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NUS Conference Special
A full set of reports on the annual farce
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This week 26th-29th March, under 1000 delegates from Universities, Schools and Colleges meet in Blackpool for the annual NUS conference. This was the smallest NUS conference for over twenty years, making it all too easy for the Labour Leadership of the Union to retain control and force its will upon the policy debates. You won't be surprised that given this, Labour and their 'slightly independent' cronies swept the board in all but one of the elections for the six full-time officers, and managed to stifle debate on the subjects which students on the ground would expect them to have passed as a matter of course.
Presidential Election
¬Helen Aspell, victim of a hate campaign at NUS conference.
Instead of electing someone who would go that but further to fight for students, conference opted to retain the Labour Stooge, sorry the "Totally Independent- honest guv", NUS President Owain James.
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Feud over FEUD
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'Stage Management' means non-payment is not disucssed
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NUS gets full-time black students officer
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What did NUS Conference do for Further Education students. Well, their part of conference turned into a farce and Higher Education students kept the right to pick the Further Education Officer.
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Supporting the Oxford University tuition fee non-payers was not discussed at last weeks NUS conference as delegates had better things to do, like watch the Albania vs England match.
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Black students saw their officer raised from part-time to full time. Black Students Officer, Dennis Fernando pleaded that the workload was too great in the face of institutionalised racism.
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Policy- what NUS Conference did bother to pass
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The message from NUS conference was 'No to Privatisation'. That's privatisation in the Health Service by the way. It'll only be a problem if Hague does it through the front door. If Blair does it round the back, (PFI, PPP, etc) they don't mind.
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Who else will represent you? The full results in the NUS elections
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Did New Labour sweep the board? Well unfortunately, almost.
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Six Universities left fighting for survival
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NATFHE still fighting
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The National Association of Teachers in Further & Higher Education are set to boycott inspections by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) in colleges and Universities and strikes over pay still loom.
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Birmingham/Aston merger off for now, but door is open
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A ground breaking move to amalgamate two Unis has been put on the backburner for now, but their 'prep-work' means the mechanism for mergers is now there.
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