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Your SU is a Quality Students' Union!

Friday 28-06-2024 - 15:00

Your SU is an NUS Quality Students’ Union

By Your SU

We are delighted to share that Sunderland Students’ Union has achieved accreditation from the National Union of Students (NUS) as a Quality Students’ Union, with an average rating of ‘Very Good’ across multiple categories.

Your SU President Activities and Chair of Board of Trustees Prince Ikechi holding a framed picture with the text 'NUS Quality Students' Unions'

What is the Quality Students’ Unions framework?

Quality Students’ Unions sets out a framework for Students’ Unions to achieve and highlight areas for development, while also ensuring that they are meeting organisational compliance. It is set out in two parts. Part A ensures that the organisation is meeting the level of good basic organisational health and then Part B dives deeper into all the different working aspects of the Students’ Union. The areas that the framework looks into are Communication, Democracy, Governance, Insight and Learning, LEDI, Participation, People, Representation and Campaigning, Services, Strategy and Sustainability.

Part B involved submitting a report with evidence and data drawn from multiple areas and departments of the organisation.

In January 2024, we welcomed two verifiers to our campus, Oli Gray (Director of Enterprise at Cambridge Students’ Union) and Lisa Burton (Former Chief Executive at Leeds Trinity Students’ Union), who spent the day meeting with a variety of stakeholders from members of the student body, through to University staff and External Trustees, to delve deeper into the evidence that was supplied in order to compile their report and findings. We were very grateful for their time, and very much enjoyed having them with us for the day.

How did we get on?

As a result of all the above, we are delighted that, out of the 12 areas, 9 were graded as ‘Very Good’, giving us an average rating of ‘Very Good’ overall. The categories can be marked as Good, Very Good or Excellent. As a Students’ Union, we are incredibly proud of this achievement, and would like to extend our thanks to all the students, staff both within the Students’ Union and the University, and our External Trustees who took part in the process.

What happens next?

The report that we have received allows us to look closely into the recommendations that have been made and see how we can improve. We’re looking forward to building these points into our future plans, with the intention of going for further accreditation in the next three years to see how we have developed as a result.

President: Activities and Chair of the Board of Trustees Prince Ikechi said: “I am delighted that Sunderland Students’ Union has been accredited as a Quality Students’ Union. The ‘Very Good’ overall rating is a testament to the hard work and dedication of SU staff and our fantastic students, both during this process and throughout the year in the variety of services and opportunities we provide.

“But the work doesn’t stop there! We’re excited to focus on where we can improve and looking forward to what the next academic year will bring.”

If you have thoughts or feedback that you’d like to share with us, we’d love to hear them! Please email yoursu@sunderland.ac.uk.

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