Claiming compensation for strike disruption, step by step
With compensation paid at several universities, this sets out how a claim actually works: complain to the university in writing, name the teaching lost and the effect on your learning rather than the inconvenience, exhaust the internal process, then take it to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator within twelve months. Group claims through a students’ union carry further than individual ones.
A family says a university failed their son
The mother of a student who took his own life after being told he could not graduate has said the University of Glasgow failed him. It is the case behind the sector-wide assessment review Scotland ordered last month, and the questions it raises are the ones every university is now being asked: who tells a student that news, how, and what happens next.
What student accommodation is for, and who it is now built for
HEPI’s director sets out the state of student housing: purpose-built accommodation increasingly aimed at the top of the market, university halls raising rents faster than maintenance support rises, and a supply pipeline too slow to catch up. The consequence is a market where the cheapest option is often the worst house rather than the smallest room. Finding student housing covers navigating it.
“Higher education is for everyone, despite the Chancellor”
A student comment piece argues that the repayment changes force students to treat university as a personal financial calculation, and that this is how a public good becomes a private gamble. It is the clearest student-side statement of the argument the Chancellor answered three weeks ago.