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TopicFees, funding & student finance

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Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: Reform UK

05/03/26

Senedd Election 2026 Manifesto Watch: The Welsh Conservatives

05/03/26

How to make students more powerful – eight secrets of the Money Saving Expert

24/02/26

Why are medical students calling for changes to maintenance loans?

12/02/26

Financial worry is now the baseline condition of being a student

02/02/26

What do students on placement get for their money?

01/12/25

Here’s how students are spending financial support in 2025

27/11/25

Budget 2025 and what it means for SUs, students and graduates

26/11/25

Scotland’s Tertiary Bill at Stage 2: What SUs need to know

24/11/25

Over 20 years of frozen London PhD weighting means change is overdue

Nico Henry|SU blog|19/11/25

What does it actually cost to apply to a postgraduate course?

02/11/25

What’s in the Post-16 skills white paper for students?

21/10/25

International student fees and hardship – what different universities are doing

21/10/25

The costs of failure. How much does it cost students to repeat, resubmit etc?

10/10/25

What does the national student money survey say this year – and what do SUs need to know

18/09/25

How much money do students actually need?

14/08/25

VFM in HE – what students think and what SUs can do

30/07/25

The Government should introduce an extended maintenance loan for independent students

Niall Hignett|SU blog|24/07/25

Rewriting the rules of tuition payments for international students

Prince Ikechi|SU blog|20/06/25

When medicine meets poverty – what to do about medical student hardship

29/05/25

OfS has got their funding guidance but what does it mean

23/05/25

Five reflections from Portugal

Mack Marshall|SU blog|02/05/25

Should reps be paid?

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|09/04/25

Change is coming for PhD students

07/02/25

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