Students Union

During our Students’ Union Elections Media Day on Saturday 24th February, we chatted to the candidates who are running to be elected as your Activities Officer for the 2018-19 academic year. Take a look at what they had to say. Mike Flanagan Mike Flanagan, a fourth-year Electrical and Electronic...

First up, let’s get back to basics: Who is deciding to strike? After several months of negotiations and a failure to agree on a solution, the University and College Union (UCU), the trade union for lecturers and other staff at universities, have called for the strike. 88% of UCU...

The landscaping on Portland Hill is now finally finished, and since it looks like a considerable chunk of your tuition fees have gone into the redevelopment, we here at Impact Features thought we’d share some top tips for getting the most out of the Portland Hill water feature. Now,...

Upon returning to Nottingham in September, University Park Campus had become a building site. Green has become grey. Open access has become fences and scaffolding. Wires are hanging from the ceiling and seemingly everything has moved location. These are the effects of a long term redevelopment project for the...

The University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union (UoNSU) has announced changes to disabled access routes to Portland today as the building continues to be redeveloped. As students return for the final university term, the SU has revealed that there will be no disabled access to the west side of the building, including...

Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. And so it proved with the SU elections. With a little under 8000 votes cast in this year’s elections, a turnout of just 23.2%,...

This year, Declan Greaves and Cassie O’Boyle are the candidates running for Education Officer in the Students’ Union elections. The Education Officer hustings offered a chance for voters to have their questions answered and to hear the candidates’ manifesto points. The returning officer for the hustings was Beth Massey, who...