Referendum

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...

Chair of the ‘Labour In for Britain’ campaign, Alan Johnson MP, held a question and answer session today on University Park Campus to address the EU referendum. The hour-long event was organised by the University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union (SU) and Nottingham Students for Europe and was attended by...

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...

Nottingham’s Students’ Union is currently running a referendum to decide whether they should support the development of a Student Housing Co-operative. Scott Jennings, a key member of that process, explains why you should vote yes.  What is a Housing Co-operative? A student housing co-operative provides not-for-profit student housing that...

It only takes a quick browse of the media coverage on the possible exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU), to realise that the most commonly recurring response is fear of economic disaster. These concerns are coming from UK companies, fund houses, the legal industry, and...

A referendum on the ‘free education’ motion, which was proposed at last moth’s Union Council, is due to take place in the week commencing Monday 17th November. The motion, which has been rephrased in the form of a question, reads: “Should the Students’ Union adopt a position which strives...

A referendum on the ‘sustainable energy solutions’ motion, which was proposed at last year’s final Union Council, is due to take place in the week commencing Monday 20th October.  The motion, which has been rephrased in the form of a question, reads: “Do you think that the Students’ Union...