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President: Education February 2025 Update

Monday 10-03-2025 - 13:24

President: Education February 2025 Update

By President: Education - Dola Dada

Hello everyone!

I’m pleased to be able to share some updates about my campaigns, as well as what else I've been up to in February.

President: Education Dola Dada

President: Education Dola Dada

Campaign Updates

Work continues with my campaigns as conversations are ongoing with university leads i.e. senior staff members who are working with me on each of the campaign points. I am also happy to report progress on the amendment to the Fit to Sit Policy as all requested revisions have been done and the document is now with the academic registry.

I have also been working with the library to look at the planned library refurbishments to bring the student perspective and insights. Further collaborations are planned with student reps later this month to get more robust input into the proposed work.

Trip to Sweden

I rounded up the month with a trip to Stockholm, Sweden to learn about students' unions outside the UK. This trip was organised by WonkHE and had about 12 students' unions participating from all over the UK and Ireland. The itinerary included visits to students' unions, student associations and SFS (Swedish Federation of Students), which is equivalent to our NUS. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn from our counterparts in Sweden and look for practices we could replicate here.

It was exciting to see the level of engagement of students with SU activities. Most students belong to student associations which we refer to as societies; many students belong to multiple associations. There are also high proportion of students engaged in volunteering, signing up as student buddies, organizing events and volunteering at socials.

Some of the practices which I think we could replicate here include: having an SU liaison officer at the Faculty or School level who would be the contact person for the SU, developing officer campaigns through student referendums and encouraging more student ownership of events.

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