Students
The benefits of university spread far beyond financial gain
Sana Iqbal on her experience of the transformational impact of going to university, and why the debate about 'value' can't capture the benefits of higher education to society.
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Stopping students cheating: mission impossible?
The effort some students go to plagiarise work is like something out of a spy film. Registrarism argues that more must be done to tackle such behaviour.
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Time to get tough with the ‘student snowflakes’ rhetoric
A supposed lack of student resilience is often used to explain away a number of new challenges for universities. Alex Prestage argues we must move away from a deficit model to one that better recognises relative disadvantage.
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Debunking the non-voting student myth
University students turn out in elections much more frequently than is commonly supposed. David Morris reflects on the latest HEPI research into student voting behaviours.
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New leaders, new approach: a watershed moment for NUS
Shakira Martin and Amatey Doku are the new faces of NUS for the higher education. Nona Buckley-Irvine explains what this means for the sector's engagement with NUS and students' unions.
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Taking the strategic approach to supporting students’ mental health
Student Minds' Rosie Tressler and Rachel Piper outline how effective partnerships between accommodation providers and universities are vital for providing mental health support for students.
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Making waves for academic credit
Swimming and fitness tests are on their way out of US universities, but appear to be on the way up in China.
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Your Starter for Ten: a one-dimensional picture of universities
The format of University Challenge might feel familiar and be much loved, yet it profoundly distorts the outside world's perception of universities, argues Cat Turhan.
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Sexual harassment by staff is not being tackled with sufficient urgency
Despite growing media attention, there's little evidence that the sector is being sufficiently proactive in tackling staff-to-student sexual harassment. Richard Peachy of CMP Resolutions suggests some actions that universities might take.
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Does UK HE have a retention problem?
In the second of a series of events hosted jointly by Wonkhe and UPP Foundation, an expert panel considered the knotty retention in higher education on 23 March at King’s College London. The panel, chaired by UPP Foundation’s Richard Brabner, was: Alex Proudfoot, Chief Executive at Independent HE Ross Renton, Pro-Vice Chancellor Students at the... read more
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