Latest blogs from SUs
How SUs actually won microwaves on campus – and why “health and safety” is a category, not a reason
Officers run on microwaves every spring and get told no every autumn. Jim Dickinson digests the SU wins, library refusals, and estates documents to work out what universities are really worried about
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University culture needs to recognise that not everyone drinks
Samantha Morgan argues that universities need to challenge the assumption that all students drink
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
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Students are not disengaged, they are adapting to a thinner university
For Fredrick Agboma and Andrew Doyle, the question isn't whether students are less committed, but what culture they're asked to inhabit
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There’s 104 days of summer vacation and school comes along just to end that
Sharanya Sivarajah and Jim Dickinson explain what they learned on a summer of SU training visits, where students patiently patched up the gaps their universities left behind
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What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
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Students should take risks, but not with their lives
Student activities are sold as employability development – and they are. Dawn Lees warns that without proper risk assessment culture and trained student leaders, the consequences can be fatal
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There’s a student-shaped hole in Scotland’s funding gap. Here’s how to fill it
Scotland's HE funding gap is £200m, but there's a huge gap for students too. Jim Dickinson has a think about how to fill them.
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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
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All the latest research on the value of extra curricular activities
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Free speech
The absolutism is watered down in OfS’ amendments to its free speech guidance
With OfS' free speech complaints scheme opening on 1 September, Jim Dickinson finds a regulator retreating from absolutist positions on campus expression
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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.
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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.
