if they are?

We cannot leave social action activities to chance

Emergent strategy for students’ unions

Rethinking lobbying at the Hull Northern Voice Conference

Open sourcing a student union

The more interesting the talent, the better

Invite a student to choose

Gnome sweet home

Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred

The principled class approach

When you’re building a house you don’t start with the roof

The cloudless fun of every freshman

Our prosperity must be sought here

The rubbish bin theory of the student experience

We want the EU not the KGB

Why universities need female-only gym spaces

SU visions are about more than just words

London isn’t the only area where students face higher costsNow students will know what we think about things

Students are vulnerable to scams, here’s what universities and SUs can do to help

It turns out that students can run the place

How to embrace harm reduction on campus

Can the gown tame the town?

How to get off the hamster wheel of university level student representation

Universities need to do more on menstrual health

Students need more accessible healthcare support when living away at university

A year on with generation AI

PGR students aren’t hard to reach – and student staff can help

Why being a disengaged student turned student officer was bene

It is time for home students to pay their fair share

Universities must bridge the gap between promises and international student realities

Providing real support for election runners-up

Blogs from previous study tours

Student partnership is happening in Manchester, so why not in London?

An opportunity to engage, learn and develop: Our European Study tours in 2025

Responding quickly in times of crisis in the student interest

Homelessness is a hidden issue in Scotland’s student housing crisis

Get involved in our national student experience research

What is a registrar anyway?

Twenty ways to deliver on Labour’s opportunity mission by making student housing better

What happened when there were “new rules” for SUs in Scotland?

Here’s how to make the immigration regime better for for international students

The SU theory of change is broken. Nudniks might fix it

Whose SU is it anyway?

PhD students are getting organised over pay and conditions. Just not in the UK

Volunteering at the Festival of Higher Education

Taking a stand and telling stories through sport

What does today’s announcement on free speech mean for SUs?

Transition, learn and adapt – being successful on the other side for ex-SU officers

Aren’t we all influencers now?

Another university is possible

This one simple trick could change your rep system forever

Why is the Scottish student voice limited to the classroom?

It’s not all about you. Or is it?

They’re all offering change. But will students see any?

Why are we paying students to be good citizens?

There’s only so much that universities can do

Faculty-based officers are about giving student communities power

Why we need a new benchmark for academic representation (and how you can get involved)

Meeting students’ basic needs is about more than just a pantry

What should SUs do when an election is in the Summer?

We’ve worked with careers to build student engagement and promote employability

Isn’t SU awards season all a bit elitist?

What it’s like to advocate for students, SUs and HE in Parliament?

Community organising can make a difference in local action

Students need more influence. Here’s how we get it

Yes but what do students think?

Manifesto proposals driven by the struggles faced by students

What should SUs do next on the cost of living crisis?

We need to make our sector much more inclusive

Sometimes student representation is about what’s not being talked about

Why did I re-stand as SU President?

Students are a part of society here

Because nothing has to stay the way that it is

Jump over the leather with a shout of salvation

Covid exposed flaws in discipline for neurodivergent students

How to set up neurodiverse student leaders to succeed

How to ensure events and activities are accessible for neurodiverse students

We live in a time when we are all too busy with ourselves

Sometimes the rice is undercooked

90 per cent of students are right and 10 per cent are not

We musn’t miss the boat on registering to vote

What can be done for students when their course is closed?

What happens when the SU is… just you?

Surviving, thriving and letting go: How to be an ex-SU officer

High time to refresh our approach to Freshers

How to turn a bar crawl into a Freshers Adventure

Can SUs find creativity in chaos and crisis?

How to make being a student staff member educational

Wonkhe SUs training and induction Summer 2024

On site, in-house training for SUs: Summer 2024

SU elections are one big pantomime

Sabb elections are almost over for 2024. What happened?

Here’s six headlines for SUs from this year’s Secret Life of Students

The secrets to improving your NSS score finally revealed

Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024

Exploitation, neglect and how we are failing our part-Time officers

We know, it’s bananas

Please vote and we will shut up

School plays sell out

For SUs, free speech regulation is a terrible mess

Tracing the history of LGBTQ+ student activism through universities

How to be a students’ union officer from a working class background

How to make our officers and campaigns even stronger

Should SUs be banning posters with controversial slogans?

Students need support to have conversations about consent

How to approach block grant negotiations

Shouldn’t every SU have a statement up on Israel/Palestine?

