A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
Student Unions across the country, including York, have called for the NUS to hold an Extraordinary Conference on November 12th. They plan to vote on and debate crucial changes to the structure and running of the National Union of Students (NUS).
YUSU already has active policy supporting NUS reform from a UGM last year and so we'll be voting in favour of the proposals.
The conference aims to settle questions on how to reform the NUS. Members hope to make the Union more relevant, representative, accessible and accountable.
They also plan to simplify its structures to clarify what its aims are, and make it easier to understand NUS campaigns.
YUSU were one of the Student Unions that called for the NUS to hold an Extraordinary Conference. At the Council meeting on Wednesday, the following Union members were chosen to attend the Conference:
On YUSU’s position on the reforms, YUSU President Tom Scott said: "YUSU already has active policy supporting NUS reform from a UGM last year and so we'll be voting in favour of the proposals".
The Extraordinary Conference comes after reforms were initially called for at another conference last year. Though the reforms were approved, they failed to be voted in at the NUS Annual Conference.
Following this defeat, the NUS executive council have responded to ideas for reforms and devised a new set of proposals. These proposals will be voted on at this November's Extraordinary conference.
One of the key proposals is the establishment of five policy 'zones' - Higher Education, Further Education, Welfare, Union Development and Society and Citizenship. The NUS aims to make policy clearer, and allow more debate and research in each of the areas.
Other proposals seek to make it easier for Student Unions to have their voices heard in the NUS. Currently there are very limited ways to do this. The new proposals seek to make the executive committee more effective and accountable, and widen involvement in debates between conferences through more ballots.
NUS President Wes Streeting, has expressed his view that reforms are urgent due to Government plans to review tuition fees and their impact. Streeting wants the NUS to fight for a fairer funding system and believes a new constitution will help the NUS do this.
How exactly do 'society and citizenship' directly relate to studying? Surely not an issue for the NUS, let alone a whole catagory for policy.
Perhaps it would be a catchall for all the good work YUSU and RAG do for local charities, schools, etc?
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