On November 1st My MP invited me to a reception as a bit of a meet and greet with other members of the Labour Party in the area. At the reception was David Blunkett MP. There was an opening for questions so I’d thought I’d see what he felt about the inequality in the education system. I asked him what he thought about the tiered system that would be caused if the cap was lifted in 2010 and what he thought about the unregulated fees and the troubles that postgraduate students face. He said that he did not agree with the lifting of the cap, that NUS had the right stance and was actually proud of the work that NUS were doing on this. On Postgraduates he acknowledged that there are major issues that we face and there is still a lot more work that needs to be put in this area.

It is absolutely up to us all to put the pressure on the government to make sure that the work is done in this area as this and that postgraduate education is also a right not a privilege.

I attended the disability in sports day which aims to give an insight to disabled sport, we have only just as a movement started to consider disability sport. The issues are that many institutions that have sports facilities are not even DDA compliant let alone considering to cater for disabled sports. This day was held at Bradford University and started with an exercise. We walked around the campus and to see how accessible it was, this really made me think about accessibility issues on our campuses and I think this could be said for quite a few institutions This is really something that needs to be addressed and I hope to work with the Disabled Students Campaign in the future on highlighting these issues.

In the afternoon we tried our hands at Boccia. This was great, brought out the competitive side in all of us. Before the main competition we played small games I was in a team with Ryan and Marc from UCE.! Later the main competition took place at the end my team again were points ahead of our opponents, just when the heat was turning up I had to leave and later fount out that my team lost…and quite badly at that.

I think Alex Kemp has done amazing work in this area and know he will continue to do so.

Cambridge University Students Union held an anti-racism week in November, during the week they held a play called ‘In the blood’ This play was very thought provoking and left me thinking a lot. The play was a modern day version of ‘The Scarlet Letter’, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city.. The play was amazing and was very well coordinated by Jenni Woolf Cambridge students union’s Anti racism officer.

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