What is the educationet message board?
It's an online forum for students, educational staff and union officers to come together and discuss items important to them. In the past two years it has grown to nearly 10,000 messages, featured on the front page of the Times Higher and had various members and past members of the NUS executive, an MP, and numerous students and officers from around the country join in the debate. Its membership stretch all the way from left to right of the political scale, and this adds to the lively nature. It has also been the breaking point of many serious stories affecting students, and often seen as the main place on the Internet for NUS gossip. As such it has become an essential site for networking. Whoever you are, you are welcome here.

What are all these abreviations about?

If you think there any terms we have missed, mail us!
ANL: Anti Nazi League
ANUS: Area NUS (preceded by the specific Area in question)
ATB: All the Best
ATM: At The Moment
ATV: Alternative Transferable Vote: Alternative vote is what STV reduces to in a single-post election. In this case, quota is 50% and the rules on surplus transfer do not apply. (i.e. you simply eliminate candidates up from the bottom until one candidate has more than 50% of the votes).
AWL: Alliance for Worker Liberty. Party that publishes 'Solidarity', major influence within CfE.
BOSS: British Organisation of Sikh Students
BSA: British Student Association (front for YBNP)
BTW: By The Way
BUSA: British Universities' Sports Association
CF: Conservative Future
CfE: Campaign from Free Education. Though not in control, the largest group within NUS. Linked to AWL and Labour Party
CHESS: Coalition of Higher Education Students in Scotland. NUS for the 'Scotish ancients which aren't in NUS, plus a few others which are in both.
CIS: Council for International Students
CM: Constituent Member- A student union which affiliates to NUS.
CU: Christian Union
DfES: Department for Education and Skills
Ednet: educationet.org
EMANUS: East Midlands ANUS
EnW: Education Not War. A slate of left groups (CfE, SWSS & SBL) which come together to fight the six sabbatical posts elected at NUS Conference. Previously UfE
ESIB: European equivalent of NUS
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
FE: Further Education
FENC: Further Education National Committee
FEUD: Further Education and Union Development (referring to NUS Vice President FEUD)
FOSIS: Federation Of Student Islamic Societies
FYI: Fore Your Information
HE: Higher Education
HEFCE: Higher Education Funding Council for England
HEFCW: Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
HENC: Higher Education National Committee
HTH: Happy To Help
HTML: Hyper-Text Markup Language
HTTP: Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol
IIRC: If I Remember Correctly.
ILT/ILTHE: Institute for Learning and Teaching / +...in Higher Education)
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion
IRC: Internet Relay Chat
ITYM: I Think you mean
IYSWM: If you see what I mean
JCR: Junior Common Room. A 'mini students union' in a collegiate or halls structure at 'posh' universities.
LDYS: Liberal Democrat Youth and Students. Nothing like as big in NUS as you might expect.
LGB: Lesbian Gay and Bisexual. Sometimes with extra T's for Transgender and or Transsexual.
LOL: Laughs Out Loud
LSC: Learning and Skills Council. FE Funding body in England. LTSN: Lecturers and Teachers' Support Network
MSU: Mature Students' Union
NBSA: National Black Students' Alliance
NEC: National Executive Committee
NHSF: National Hindu Students' Federation
NOLS: National Organisation of Labour Students. The official Labour presence in NUS.
NPC: National Postgraduate Committee
NUS: National Union of Students
NUSSL: NUS Services Limited
NUS-USI: The joint NUS-USI body that covers Northern Ireland
OI: Organised Independent. Term used to describe a faction of students who call themselves 'Independent', but may well be (usually Labour) party members. Always use pastel stickers at NUS Conference.
QAA: Quality Assurance Agency
RON: Re-Open Nominations. Your chance to vote for none of the candidates in an election. Used in all NUS elections and almost all SUs. Sometimes RON does win.
RRC: Rules Revision Committee
SA: Students' Association another term for and SU
SCR: Senior Common Room (see JCR) SBL: Student Broad Left. Also known as 'Socialist Action', linked strongly to CND
SCUS: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Students
SEANUS: South East Area NUS
SEWNUS: South East Wales (area) NUS
SHEFC: Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
STV: Single Transferable Vote: Single Transferrable vote is a voting system where: a) Votes are cast with the ballot papers listing candidates in order of preference; b) The number of votes to be elected is 1/(n+1) the total number of votes; c) If any candidates are elected, their surplus above the quota is tranferred to other candidates proportionally according to the next available preference on the ballot papers, and d) If there are no elected candidates whose surpluses have already been transferred, the candidatew with the lowest vote is elected and the votes transferred to the remaining candidates according to the next available preference on the ballot papers
SU: Students' Union. Used as a blanket term to include SA or Guild.
SWANUS: South West Area NUS.
SWD: Students With Disabilities
SWP: Socialist Workers' Party
SWSS: Socialist Workers Student Society. Student version of SWP.
UC: 1). University Challenge 2). University College
UCMC: Undeb Cendelathol Myrthyr Cymru (NUS Wales in Welsh)
UfE: United For Education. See EnW
UJS: Union of Jewish Students
ULU: University of London Union
UMS: Union of Muslim Students
USI: Union of Students in Ireland
UUCF: University and Colleges Christian Fellowship
VP: Vice President
WMANUS: West Midlands Area NUS
WTF: What The F*ck
WYANUS: West Yorkshire Area NUS
YBNP: Young British National Party

I've forgotten my password, or someone else now knows it and I would like to change it. How?
Enter your username and an incorrect password, then when it asks if you've forgotten it, click on the link. Enter your username again and the email address you registered with, and it will email a new password to you. This is the only method to change your password.

I wish to change my details, for example my email address, how can I?
Unfortunately the free licence we have from the software implements this restriction. The only way we can do this (besides buying a $100 licence) is to delete everyone's five-line profiles and registration, which will probably happen very occasionally. In the meantime, please re-register under a new ID or if it's just your email address you wish to change, then you can re-enter a new one each time you post.

How can I get IP information?
IP publication is present on the admin side, and we will usually give the IP address of a post to anyone wishing to source it, although we reserve the right to withhold such information. Remember your IP address is logged! To publically request just follow up to the post, to privately request click on the "Alert" button and tap into the box that you'd like the IP address of the post. PROVIDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS in the alert! This includes regular posters as well. If you do not you will not get a reply. Really, we mean it, it takes ages to pull an address out of the educationet database and often it doesn't even work.