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Jim Dickinson

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Covers:  Higher education, students
@Wonkhe SUs. Trustee @WinchesterSU. HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”

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Jim Dickinson’s Biography

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Jim is an Associate Editor at Wonkhe and takes a particular interest in the student experience, university governance, and regulation – and leads our work with students’ unions.

His career background is in support for student leadership. He has held senior roles at the National Union of Students – where he led on SU development, campaigns and political strategy – and was the CEO at the SU at UEA, providing strategic management for the union’s charitable and commercial vehicles as well as policy…

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Jim Dickinson | Wonkhe

Jim Dickinson | Wonkhe

Jim is an Associate Editor at Wonkhe and takes a particular interest in the student experience, university go…

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The class of 2026 has clocked that they can’t have it all

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By Sharanya Sivarajah, Jim Dickinson Verified, Mark Leach
| Wonkhe
Every summer, before the trains are booked, the hotels are reserved and the unfeasibly large order of unfeasibly large post-it notes is placed, we sit down and read the pledges that incoming SU officers made to get themselves elected. This year we have coded and analysed just under a thousand of them, from winners and losers, across institutions large and small, specialist and comprehensive, and all four nations (plus a few from the Republic of Ireland).
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The engine of employability is relational, not informational

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By Jim Dickinson Verified, Mark Leach, Sharanya Sivarajah
| Wonkhe
Ask people in and around higher education who owns “employability” and you’ll get a decade of debate – a toxic brand, an engagement problem, a function now central to institutional success. Ask students whether their time at university is preparing them for a career, and you get something much simpler – just over a third can’t say that it is. The question matters more now than it has for years.
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Student loans can no longer be patched up. The system is rotten

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By Jim Dickinson Verified, Mark Leach
| Wonkhe
Every July, the Department for Education publishes its student loan forecasts. It’s the department’s annual best guess at what students will borrow, what graduates will repay, and how much of the difference the taxpayer will swallow. This year’s edition manages a trick that ought to be impossible. Graduates are going to pay more than the government thought last year – hundreds of millions of pounds more, every year, thanks to the repayment threshold freeze announced at Autumn Budget 2025.
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