Below is the agreed plan of action for NUT Scholarship for 2006-7. I hope that you enjoy the plan, please email with any thoughts you have or applications to have a NUT Society trail on campus to nutscholarship@nus.org.uk

I would like to thank the NUT for all their help with getting students, especially teacher training students, on the demo and for providing us with 1,000 placards that complimented our message on the demo.

The PowerPoint Presentation from Regional Conference can be downloaded here

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NUT Scholarship Plan

This year the NUT Scholarship will support two common agendas for NUS and the NUT, fighting the marketisation of higher education and developing activists on campuses for a sustainable campaigning future for both organisations. The hard work, unity and solidarity that the collaboration of the NUT Scholarship has achieved in previous years must be enhanced. It was this scholarship that created the Charter for ITT Students and launch the PGCE Top-Up Fees Campaign with the West Midlands Area NUS (WMANUS).

Presence on the Demo

Leading students, student teachers and trade unionist should be a role for this NUT Scholarship position, showing that the NUT’s participation is not just a logo on coalition 2010 but people who are on the streets sharing our aspirations to Keep the Cap and oppose markets.

The NUT will:

• Contact NUT Branches to support CMs getting to the demo;

• Contact their student teacher members about the demo;

• Produce 1,000 placards: “Thumbs Down to Top Up Fees”.

Campus NUT Societies

Two of the NUT’s objectives, expressed in our initial meeting, were around getting greater wins for their student members on campus and following through this national relationship with local students unions.

To do this the NUT Scholarship Holder will support the idea of NUT Societies on campus that can act as conduits between the union, NUT and student teachers at an institution, be a campaigning hub for teaching students and their issues, and increase the NUT’s presence and brand while the students benefit from the added value of the pooled resources.

This will entail:

• A Briefing: “The NUT Society Guide” and how to set one up;

• Training Day with Regional Organisers from the NUT;

• Pilot in each region;

• “Hidden Course Costs” campaign materials for campus societies to deliver;

• General Secretary/ NUT President Tour to pilots with the NUT Scholarship Holder;

• Year one evaluation.

Over all the Scholarship Holder will develop an area in the Education part of the NUS Website to host this work and increase knowledge of the nutscholarship@nus.org.uk email address. We would ask that the NUT use this alongside all their work on student teachers.

Richard Angell

NUT Scholarship Holder 2005-6

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