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Who is going to be your trustee chair when the role regenerates?
So Ncuti Gatwa is the new Doctor. I’m very excited by this news, not least because it will upset all the right people but also because lots of journalists will start opinion pieces by explaining what this means for world trade / Sue Gray / this week’s manufactured culture war outrage about Durham SU. My … Continued
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Study Tour 2022: Scandinavia
Time for SUs to write a new chapter on community on campus
I will, I promise, stop on about Scandinavia soon. But the truth is, I don’t get heart-racing excited about much these days. And when it comes to academic communities, the way that that’s done across Denmark, Sweden and Norway deserves another few hundred words. First the good news. As UK HE has become more and … Continued
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Students on Wonkhe
How to help international students bounce back from Covid-19
Alina Schartner says that the pandemic is a unique opportunity to rethink the international-home dichotomy that pervades UK HE
SUs and student outcomes
This is why the B3 bear and the TEF matters to your SU’s strategy
Jim Dickinson explains weighs both the threats and opportunities arising from OfS' new regulatory exercises on minimums and maximums
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The Free Speech Bill is back – but there’s still plenty of problems
There's a fresh impact assessment for the new season of debate on the free speech bill. Jim Dickinson tracks the changes
SU Futures
Ten ways to improve institution-level student representation
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Students unions on Wonkhe
How to build back student community and opportunity
Jim Dickinson and Rosie Hunnam interrogate the student opportunities lost to the pandemic, and gather intel on what it would take to build them, and the student community they support, back higher.
SU Research
Do students’ unions make a difference?
Do students' unions make a difference? Jim Dickinson has the lowdown on new research into student involvement and student outcomes
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Ten top takeaways for SUs from our research on students and belonging
One of the major themes of the Student Futures Commission is the importance of participation in activities inside and outside the curriculum that build skills, networks and communities.
Free speech
Here’s how we get off the campus conflict see-saw
Reflecting on debates about free speech and cancel culture, Jim Dickinson considers how to make students feel both safe enough to be challenged, and powerful enough to challenge others
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OfS needs to ask the right questions on student mental health
Freya Rennison weighs up two pilot versions of the new National Student Survey question set
Nick Smith's adventures in SU democracy and governance
It’s not too late for lame ducks to leave a legacy
Nick Smith says that outgoing officers can advantage next year’s students by applying their knowledge and political leverage in the final few months of office
