Latest blogs from SUs
Neurodiverse student leaders deserve more than a lanyard and a laptop
Zoe Garnett draws on two years as a neurodiverse student officer to argue that SUs and universities must do more than accommodate burnout – they need to redesign the conditions that cause it
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
Manchester (Uni of) will “make students go on placement”. So what?
A Russell Group vice-chancellor wants every student working with employers and communities for credit by 2035. Jim Dickinson unpacks what that actually means
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
The Friday SUs Briefing Email
Student experience on Wonkhe
Young people are pessimistic about their future. Should they be?
New analysis from IPPR – the first output from its State of a Generation programme – argues that young people no longer believe the basic promise that hard work will be rewarded with security and opportunity.
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.
Explainers
What the High Court ruling on the EHRC’s interim guidance means for SUs
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Study tour January 2026
Country guides
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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
The Treasury Committee gets nowhere near the real issues with student loans
Well that’s two hours I won’t be getting back.
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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
Featured SUs Explainers
All the latest research on the value of extra curricular activities
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Wonk Corner
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.
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.
