Latest blogs from SUs
The Brown student in the White room
Akrit Ghimire reflects on their experience in university meetings as one of the few people of colour
Lorna Elliott-Skinner examines the financial realities facing healthcare students on unpaid placements and sets out the case for paying essential placement hours
You wouldn’t work for free. Why should healthcare students?
Lorna Elliott-Skinner examines the financial realities facing healthcare students on unpaid placements and sets out the case for paying essential placement hours
Working for students
Blogs from SUs
We are 22 students. We speak for 22,000
Ministers say students were let down by incompetence or abuse. Irena Zoltak writes for 22,000 weekend students given four days to decide their future and three impossible options
Study tour to Iceland
There is magic in being a little angry but not alone
Iceland's higher education system was built to serve a national purpose. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall report from Reykjavík – and ask what the UK's system is for when the salary returns stop adding up
The Friday SUs Briefing Email
Student experience on Wonkhe
Erasmus+ is back. But will it bring apprentices with it?
With the UK back in Erasmus+ and a Eurovision entry doing double duty as policy argument, Maia Chankseliani asks whether the return will finally reach apprentices and vocational learners
Students' unions on Wonkhe
NUS elects its full-time officers for 2026–28
The National Union of Students (NUS) holds its elections online these days – no four day schlep to Blackpool for today’s representatives – and has just announced the winners, all of whom are elected for a two-year term.
Explainers
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
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SUs Video Briefings
Study tour January 2026
Country guides
Students unions on Wonkhe
The consultant you need is already on campus
Agne Rimkute explains what an MBA student revealed about impact, data, and how fragmented student support can become – and why universities and their SUs can harness their insights
student finance on wonkhe
A graduate tax is coming after all. For Muslim students
Jim Dickinson gets across DfE's latest news on Alternative Student Finance – and finds the government has accidentally reinvented the graduate tax for Muslim students
accommodation on wonkhe
Belong from Wonkhe and Cibyl
Latest from Belong – students’ health is not OK, and that’s not OK
Jim Dickinson explores new polling that reveals a worsening picture of students' physical and mental health, undermining their academic success
Featured SUs Explainers
All the latest research on the value of extra curricular activities
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Wonk Corner
Free speech
(At least) thirteen ways in which OfS’s guidance on free speech may now need to change
OfS guidance was supposed to help providers navigate the free speech duty. Jim Dickinson argues it now does the opposite
Featured SUs Explainers
Featured SUs blogs
We need to talk about sabbatical burnout
One of the conversations we have a lot at this time of year with SUs is about burnout and sabbatical officer workload.
Study Tour 2023: The low countries
As the sector expands, why are we letting more mean less?
Are we making compromises to the student experience just to make the numbers add up? Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott reflect on a week in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany with student leaders.
Country Briefings
Nick Smith's adventures in SU democracy and governance
Swap your new notebook for new behaviours
Nick Smith writes up their new year's resolutions starting with the updated charity governance code and its new focus on behaviours.
