► NUS

National Union of Students

The National Union of Students (NUS) is the national voice of students helping them to campaign, get cheap student discounts and provide advice on living student life to the full.

NUS strives to promote defend and extend the rights of students' and to champion strong and active students' unions. This means they champion the rights of Liverpool Hope students nationally and work to make our students' union even better!

Through the 600 Affiliated Students’ Unions, the NUS represents over 7 million students and Liverpool Hope Students’ Union has an important role to play in that... it’s very exciting!

Any Liverpool Hope student can stand for election to attend annual, zone and liberation conferences held throughout the year.

What is Annual Conference?

NUS Annual Conference takes place on Tuesday 24th to Thursday 26th April; its role is to set the policy, direction and priorities for the year. It is also where candidates running for the National Executive Council are elected.

What are Zone Conferences?

There are four zones within the NUS: Further Education, Higher Education, Society & Citizenship and Union Development. Each of these Zones has a conference each year were students are given a chance to hear from experts and each other, it’s a great opportunity for people to network and a chance to feed into NUS’ priorities and processes.

The events include big-name keynote speakers, panel debates, workshops led by external experts, reports from the Zone Vice President and the exciting zone Committee Elections.

Dates for Zone Conferences:
Welfare & Society Citizenship Zone - 23-24 October
HE Zone - 24-25 October
FE Zone - 25-26 October
Union Development - 26-28 October

What are Liberation Campaigns and what are the conferences?

The four liberation campaigns are the Black Students’ campaign, Disabled Students’ campaign, Women’s Campaign and the LGBT Students’ Campaign. Each year they hold individual conferences for those who self- define within those groups to vote on the policy and direction of the campaign.

Dates for Liberation Campaign Conferences Black Students' Winter Conference - 26-27 November Women's Conference - 13-15 March Disabled Students' Conference - 19-21 March LGBT Conference - 30 march - 1 April

What is an NUS Extra card?

The NUS Extra card is a discount card exclusively for students, for just £11 you can get great discounts and deals. For more information or to order your card, go to www.nus.org.uk

Want to know more?

Of course you do! For more information about the NUS, what it does and how it works go to the link below. A copy of this is also available from the Students’ Union main office.

http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/uniondevelopment/Who-does-what-and-how-to-find-us/