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Jim Dickinson

@jimdickinson.bsky.social
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Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Universities to disabled students: Have extra time on everything every time Also universities to disabled students: Get the degree done in 3 years like everyone else We see the problem here, yes?
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All day long all I've heard is spurious theories about the NEETs rise. None of which are the obvious answer... wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can't find any other way to describe this pathetic piece of work than this: it shows utter contempt for students www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Student accommodation: statement of expectations
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Richard Mills and Edward Briggs have supported mergers across higher education and beyond. Here's what they've learned about what makes them work – and what makes them fall apart wonkhe.com/blogs/a-fiel...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: The Future Framework has measured the pressure on Scottish universities. Vicki Stott sets out how one alliance is testing whether autonomy and system-scale collaboration can coexist wonkhe.com/blogs/if-sco...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: The voter consensus forming around Burnham’s education agenda has little time for universities wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Nic Beech and Clare Peddie outline the Quality Assurance Agency’s new advice and guidance chapters for the revised UK Quality Code wonkhe.com/blogs/theres...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Madeleine Pownall and Mary Hausfeld call for research teams to be more explicit, equitable, and reflective about how they assign scholarly credit wonkhe.com/blogs/conver...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Billy Wong and Zach Spire look at how the spaces of university signal who belongs, and who is expected to already know the rules wonkhe.com/blogs/before...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Stephen Isherwood explains that despite the challenges of measuring career outcomes, they remain central to student interests, value for money and informed choice wonkhe.com/blogs/why-ha...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Whose degree is it anyway? wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Simon Varwell @hisasimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very good and provocative as ever by @jimdickinson.bsky.social. We're definitely upping our game this year, condensing our talks into three key points about representation, community and support. Still much to do to better explain relevance, I suspect. wonkhe.com/blogs-sus/ho...
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How to deliver a terrible freshers induction talk
As sabbs take the stage for induction week, Jim Dickinson offers a guide to delivering the SU slot so that nobody remembers a word of it
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Annie Bell and Damayanti Chatterjee present new modelling that explores not just the potential for growth in international student numbers, but also whether that growth would be stable buff.ly/vhm0Vdl
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: How does our market based higher education system in England work - as a market? David Kernohan gets into the detail buff.ly/vGhAwdY
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: The mental health taskforce has no budget wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: When a far-right march was planned near her flat, her university said nothing. Cynthia Keza Birikundavyi argues that setting a threshold for communication is an administrative adjustment, not a political act buff.ly/5lpmG4O
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Last seen around the time of the Augar review, KPMG has updated work on the costs of teaching. DK finds evidence of cost cutting everywhere buff.ly/D0cu2Xu
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Soheil Davari and Rashaad Shabab argue that a joined-up curriculum doesn't happen by accident, someone needs to actively hold the pieces together buff.ly/VTmQPuV
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag is about a merger to create a new university in the south east buff.ly/OMDTLRC
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Students feel free to speak – unless they’re training to be doctors wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Luke Green and Liz Shutt make the case that to make devolution a success, civic universities need to partner more and lead less buff.ly/iEfF0ul
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration buff.ly/iCV7Ngs
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts buff.ly/xorNN3s
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: With Washington's Supreme Court finding a university owed a duty over a fraternity hazing death, Bob Abrahart argues England's duty of care debate has skipped the prior question of what the university-student relationship actually is buff.ly/NgUvffL
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Staff to student ratios explain far less about the student experience than we assume wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Panos Sousounis argues that if science diplomacy is shaping who UK universities partner with, international strategy teams need three separate assessments running simultaneously buff.ly/8buLJ5r
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Jo Nuckley explains why responding to reports of harassment and sexual misconduct calls for a different kind of fairness buff.ly/lGeo4KO
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: As the UK prepares to rejoin Erasmus+ at around £570 million a year, Jim Dickinson argues that the sector's five-year record of underspending mobility money should worry everyone – and that the domestic version of the problem is bigger buff.ly/Iq88LKn
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
university staff need no qualifications in teaching but sure, start here Vikki
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: The story is not the problem, international education has a design problem wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: What is happening to the SSR? The 2027 edition wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Debbie McVitty was at the annual gathering of university vice chancellors and finds a sector eager to prove its value – but are ministers on the same page? buff.ly/fSyxK9Z
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: It is the Treasury that gets to decide on any changes to sector funding, and it is the state of public finances that determines that there will be no major rethink. David Kernohan has been listening to the chancellor buff.ly/mYf3n3e
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: The government's reply to the Treasury Committee's inquiry on student loans accepts some wording changes and rejects the rest. Jim Dickinson finds it answering a fairness question with a solvency one buff.ly/HhDx07h
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Someone has to make housing a condition of recruiting students wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Daniel Hook argues that frictionless technologies are teaching us to prefer our own company – and that research leaders should be worried buff.ly/LIjt23s
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: UUK’s work experience target forgets that most students already have some wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: What happens when students can produce a lawyer's letter in an afternoon? Jim Dickinson weighs up whether the sector closes its complaints gap or simply promises less buff.ly/2GccpJ9
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging buff.ly/7PuwCwl
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag brings you a very modern medieval tower buff.ly/Te6Amxa
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Data from the 28th day of clearing shows some concerning trends wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Study visa applications see a big fall in the key month of August wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Sammy Shummo argues that universities need to move beyond course portfolios and build coherent skills ecosystems buff.ly/hX3bVaj
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Matthew Howling outlines the gap between what the Office for Students' framework says and what its risk categories might mean for providers under financial pressure buff.ly/5cm9gz6
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Will a graduate jobs roadmap show us the right way? wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: For Fredrick Agboma and Andrew Doyle, the question isn't whether students are less committed, but what culture they're asked to inhabit buff.ly/cuDuHnS
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Four evaluators across UK universities make the case that ethical evaluation matters, but institutions need to work out whose job it is to enforce it buff.ly/5WKW3IM
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Professional and support staff need visibility and recognition wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Charlotte Corrish outlines new research on how students experience provider closure and sets out what student protection should look like buff.ly/xvwhkwt
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