SUs Briefing
Every Friday · for students’ unions
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- Friday 18 September 2026Get freshIt’s gonna cost · Your rules, your rights · Reading the ratios
- Friday 11 September 2026You can’t say thatThe staff AI gap · Bring and ping · The first rung
- Friday 4 September 2026Course correctionProgramme for no government · Distress isn’t a finding · Lucky Jim
- Friday 28 August 2026Credit where it's dueCapital punishment · Work counts · Batch cooking the books
- Friday 21 August 2026Rights here, right nowPower play · Loan and behold · You might have missed last term
- Friday 14 August 2026From should to mustExit strategy · Term limits · Hours of need
- Friday 7 August 2026(Cost of) living in the pastRule Britannia · Artificial consensus · Fare enough
- Friday 31 July 2026Blocks and wedgesMind the journey · Everything, in one place · Pay now, complain later
- Friday 24 July 2026Frozen outCheap at half the price · Present and incorrect · Making access count
- Friday 17 July 2026Great expectations, small microwavesShock and awe · Students and stalking · Stand a loan
- Friday 10 July 2026And we danced all nightModule behaviour · Bleeding obvious · Cycling the savings
- Friday 3 July 2026Northern soul-searchingLocked in transit · Policy Radar · Decent homes, delayed decade
- Friday 26 June 2026Fund and GamesComing soon · No deal · His name is Leo and he studied the wrong course
- Friday 19 June 2026Home and awayData dive · Consult the calendar · Plan fail
- Friday 12 June 2026Coping not thrivingSatisfied? Barely · Raising the TEF · Vision on
- Friday 5 June 2026Zero heroesWho's behind the desk · Musical chairs · Culture clubs
- Friday 29 May 2026The safety net has holes in itStand a loan · Friends have benefits · Deposit deception
- Friday 15 May 2026Moldova is on dutyCranKing up the volume · Wishful sinking · Filed returns
- Friday 8 May 2026Half of students can’t describe their rightsTesting Times · Freeze peach · Show Your Working
- Friday 1 May 2026The £33.3 million clown show (that students pay for)Happy May (Renters Rights) Day · Beyond the money · Ready, steady, go
- Friday 24 April 2026Dues diligenceClosure call · Something for the weekend · Common ground
- Friday 17 April 2026Ice breakersResearch round-up · They do what, where? · Team Wonkhe’s reading list this week
- Friday 10 April 2026Cap in handRaising the stakes · Organise yourselves · AI assessment check
- Friday 27 March 2026Safe adventuresFree fall · Diamond in the rough · Safety, eventually
- Friday 20 March 2026Now I can think for myselfTime for change? · Reps reimagined · International
- Friday 13 March 2026Or are we dancer?Goal posts · Room for improvement · Bearing their name
- Friday 6 March 2026Mattress of factSolidarity at Warwick · Scotland quality · Senedd election
- Friday 27 February 2026Beyond the signupLoan ranger · Summer squeeze · Bad bosses, invisible workers
- Friday 13 February 2026Trust and confidenceLate arrivals · Use it or lose it · Hot iron
- Friday 6 February 2026Taken for a spinListen up · Know your landlord · Name the problem
- Friday 30 January 2026North of 49Access insights · Promises not met · Checking the vital signs of change
- Friday 23 January 2026It couldn’t happen hereTime’s ticking · Bonnie blue is nothing new · Meet the parents
- Friday 16 January 2026What goes on tourLevy coalition builds · Duty debate returns · Holyrood and Senedd
- Friday 9 January 2026Tour baby tourErasmus+ · Alterni-TEF · Violence against women and girls
- Friday 12 December 2025Black historyFail · No free lunch · Crude awakening
- Friday 5 December 2025Learning to be humanMitigating circumstances · Struggling to pay · Module feedback
- Friday 28 November 2025Generation EBudget 2025 · Scotland · Harassment
- Friday 21 November 2025The rights stuffPG Tea · Scotland · Finnished
- Friday 14 November 2025Back to belongingMedics and midwives · Renter’s rights · Office for softening
