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Widening participation won’t happen by magic
Tom Wellesley
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SU blog
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19/09/23
The academic integrity scammers are getting more threatening
Daniel Sokol
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SU blog
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12/09/23
We tried a fresh approach to academic representation. How did the first year go?
Georgia Stephenson
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SU blog
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01/09/23
England’s big student housing shakedown
Rory Hughes
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SU blog
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16/08/23
Should SUs and universities agree joint codes on free speech?
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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17/02/23
Academic representation can be exciting – and highly disruptive
Pierrick Roger
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SU blog
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03/02/23
Is it time to build something better? Course reps and change in 2023
George Bryant-Aird
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SU blog
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03/02/23
To protect students’ interests, SUs should step up their efforts on lobbying
Jack Ballingham
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SU blog
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19/01/23
What is freedom of speech without theatrical debating societies? This
Laura Curran
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SU blog
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16/11/22
The Lords have been discussing students’ unions. It didn’t go well
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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03/11/22
How to give students and their reps more power
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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10/10/22
We’re collaborating to tackle the cost of living in our city
Robbie Beale
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SU blog
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05/09/22
When our students’ problems change, our priorities need to change with them
Emma de Saram
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SU blog
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01/09/22
Who should pay the price for keeping external speakers (and students) safe?
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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16/06/22
To change a university’s culture we need to see it through students’ eyes
Seun Twins
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SU blog
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26/05/22
Michelle Donelan’s complaints process for online learning doesn’t work
Joe Wiltshire
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SU blog
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13/05/22
The financing of doctoral study is a flawed system
Kathryn Cribbin
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SU blog
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24/03/22
Tough times are coming – what SU leaders do next will matter
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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11/03/22
Our work on gender-based violence is about giving students power and control
Karli Wagener
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SU blog
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28/02/22
There’s a giant student-shaped hole in the government’s Augar response
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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24/02/22
OfS needs to ask the right questions on student mental health
Freya Rennison
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SU blog
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14/01/22
It’s all coming up – 12 things for SUs think about in 2022
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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14/12/21
Accommodation costs are pricing students out of education
Hillary Gyebi-Ababio
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SU blog
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10/12/21
An open letter to the new Director for Fair Access and Participation
Jaudat Alogba
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SU blog
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24/11/21
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