NUS Extraordinary Conference

NUS EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE

On Wednesday 12 November, almost 800 students’ union representatives gathered in Wolverhampton Civic Hall for an Extraordinary Conference to discuss NUS Reform.

After a robust debate, the vote on the amended reforms passed with a convincing majority. With 614 delegates at the conference voting in favour of the proposals, and only 142 voting against, the proposals got the support of 82 per cent of the delegates on conference floor, with only a handful of individuals abstaining.

In his closing remarks to conference, National President, Wes Streeting outlined the two options going forward.

Students’ unions could either choose to call a second extraordinary conference to ratify the proposals, or wait for annual conference in the spring to complete the ratification process.

He stressed that the leadership on this should come from the membership, and that the National Executive Committee would not be taking a view on whether the members should call an extraordinary. Instead, he stressed that the choice rests in the hands of the NUS membership. In order for a further Extraordinary Conference to be called, 25 member unions would need to put in a call to trigger a further meeting.

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