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HUU Elections 2012 – Welfare candidates
Feb 22nd
The position of VP Welfare is an important one and that show in the number of candidates – five. That’s more then any of the other sabbatical elections this year. It’s also level with the number of candidates for Chair Media and the only other elections that have more are ‘Councillors of Scrutiny’ and ‘NUS…
HUU Elections 2012 Extra – No confidence motion
Feb 21st
At Hull University Union, there are various documents containing rules and regulations that particular people are expected to follow. It’s like any other organisation really. If someone breaks the regulations, then they should expect some form of penalty and will have to accept the consequences of their actions. I have been made aware that one…
HUU Elections 2012 – Community candidates
Feb 20th
My first two posts in this series were about the Presidential and the Education candidates. This post is about the three students running for the position of VP Community, which is a wide-ranging role that includes work with societies, media and multiple standing committees. The current VP Community is Tom Peel, who is in his…
HUU Elections 2012 – Education candidates
Feb 19th
In the first post of this series about this year’s Hull University Union elections, I looked at the candidates for President. Using a similar format, I’m now going to look at who is going for the VP Education position. For those old enough, you might remember it being called VP (Academic Representation). It was the…
HUU Elections 2012 – Presidential candidates
Feb 18th
Due to demand, I’m going to be covering this year’s elections at Hull University Union. It will be different this year as I am not on campus on a regular basis, which means I’m unable to do certain things. However, I will make every attempt to ensure that my coverage is high quality and comprehensive.…
A simplistic view from Simon Hughes
Jun 13th
In a recent article on the BBC website, it was noted that Simon Hughes (the Advocate for Access to Higher Education) believes that universities are ‘crying foul’ about tuition fees and cuts. He thinks there are some simple things that could be done to make their respective financial situations better. Unfortunately, I believe his view…
University makes big money from MSP internships
May 16th
Today, in this Political Scrapbook post, it was reported that the University of Edinburgh has an internship programme where a student has to pay £5,750 to get a place. On the information page for the programme (that can be found here), you will note that there are only 20 places available. These interns will work…
Tuition fees – the exception becomes the rule
Apr 19th
In the past, I have been a supporter of the ‘Keep the Cap’ message. I thought that tuition fees helped improve universities to an extent, but they shouldn’t be too high. If they were too high, you could deter some potential students from applying for a place. Back in 2006, I was part of the…
HUU Elections 2011 – The Results (Part 2)
Mar 20th
I realise that the results for the elections at Hull University Union were announced a while ago, but I wasn’t able to do the second of my two results posts until now because I was moving house. However, I promised I would do this post and here it is. Most of the big news and…
HUU Elections 2011 – The Results (Part 1)
Mar 6th
Previous posts – ‘It begins again‘, ‘The candidates (Part 1)‘, ‘The candidates (Part 2)‘, ‘Campaigning and Polling‘ I had orginally intended to make this a five post series about the elections at HUU this year. However, due to the amount of information and the addition of the annual dose of controversy, I’ve added a sixth…
