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If students are going to look for essay examples, let’s give them authentic ones
Gina Tindale reflects on a recent win and argues example essays are essential to support student success
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Blogs from SUs
Welcome is the moment to name a fight, not describe a structure
As students' unions roll out their 2026 welcome videos and officer profiles, Jim Dickinson argues representation is described in theory while the fights students actually face stay below the waterline
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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Optional modules are not as optional as they look
The Competition and Markets Authority has published a revised version of CMA37, its general guidance on unfair contract terms.
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The class of 2026 has clocked that they can’t have it all
Students were sold an education, a community and a transformation. Jim Dickinson and Sharanya Sivarajah find a generation of student leaders working out those promises no longer fit inside one life
Explainers
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
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Study tour January 2026
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Student voice systems have transformed beyond recognition
Ashley Storer-Smith outlines findings from a sector-wide review of student representation systems, highlighting recent changes in structure, recruitment, and practice
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Labour’s growing enemy of opportunity
Earlier this year, Josh MacAlister, the now re-appointed DfE minister, explained what the government is doing for the poorest students:
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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
More straw clutching from the free speech absolutists
The latest of the increasingly desperate attempts to shore up both the Office for Students (OfS) and its free speech tsar Arif Ahmed comes from Abhishek Saha, who's a professor of maths at Queen Mary and a founder member of the London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom, and an advisory board member of Committee for Academic Freedom.
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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.
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.
