Originally published on changesu

The respective roles of elected officers and staff- and the relationship between them- has been debated and theorised for as long as the student movement has existed.

Originally published on wonkhe

As the new academic year begins, on queue, old tropes about boozy students tumble through the press and social media. Even the reports this week about universities turning away from the…

Originally published on wonkhe

I worked at NUS for over a decade, during which we waged a sort of war on the process types that believed that student representation was all about systems and committees and surveys and…

Originally published on wonkhe

New research out this month demonstrates that when you shift the undergraduate student funding system to a voucher-based loan scheme where all provision is driven by applicant demand…

Originally published on wonkhe

The cost of higher education is front and centre of an election campaign for the second time in a row. For those of us close to the detail of HE policy, the broad brushes of an election…

Originally published on wonkhe

Are we still going on about that Green Paper? For me it’s like an overcooked sequel to 2011’s White Paper (which my politics text books say is the wrong way round), and in truth…

Originally published on wonkhe

It must be so frustrating being a press officer for the Coalition — either in government or inside the political parties.