Active student involvement is key to a university’s academic success

Working with international officers: A guide to successful collaboration

You represent you, your subject and your university

What happens when SU officer poachers become university gamekeepers?

It’s a popularity contest, but not as we know it

Good teaching and learning can only happen in cooperation

We never invaded anyone

Gather a team of 3-4 friends, put on your favorite T-shirt

Nobody wants it to go nuclear

JFK, the Janitor and SUs’ strategic approach

Craft and voice can amplify students’ concerns

Students are still confused about AI

Here’s why crafting and craft events have become the breakout SU event hit of 2023

It is time for real and positive change in the PGT student experience

Can SUs diversity their income streams?

SUs are being placed in an impossible position over free speech

Students or staff? A research postgraduate Bread and Roses

We want Greater Manchester to be the best place for students to live in this country

Campus protest is back – can universities keep up?

Tackling process improves participation for everyone

Policy forums and groups: Dates for the diary

SUs should be partners – especially when times are tough

What happens when sabbs become university staff?

SUs need to step up to both reduce disruption and support staff when there’s a strike

Taking development seriously means getting on the bus

An open letter from a hungry sabb

Widening participation won’t happen by magic

Universities can do more to address gambling harms

The academic integrity scammers are getting more threatening

Honestly? I wanna see you be brave

Supporting student trustees to succeed

The Welsh Government can do better on student voice

Could SU “digs drives” be a short-term solution to an intensifying student housing problem?

Eight interesting things about DCU SU (and the Republic of Ireland)

Students need shallower ends to build belonging during Welcome Week

We tried a fresh approach to academic representation. How did the first year go?

Why is telling the truth getting so hard?

How we turned around our Q26 score

Better elections means supporting the talent

England’s big student housing shakedown

Is a “social policy” approach key to supporting officers?

We need to talk about sabbatical pay

Supporting students to be effective on university boards

Taking volunteering seriously

The secret to engaging more students in opportunities

How to commission a consultant

Why aren’t we employing more student staff?

Recruiting (and being recruited) in challenging times

A shared community for students in the city

Antisemitism isn’t just an NUS problem

Students need a cha cha cha

Students are using AI to plug holes in their provision

Are SUs and careers services a match made in heaven?

Good bystander training needs discussion with peers

What do we want regulation to do in Wales?

We need the disabled student voice more than ever

This is the pep talk I needed when I became a sabb

New ways of building community on campus

Building campus communities means putting down roots

Hats off to new approaches

How many heroes can the house of cards bear?

The cost of living crisis has not gone away

International students are more than numbers on a spreadsheet

AI is here to stay – and students want clarity on how to harness it

SUs are vital in the civic agenda – here’s how to grasp it

Students and high-quality, affordable housing – why don’t they get it?

New rules – or no rules?

On elections, have we forgotten how to innovate?

Blue skies and big pictures – thinking about the future of SUs

Could UK SUs help students “create tomorrow”?

Students need to see themselves in their SU

The TEF has helped us redefine student partnership

SUs have lots to learn from the arts

SU elections season is complete. What now?

You don’t even know me. So why do you judge my life?

It’s time for officers to think about the future

Part-time officers need to feel valued and supported

Recovery is possible – how to prevent eating disorder tragedies

SU complaint, disciplinary procedures and codes of conduct may need to change

Welcome week should be all about the family

We shouldn’t need evidence to drive inclusion – but it helps

Should SUs and universities agree joint codes on free speech?

A ban on “ASOS” isn’t as good for students as you might think

Where is Labour going on fees?

University strategic reviews are an opportunity foStudents are struggling with rental costs – what is the government doing to help?

Should I stay or should I go?

Academic representation can be exciting – and highly disruptive

Is it time to build something better? Course reps and change in 2023

The rise of corporate landlords: how they are swallowing city centres like Manchester one block of flats at a time

What if SU elections are a huge waste of time?

To protect students’ interests, SUs should step up their efforts on lobbying

They are so proud of us

It’s the most important five days of your life

Students will go if other students have organised it

It’s like Karaoke, but more about community

How to ensure your AGM is a great meeting

Private: A decade of scapegoating international students to justify a “hostile environment”

Everyone should be able to access their graduation

Now our access to e-books is under threat

Eight things I learned by talking to heads of school

We need to talk about legacies

What should SUs do about the lack of student housing?

