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- ↑ "Policies & Info". CHESS. 26 May 2011. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011.
- ↑ University of Glasgow:: Legal statements:: Freedom of Information:: FOI Publication Scheme Archived 17 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "NUS". Aberdeen University Students' Association. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ↑ Minutes of Aberdeen University Students' Association Annual General Meeting 1 December 2005 (Microsoft Word document)
- ↑ "NPC General Secretary Update". National Postgraduate Committee. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ↑ Minutes of the 6th Ordinary meeting of the 122nd Edinburgh University Students' Representative Council held on 10 January 2006
- ↑ "Checkmate: EUSA vote in favour of leaving CHESS" [ permanent dead link ]– Nick Mitchell, Student 24 January 2006)
- ↑ USSA President Philip Whyte explains on a Facebook discussion group why Strathclyde disaffiliated from CHESS
