Recently Societies Committee have been discussing the current categories that our Societies fit into and how best we group their activities and represent their needs.   Currently we have split societies into 7 categories and (seeing as we are looking to remove Performing Arts from the equation) it has been proposed that we move from these 7: Departmental International Performing [...]

Back in November I attended a lecture entitled, “Is Vulture lending good for Britain?” It was all about loan companies lending people money and charging ridiculously high interest rates. Some of these companies are targetting students and young people through social media channels.  I hadn’t realised quite how serious the issue was until this lecture [...]

For every assignment being handed in during January 2012 – every student now has an extra 4 working days to complete their work. From 3rd-6th January, the University has to shut down the majority of its IT services in order to carry out vital upgrades, meaning that for the 4 days, you will not have [...]

At the last Welfare Committee we had a great discussion about how Welfare Committee should run and how we can make Welfare great at Southampton. From this we’ve created a number of positions that we need filled! So if you’re interested in running campaigns on a number of Welfare issues and fancy having your say [...]

This Friday, David Willetts, the Government Minister of State for Universities and Science, is coming to Southampton University to take part in a special debate alongside Southampton Test Labour MP, Alan Whitehead – and you can come along to watch (and challenge!) him as he debates the  current changes being made to Higher Education. The [...]

Almost a year on from the “Demolition” marches of last year – SUSU peacefully marched again in protest against the cuts and changes being made to Higher Education by the Coalition Government. Having sent a coach of SUSU students to London, who joined up with thousands of other protesters, students and workers from all over [...]

It’s amazing to think that a year ago on Wednesday, Lord Browne presented his Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance. Who’d have imagined how much it was proposing to dramatically change the Higher Education landscape, including removing the cap on the level of fees that universities can charge, and increasing the income [...]

Once again – Assessment and Feedback has proved to be the University’s Achilles heel, following the release of the results for the National Student Survey (NSS). The results show what final year students at Southampton University thought of their experience here, and for Assessment and Feedback, the University is in the bottom 20% of all [...]

Ever sat in a lecture and felt like you’ve missed a key bit of information that isn’t on a PowerPoint slide? Ever thought that the lecturer is going to quickly to keep up with notes? Or have you ever missed a lecture and really felt hindered and that you couldn’t properly catch up on the [...]

The way in which we currently create Policy at the Union is quite out-dated and quite confusing to any student wanting to create change. Firstly, there is no real avenue for a student to go down in order to create policy at the Union. They would have to approach a Councillor and ask for their [...]