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:
Mental Health and Duty of care
The Teaching Excellence Framework
Access and widening participation
The regulation of higher education
We also have archives of:
The Wonkhe show podcast archive
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
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”
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 summary blogs:
Student confidence and outcomes
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: 48 hours in Stockholm
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Austria
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Serbia
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Slovenia
Spring 2024 Study Tour: Croatia
Scandi Mini Tour 2023: Denmark
Study Tour 2023: The Netherlands
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What do we know about student living costs?
Are student homes fit for habitation?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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?
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
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
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
In staff-student relationship policies, are sabbs staff or students?
The lab rats in the department store
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
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
The more interesting the talent, the better
Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred
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
Why universities need female-only gym spaces
SU visions are about more than just words
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
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
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
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
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
Please vote and we will shut up
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
Gather a team of 3-4 friends, put on your favorite T-shirt
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
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 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
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?
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?
Academic representation can be exciting – and highly disruptive
Is it time to build something better? Course reps and change in 2023
What if SU elections are a huge waste of time?
To protect students’ interests, SUs should step up their efforts on lobbying
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
A study time to remember and an education to be proud of
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
Getting behind the headlines of the NSS
SU managers and mental health- strictly private & confidential?
Community engagement (and satellite campuses)
Making student led scrutiny work
Aligning aspirations of the annually elected with the long term
Scandilove- tales from the frozen north
Should (could) students’ unions’ run academic modules?
Time to abandon ‘resilience’ as a concept?
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
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)
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’s really pulling the strings?
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
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
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
Research: Doing it better in SUs
NSS 2014: Three league tables in one
Elected officers- strategic problem or strategic solution?
Higher Education, Students’ Unions and the Question of Conscience
