Latest blogs from SUs
The harbourmaster harbours no doubt
Before the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland even lands, the team get lost in Icelandic TV, discover a ram appreciation society, and wonder what a students' union looks like when its average member is nearly 30
Latest SUs Explainers
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
Turnout is a lagging indicator, not a measure of democratic health
With SUs still treating voting week as the headline test of student engagement, Demi Smith argues that turnout reflects a year's worth of invisible failures – not a single moment of apathy
Study tour January 2026
Country guides
The Friday SUs Briefing Email
Student experience on Wonkhe
Shame and fear won’t fix students’ AI use
When we published our research on AI in assessment last month, one of the findings that generated the most response was what we called Finding 7.
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.
the wonkhe show
Explainers
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
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SUs Video Briefings
Study tour to Portugal
To be FAIRe, there was plenty to learn in Portugal
On the way home from this year study tour to Portugal, Jim, Mack and team reflect on what UK SUs might learn from the country's impressive systems and culture of student organising
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
How clear was the guidance over weekend delivery?
Thus far in the weekend delivery scandal, it’s been hard to envisage the circumstances under which the Student Loans Company’s (SLC) regs as published could have been misunderstood.
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
Universities are having the wrong debate about freedom of speech
With universities treating free speech as a compliance problem, Peter McColl argues the sector is missing a chance to improve the culture of debate itself
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.
