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TopicAcademic quality & standards

Explainers and SU blogs on this topic, newest first.

We keep asking students for feedback – but are we actually listening?

Rida Mir|SU blog|30/09/26

Now that’s what I call The Secret Life of Students 2026

Mack Marshall|SU blog|19/03/26

When the essay mill pretends to be your friend

Daniel Sokol|SU blog|16/01/26

Get involved in our national student experience research

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|06/10/25

Students won’t get value for money if they have no money to engage in the value

Emily Bastable|SU blog|30/07/25

The essay-writing company who pretends to be your friend

Daniel Sokol|SU blog|29/07/25

The conflict between retention and wellbeing

Freddy Russell|SU blog|03/07/25

Were students heard in TEF 2023?

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|27/02/25

Universities must bridge the gap between promises and international student realities

Huma Hasan|SU blog|15/10/24

The SU theory of change is broken. Nudniks might fix it

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|06/09/24

This one simple trick could change your rep system forever

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|07/07/24

Why we need a new benchmark for academic representation (and how you can get involved)

Ashley Storer-Smith|SU blog|13/06/24

The secrets to improving your NSS score finally revealed

Ruth Fernandes|SU blog|07/03/24

Widening participation won’t happen by magic

Tom Wellesley|SU blog|19/09/23

How we turned around our Q26 score

Laura Pike|SU blog|24/08/23

Blue skies and big pictures – thinking about the future of SUs

Dan Fow|SU blog|05/05/23

Students need to see themselves in their SU

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|21/04/23

The TEF has helped us redefine student partnership

Jade Underwood|SU blog|21/04/23

Is it time to build something better? Course reps and change in 2023

George Bryant-Aird|SU blog|03/02/23

How to give students and their reps more power

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|10/10/22

OfS needs to ask the right questions on student mental health

Freya Rennison|SU blog|14/01/22

The student who copied himself

Daniel Sokol|SU blog|21/07/21

A master’s degree in student engagement

Tom Lowe|SU blog|18/09/20

SUs have a complicated relationship with the National Student Survey

Jen Hastings|SU blog|15/07/20

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