NUS Governance

Firstly well done to all the unions who are calling for change. Together we shall do this.

Secondly, as you might guess, I feel that it's time for NUS to Change and change for the better.

Over the past couple of weeks I have spoken to many student officers who have contacted me with their concerns and thoughts on the governance review. These were decent concerns based upon their working knowledge of the National Union. I shared many of these concerns when we had the first NEC meeting on governance in October. But I can safely say I am 100% behind what we are planning to do, and hopefully what you, the membership want us to do as well.

NUS has for far to long been an organisation where if you shout loudly and invade the platform you get what you want. Motions would be chopped and changed in compositing, and students have never felt like the NUS did anything for them.

What this review aims to do, is to put the student and student ownership of our National Union into the very center of what we aim to do. The zone conferences will make your representatives more accountable, the senate will make things happen and the board will make sure the NUS can survive in the modern world.

The Revolutionary Left dislike this review. Why? Because their little shouty club wont work any more. Power will be taken away from the NEC and given to more people, making members of the senate more accountable and allowing things to actually happen. Students and student officers will be able to make the issues relevant to students. We've been calling for change for years, lets make it happen in 2007!