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NUS DROPS FREE EDUCATION PRINCIPLE

By James Cree ⋅ April 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Students at the annual NUS National Conference have voted to get scrap the principle that the National Union of Students will only argue for free education. Although alternative motions to ‘fight for the abolition of all tuition fees and hold a national demonstration’ were proposed, they were defeated by just 41 votes.
The newly-elected president, Wes [...]

NUS CONFERENCE: ELECTIONS ROUND-UP

By James Cree ⋅ April 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

There were few surprises on day two of conference, with elections for the full time positions taking place. The winners were as follows:
President - Wes Streeting
VP Higher Education - Aaron Porter
VP Further Education - Beth Walker (re-elected)
National Secretary - Richard ‘bubble’ Budden
VP Welfare - Ama Uzorwu (re-elected)
Treasurer - Dave Lewis (re-elected)
All candidates elected were strong [...]

NUS CONFERENCE: STREETING ELECTED PRESIDENT

By James Cree ⋅ April 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

It has just been announced that Labour Students Wes Streeting has been elected as President of NUS, receiving 496 of the 962 votes cast. After yesterday’s shock rejection of NUS’ governance proposals, some observers thought another surprise could be on the cards. However, as expected, Streeting won by a very comfortable margin, with Ciaran Norris [...]

NUS IN TATTERS AS GOVERNANCE PROPOSALS ARE REJECTED

By James Cree ⋅ April 1, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

In the last few minutes, NUS’s controversial governance proposals aimed at overhauling the way our national union is run have been rejected by delegates at the annual conference, Blackpool. Although the proposals received a majority support, it missed out on reaching the 2/3rds majority required for the proposals to be ratified, by 25 votes.
The result [...]

STUDENTS DESCEND ON BLACKPOOL FOR NUS CONFERENCE

By James Cree ⋅ March 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The time is almost here for the 2008 NUS Conference, to be held at the Winter Gardens hotel in Blackpool. This year, perhaps the most important in NUS’s history, sees the debate of the new governance proposals, which if passed, modernise the NUS into an affective campaigning organisation, able to deliver results for its students [...]

NUS GOVERNANCE: BACK THE PROPOSALS BUT NOT OUR ARROGANT LEADERSHIP

By James Cree ⋅ March 29, 2008 ⋅ One comment

The governance proposals being put forward at this year’s NUS Conference are far from perfect, but they must be supported. For years the NUS has continued with its outdated, ineffective structures which has seen it lose almost every battle with the government on Higher Education funding and nearly sent us in to bankruptcy.
Those fighting against [...]

PROTEST PLANNED OVER TUNNEL TOLL RISE

By James Cree ⋅ March 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A demonstration is to be held outside Birkenhead tunnel when the toll rise is increased at the beginning of next month. The decision was taken after a meeting of the Mersey Tunnel Users Association last night. Representatives from Merseytravel, the regions transport authority, did not attend the meeting and have so far made no comment.
The [...]

JMU STUDENT SENTENCED OVER DRUGS STASH

By James Cree ⋅ March 15, 2008 ⋅ One comment

A Liverpool John Moores student was sentenced to eight years in a young offenders institution yesterday, after admitting being in possession of drugs and cash worth over £320,000. The discovery was made by shocked cleaners at Atlantic Point halls of residence when he failed to clear out his room at the end of term. Officers [...]

NEW NUS WOMEN’S OFFICER ELECTED

By James Cree ⋅ March 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This afternoon, Katie Curtis has been elected as the NUS Women’s Officer for the 2008/09 year at the Women’s Campaign Conference in Coventry. We’ll bring you more information and a full break down of the results as soon as it becomes available.
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NUS SHOCKER! 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STITCHED UP

By James Cree ⋅ March 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The NUS leadership has been left with a lot to answer for this week, after a whistleblower revealed to the ‘National Student’, a national student newspaper, that this years’ NUS Presidential election has been stitched up, ensuring that Labour Students’ leader, Wes Streeting, is elected.
Kevin Atkinson, the North West observer on the NEC National [...]

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