• 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...
  • BREAKING: NOTTINGHAM VOTES TO REMAIN IN NUS

    The University of Nottingham Students’ Union have announced that they will remain in the National Union of Students (NUS).  Below are the statistics for the Nottingham referendum: Remain: 1227 votes Leave: 803 votes Abstain: 10 votes Total: 2040 votes The quoracy level for this referendum was set at 836 votes. Angharad Smith, President of...
  • Have Your Say: Voting for NUS Referendum Opens

    Voting has opened today in order to decide whether University of Nottingham Students’ Union (UoNSU) will continue to be affiliated with the National Union of Students (NUS).  Voting opened today (Wednesday 1st June) and will remain open until 12pm on Thursday 9th June. The move for a referendum followed...
  • UoN SU hosts referendum on disaffiliation from NUS

    The University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union will hold a referendum to decide whether or not to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS) after more than 669 signatures were submitted by students in a petition.  The referendum, entitled ‘Should the University of Nottingham Students’ Union continue to be...
  • 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...