Wonkhe SUs · The 2026 webinar box set
Bonus: When the SU–university relationship needs help
Jim Dickinson on the relationship (or lack of it) between SUs and their universities – and what to do when it breaks down. (Recorded in a previous year.)
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What we cover
- The history and two competing models of the student–university relationship
- How the QAA quality code and enhancement made engagement a university concern
- The impact of OfS B conditions, the TEF and NSS on partnership
- Student engagement staff, shadow-sab change agents and 100-student panels
- What universities candidly say about SUs and rep systems
- Scaffolding seen across Europe – partnership agreements, committees and communities
Things to read
- What would an "assertive" partnership with a university look like?
- How to approach block grant negotiations
- SUs should be partners – especially when times are tough
- Hard questions for SU boards in an era of structural decline
- An autonomous agitator within the corporate ambition of the university
- I'm so disappointed in you: handling SU officers speaking truth to power
- University and Students' Union strategies: can two hearts beat as one?
- Can SUs diversify their income streams?
- Need to know – the law on students' unions
- Once there was a war on students' unions
- A quick guide to university governance
- Students' union strategies