Sarah Lindgärde

The Students’ Union at the University of Nottingham (UoN) is offering up to £110 of travel bursary to encourage Irish students at the UoN to travel home to vote in the upcoming referendum regarding the repeal of the 8th amendment.  This comes after the 434th Union Council session, where Seagh...

On May 10th, the agenda for the 434th Union Council was held at the Sir Clive Granger building. During the meeting, motions about trade unions, employment rights of PHD students, sustainability, among other motions, were discussed and put to a vote. The Union Council is the democratic policy making...

The University of Nottingham Students’ Union (UoNSU) has announced a by-election for the position of Postgraduate Officer for the 2017/18 academic year. The newly elected SU Postgraduate Officer, Agata Miezaniec, will no longer take up her position as Postgraduate Officer at the Students’ Union this September. The by-election nominations...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) have accepted a proposal by Universities UK (UUK) over the university pensions dispute, with 64% accepting the offer and 36% rejecting it. The industrial action is now set to be suspended whilst an independent panel of experts review the valuation of...

Students at the University of Nottingham (UoN) are calling for the University to divest from fossil fuels. On the 21st March, a few students gathered on campus in an attempt to convince the University to divest from fossil fuels. In addition to this, there is a petition asking for...

Student Co-operative Homes is a new national body that aims to fix the student housing market, and it is making its way to Nottingham. In its press release, Student Co-op Homes claims to “offer alternative cheaper student housing in towns and cities across the UK – housing that...

Reports that the dates for the 2018 summer exam period had been moved by the University of Nottingham (UoN) have been circulating among students, based on conflicting reports on differing UoN webpages. The University of Nottingham website currently states that the summer exam period runs from Monday 21st May...