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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…

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.

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

Welcome to all DL and P/Ts! Here is some useful information regarding NUS Extra cards and the new e-bulletin.

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.

The NUS Extra discount card is now on sale for the new academic year. The card offers exlucsive discounts to well over 70 brands for onlt £11.

You can also upgrade your card to include ISIC so that it can be used all around the world.

Buy your card online at www.nusextra.co.uk

Students’ Union win Sound Impact Silver Award for their environmental sustainability work this year.

Students’ unions are leading the way in greening campuses and communities across the UK, according the latest findings of NUS’s green scheme.

The Sound Environmental Impact Awards seek to capture the positive green innovations in students’ unions and promote them to the general public.

The University of Leicester Students’ Union managed to improve their performance this year by 100 points and was awarded Silver. Notable environmental improvements were a carbon neutral Freshers’ Fair powered with Biofuel to being of the lead Unions in the UK that…

Owen Jones, Campaigns & Involvement Officer, has been elected to NUS Services Limited (NUSSL), the commercial arm of the National Union of Students to oversee the environmental and ethical aspects of their activity.

At the NUS Services Limited (NUSSL) AGM held in Liverpool on March 31th 2010 Owen Jones, the Campaigns & Involvement Officer at the Students’ Union, was elected to the Environmental and Ethics Committee.

His responsibility will be to assist NUSSL in how they can maintain their ethical practises as well as promoting environmental best practise throughout all the Student Unions across the country that are affiliated with…