The UK Open University has some FREE courses that you can greatly benefit from.

open.edu/openlearn/free…

And the shame I have been carrying around is not mine to hold.

I hope this encourages others to speak.

Is it the return of the Higher School Certificate?

OfS: Please don’t use your TEF rating to market postgraduate courses.

Universities:

my brief piece in the times about why it is vital that tuition fees are scrapped.

HE is in crisis. students are working multiple part time jobs to just get by. the rental crisis is leaving students homeless as we speak. the only solution is to demarketise
thetimes.co.uk/article/edadd6…

This. Is. HUGE

The The Office for Students (OfS) are going to release a care experienced split of NSS data. Essentially, you (or me, I imagine) will be able to league table universities based upon the experiences of their care experienced students.

officeforstudents.org.uk/media/ba5a292e…

My question is what should Chairs do, in their positions of power, to set the tone and culture of the Board? #GovConf22

It's not unusual for students to have a part-time job.

But some are having to work so hard to get by, they are barely getting any time to study.

One says it's how she can afford to buy veg.

Full story: independent.co.uk/news/education…

We should also be ramping up the ease/ability for students to switch to part time if that helps them find the money to stay on.

‼️ I'm looking for Black students in the UK who planned to go or thought they would go to University this year, but instead have chosen to do an Apprenticeship. It's for a BBC News story. Please get in touch if this is you or share this tweet with someone who fits this brief🙂

And for the DfE folks that follow me on here - I know that at the moment your ministers are telling you not to contact NUS but for goodness sake there's a whole wedge of SU officers and staff floating around

Anyone would think that the SU sector runs a truck load of venues and was at the forefront of the issue last Oct/Nov. Why is the sector like this?

Seriously? Nobody from a students' union? Astonishing. (Spiking working group membership)

Hello any ex-sabbs out there: do you have any tips for writing a useful and concise handover document? I want mine to be a useful reference point, without imposing any ‘you should do this’ or ‘you should speak to this person’, onto my successor, so they don’t feel pressure to

A key take away from the report is that it is disproportionately Black and Asian students who feel there are limitations put on their freedom of speech. Many in the room hope the government will respond to this evidence #HEPIAC2022

Melody Stephen making the excellent point that survey data is the start of a conversation with those with the actual lived experience - students of all ethnicities, genders, sexualities and economic backgrounds etc. have very different lived experiences of uni life #HEPIAC2022

We need to stop divorcing mental health issues from the classroom, says Melody Stephen University of Manchester Students’ Union. Assessment and feedback are key drivers of stress, anxiety, pride, or joy among students.

Our next panel is 'The student experience: Moving on from the pandemic' chaired by Alexis Brown in discussion with Josephine Hansom YouthSight (now Savanta), Elizabeth Treasure Aberystwyth University, and Melody Stephen, General Secretary University of Manchester Students’ Union. #HEPIAC2022

Interesting to hear Melody say that we can’t just blame the pandemic because many of the issues, eg assessment, have been issues going back well before the pandemic #HEPIAC2022