I’m beginning to grow quite fond of the NUS president Wes Streeting. Generally, I can’t abide student politicians (I can’t abide normal politicians either), but Wes strikes me as a relatively sensible bloke, with a pragmatic approach to NUS policy. I saw him speak at a Future of Higher Education debate in Sheffield and...
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What does the whine of the apathetic student sound like? “Do we really care?”, they say looking up from Facebook. “A talk on what? Yeah, Gaza. The midfielder? What? Oh, the place. Yeah, yeah terrible, I think it was on the news”, they continue, slouching into their chair. “Can’t they just share? What about...
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Student Politics is a serious business. Students want commitment, experience and innovativeness from their student presidents - failing that, they’ll settle for eye patches and cutlasses. This is why last year the position of Student Union President for the University of York was won by a pirate.
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Bristol’s Student Union is, apparently, the most apathetic in the country. There’s some statistics to back it up, but I’m so apathetic I can’t be arsed to find them. Hopefully this demonstrates the point adequately.
However, turnout this year at the Union elections was reasonably good. There are probably many reasons for this – being...
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Over at the Sheffield Uni Occupation blog they have a big long list of successful University occupations. I stand well and truly corrected. I was barking up the wrong tree with this post. It was simply a 'total lie' - something I realised when confronted with the overwhelming evidence offered by the Occupiers.
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The University of Sheffield has been occupied by students! How. Retro. Can. You. Get. A group of forty or so students are currently ensconced in the Hicks building’s lecture halls, snuggling down for the night.
Sprinting after a bandwagon that is now quite far in the distance, they are protesting Israeli actions in Gaza and...
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The room was jammed. People were even standing at the back to get a glimpse of the speaker. Black and white scarves dominated the room, each wearer showing his or her solidarity with the Palestinian movement. There was a palpable sense of excitement among the crowd, an energy stemming from the feeling that history...
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