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Students need to know what SUs think about things
Jim Dickinson puzzles over the lack of public agenda and opinion emanating from students' unions and their elected representatives
The Friday SUs Briefing Email
Student experience
Student rents in Edinburgh fall to £200 a month, and the price of a pint in London halves. Apparently.
Today was supposed to be a chilled out summer’s day in the North East doing planning with my Wonkhe colleague Livia Scott, but I can feel my blood pressure rising again.
Featured briefings
Achieving a fairer private rental sector – what SUs need to know
The Westminster government has published its long-awaited white paper on reform to the private rental sector in England - and there are major potential implications for students and SUs.
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
SUBSCRIBER WEBINARS
the wonkhe show
Students' unions on Wonkhe
A professional standards framework for student engagement
If your job is student engagement, how do you explain what you actually do? Simon Varwell explores this question and more using a new framework from sparqs.
SU Futures
Ten ways to improve institution-level student representation
This is a briefing for Wonkhe SUs subscribers. To find out more go to the SUs page in the menu above.
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.
Study Tour 2022: Scandinavia
Voice and representation work in SUs in the Scandis
Jim Dickinson how student voice work is done across Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland with links to policies and resources
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
Featured briefings
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
Featured briefings
Featured SUs blogs
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
