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We lack evidence on what works for closing disabled students' equality gaps
As someone who has worked on researching how we best tackle inequalities, I regularly remind myself that evidence alone doesn’t make a difference. Disabled students know they have unequal experiences in higher education, and what they want and deserve is for those inequalities to be addressed.
Have students had the nerve to tell the truth about their experience?
Once you accept all of the problems, contradictions and inconsistencies inherent in giving every higher education provider one of four grades as both a signalling and enhancement tool, it makes perfect sense to want some of the evidence that you base that grade on to come from students.
How should universities handle cases of blackmail by essay mills?
Samir (not his real name) was an international student on a postgraduate degree at a UK university. He had returned to university after years in employment and, unaccustomed to academic work and with imperfect English, he struggled with an essay. He lived alone, away from his family, and had few friends. In desperation, he searched the Internet for help and approached an essay-writing company. A helping hand At first, the relationship between Samir and the essay-writer, B, was pleasant.
How do we really create ‘inclusive’ spaces for BAME staff and students?
It’s not uncommon for societies, events, and classrooms to advertise their spaces as ‘inclusive’. But what exactly is different about these spaces from any other institutional setting? As predominantly white spaces, universities make efforts to create what are often described as ‘inclusive and diverse’ spaces, specifically for those with what is described as ‘protected characteristics’. But it takes more than diversity efforts to create a truly inclusive environment.
As the sector expands, why are we letting more mean less?
When you take a bunch of students’ union officers and the staff that support them on a study tour around Europe, you do spend the first few visits doing what Jim likes to describe as “look, they call a Twix a Raider!”.
Podcast: Drugs, year ahead, study tour
This week in a special European episode of the podcast we’re in Münster, Germany for the Wonkhe SUs study tour. Jim and guests from the bus trip discuss the HE policy year ahead, drugs on campus, and what we might learn from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Plus DK dives into the UCAS end of cycle data. With India Ellis, President at Lancaster SU, Alexander Robinson, President at the SU Bath University, Gary Hughes, CEO at Durham SU and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.
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