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Cost of living & hardship
Explainers and SU blogs on this topic, newest first.
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Students are workers too – and they need to know their rights
Kim Allen
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SU blog
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30/09/26
Periods shouldn’t cost students their education
Rose Arhin
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SU blog
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02/07/26
Stigma is as powerful a barrier as scarcity itself
Margarita Marie Ronquillo
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SU blog
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27/04/26
How to create a student housing utopia
Penny Hampden-Turner
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SU blog
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23/04/26
Fish Balls Served with onion butter and potatoes
Alan Roberts
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SU blog
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16/04/26
You wouldn’t work for free. Why should healthcare students?
Lorna Elliott-Skinner
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SU blog
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20/02/26
Bringing laundry back into the fold of the cost of living debate
Sam Dickinson
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SU blog
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05/02/26
Bonnie blue is nothing new and neither are our duties to students
Nathalie Grigorenko
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SU blog
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22/01/26
Supporting students when money’s tight
Kellie McAlonan
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SU blog
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15/01/26
The most universally despised creature in France
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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07/01/26
The more colourful the better
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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04/01/26
Over 20 years of frozen London PhD weighting means change is overdue
Nico Henry
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SU blog
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19/11/25
Students need a better deal on public transport
Penny Hampden-Turner
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SU blog
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29/10/25
Student voice has never been louder, but student governance has never felt less powerful
Dáire Martin
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SU blog
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17/10/25
A cycle of silence is destroying progress on addressing students’ problems
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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29/08/25
Student mental health needs to be shaped by people, not only policy
Tom Snape
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SU blog
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14/08/25
The #exceptional campaign: Raising the bar on student financial wellbeing
Kellie McAlonan
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SU blog
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08/08/25
Students won’t get value for money if they have no money to engage in the value
Emily Bastable
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SU blog
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30/07/25
The Government should introduce an extended maintenance loan for independent students
Niall Hignett
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SU blog
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24/07/25
How to surface and reduce the hidden costs of study
Eve Woodall
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SU blog
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08/07/25
Rewriting the rules of tuition payments for international students
Prince Ikechi
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SU blog
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20/06/25
Celtic connections: Time for some new rules
Team Wonkhe
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SU blog
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04/06/25
Student housing co-operatives would take the pressure off
Ruth Elliott
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SU blog
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27/05/25
International students still choose the UK – but for how much longer?
Ed Lidington
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SU blog
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14/05/25
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