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Where is Labour going on fees?

Jack Ballingham|SU blog|10/02/23

Students are struggling with rental costs – what is the government doing to help?

Laura Brown|SU blog|08/02/23

To protect students’ interests, SUs should step up their efforts on lobbying

Jack Ballingham|SU blog|19/01/23

The Lords have been discussing students’ unions. It didn’t go well

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|03/11/22

NUS will support students and give them power

Shaima Dallali|SU blog|08/04/22

Tough times are coming – what SU leaders do next will matter

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|11/03/22

There’s a giant student-shaped hole in the government’s Augar response

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|24/02/22

It’s all coming up – 12 things for SUs think about in 2022

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|14/12/21

Universities should oppose, not just refine, the Free Speech Bill

Jack Ballingham|SU blog|03/10/21

MPs have been scrutinising the free speech Bill

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|10/09/21

It’s all coming up: Nine issues for SUs to prep for in the year ahead

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|26/08/21

Once there was a war on students’ unions

Mike Day|SU blog|17/04/21

#SUFutures – What should students’ union strategy look like next?

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|26/03/21

International student experience finally takes centre stage

Anne Marie Graham|SU blog|12/02/21

Student voices will be heard everywhere in Wales

Becky Ricketts|SU blog|27/01/21

The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Further Implementation etc) Regulations 2019

Team Wonkhe|SU blog|14/01/21

Now would be a very bad time to treat students like children

Gareth Hughes|SU blog|23/06/20

Students need strong leadership and practical solutions from Government

Lucy Holland|SU blog|02/04/20

#SUFutures – What exactly is the point?

Andrew McLaughlin|SU blog|28/02/20

#SUFutures – Time to go back to the future

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|07/02/20

Social mobility or social justice?

Claire Sosienski Smith|SU blog|12/12/19

SUs in Ontario have won a reprieve – for now

Alex Usher|SU blog|29/11/19

Lobbying and policy work isn’t real campaigning – or is it?

David Kernohan|SU blog|18/10/19

The story so far on student contracts

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|16/09/19

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