UCL graduates have been compensated for pandemic teaching, and others may follow
UCL graduates have received compensation for teaching disrupted during the pandemic, and analysis identifies 36 universities where students could have comparable claims. Claims run through the university’s complaints process first and then the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, and there are time limits — usually twelve months from the end of the internal process. Worth checking if you studied through 2020 and 2021.
Heriot-Watt staff vote for industrial action again
Seventy-four per cent of voting staff at Heriot-Watt have backed industrial action in the continuing dispute over job cuts, six months after the last ballot there. Scotland now has action live or pending at several institutions, and the disruption lands in the weeks before spring assessments.
Access is about what happens after admission
HEPI argues that widening access has been treated as an admissions problem when the losses happen later — students who arrive and leave, or arrive and achieve less, because of money, housing and belonging rather than ability. The measures that would change it are the unglamorous ones: hardship funds, year-round accommodation, and someone noticing when attendance drops.