This year we’ve had the most successful turnout for the elections in Education Zone. We’ve had:- Academic Rep elections across the University We have had the highest Course Rep turnout for a while, filled all but one Academic Vice President and Academic President role and have all Faculty Officer positions filled! The first ever Course […]

This is an introductory blog from Claire and Oli (VP Engagement and VP Student Communities) about what we got up to during our first official week in office.

It’s halfway through what has been an extremely exciting term in office so far, and so this week, the Sabbatical team are writing mid-term reports to update you with what we’ve been up to and the sorts of things we’ve been dealing with, as well as the sorts of plans we have for the remaining […]

Societies Committee is meeting now to consider the affiliation of 18 student groups that want to affiliate themselves to SUSU. 15:10 – Socs Officer (Jade Head) briefs the committee as to how this will go down. Each group will get 3 mins to present why they should be an affiliated society, there will then be […]

Aloha! Today is my turn to outline what I’m hoping to achieve over my final 11 months as a Sabbatical Officer. In the past 12 months, lots of work has gone into preparing for 2012 (with it’s £9k fees and all), with a lot of projects now established to review and make improvements in a […]

4 months later, after the Sabbatical and Trustee Elections, and your new Sabbatical team are ready to get to work for another great year! It was one of the biggest Elections Nights we’ve ever seen here at SUSU; with over 10000 views on SUSUtv and 6543 votes cast (quite a cool number). However, these elections […]

As promised in Union Council yesterday evening I have now written a report (well a blog really) in place of the report that I should’ve submitted last week in time for the papers to go out to council. Once again I’ll reiterate that it’s a mixture of bad time management, juggling work priorities and forgetting […]

As a Russell Group University – as a Research-led University – it’s important that the University is continuously researching not just across the academic spectrum – but researching itself as well. As  result, you now have the opportunity to have your say on what you think about your University experience – just go to your […]

Last Monday Simon Protheroe, Vice President Winchester & Sites resigned from his post with immediate effect. You can read more about his decision in his blog post here. Myself, Sam (SUSU president) and the rest of the sabbatical team are putting in lots of extra hours to ensure that at least some of the work at […]

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 […]