What is freedom of speech without theatrical debating societies? This

A practical guide to handling sabbatical officer burnout

We took away due dates for university assignments. Here’s what we found

It’s time SUs talked mental health and money on campus

Disabled and chronically ill students feeling forgotten

The Lords have been discussing students’ unions. It didn’t go well

Ten ways to get through storming fortnight

Community and connection means starting with the course

How to align university investment policy with immigration justice

Universities can foster more deliberative democracy — starting by empowering students

Wonkhe SUs study tours 2023 – outline itinerary and details

How to give students and their reps more power

The student movement needs another Millbank moment

Campaigning for careers to go fossil free

What we learned on your summer holidays

We need to be lobbying now on cost of living

Fifteen reflections on postgraduate representation in SUs

We’re collaborating to tackle the cost of living in our city

How SUs can talk to students about cost of living

When our students’ problems change, our priorities need to change with them

What should an SU’s relationship with its community be like?

Talking to student officers about manifestos

What do we even mean by “officer support”?

Students need to know what SUs think about things

How to resolve conflict on campus

What can happen in an academic miscondu

Are you free this coming freshers’ week?

Lessons from advice: building a picture of the student experience

Will rental reform help students in halls?

If I could turn back time – reflections from former SU officers

How to improve the quality of student housing

Rental reform is coming – what should SUs do next?

Should academics be made to decolonise the curriculum?

One union’s journey to find its new democracy

Student activism has been transformed by technology

Who should pay the price for keeping external speakers (and students) safe?

Students calling for fee rebates over strikes is not anti-union

To change a university’s culture we need to see it through students’ eyes

If students need belonging then their SUs need to change

Who is going to be your trustee chair when the role regenerates?

Sharing student stories from Ukraine

What do we expect of SU officers?

Michelle Donelan’s complaints process for online learning doesn’t work

Students and their unions need to back the marking boycotts

Time for SUs to write a new chapter on community on campus

How Scandinavian SUs do policy and democracy (not elections)

What can we learn from Scandinavia and from students?

Student rights are human rights

His Majesty the Pig writhes out of his whimsical reclusive binge

Blankets are available

A study time to remember and an education to be proud of

Sometimes we have to get loud

NUS will support students and give them power

We are the university’s best partner and greatest critic

In Denmark, they give students a hygge

In Manchester, we bucked the SU elections trends this year. Here’s how

Gamer types reimagined for student engagement

The financing of doctoral study is a flawed system

What stops students from reporting sexual violence?

There’s more to do on student voice and protection in Wales’ new tertiary bill

It’s not too late for lame ducks to leave a legacy

Students need universities to act over Ukraine

Tough times are coming – what SU leaders do next will matter

Students need universities to act over Ukraine

Our work on gender-based violence is about giving students power and control

There’s a giant student-shaped hole in the government’s Augar response

There’s a giant student-shaped hole in the government’s Augar response

Deepening our understanding of PGR students

Let’s stop pretending sabbs should be apolitical

Students are frustrated. We’re helping to amplify and channel that frustration

A great deal for students (and student staff) on campus

Handling sexual misconduct on campus needs to be about natural justice

How to improve accountability in your students’ union and make it more democratic

OfS needs to ask the right questions on student mental health

What is a fair SU election anyway?

How to make your strategy away day pay

Telling students to “prepare for the worst” isn’t good enough

It’s all coming up – 12 things for SUs think about in 2022

More than half of universities are not on track to meet their emissions targets

Accommodation costs are pricing students out of education

What I learned about (climate) change at COP26

We need to talk about sabbatical burnout

An open letter to the new Director for Fair Access and Participation

Why did so many women win sabbatical office this year?

Student housing is broken at the foundations

Isn’t it time you were a bit more selfish?

Taking action on complaints in SUs

Do students recognise racism as “harassment”?

Nightclubs need to do more to ensure students are safe for students

After the boycotts, what happens next?

Campaigning and COP26: What are students’ unions permitted to do?

The exploitation of migrant students needs to stop

Anxious about what’s next? You’re not the only one

Universities should oppose, not just refine, the Free Speech Bill

Universities should oppose, not just refine, the Free Speech Bill

Beyond Zoom, Teams and video lectures – what do university students really want from online learning?

How bad is student crime in your area – and what should SUs do about it?

MPs have been scrutinising the free speech Bill

Is it time to kill off our obsession with student clubs and socs?

