How Labour’s 10-year health plan for England joins up with higher education and research

One year on from the election, Labour is losing the student vote

While the rest of the population benefits from it, students’ only role is to pay to prop up the NHS

Helping professional services get confident with data

Podcast: International, student leaders, metascience

Higher education postcard: Norwich University of the Arts

There’s a new report about what student life is like today – here’s why it’s important to SUs in planning the year ahead

The conflict between retention and wellbeing

How to use social proof to influence conduct on campus (and close awarding gaps)

A year on from guidance on students and drugs, has anything changed?

Civic engagement offers a firm foundation for universities contributing to regional economic growth agendas

Data day concerns (with our friends LEO, TEF and NSS)

Making a difference on student housing

While MPs were debating welfare cuts, peers were making it up as they went along on student housing

Disabled students in Ireland – what should universities be doing and what are students’ rights?

Are shipping containers the solution to the student housing crisis?

Efficiency savings will have a lasting impact on research capacity

The crisis in the youth sector is a big problem for universities

The attack lines on international students are built on shaky foundations – but won’t go away that easily

Won’t somebody think about the Postgraduates?

Working together to map and transform the student experience

Bob Vylan and the OfS free speech guidance

Metascience comes of age

For some, the heat is an access issue

Defunding level 7 apprenticeships in health and care may backfire on lower levels

Should students’ unions reach for the stars?

It’s up to universities to make the industrial strategy a success

Today’s students are scrimpers, not spendthrifts

Understanding student loneliness and belonging

How can open days help applicants?

Guess how many students will be hit by welfare reforms. You’ll have to – the government doesn’t know

Welfare reforms will hit disabled students hard

Summer, ethical officer support, mergers

Make the most of it

There are some last-minute government amendments to the Renters Rights Bill

What happens after the OfS publishes a quality assessment report

DfE sets out the detail on the free speech act

LEO has a role to play in picking winners

Military education committees and universities’ civic role

Higher education postcard: University of Bologna

Race, racism and closing the awarding gaps in HE

Podcast: Industrial strategy, cashpoint colleges, social mobility

From student to student voice, what this role really taught me

Using community organising to meet power on equal terms

Twin rooms, shared bathrooms and communal kitchens – Ireland’s plan for student accommodation

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away

Social mobility needs a whole-university rethink

Righting the wrongs for Disabled students

Disabled students are almost twice as likely to have considered quitting

Reframing student voice through a rights-based lens

From playground to lecture hall – working with schools to support wellbeing throughout education

The proposed changes to the welfare system and why they matter to students and SUs

Higher education and the industrial strategy priority areas

International students benefit local economies, and this extends to those living and working there

Research and innovation in the industrial strategy

Winning for students by changing the uni’s rules

Palestine Action will shortly count as terrorism

Proscription of Palestine Action: Implications for students and SUs

Graduates move to get better opportunities. And they don’t come back

Quality assurance needs consideration, not change for change’s sake

Moving beyond the quality wars

The world is sorting out the quality of transnational education, but where is England?

Blurred lines: Has OfS misunderstood freedom of speech?

Rewriting the rules of tuition payments for international students

Back to the classroom

Playing politics as an SU leader

A brief guide to “political” comms for student leaders

Podcast: Free speech guidance, R&D

How can universities and SUs support visually impaired students

City partnership, R&D, safer venues

Policy Radar June 2025

How to address harassment and sexual misconduct experienced by PGRs

Taking a systematic approach to inclusivity through uncovering the hidden curriculum

The fallout from the Dundee investigation will have consequences across the sector

Consider immigration and university funding together, the Tony Blair Institute says

Coaching can be a strategic act of research culture

Higher education postcard: Queen Alexandra’s House

What SUs (in England) need to know about the Office for Students’ guidance on freedom of speech v2

We still don’t have a clue about the income or cost from transnational education

How to increase student participation, reflections from an officer about to return to the classroom

How to make things better for students on health courses

Machine learning technology is transforming how institutions make sense of student feedback

Will guidance on freedom of speech help the staff who fear physical attack for expressing their views?

When is the student experience not good enough? Quality in HE

Co-creation of research agendas could strengthen policy research engagement

Causes and consequences of access disparities by ethnicity

The Robots are coming

Prevent data, 2023–24

In defence of university halls of residence

We need a better quality of conversation about education and the skills agenda for the screen industries

Essentials 2025 #5: How to be an influential and effective SU officer

Essentials 2025 #4: What just happened?

Essentials 2025 #2: How the higher education sector works

Essentials 2025 #3: Students unions and the law

Essentials 2025 #1: Introduction to Wonkhe, and How does student representation work?

University governance needs more imagination

Higher education governance needs the conflict between academic and business imperatives to be successful

Faculties are where governance innovation could happen

Finding your university in the data: Summer 2025 edition

Webinar: What SUs need to know about TNE