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NUS National Conference 2012 will begin today at midday, with hundreds of delegates from around the country, including five from Leicester, who will be voting on a vast array of motions, as well as for the next NUS President.

To find out more, watch the live stream and keep up to date with all conference news visit the NUS National Conference 2012 website; follow the conference hashtag: #nusnc12 on twitter

Send your comments and questions to our lead delegate, Campaigns and Involvement Officer Thom French @thomsucampaigns on twitter.

Medicne, Biological Sciences and Psychology
David Mason
Re-Open Nominations

Science and Engineering
Koti Reddy Kamjula

Social Sciences
Yanqin Lin
Richard Cumpstey
Jiebin Wu
Alexander Thomkins
Jason Gouveia
Wanming Li
Jonathan Headington
Re Open Nominations

Well Done to everyone elected!

Students’ Union Election Results 2011

Total Turnout: 1156

Full Results by the end of Day

The deadline for nominations in the upcoming student elections is fast approaching - Wednesday 12th October at midday; so enter yourself NOW to make sure you don’t miss out.

To nominate yourself and find out more please click here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/students-union/surveys/copy3_of_test-form?searchterm=union%20parliament%20nomination

Tis the fresher season, a time of year when new students descend on their new institution of learning (‘grats on choosing this one, University of Leicester is a treat) and a time of year when the Media churns out content about the student experience, which ranges in quality.

Its fluffy content to put out, everyone thinks they know what the student experience is, they have a view on it and dump out their option via a terrible article in the Daily Mail, a pointless web documentary of a fresher coming to terms with leaving home for the first time or…

The new Executive Team consists of:

Alex Nutt - Academic Affairs Officer
Thomas French - Campaigns & Involvement Officer
Lily Davis - Strategy & Comms Officer
Suzi Burtenshaw - Welfare & International Officer
Fénian Ó Duġaén - Student Activities Officer

A full detailed report on the elections will be released shortly

Proposals Passed -

Twinning with An Najah National University

Increase attendence at Union Parliament from Non-Elected Members

Electives for all Colleges

Bus to Intramural Sport

Lots of exciting things are coming up politically over the next few months and your Students’ Union wants to do all it can to ensure that you have every opportunity to get involved.

During the next 6 months there will be the City Council elections, where you get to decided who represents you at the Town Hall - a really important opportunity for the student voice to finally be heard in Leicester, considering the student dominance of areas such as Clarendon Park. With a large student turn out this city will have to start taking the needs of the us…

There will be a protest against cuts in education and higher tution fees in Oadby on Decemeber 1st @ The Parade, 4pm.

The need has never been greater to get the entire community on board with our campaign.

The National Demo against cuts in education is only a few days away, so book your place now to confirm your seat on the bus.

nus@leicesterunion.com

There will be a referendum on Thursday October 7th to decide what the Students’ Union position should be on the funding debate.

Free Education
Keep The Cap
Graduate Tax

Your chance to decide

A response from the Campaigns & Involvment Officer and the NUS National President on the recent research conducted by the University.

Aaron Porter, NUS National President and former Sabbatical Officer at Leicester University Students’ Union, welcomes new students to Leicester and discusses plans for the key issues facing students in 2010/11.

All Union Policy is now on-line in the “Your Union” Section. For more information on any of these contact the Campaigns & Involvement Officer, Owen Jones (owen@leicesterunion.com)

A significant step was made in the development of student representation at the University of Leicester Students’ Union. A Proposal was passed that dissolved Student Council in its current state in favour of creating one that was based on proportional representation

This is one of the biggest steps taken in the Union’s history to try and make the Union more relevant to all our students. The idea is that each course will elect a representative to a new Student Parliament that will represent their views, weather that is regarding their academic studies or an issue to do with societies or…

Fantastic Student Council where huge steps were made to reach out to our 10,000 strong distance learner population and integration between course reps and academic societies.

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