Why we need to stop talking about “foreign” studIt’s all coming up: Nine issues for SUs to prep for in the year ahead

If hybrid learning is here to stay, student housing is about more than a bed

Why are students being ignored over blended learning?

What did SUs learn from the Pandemic: PWhat did SUs learn from the Pandemic: Part 2

What did SUs learn from the Pandemic: Part 3

Online abuse should not be a “normal” part of a student officer’s role

Being an SU CEO during Covid meant new priorities

What about staff and students that experience miscarriage?

Students are in the room. But who’s listening?

The student who copied himself

Being an officer is confusing and complex – and not all because of Covid-19

Letting students lead – reflections on virtual access and outreach

For SUs, the biggest risk now is doing nothing

Involving student survivors of sexual misconduct boosts their confidence and control

How might students’ drug behaviours be different after the lockdown?

What should we take from new figures on student mental health?

Accusing students of cheating without care can cost lives

How do we collectively craft a more caring university community?

Ten notes of caution about a blended autumn and winter

How to attract and retain unusual suspects to boards and committees

It’s time the sector took a lead on addressing student housing

How SUs can get involved in the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission

Student input into APPs must not disappear into a regulatort is Prevent that chills free speech on campus

It’s the Wonkhe SUs student leadership not-quite-awards 2021

Why do we waste the talent that we grow?

Student officers in the departure lounge

Disabled students have sex, apparently

Conservatoires, Covid-19 and cracking on with it

SU Officers are waging war against essay mills

Once there was a war on students’ unions

Universities need to create safe but critical spaces for debate – here’s how

Having a student rep in the room isn’t enough

Why are we excluding thousands of students from access to hardship funding?

#SUFutures – What should students’ union strategy look like next?

Why every SU ought to have an advocacy strategy

Student politics is too important to cut off from support

Shouldn’t students’ unions be free from worrying about others’ free speech?

The impact of the pandemic upon student opportunities

The reluctant student activists of the Covid pandemic

The pandemic has been good for some disabled students – let’s keep it that way

Student cooperation can help us reclaim “belonging” post-Covid

Ten things SUs can do now on free speech and political diversity

New supercomplaints procedures could be a gamechanger for SUs

International student experience finally takes centre stage

Having something fun to look forward to is really helpful – for all of us

The struggle is real but there is a way thPoorer students are less likely to take part in sport at university

Student voices will be heard everywhere in Wales

How to raise a concern about a university or college

Students feel abandoned by their own institutions

The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Further Implementation etc) Regulations 2019

Students that use essay mills are vulnerable to blackmail

Why are we seeing comms conflict between staff and officers?

The big mobile firms shouldn’t forget university students

Are student support groups the new societies?

Should SUs kick the booze once and for all?

Covid precarity is radicalising a new generation of students

Who’s behind “Stop the Student Rip Off”?

Is online exam monitoring a good idea?

What happens when politics wades into charities?

Sexual violence in higher education hasn’t gone away

Student sport is safer and more valuable than the alternatives

Coronavirus is making students feel blamed and unsupported

Consensus statement: Freedom of speech and students’ unions, guilds and associations – next steps

Students unions are all the same. Or are they?

Can student societies survive the pandemic?

How to do town gown during a global pandemic

We have to get the Covid response right for medical students

Every now and then officer portfolios get a little bit tired

Do we misunderstand being marginalised?

Do we misunderstand being marginalised?

If this is a free speech culture war, we’re calling a ceasefire

The forgotten place of faith in university space

SU staff are not immune from the struggles of Covid-19

Students need safe spaces now more than ever

Just who is working for PhD students?

University chaplains in person during Covid-19

A master’s degree in student engagement

Students shouldn’t have to demand safety

Integrating Chinese students can’t be done in isolation

If it all goes online, who might we leave behind?

Are SUs practicing what they’re preaching on mental health?

Have we lost something in our digital inductions and handovers?

For disabled students, access to content isn’t enough

Student hardship won’t go away as the health crisis subsides

SUs have a complicated relationship with the National Student Survey

Understanding university jargon

What exactly are students going to do with their time?

Last year I became SU President – and you won’t believe what happened next

What does “blended” mean for student sport?

Now would be a very bad time to treat students like children

Covid-19 could be a catalyst for a more supportive, inclusive education

We could make a massive difference to student parents

Getting comfortable with direct action

Are community and Covid-19 mutually exclusive?

