If you want the chance to influence the way your course is run and make a big difference to your educational experience during the coming year, nominate yourself to be an Academic Representative here before 12pm on Thursday 15th October (Those in PGT medicine have slightly different elections period, make sure you nominate yourself earlier as your […]
Welcome to Summer Results Night Live from Sasha and David’s desks! We’ll be your presenters through this textual tour of elections results! A big thank you to everyone who took part in these Summer Elections! Voters and candidates. We can reveal that we had a total of 42 candidates across 24 positions – with 7 […]
Last Wednesday, your elections committee finalised the timetable for all SUSU Elections for the year ahead. SUSU is run by students at all levels, and so it’s vital that we deliver when it comes to elections. Feedback in this process begun from the day the Sabbatical elections ended in March, and through our Sabbatical blog and […]
There have been lots of exciting elections this year; in the last couple of months you’ve chosen your new Sabbatical team and Student Leaders for 2012-13, and currently there are elections to choose who will be your lead student representative for your course, in the Academic President Elections. However, there’s another important set of roles […]
With details of the Grad Ball slowly being released over the next weeks, dissertations being written, and summer plans and beyond being decided – the one final question that most people have been asking on various social media is – when will you sit your final exam? Well, I am glad to reveal that the […]
Ok – so it might seem like I’ve completely missed the Christmas boat or that I might not be able to count to New Years – but I’m thinking something which will seem much less exciting but probably much more important: the IT downtime. From the 3rd of January until the 6th, IT systems in […]
Student representation is a core element of your University experience; without the student voice influencing University decisions, many of the decisions made would not be with the students’ best interests at heart – meaning a lot of what the University provided would not be relevant to you. Overall, the University here at Southampton is very […]
Academic Presidents facilitate the means by which the student voice is heard. Without an Academic President, communication between the University and student body would not be possible, and many of the initiatives introduced by the University would lack vital student-led guidance. Your Academic President is the lead student representative for your Academic Unit, and are […]
A couple of weeks ago we held the Academic President Elections, filling 12 of the 36 positions- congratulations to those elected! If you are interested in standing for one of the remaining positions, please come along to Union Council on Monday 13th June at 5pm in the Union cinema, where we will be holding by-elections […]
What is an Academic President? An Academic President is the senior Course Rep in their Academic Unit/Discipline Group. They are responsible for representing Students’ interests and concerns. Academic Presidents have previously been called School Presidents, but as the University has re-structured and abolished all-but-three Schools, the name has changed. This year’s School Presidents have been […]
