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21/06/22

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University or university centre?

by Mike Ratcliffe

21/06/22

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What matters in quality: reflections from QAA’s outgoing student board members

by Hillary Gyebi-Ababio

21/06/22

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Building students’ sense of belonging needs time and energy

by Anna Jackson

Research

20/06/22

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Graduate Outcomes 2019-20: provider level

by David Kernohan

Data

20/06/22

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Whose job is it to help students make friends?

by Jim Dickinson

20/06/22

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Research and freedom of speech: a tale of unintended consequences

by James Coe

20/06/22

Should Labour drop free education?

by Jim Dickinson

17/06/22

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Voice and representation work in SUs in the Scandis

by Jim Dickinson

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17/06/22

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Achieving a fairer private rental sector – what SUs need to know

by Jim Dickinson

SU Briefings

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17/06/22

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Tiny violins

by Jim Dickinson

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17/06/22

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What will be in the renter’s reform bill and why it matters to SUs

by Wonkhe SUs explainer

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17/06/22

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Students are about to get better housing rights – and landlords are absolutely furious

by Jim Dickinson

17/06/22

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Alcohol is becoming more common in sexual assault among students

by Mary P. Koss

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17/06/22

How to win the culture wars

by Jim Dickinson

17/06/22

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One union’s journey to find its new democracy

by Raquel Marques

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17/06/22

Student activism has been transformed by technology

by Ashley Storer-Smith

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17/06/22

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This is what a world class international student experience should look like

by Simran Mahajan

17/06/22

Podcast: Public accounts committee, belonging, student financial support, free speech

by Team Wonkhe

Podcasts

17/06/22

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What is the actual impact of Instagram on student wellbeing?

by Will Awad

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16/06/22

Graduate outcomes 2019-20: the sector

by David Kernohan

16/06/22

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What are the factors influencing students’ sense of belonging?

by Sunday Blake

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16/06/22

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Who should pay the price for keeping external speakers (and students) safe?

by Jim Dickinson

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16/06/22

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Creating an anti-racist university experience

by Jill Childs

16/06/22

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Is it getting harder to get a university place?

by David Kernohan

Data

16/06/22

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Higher education postcard: University of Winchester

by Hugh Jones

16/06/22

George Freeman and Ottoline Leyser at Commons Science and Technology Committee

by James Coe

15/06/22

Michelle Donelan at Commons Education Committee

by David Kernohan

15/06/22

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Fifty new university campuses and a British bacc

by Jim Dickinson

15/06/22

MPs are struggling to pin universities’ problems on the right body

by Jim Dickinson

15/06/22

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How to raise attainment in schools

by Anna Anthony

15/06/22

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Student living cost support cut to lowest level in seven years

by Jim Dickinson

15/06/22

Who are the UK’s loneliest students?

by Team Wonkhe

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14/06/22

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The Freedom of Speech Bill clears the Commons

by David Kernohan

14/06/22

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We need to reverse the regional brain drain to level up

by Nick Isles

14/06/22

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IFS on adult education

by David Kernohan

13/06/22

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Are students asking for the new normal, the old normal, or something else entirely?

by Aaron Porter

13/06/22

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Professional standards are back on the agenda

by Kathryn Harrison-Graves

13/06/22

Donelan steps in to protect the rich men of the future

by Jim Dickinson

11/06/22

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Universities have still not had their #metoo moment

by Jim Dickinson

10/06/22

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Getting involved is good for you

by Jim Dickinson

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10/06/22

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Student satisfaction? It’s all about interaction

by Wonkhe SUs explainer

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10/06/22

Report stage amendments to the free speech bill

by Jim Dickinson

10/06/22

Higher education postcard: University of Dundee

by Hugh Jones

10/06/22

Defining and tackling antisemitism is harder than many universities seem to think

by Jim Dickinson

10/06/22

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Students who lead and serve other students have better outcomes

by Laura Guiver

10/06/22

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Podcast: Student experience, free speech, microcredentials

by Team Wonkhe

Podcasts

10/06/22

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More student or faculty diversity on campus leads to lower racial gaps in graduation rates

by Nicholas A. Bowman

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9/06/22

Graduate Labour Market Survey 2021

by David Kernohan

9/06/22

Two speeches, one morning

by David Kernohan

9/06/22

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We’re doing engagement on careers and employability all wrong

by Mark Saunders

9/06/22

Anxious students want to us to help them spend time with and learn with each other

by Jim Dickinson

9/06/22

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What’s the national picture on student experience – and what should SUs push for?