- Friday 7 November 2025See it, say it, sortedWales · Application fees · Re-sit support
- Friday 31 October 2025Renter’s riot actOn paper · Student experience research - get involved · Meningitis
- Friday 24 October 2025Paying the priceMuffling the learner voice · International hardship and instalments · Deck the halls
- Friday 17 October 2025Students are not disengagedWhat goes on tour · Employment Rights Bill · Immigration rules
- Friday 10 October 2025What goes on tourQuestion time · Campus tensions · All members meetings
- Friday 3 October 2025My grant cheque lies over the oceanPride in place · Stranded · There’s been a merger
- Friday 26 September 2025Relieving the burdenDissertation supervision · PG belonging · Clause and effect
- Friday 19 September 2025There’s value in sportThere’s been a merger · A duty of candour · Staff-student ratios
- Friday 12 September 2025What about postgrad care leavers?Zeroes and ones
- Friday 5 September 2025RIP democracyCash cows · Student governors
- Friday 29 August 2025SUs Summer UpdateThe final frontier · Book in your catch up calls now
- Friday 22 August 2025Make work (-based study) payMeritocracia da dificuldade · Start the week · Good comms
- Friday 15 August 2025Clearing the weekWhat crisis? · Good sport · Rethinking mental health
- Friday 8 August 2025Let’s get civic-alMoney money money · Harassment and sexual misconduct · Outcomes
- Friday 1 August 2025A historic dayNot so glorious food · What graduate outcomes? · Graduation season
- Friday 25 July 2025Cozzy liesLike ammonites, I just gave it some time · Fundee findings · Period pains
- Friday 18 July 2025Partners or not?RAG ratings · Cheaty mc cheat face · GO GO GO
- Friday 11 July 2025Heating or eatingNSS-mas · Getting paid for placements · NDAs
- Friday 4 July 2025And your dreams will all come trueAnd we’re off · Go on, guess · NHS Ten Year Plan
- Friday 27 June 2025Make the most of itMeet me on my terms · Welfare reforms · Disabled differential
- Friday 20 June 2025Back to the classroomFreeze peach · Foreign campuses · Blind students
- Friday 13 June 2025Parental advisorySummer training kicks off on Monday · Renters riot act · Launching a definition of Islamophobia
- Friday 6 June 2025Making connectionsIn our efficiency era · Relieve the pressure · Not so premium
- Friday 30 May 2025Connect back with the peopleNew rules · Leading SUs as an “outsider” · Summer training booking links are live
- Friday 23 May 2025We knew that alreadyEuro visions · Getting past survey fatigue · International students
- Friday 16 May 2025International students still choose the UKCommuter students in APPs
- Friday 9 May 2025It’s a kind of magicOut of the office · Northern Ireland · We’ll visit you in jail
- Friday 2 May 2025FAIREs fairDisabled students · Culture wars · Who and what’s coming
- Friday 25 April 2025SUs Easter break updateStudent trustees event
- Friday 18 April 2025Supreme courtStudent trustees event · Sustainability summit
- Friday 11 April 2025Disabled studentsShould we pay reps? · Maccies · Freeze peach
- Friday 4 April 2025Let’s get lobbyingProtecting students · Housing an issue · It all adds up
- Friday 28 March 2025Building bridgesStudents in advice · Walk-in degrees · Commuter students
- Friday 21 March 2025The only chart that countsSerbia · International · Online safety act
- Friday 14 March 2025Ethical university financesPlaying games · Closure · Care experienced
- Friday 7 March 2025Secret sauceTerm time work · Student trustees event · DSA
- Friday 28 February 2025Taking action on free speechCommuter woes · Boom and bust · Stand a loan
- Friday 21 February 2025Lend us a fiver mateChaos is coming · Serbia · Competence and distress
- Friday 14 February 2025Going softLinking thinking · Eat in or takeaway? · The i’s have it
- Friday 7 February 2025No escape from realityStudents in distress · Student-led for the sake of it? · Renter’s wrongs?
