Ken Harris Representation Warrior : May 2010

Saturday, 29 May 2010

NUS Confrence

NUS Confrence was back in April. This was my first NUS National Confrence and believe me it was awesome. I travelled by train from B'ham leaving at an early 630am (yawn) arriving in Gateshead around 11am. Eventually I met up with the rest of the guys,

(Alex Blower, Ellen Marshall, Matt Ward & Bally Singh). Confrence started at 12pm and lasted for 3 days.

So after debating, voting and deciding on many issues and policies that will lead the NUS over the next year we also voted to elect amongst others the National President and VP's, the results were as follows:

National President= Aaron Porter

VP Higher Education = Usman Ali

VP Further Education= Shane Chowen

VP Union Development= Ed Marsh

VP Welfare= Ben Whittaker

VP Society & Citizenship= Susan Nash

Full list available at http://www.officeronline.co.uk/

Newcastle was amazing, such a beautiful city (that's not just the historian in me speaking). One thing I still cant get my head over is the amazing drinks offers. Now I'm in no way condoning irrisponsible drinking, but the offers were 3x tripple vodka and cokes for £4.99 or 3 x skittle cocktails for £4.99. Now that is a drinks deal. I do confess that I decided to buy my drinks one at a time so paid £1.95 each. But hey it wasnt all about drinking, after the first night out its back to the Sage to continue on with the conference.

Welcome

Hey everyone, welcome to my blog. I intent to use this as a running record of my activity during my year in office as President of Wolves Uni Students' Union.

So first off Id like to say thank you for voting for me and thanks for taking an interest in what I am upto.

So Most of you will not see me in place until the start of the first semester and Freshers Week 2010, But the planning and training for me has started pretty much since the end of the elections. The following paragraphs will give you an idea of what Ive been upto since winning the elections. From attending the NUS National Conference, to visits to other Students' Unions across the region..........

My spin on Representation

I stumbled across this old blog and realised that I should really start updating this and commit some of my thoughts to the internet.

I work in Student Representation. As an ex-president I guess I couldn't leave the student politics completely, especially as I developed a passion for Higher Education, policy, Quality Assurance and all the other geeky stuff.

So I aim to post my thoughts and opinion on some of the issues that I deal with on a day to day basis. Some of this will be criticism of government policies on higher education. Other times it may be a criticism/analysis of a students' union or university policy. hopefully I wont get accused of bringing my university in to disrepute, as there are some things that really frustrate me, such as staff not realising that the reason we are all here is because of students and we should always put students first.

God help me!

This blog started off as my President's diary in the first few months of winning my SU elections and during my first few months in office. Now resurrected and used to voice my general comments and feelings about Higher Education related issues.