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The latest edition of The Ripple (and the final one of the year!) is now available to view online - click here to check it out!

Monday is the start of Go Green Week, so we want you to come to the Percy Gee Building and make a pledge. The best one will get free entry to Red Leicester!

Not on Campus? Then upload from home a photo of you with your pledge to the Facebook event

Make this week, the Greenest week you have ever had.

It’s that time of year that the Students’ Union Annual Feedback Survey comes out to make sure that we, at the Students’ Union are making sure that we are doing what YOU want.

Please make YOUR voice heard by doing the survey here:

Click here to take survey

If you do take part, you have the opportunity to win £250 and FREE entry to Red Leicester for the rest of the year as well as three runners up prizes of FREE entry to Red Leicester for the rest of the year.

Nominations are open now for Union Parliament Bye Elections

Dear colleagues,

This is Fénian here, Activities Officer in the SU this year. I make up one fifth of the Executive of the Students’ Union. My job is to oversee the political and strategic development of all societies, sports clubs, associations and media groups within the Students’ Union.

You’ll hopefully get to know me over the year, as I tend to be at many Union, society and club events.

Over the next few weeks, you will see me updating this here blog; I will be providing information on policies regarding anything to do with societies, clubs and associations. I will…

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 Higher Education sector is undergoing a number of rapid changes culminating in drastic cuts to teaching budgets in universities, increases in tuition fees, and restructuring of pay and conditions for university staff. All of these measures diminish the quality of higher education and make it harder for students from less privileged backgrounds to go to university. Cuts to our higher education system also impact negatively on university staff; threatening jobs, increasing workload, decreasing salaries, and compromising pension provision.

The universities’ refusal to negotiate on changes to our pension scheme and job security have forced lecturers and university staff who…

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