The National Union of Students (NUS) is a confederation of student unions in the United Kingdom. Around 600 student unions are affiliated,accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in the UK. Although the National Union of Students is the central organisation for all affiliated unions in the UK,there are also the devolved national sub-bodies NUS Scotland in Scotland,NUS Wales in Wales and NUS-USI in Northern Ireland.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School,NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the country. It offers degree programmes in a wide range of disciplines at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels,including in the sciences,medicine and dentistry,design and environment,law,arts and social sciences,engineering,business,computing,and music.
Warwick Students' Union,also known as Warwick SU,is the students' union for the University of Warwick,in Coventry,England.
Liberation Left is a factional grouping operating within the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom.
Kathryn "Kat" Jane Fletcher is a British Labour Party politician. In May 2016,she was sworn in as the Mayor of Islington,having served as a councillor of the borough's St George's Ward since 2013. She was previously president of the National Union of Students,between 2004 and 2006,the first to be elected from a political slate to the left of Labour Students.
The Union of Jewish Students of the United Kingdom and Ireland (UJS) represents Jewish students in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is a member of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) and the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) and an associate member of the National Union of Students,and is represented on the Board of Deputies of British Jews. The President for 2022/23 is Joel Rosen.
The National Postgraduate Committee of the United Kingdom (NPC) was a charitable organisation which represented postgraduates at UK universities. In 2009 it voted to dissolve itself and merge with the National Union of Students.
The Organised Independents are a grouping within the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom.
No Platform,in the UK,is a form of student boycott where a person or organisation is denied a platform to speak. The British National Union of Students (NUS) established its No Platform policy in April 1974. Like other No Platform policies,it asserts that no proscribed person or organisation should be given a platform to speak,nor should a union officer share a platform with them. The policy traditionally applies to entities that the NUS considers racist or fascist,most notably the British National Party,although the NUS and its liberation campaigns have policies refusing platforms to other people or organisations. The policy does not extend to students' unions who are part of NUS,although similar policies have also been adopted by its constituent unions.
Wesley Paul William Streeting is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2021,and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
The Browne Review or Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance was a review to consider the future direction of higher education funding in England.
A graduate tax is a proposed method of financing higher education. It has been proposed in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
The 2010 United Kingdom student protests were a series of demonstrations in November and December 2010 that took place in several areas of the country,with the focal point of protests being in central London. Largely student-led,the protests were held in opposition to planned spending cuts to further education and an increase of the cap on tuition fees by the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government following their review into higher education funding in England. Student groups said that the intended cuts to education were excessive,would damage higher education,give students higher debts,and broke campaign promises made by politicians.
The National Union of Students (NUS) "Vote for Students" pledge is a pledge in the UK to vote against tuition fee increases that was signed by over 1,000 candidates standing in the general election in 2010,notably including a large number of Labour Party MPs,who had introduced the fees in 1998 and all 57 subsequently elected Liberal Democrat MPs.
The 2011 occupation of Hetherington House at the University of Glasgow,Glasgow,Scotland,was a student,staff and community anti-austerity protest from 1 February to 31 August 2011. It became one of the longest-running student occupations in the context of the wider movement of student protests in the UK in 2010 and 2011 United Kingdom anti-austerity protests.
Liam Burns was President of the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom. He took office on 1 July 2011,succeeding outgoing President Aaron Porter. Burns stood for NUS President as an independent but is a member of the Labour Party.
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) or Student Left Network is a membership-based organisation of activist students and education workers campaigning against tuition fees,education cuts and privatisation in the United Kingdom.
Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore,it is the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. With an average acceptance rate of 5.2%,it is among the most selective institutions in the world. Yale-NUS was the first institution outside New Haven,Connecticut that Yale University had developed in its 300-year history,making Yale the first American Ivy League school to establish a college bearing its name in Asia.
Tuition fees in the United Kingdom were reintroduced for full-time resident students in 1998,as a means of funding tuition to undergraduate and postgraduate certificate students at universities. Since their introduction,the fees have been reformed multiple times by several bills,with the cap on fees notably rising to £9,000 a year for the 2012–13 academic year,and £9250 from 2017.
Shakira Martin is a British student politician and former president of the National Union of Students.