Student sport can’t be an optional extra in September’s offer

Students and their unions face a triple whammy this autumn

Working in a students’ union is a real job

What can universities promise about student life in September? Who knows

Why are criminals using international students and what can SUs do to protect students?

Change for BAME staff requires action and bravery

Eventually, it ceases to be the same course

Master’s students are owed deferrals and refunds

The global climate emergency has not gone away

Students have answers to the questions about September

The lessons from Covid-19 are simpler than they look

Is partnership really possible over Covid-19?

The panic is over – so here’s five things to fix now the real crisis has begun

Coronavirus: When teaching during a disaster, students need to be partners

To get through the Covid crisis, we need authentic authentic engagement with students

Can we keep the student spirit alive if we’re social distancing?

What would a socially distant student experience be like?

What was different about the campus free speech battles of the 1990s?

Physical activity matters more than ever in the Covid-19 fight back

Students need a staggered start next year

The debate over what comes next for student sport starts here

How to protect students from death by Powerpoint in September

SU byelaws? Much camus about nothing

How can officers end the year when it’s all beginning again?

Essay mills haven’t gone away during the Covid crisis

What could we lose in the transition to a “new normal”?

Something absolutely huge has happened in Canada for students

The future has to be affordable and we’ll need to fight for it

Only collectivism can solve the problem of fee refunds

International students could help save British universities

For the emerging transition, the sector has lots to learn from SU leadership

Assertive partnership is what we’ll need to get through the crisis

Students need strong leadership and practical solutions from Government

Ten things we’ve learned so far from the Covid-19 crisis

How to listen to students in the middle of a crisis

What we learned when we ran student council online

Covid-19: Won’t somebody think of the postgraduate research students?

Covid-19: What’s going on around the world (26th March)

What has Unite Students done on Covid-19?

How can you run an SU entirely online?

Making SUs louder and more independent

From blunders to “petty McCarthyism” – the fall and rise and Turning Point UK

The debate over “no-platforming” may end up sucking the life out of campuses

#SUFutures – Is it time to bin off the SU strategic plan?

#SUFutures – Refreshing freshers and celebrating events

#SUFutures – What exactly is the point?

#SUFutures – Why are we so obsessed with being “local”?

OIA: helping to minimise the impact of industrial action on students

OfS: our role during the industrial action

#SUFutures – Course reps were the future once

#SUFutures – Neither a bird nor a plane – the rise of the super rep

#SUFutures – A single point of failure – that fails students

#SUFutures – Academic representation? Drop the fixation

#SUFutures – Time to go back to the future

The powerful question every university meeting needs to answer

Let’s play fantasy students’ union

How SUs can help their faith and belief societies

Case study: what we can learn from Aalto SU?

Students and Europe is about more than Erasmus+

Students, their SUs and their universities need to radically rethink “student partnership”

We must be able to make it possible for students to build a fairer world now and in the future

Everyone has a right to a cheap hot meal

It’s time for SUs to campaign on individual advocacy

Jump on the roller coaster and raise your arms in the air

Once a year we sing our hearts out

Women are more important here

You do have to pass a test

All SUs should give give it a go a go

Social mobility or social justice?

Why should students be enrolled at a university that doesn’t take mental health seriously?

Are we setting sabbs up to fail?

SUs in Ontario have won a reprieve – for now

Why do SUs need officers anyway?

If change is the only certainty then certainly we’ll all have to deal with change

Top 6 takeaways from the UK Engagement Survey

University housing: students taking matters into their own hands

Is the art of resolutionary (student) politics dead?

A funny thing happened on the way to the democratic forum

Lobbying and policy work isn’t real campaigning – or is it?

Student housing that’s good for your health

How to engage local organisations in student volunteering

Has trading off ruined citizens’ juries in SUs?

Sports teams and homophobia – still a problem?

Helping students to rate their landlord puts them in the driving seat

The story so far on student contracts

They don’t like the assessment, and they reject the feedback

Behind the scenes of student complaints adjudication

Students can influence the future of education

Are living rooms the answer to student wellbeing?

Lecture capture is about student voices

How do we make students more powerful?

Are SUs telling students about their rights?

Tackling the BME attainment gap is about lived experience

Partnership, data and a “personal touch”

Should SUs elect a working class officer?

