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As I write I’m just back from an SU CEO networking event, and as ever with these things I’m buzzing and invigorated with fresh stories, insights and ideas from colleagues.

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I’m typing with a sore, “Popworld” head after Students’ Unions 2016, and as ever there’s a mixture of reflections- there’s positives, like the energising atmosphere, inspiring plenaries and comradely networking; and there’s…

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The publication of the Spiked! freedom of speech index, the Government’s Prevent Agenda and almost weekly battles over No Platform at…

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What an unpleasant sight. The usual unholy alliance of vice chancellors’ bag carriers and Corbynista cultists have been out in force for a couple of weeks now, responding to Owen…

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Another day, another commentator in the press bemoaning students for their weak, vulnerable millennial minds. From the old Revolutionary Communist Party to Peter Tatchell, it seems that everyone agrees that those of…

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For a couple of months now I’ve gathering and trudging my way through many higher education institutions’ strategic plans to think through how students’ unions might best influence such strategies in…

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If policy represents solutions to problems, it’s hard to regard the government’s efforts this week as a great bit of wonkery. The White Paper’s title contains the phrases “Teaching…

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So the second reading of the HE Bill is complete — and thank God for the so-called ‘Labour right’, without whom scrutiny on the Bill would have consisted of…

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It’s been good this past week to see issues around external examining debated on Wonkhe — but missing from the debate has been external…

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For anyone working with students in higher education, the mid-decade culture wars of the 2010s have been exhausting and pretty miserable. We’ve endured an entire…