by Wonkhe SUs explainer

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9/06/22

Is DfE diddling low income families out of maintenance loan this coming September?

by Jim Dickinson

8/06/22

Less jargon and more evidence is needed on skills

by David Kernohan

8/06/22

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We should be more interested in curiosity than competition

by Hadir Elshafay

8/06/22

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HESA Spring 2022: Business and Community Interaction data

by David Kernohan

7/06/22

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It’s more than the money: The future of European research funding

by James Coe

7/06/22

How can universities support students through the cost of living crisis?

by Michelle Morgan

7/06/22

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Is the university library really sinking?

by Paul Greatrix

Registrarism

7/06/22

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How much trouble is the University of Buckingham in?

by Jim Dickinson

6/06/22

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How to teach sustainability

by Alex Meredith

6/06/22

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A manifesto for green governance

by Simon Meacher

6/06/22

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The net zero debate is coming – are universities ready?

by James Coe

6/06/22

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Thin, vague, little and late – the government’s plan for HE and the climate

by Jim Dickinson

6/06/22

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Student views on cost of living and politics

by Wonkhe SUs explainer

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4/06/22

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Dangerous assault

by Jim Dickinson

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4/06/22

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Students calling for fee rebates over strikes is not anti-union

by Niall Hignett

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2/06/22

21 things we learned from March’s OfS Board papers

by Jim Dickinson

1/06/22

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Should we punish students that plagiarise?

by Will Awad

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1/06/22

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Aspirations, attainment, and algorithms

by Tony Strike

1/06/22

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KEF2: Return of the KEF

by James Coe

1/06/22

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Hearing marginalised voices in science

by Jennifer Leigh

31/05/22

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Are you sitting uncomfortably?

by Jim Dickinson

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30/05/22

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The storm in supply to university estates

by Umesh Desai

30/05/22

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A new report on the care system has big implications for higher education

by Chris Hoyle

30/05/22

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OfS union branch weighs in on Wharton

by David Kernohan

29/05/22

PGRs need more and better space on campus

by Wonkhe SUs explainer

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27/05/22

There’s a cost of living crisis. Just not for students

by Jim Dickinson

27/05/22

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Podcast: OfS investigations, uni leadership, skills

by Team Wonkhe

Podcasts

27/05/22

Higher education postcard: Swansea

by Hugh Jones

27/05/22

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We should stop disadvantaging those who are students second

by Alice Young

27/05/22

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The thing about “low value courses” is that students have paid to be on them

by Jim Dickinson

26/05/22

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Wonkhe Live! May 2022

by Wonkhe SUs explainer

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26/05/22

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Is perfectionism an important part of the student mental health crisis?

by Will Awad

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26/05/22

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Who is James Wharton and why is he in the news?

by David Kernohan

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26/05/22

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To change a university’s culture we need to see it through students’ eyes

by Seun Twins

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26/05/22

OfS plans for 2022-23

by David Kernohan

26/05/22

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The skills problem may be harder and more complex than we thought

by David Kernohan

26/05/22

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It is the quality of the bureaucracy, not the quantity, which needs addressing

by James Coe

26/05/22

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Are the inspectors coming for your business school?

by Jim Dickinson

26/05/22

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Implications for universities and SUs from an important student suicide case

by Wonkhe SUs explainer

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25/05/22

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The education sector has an integrated future

by Simon Connell

25/05/22

What will a new working group on spiking achieve?

by Sunday Blake

24/05/22

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The demise of the “left wing madrassa”?

by David Kernohan

24/05/22

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What’s the use of the staff:student ratio?

by Matt Finn

Data

24/05/22

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If students need belonging then their SUs need to change

by Talia Adams

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23/05/22

Why is a diverse sector focused on such limited narratives of research success?

by Cameron Neylon

23/05/22

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Reducing burden makes for good governance

by Susan Lapworth

23/05/22

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This is fine: regulation, autonomy, and fear

by David Kernohan