NUS SHOCKER! 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STITCHED UP

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 [...]

LGoS ELECTION - ROUND-UP OF THE PAST WEEK

Polls open tomorrow for this year’s Liverpool Guild elections. After a week of campaigning the hard work begins as candidates try to get as many of your first preference votes as possible. I’ve decided to look back at the past week of campaigning and see who the big winners and losers are and remind you [...]

LGoS TRUSTEE ELECTION DRAWS NEAR

Next week, as well as the election of four Student Representative Officers, there will also be for the very first time at Liverpool Guild, elections for the position of Student Trustee. Following the ratification of the new constitution and governance model over the past 2 years, the Guild will be led by a trustee board [...]

LGoS ELECTIONS… CONTINUED!

Main elections article
Student Trustee Candidates

Due to space constraints in the print issue, we were unable to give you the full breakdown of manifesto exhibits of all the candidates. However, in the name of fairness, we can exclusively bring you some of the main ideas of the other candidates in the running for Student Representative Officer [...]

TUITION FEE RISES A JOKE!

Increased tuition fees could cause students to ‘face a lifetime of debt’ with only the most well off being able to afford to attend university. This is the rhetoric we’re used to hearing from the National Union of Students. Not anymore. For the first time a university Vice Chancellor has taken the unprecedented step of [...]

MERSEY TUNNEL TOLL INCREASE APPROVED

Controversial plans to increase the cost of travelling trough the Mersey Tunnels were approved last week by the transport authority Merseytravel, despite only 6 out of the 18 councillors eligible to vote voting ‘yes’ to the increases. The increase of 10p means that the new toll, due to come into affect on the 6th of [...]

M.A.? ONLY IF YOU’RE MIGHTY AFFLUENT

FUNDING CUTS FOR SECOND DEGREES PROPOSED
Universities have warned that they may ask the government to lift the cap on tuition fees to more than £7,000 a year as a result of funding cuts. Institutions argue that the recent announcement of funding cuts of more than £100m a year for second degrees and lower level, shorter [...]

STATION SET TO EXPAND

PLANS FOR CENTRAL STATION ANNOUNCED
Plans are under way to carry out expansion work to Liverpool’s Central Station to allow more passengers to travel underground. The redevelopment will mean that the capacity of the Ranelagh Street station can be increased which will lead to better train access.
The aim is to ease the pressure as Central Station [...]

NUS LOSSES UNACCEPTABLE

Figures showing that the National Union of Students has lost £1.1m for the year 2006/2007 come as little surprise to those who have been involved with the organisation. For years financial mismanagement has crippled our union which was only saved from bankruptcy two years ago because it sold off its national offices. The big question [...]

NUS VOTES FOR CHANGE

MEMBERS AT CONFERENCE SUPPORT GOVERNANCE PROPOSALS
Last Tuesday, hundreds of student representatives from across the country descended on Leicester for an NUS extraordinary conference. Delegates from student unions across the UK debated and voted on a new core constitution designed to shape the future of the NUS. After much debate, members voted overwhelmingly in favour of [...]