The legitimacy of students' unions
At the beginning of March, NUS, NUS Services Ltd and AMSU held a joint event designed to look at the future of our movement and highlight the importance of students’ unions, and the role they can play, in enabling students and their local communities. In a changing education sector, this is going to be an ongoing debate and we want all our members to take part. We recognise that not everyone could attend, but worry not – the information from the day is available here.
Resources
- Welcome and Opening Comments by NUS National Secretary Stephen Brown.
- HEA Student Feedback "voices" videos
- Patterns of higher education institutions in the UK.
- Findings from the first report of the AMSU/ ECU/ NUS Inclusive Students' Unions project and presentation.
- Duncan Cockburn’s, Senior Development Advisor, Sparqs, presentation.
- The first national survey of students on taught postgraduate courses
- Presentation and handout on FE students in HE.
- Les Watson’s, Consultant and Former PVC at Glasgow Caledonian University, presentation on re-imagining universities and the learning experience.
- Vision of students today video
- The QAA student strategy
- The HEA strategic plan and the report on the first-year experience of higher education in the UK
- Speaker Biographies
- Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, Minister for Students’ speech on ‘How the Government is responding to the diverse needs of students’ (coming soon).
- Ken Sankson’s, Staffordshire University SU, presentation (coming soon) on international students.
Audio downloads
- Panel Discussion: how can the student movement and the HE sector more effectively respond to the challenge of a diverse body.
- NUS President Gemma Tumelty’s, audio recording closing remarks.
Further Reading
NUS Education Zone.
Wes Streeting’s, Vice-President (Education) NUS, blog- JISC’s page on designing spaces for effective learning publication.
- ‘Unconditional Leadership’ by David Robinson, Vice-Chair to the PM's Council on Social Action.
- Sparqs website
- Guardian article on the Open Book project (http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/careers/story/0,9856,1249282,00.html)
- NPC website
- Les Watson’s website. Saltire centre website
- The new NUS Strategic Plan
- NUS’ Governance Review (http://www.officeronline.co.uk/about/274840.aspx)
More tools for engaging with your students
- NUS' new Education and Quality Unit
- Student retentionevent
Thursday 27 March 2008, Barbican Centre, London EC2. - Mentor your students through horsesmouth
- NUS' new Student Feedback Amnesty Campaign
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