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13 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I take it all back. He's nailed it. The a magic money twig will now cover "lost learning" and university campuses might reopen after Easter when teaching is all over to facilitate landlords getting paid. Hero!
"We'll be looking, at Easter, at whether students can come back in May for the Summer Term". If almost all end of year assessment is online, who on earth is still running teaching in May on most courses in most universities?
Maybe there are some university finance directors still imagining that the government will "allow" non practical course students back in May/June, that no teaching will be run, exams and assessments online and they'll still try to compel students to pay May and June's rent.
"We're going to do our best to make it up to you" yes folks this is their "best"
Promises promises

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13 Mar
Some stats from OpenRent – the "UK’s biggest letting agent" from February are pretty hair raising. Buckle in.
UK students are currently in £171m of rent debt. 11% of students are currently in arrears. The average arrears of this group is £1,341. 34% of students who rent have been unable to pay their full rent at some point since the pandemic started.
56% of students find their rent “usually or always hard” to afford. Part time work - Students have lost £4.40bn of income since the start of the pandemic
The average loss of student income during the pandemic so far is £2,761.
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13 Mar
In the UK student financial support is determined by your home nation, and funding for universities determined by the nation where your university is based. Thread.
That's thrown up a few anomalies this year because in-year hardship funding has been routed through universities rather than through the SLC.
If you think for example about massive disparity in help for students between Wales and England, the 25,000 or so students from Wales studying in England have good reason to feel completely abandoned by their host nation.
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13 Mar
Well here's a tale. I *think* this is the first round one to winner ATV upset of the season (let me know if not or if you spot another I've missed)...
Cardiff Uni SU Education sabb election. Round one... Mallinson ahead
After RON goes Acuna goes out first, nudging Dunn ahead of Mallinson
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13 Mar
In the context of Boris now arguing that the £70m hardship fund is now also for "lost learning" I wanted to run a short thought experiment on lost learning. A thread.
I talk a lot - as do OIA and OfS - about lost learning both in terms of "outcomes" and "opportunities". Important difference is that some in sector want to maintain that "outcomes" unaffected this year...
but as I always say - students cant be paying for outcomes, because it has to be possible to pay in full and also fail. They're paying for a set of facilities and services that include a series of learning opportunities.
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13 Mar
The reason some of the material in here is so interesting is that you can make a decent argument that CMA guidance gives students the right to withhold fees in part if part of the service isn't being supplied. theguardian.com/education/2021…
"I’ve seen students who have been forced to do metal smelting at home and burned their hands, or who have been painting in small unventilated spaces... Students are scrambling to rent expensive private studios they can’t afford.”
The fact that there's been no clarity from @CMAgovUK or @officestudents on promised facilities (not "course components" but shared facilities) and the role they play here is shameful. It pushes students and institutions into the worst kind of brinkmanship.
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12 Mar
Just to say that @TomHale_ has a fab piece in the FT Magazine this week on "the university recruitment machine" that's well worth a read. ft.com/content/2aafdf…
There's some stunning quotes from students and those who do the recruitment of students to for-profits in the UK. A few...
“I did have an idea that I was going to a university that was diverse, established,” she says. “My adviser [from the Berlin college] did not tell me the university was less than a year old.”
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