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How commuter students show up in new access and participation plans

22 hours ago | wonkhe.com | Mack Marshall |Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

When the Office for Students included commuter students in the Equality of Opportunity Risk Register (EORR), it recognised the risk that commuter students may not always get the same experience as their “traditional” residential peers.
Euro visions: A playbook to fight the populists in the Netherlands

22 hours ago | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

It looks from here like another Swedish win on Saturday night – but going into Eurovision week, the Netherlands (largely singing in French) was one of the other countries jostling to be top of the odds. Its entry for Eurovision 2025 is Claude Kiambe, who was born in Congo and fled with his mother and siblings when he was nine years old, first living in an asylum reception center in Alkmaar before moving to Enkhuizen.
Euro visions: Everything's going on in Basel but the rent

1 day ago | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

This year’s Eurovision host city is Basel in Switzerland (“tiny but shiny”), which is also home to the country’s biggest and best Fasnacht. Every year at the start of lent, the German-speaking regions hold a huge carnival with elaborate parades, artistic masks, and costumes, along with Guggenmusik – brass bands playing loud, off-beat music.
UKRI has too many people telling it what to do without the resources to do what it's told

1 day ago | wonkhe.com | James Coe |Mark Leach

UKRI has a massive job. As the National Audit Office’s (NAO) new report sets out in 2023–24 UKRI assessed close to 29,000 grant funding applications and spent £6bn on innovation grants. It featured in 105 policy papers across 13 ministerial departments in the last three years alone, and it has been seven years since the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) formally set out UKRI’s role and objectives.
Euro visions: In Poland in May, cities belong to students

2 days ago | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

Gara (problem-solving abilities), Urra (wisdom and creativity), Raga (courage and resilience), Zargo (health and success) and Czarodoro (overcoming personal limitations). Oh, and Jarga (the cleansing of negative energies) and Jarun (karmic balance). No, it’s not Poland’s graduate attributes framework – it’s a set of new age “agmas” that Polish Eurovision entrant Justyna Steczkowska starts chanting in the final 30 seconds of her song “Gaja”.
What the hell just happened

3 days ago | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

I swear if I was Danish or Lithuanian or Greek or something I wouldn’t have this problem. But (no) thanks to the byzantine bureaucrats at the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation, I have somehow been rejected for media accreditation to cover the higher education aspects of the Eurovision Song Contest for the third year in a row.
Are there secret government bailouts?

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Mark Leach

Hugh Jones Hugh Jones is a freelance HE consultant. You’ll find a daily #HigherEducationPostcard if you follow him on Bluesky Philip Augar – he of the review of higher education funding in England commissioned by Theresa May’s government – wrote a piece this morning in the Financial Times with an interesting snippet:Three quarters [of English higher education providers] are expected to be loss making by 2025-2026, a handful are getting secret bail outs and 10,000 jobs are under threat.
Disabled students' rights are still being ignored

2 weeks ago | wonkhe.com | Livia Scott |Jim Dickinson

In the context of wider financial pressures on providers, universities can be a challenging environment to work in at present. So, a crackdown on ensuring all disabled student support plans are both in place and implemented may have fallen to the bottom of the to-do list. Couple that with chronic delays in the Disabled Students’ Allowance system – delays are roughly a month – and it’s a pretty bleak picture for disabled students.
Latest from Belong - students' health is not OK, and that's not OK

2 weeks ago | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

It’s hard to learn if you’re ill – good health is one of the classic prerequisites to learning. But one of the most frustrating things about the debate around student health in the UK is that there isn’t one. Anecdotally, poor access to preventative healthcare and health services tends to be justified either by NHS pressure from an ageing population or by expectations that universities should do more with less.
Democracy lives in the daily life of our university

2 weeks ago | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach |Mack Marshall |Mike Day

It was quite the paradox really. Sat in a glorious space in Lisbon specifically designed for groups of students to organise events where they can eat (inexpensively) and talk together, we met a Medical student leader from Portugal and a Pharmacy student leader from Moldova who were both thinking hard about their future.