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Student rights & consumer protection
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Students feel abandoned by their own institutions
Isabella Enoizi
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SU blog
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15/01/21
Students that use essay mills are vulnerable to blackmail
Daniel Sokol
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SU blog
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14/01/21
Mitigating or extenuating circumstances gets a major overhaul
14/12/20
Majority of university students want refund on first term
11/12/20
Who’s behind “Stop the Student Rip Off”?
Jack Harvey
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SU blog
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11/12/20
What can SUs learn from batch 1 of Covid complaints?
26/11/20
The “mess, stress and trauma” of student cheating
10/11/20
How do students decide what to study (and where)?
05/11/20
The new legal restrictions in England for the November lockdown
03/11/20
Can universities expel students over Covid?
12/10/20
New laws in England that SUs need to know about
29/09/20
Do both modules? Here’s £500. Or maybe £1,000.
09/09/20
Covid-19, student discipline and student opportunities
03/09/20
Student retention and feeling part of a community
11/08/20
Are students getting the “absolute clarity” they were promised?
29/07/20
Changes to courses and the issue of “consent”
08/07/20
Now would be a very bad time to treat students like children
Gareth Hughes
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SU blog
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23/06/20
Are “student compacts” an answer to some of the September student questions?
22/06/20
OIA has new guidance out on how it will approach Covid complaints
22/06/20
How to reopen universities in September
29/05/20
Master’s students are owed deferrals and refunds
Alessandro Ceccarelli
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SU blog
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29/05/20
Essay mills haven’t gone away during the Covid crisis
Daniel Sokol
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SU blog
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01/05/20
Only collectivism can solve the problem of fee refunds
Zamzam Ibrahim
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SU blog
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24/04/20
Ten things to remember about temporary changes to immigration rules for international students
20/04/20
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