The OIA, the independent body that deals with student complaints about their HEIs, is consulting on some changes to its complaints scheme. In this short Shakespeare Martineau blog we highlight some of the main issues and offer a few suggestions to consider.
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Who Signed Your Certificate?
It's graduation season again. But whose signature is on your degree certificate?
wonderfulhighered.com/2026/01/22/w...
Headline writers must be the only people left on the planet who insist on describing student accommodation as "digs"
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Slightly dull new rankings blog. There are loads of national and international university league tables out there. But there is one in particular which, over the years, has generated less interest than most. With good reason perhaps. Maybe dull is good?
wonderfulhighered.com/2026/06/09/t...
New blog. There are loads of national and international university league tables out there. But there is one in particular which, over the years, has generated less interest than most. With good reason perhaps.
Very short review of a strange but entertaining short novel
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Well worth a read this from @hepi-news.bsky.social (also includes a nice reference to the My Imaginary University podcast episode which I recorded with Nick Hillman)
Following approval by the OfS, there is a new university name out there - it is the ‘London and South East University
Group’ abbreviated as ‘LASEUG’ or ‘LASE’
But the key question now is not regulated: pronunciation - lace-ugg? laze-ugg? lass-yoodg?
www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications...
If only...
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University campus design is often controversial and doesn’t always seem to be developed with the interest of the user in mind. One particularly interesting feature though is the concept of the ‘desire path’ on university campuses. They are surpringly common.
wonderfulhighered.com/2025/08/05/h...
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Paul Greatrix
There are many national and international university league tables out there. But there is one in particular which, over the years, has generated less interest than most.
About a third of 18-year-olds are planning to live at home while at university, a decision that could save them up to £28,800 each in maintenance loans
There are many national and international university league tables out there. But there is one in particular which, over the years, has generated less interest than most.
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The award of a degree is the ultimate achievement in higher education. The lasting record of this is, of course, the degree certificate. But who signs these vital pieces of paper? There is some qui…
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable.
The OfS has consented to the inclusion of the word ‘university’ in the University of Greenwich’s proposed new name ‘London and South East University Group’ upon completion of the merger with the Unive...
University campus design is often controversial and doesn’t always seem to be developed with the interest of the user in mind. One particularly interesting feature though is the concept of th…
