Wonkhe

MARCH 13, 2024

Drawing on the findings of a pan-European study on mental health in universities, Kate Lister calls for more robust policy and practice frameworks to enable wellbeing support for university staff The post Helping students means taking university staff wellbeing seriously appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

APRIL 2, 2024

Changes to how Disabled Students’ Allowance works are intended to make the system work better for disabled students. Lucy Merritt analyses what’s changing and where the sticking points could be The post Examining the reforms to Disabled Students’ Allowance appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Mack Marshall argues we need to make greater efforts to integrate students into the towns and cities where they live and study. Mack Marshall argues we need to make greater efforts to integrate students into the towns and cities where they live and study.

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Students 331

Wonkhe

JANUARY 29, 2024

Jim Dickinson identifies the policy implications for the sector from a recent coroner's report into the death by suicide of a student at the University of Southampton The post What role should staff play in preventing student suicide? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Jo Smith and Simon Merrywest introduce new guidance on working as a whole community to reduce student suicide Jo Smith and Simon Merrywest introduce new guidance on working as a whole community to reduce student suicide

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Guidance Students 338

Wonkhe

MARCH 3, 2024

Jim Dickinson gets into the GTI/Cibyl polling underpinning the UPP Foundation's Student Futures 2 report - and finds collective strategic challenges for universities' growing group of Disabled students The post Disabled students need more than support plans and “fixing” appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

APRIL 14, 2024

2010 ushered in a new government that promised that students’ interests would be central to decision making. Jim Dickinson argues that it represents a decade of failure The post Whatever happened to students at the heart of the system? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 358

Wonkhe

MAY 12, 2024

A new report establishes the minimum income that students need for a decent experience. Jim Dickinson sets out what should happen next The post What serious governments should do next on student support appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Beth Sennett challenges the dominance of test-based learning, and argues that arts-based and visual communication can empower students to succeed. The post Are students’ writing skills still important? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Student rents are up 15 per cent in two years. Jim Dickinson goes on the hunt for the cause to find an answer to a growing crisis The post Who broke the student housing market? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 342

Wonkhe

JULY 2, 2024

Adam Winstock argues that universities who want to optimise students' heath, well-being and future should move away from punitive approaches to drugs The post Work on drugs is about keeping students safe appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 6, 2024

Increasing numbers of students are using self-employment as a component of supporting their living costs. Robert Phillips asks whether universities can help The post Students are turning to self-employment to fund their studies appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students University 350

Wonkhe

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Emma Roberts sets out three legal reforms that could transform the way universities learn from and prevent death by suicide amongst students

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Students University 328

Wonkhe

JUNE 16, 2024

Sunday Blake follows up on belonging research with Pearson to find out what's really driving them away The post Reduced student engagement isn’t just about prioritising part-time employment appeared first on Wonkhe. A collapse in on-campus engagement is often blamed on online lectures or part-time work.

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Students 363

Wonkhe

APRIL 2, 2024

Students in England are supposed to be protected when their course gets cut. Jim Dickinson reads the plans in place to determine if that's happening in practice The post Are students being protected from course cuts and closures? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 358

Wonkhe

APRIL 10, 2024

The government is proposing to abolish a central funding allowance that allows disabled students to access specialist nonmedical support. Jim Dickinson explains the justification The post Now DfE proposes to scrap a huge part of Disabled Students Allowance appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 363

Wonkhe

JUNE 20, 2024

Erica Cargill and James Cunningham call for deeper engagement The post Embracing the role of undergraduate students as engaged researchers appeared first on Wonkhe. The teaching of undergraduate research can suffer from being overly mechanical.

