• Nick Scott: “Has the NUS Decided to Grow Up?”

    After a close call in the summer, the NUS needs to show students it is getting its act together. Confession time. In the referendum on whether the University of Nottingham should disaffiliate from the National Union of Students, I voted leave; but no, I voted remain on June 23rd...
  • Referendum petition on UoN’s NUS membership goes live

    A petition has gone live on the University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union website, posing the question of whether or not it should hold a referendum on its membership of the National Union of Students (NUS). The petition will be open until 9am on the 23rd May 2016 and requires 669 signatories to trigger...
  • Freedom of Speech, Solidarity and Democracy: Our Petition Against NUS

    ‘No to NUS Nottingham’ is proposing that we as students of the University of Nottingham should be able to have our say in a referendum on our membership of the National Union of Students (NUS) in light of recent developments. We want to engage with as many students as possible...
  • First black female NUS President elected amid ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations

    Malia Bouattia, former NUS Black Students’ Officer, has been elected as the new NUS President for the 2016-2017 academic year. Malia is the first black female President in NUS’s 94 year history, replacing the current President Megan Dunn as representative of seven million students across the country. In her presidential campaign...
  • Media sensationalism has twisted NUS’s failure to condemn ISIS

    The NUS National Executive Committee (NEC) recently rejected a motion calling for the NUS to condemn ISIS. Absurd as this seems, it is not as simple as the press headlines make out. On reading that the NEC had voted against condemning ISIS, I was initially inclined to agree with...