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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Headline writers must be the only people left on the planet who insist on describing student accommodation as "digs"
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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?
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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
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...
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.
wonderfulhighered.com
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
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...
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.
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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 th…