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Students 347

Wonkhe

MARCH 5, 2024

Nicola Watchman-Smith reflects on the increasing complexities of work on student belonging and introduces a new practical guide to help you move your practice forward The post Advancing student belonging from classroom to campus and from theory to practice appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 359

Wonkhe

MARCH 3, 2024

Two years on from the report of the Student Futures Commission, rising costs are undermining efforts to build back post-Covid, warn Mary Curnock Cook and Richard Brabner The post The cost of learning crisis is creating new threats to students’ futures appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 357

Wonkhe

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Should higher education be trying to cultivate tough, resilient students? Jon Rowlands makes the case for developing courage instead The post Is resilience really what we want for students? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 28, 2024

When taking students on a learning journey it helps to know where they are coming from. Sunday Blake investigates the phenomenon of the pre-arrival questionnaire The post Pre-arrival surveys make it possible to meet students where they are appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 353

Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Too often the process of investigation of staff student sexual misconduct takes precedence over offering support and redress to student complainants. Anna Bull lays out what's needed The post How to take care of complainants in cases of staff student sexual misconduct appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students Humanities 361

Wonkhe

AUGUST 4, 2024

Rachel Maxwell shares insight from University of Keele's use of engagement analytics to improve student retention in the foundation year The post Breaking the cycle of despair through tracking student engagement appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Retention Students University 329

Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Commuter students face financial struggle and a growing sense of isolation from campus. Lee Elliot Major introduces the findings of a new student money and wellbeing survey The post The spiralling costs of higher education are hitting stay at home students harder appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Education Education Students 354

Wonkhe

JANUARY 29, 2024

As student maintenance support and high inflation puts pressure on home and international students alike, Adrian Wright and colleagues call on universities to help students find benefits in part-time work The post Student part-time work is on the rise.

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Students University 358

Wonkhe

MAY 2, 2024

Every year student mental health advisers feed back on their their caseloads and conditions. Rachel Spacey and Sam Gamblin find that this year's results make for worrying reading The post Higher risks and longer delays: Student mental health advisors on the front line appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Advise Students 361

Wonkhe

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Jim Dickinson assesses the findings of new polling from Belong on students' experiences of and impacts from being at work Jim Dickinson assesses the findings of new polling from Belong on students' experiences of and impacts from being at work

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Students 296

Wonkhe

MAY 2, 2024

Every student mental health advisers feed back on their their caseloads and conditions. Rachel Spacey and Sam Gamblin find that this year's results make for worrying reading The post Higher risks and longer delays: Student mental health advisors on the front line appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Advise Students 358

Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As Disabled Students UK publishes its annual survey, Deborah Johnston and Mette Anwar-Westander call for a deeper understanding of the Disabled student experience The post Addressing the disabled satisfaction gap means understanding disabled students appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 343

Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Higher education experts shared ways to reach underrepresented students following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling banning race-conscious admissions.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 24, 2024

Monika Antal presents the findings The post How to engage students with sustainability through service learning appeared first on Wonkhe. A new guide from Yorkshire Universities explores how sustainability is embedded into university curricula and highlights current good practice.

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Students University 347

Wonkhe

MAY 7, 2024

David Phoenix explains The post Student financial support is between a rock and a hard place appeared first on Wonkhe. The government needs to boost maintenance – and the funds that are already there could be better utilised.

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Students 342

Wonkhe

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Campus security is supposed to keep students safe - but can it also have harms? Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Laura Connelly and Siobhan O’Neill find areas of concern The post Campus security services can have a concerning impact on students appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students 351

Wonkhe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The number one way to accommodate disabled students is by giving them extra time - but it's increasingly time they don't have. Jim Dickinson runs the numbers and assesses the impacts

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Students 348

Wonkhe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Jim Dickinson reflects on calls to reduce regulation of universities - arguing that the real problem is the way we frame higher education as "big boarding school" The post The last thing that students need is less regulation appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

APRIL 19, 2024

The Education Department's long-awaited regulations also provide protections for pregnant students and employees.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Livia Scott, Sunday Blake, and Jim Dickinson found that - in comparison - the student submissions told a slightly different story. The post What TEF submissions told us about the student experience appeared first on Wonkhe. Many provider TEF submissions describe innovative, co-created initiatives.

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Students 331