- Friday 31 January 2025Let’s TWST again, but not like we did last summerPounds in the pocket · International issues · Rogue operators
- Friday 24 January 2025Make the noise and make it clearGottle of gear · Strategic questions · International news
- Friday 17 January 2025Freeze peachOpen-sourcing an SU? · The secret life of students – come for free · Renter’s wrongs Bill
- Friday 10 January 2025I'm the one who built the towerDisabled students · OfS strategy · Agents of change
- Friday 20 December 2024Attending to a problem
- Friday 13 December 2024What are we learning about students earning?Female-only gym spaces · Cuts cuts cuts · Freeze peach
- Friday 6 December 2024Yes but what do students think?Death by consultation · International · Mental health
- Friday 29 November 2024Work to doReducing harm · A bleak new league table · A reply in February
- Friday 22 November 2024The problems on the bus go round and roundStudent hardship · Pressure on rents · That fees increase problem
- Friday 15 November 2024Round and roundOfS · Scottish Housing Bill · Festival
- Friday 8 November 2024Menstrual and mental healthBad results · Budget and national insurance · Access and participation
- Friday 1 November 2024Heebee GPsMinimum wage and maintenance · Free speech and Palestinian activism · The OfS debrief
- Friday 25 October 2024Reach for the PGRsLate coursework, extensions and fees by instalments · Scabies · Renting and guarantors
- Friday 18 October 2024Runners up not losersSave the date · Renters rights · London problems
- Friday 11 October 2024Visegrád in JanuaryWork work work · Renters’ Rights Bill update · The chairs were broken
- Friday 4 October 2024Crisis responseDa ba dee da ba di · Must be funny · International education
- Friday 27 September 2024Insights for changeHidden homelessness · Duckin heaven · Liverpool
- Friday 20 September 2024Moan moan moanInflated nonsense · Blue print ab a di ab a da · Mental health
- Friday 13 September 2024Housing a headacheRadical optimism · Disabled students aren’t time travellers · Awarding gap widens
- Friday 6 September 2024Got any change?Write a blog for Wonkhe · You can’t beat a bit of bullish · Access not all areas
- Friday 30 August 2024SUs Summer UpdateUni-varsity · Are PhDs students or staff? · Scottish secrets
- Friday 23 August 2024SUs Summer UpdateGolden age · International numbers · Last night a chatbot eased my strife
- Friday 16 August 2024SUs Summer UpdateCodes of conduct · And the rest · Student governors
- Friday 9 August 2024SUs Summer UpdateGoodbye minimum services · Unaffordable · International applications
- Friday 2 August 2024SUs Summer UpdateHarassment and sexual misconduct · All the issues · You might have missed last term
- Friday 26 July 2024Purpose-built problemsOne week to go · A duty of candour · Harassment and sexual misconduct
- Friday 19 July 2024The other sideAll year round · Get flex at the weekend · Chop chop
- Friday 12 July 2024Another university is possibleWorking class community · Disabled students · Student group claim
- Friday 5 July 2024Oh what a nightThe drugs don’t work · University staff pay · And the rest
- Friday 28 June 2024It’s all about youPostgrads · Disabled students · Consent education
- Friday 21 June 2024Engagement issuesMembership Services Conference · Quality Code launch: 27 June 2024 · Civic engagement event
- Friday 14 June 2024Finding your facultiesCivic volunteering and social action · Bifurcation · Academic representation
- Friday 7 June 2024Less than a month to goStudent self-employment · Wonkhe Live! · SHAG stats
- Friday 31 May 2024Drumroll pleaseStanding a loan · Deported? · Labour market
- Friday 24 May 2024Genny lecturnElection bites · Silencing students (unions) · Influence
- Friday 17 May 2024Manifesto for actionReturn of the MAC · Scenarios of doom · Hidden course costs
- Friday 10 May 2024The policy elephants in the roomEuro visions · Placement poverty · Scrap fees now
- Friday 3 May 2024How to do a handover to yourselfProtest camps · Supply and demand · Going global
- Friday 26 April 2024NeurodiversityWhere did all the students go? · Say hello to Mack · Summer training 2024
- Friday 19 April 2024Vote early, vote oftenFree speech · International attendance · It’s just you
- Friday 12 April 2024Freshers needs a refreshDelays and failures · Nurses · A better student experience
- Friday 5 April 2024Learning on the jobAcademic societies · More cuts · Sexual misconduct
- Friday 29 March 2024Holiday SUs BriefingDive deeper
- Friday 22 March 2024What just happened?International · Who’s right? · Job: SUs Community and Policy Officer
- Friday 15 March 2024Let me tell you a secretInternational students · Students and placements · Job: SUs Community and Policy Officer
- Friday 8 March 2024Student futures tooJob: SUs Community and Policy Officer · The NSS secret sauce · Exploitation and neglect?
- Friday 1 March 2024What’s the craic?Fair elections? · After abrahart · The big squeeze
- Friday 23 February 2024Sustaining a crisis?Live and direct · Save the date - New Rules 2024 · More dates
- Friday 16 February 2024Safe spacesDiary dates · Antisemitism advisor · What is representation for?
- Friday 9 February 2024The secret life of a working-class sabbTwente Twente · Agents of lies · The robots are with you
- Friday 2 February 2024Consent in the curriculumMental health training? · Broke and broken · Fair access, no fees
- Friday 26 January 2024Building the society of our dreamsAPP catch up - next Friday 2nd Feb at 10.00am · Wonkhe Live! · The cuts are coming
- Friday 19 January 2024Going global at homeA presumption to partnership · Supporting students: We need SU advice · Secret Life of Students
- Friday 12 January 2024Cha cha cha40 winks · Cost of living · Secrets and lives
- Friday 5 January 2024It’s all coming up