Posts tagged HUU
HUU Elections 2011 – The Results (Part 2)
Mar 20th
Tweet 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…
HUU Elections 2011 – The Results (Part 1)
Mar 6th
Tweet 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…
HUU Elections 2011 – Campaigning and Polling
Mar 2nd
Tweet Previous posts – ‘It begins again‘, ‘The candidates (Part 1)‘, ‘The candidates (Part 2)‘ So far, I have explained some of the finer points of the HUU election process, as well as taking a look at candidates and the positions available. Now I’m going to take a look at what happened during the days…
HUU Elections 2011 – The candidates (Part 2)
Feb 28th
Tweet My previous posts in this series can be found here and here. In the previous post, I looked at the sabbatical and part-time officer positions for this year’s elections. This post covers all the other positions that are available. Even though they aren’t as high profile, they all serve a purpose and can be…
HUU Elections 2011 – The candidates (Part 1)
Feb 27th
Tweet My previous post can be found here. This year, I have noticed that there are fewer candidates for the executive positions. For example, in the past there has been roughly four or five people going for the job of President. You typically get more candidates in that election due to it’s high profile nature.…
HUU Elections 2011 – It begins again
Feb 25th
Tweet This post is the first in a series that I will be doing about this year’s student union elections for Hull University Union. In this one, I will be explaining some of the details of the election, as well as going through some changes. Future posts will see analysis of the candidates (the next…
HSAFC: Re-occupation
Feb 11th
Tweet Back in December, staff and students at the University of Hull witnessed an occupation of part of Staff House. It was a form of protest against the proposed increases to tuition fees and the cuts to Higher Education funding. As plenty of people pass through that building, it could be considered a wise choice.…
HSAFC Occupation – The EGM and the end (sort of)
Dec 18th
Tweet December 17th, 2010 is the end of semester one at the University of Hull. HSAFC had a decision to make – carry on the occupation or suspend it and reoccupy at the start of the next semester. Carrying on would mean interrupting events happening over the weekend and they would risk being removed by…
HSAFC Occupation update
Dec 15th
Tweet The student occupation in Staff House has definitely been noticed and there has been a certain amount of success. A large number of students have noticed it and provided their support. Certain university staff have made some form of contribution too – from good luck messages, to spreading the word, to copying leaflets. The…
The HSAFC occupation at The University of Hull
Dec 14th
Tweet Starting on 13/12/2010, a group of students calling themselves ‘Hull Students Against Fees & Cuts‘ (HSAFC for short) occupied part of Staff House as part of ongoing protests relating to the increase in the maximum rate of tuition fees (amongst other things). I went there to find out more about the occupation, the group’s…
