NUS Vice President Higher Education, Alex Stanley, recounts his time at Party Conferences. Over the last few weeks, the NUS Officer team have attended four party conferences- that of the Greens, Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives. At nearly every sector event we attended, or spoke at, there was one clear notion that kept coming […]
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Student officers will be gathering in Westminster on 23rd October 2024 as part of NUS’s National Lobby Day for No More Guarantors. The campaign is bringing together student union representatives to meet with their MPs in order to ask them to back NUS’s call for an end to guarantor requirements. The National Union of Students has
National Union of Students celebrates £300 million increase for further education, but National Society of Apprentices warns that apprentice minimum wage increase does not go far enough. The government has pledged a further £300 million for colleges and sixth forms in the Autumn Budget. It has also been announced that the government will increase the apprentice minimum wage
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The government has just announced an above inflation increase to student maintenance and that home undergraduate university students’ tuition fees will increase with inflation. NUS has celebrated the increase in maintenance loans, which has come as the result of years of campaigning by student activists. This follows an earlier survey by NUS that found that student foodbank use has doubled since 2022, with