What even is a normal student anyway?

Divestment commitments are fine – but what about the policy?

Sport should be everyone’s game: inclusivity in higher education sports clubs

Student officers need support and training when it comes to the media

Ed Tech and students

On rents Liverpool listened and led – the sector should follow

Augar shifts the puzzle pieces around but does it deliver for students?

Wonkhe 360: key messages for SUs

Wonkhe 360: what did SUs have to say?

Are SUs a barrier to realising aspiration?

How can we avoid students being made scapegoats?

Evidencing the role of sport and physical activity

Reframing university sport as a public good

The pain, potential and promise of university policy

What are Residence Life programmes and why do they matter?

What a comedown – SU officers in the departure lounge

Supporting outgoing elected officerAdvice on exiting from former sabbs

They thought it was all over. It isn’t now

2019 or 1984? Why SU’s need access to student data.

Half time at NUS Conference 2019

Trustee Boards can be more exciting than you think

Being a students’ union CEO (for 11 months)

Rewarding and recognising volunteers with very small budgets

Private: Election turnout as a KPI- relevant or misguided?

The rocks and hard places of industrial action

Enhancing Student Representation

Its lonely at the top

Getting behind the headlines of the NSS

SU managers and mental health- strictly private & confidential?

#iwill and Collective Impact

The NHS vs Pokémon Society

Community engagement (and satellite campuses)

50 tips for supporting sabbs

Making student led scrutiny work

Demonstrating outcomes

Aligning aspirations of the annually elected with the long term

Scandilove- tales from the frozen north

Time to argue about consensus

Should (could) students’ unions’ run academic modules?

Innovation in universities

Time to abandon ‘resilience’ as a concept?

New here?

Building confidence & resilience through sport

What is big data on staff engagement telling us?

Private: What is student engagement?

A (strategic) question of sport

How the National Trust does customer insight and segmentation

A new Charity Governance Code

Successful habits in hiring, onboarding, and evaluating student employees

Gimme Gimme Gimme a student perspective on the OIA

Is it true that there has to be an SU in an HEI?

Changes to data protection law

What should we be looking for in Uni Mental Health strategies?

Our sector: Are SUs Mental Health charities?

International Students and Social Media

What are we doing on staff mental health and resilience?

Election Turnout is up- but is credibility down?

No more meetings bloody meetings?

Student interest, student satisfaction and student voice

Time for some quality conversations?

Distancing universities from student organizations

Should your students’ union incorporate?

We’re surrounded (by excellent people)

Looking ahead again

Our Sector: “Block means Block”…but what does Block mean?

So what are we all doing on Q26?

Student misconduct guidelines- unintended consequences?

From 23 to 26- the new NSS normal

Who are we talking to?

The changing of the guard

NSS 2016 for students unions

Who’s really pulling the strings?

The Cadogan Matrices

Brexit. Now what?

The TUSU Premium

Building an Engaging Online Students’ Union

What have school parent governors got to do with SUs?

Freedom of speech and SUs- what’s really going on?

22 ideas for collaboration in Students’ Unions

The difference between being triggered and offence

Taking action on race equality

Social Media Beyond Facebook and Twitter

Helping officers to drive educational change

Can casework drive change?

We are all doomed

Are we all allies or are we the problem?

The world is a better place thanks to charity campaigning

Helping officers to develop political goals

Analysing the outcomes of student employment

The case for diversity- achieving a more diverse workforce

NSS 2015 Part 3

NSS 2015 Part Two

NSS 2015 Part One

An NSS Masterclass

Venus and Mars? The SU officer/staff member relationship

Simon Says… but is it always the right approach?

You can’t be serious. Can you?

Union Buildings in the US- Why Place Matters

A different partnership for the Student Movement?

Freedom to speak or freedom from harm?

Rethinking Clubs and Societies

A New Common Sense on Campus?

Research: Doing it better in SUs

The Values Crossroads

The War on SUs

Risky Business

Tech it up

Ed Marsh’s Holiday Photos

Why we don’t run bars

Should unions run bars?

So how do we compare?

The Politics of Change

NSS 2014: Three league tables in one

Don’t judge me. Or do.

Time to rethink?

Trojan Mice

Elected officers- strategic problem or strategic solution?

Higher Education, Students’ Unions and the Question of Conscience

So what is their secret?

Building Success

HE as a kind of Cupid

Crisis what crisis?

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