Key Actions of Council 20 Elected Jake Anderson, Jess Brown, Dominic Findley and Abbie Stock as Union of UEA Students Trustees Approved as constitutions for: Brazilian, OBGYN, Mainstream Media, Houmous, Engineering, UEA Renal and Urology, Tamil and Polish Societies Received report that all Clubs and Societies will be required to have a Health and Safety Officer Heard report from Faculty Convenor on HUM re-organisation and merger of Schools Discussed press coverage of UUEAS’ current staffing restructure Heard reports on SportsPark prices, Derby Day, Livewire Jailbreak, Banners in the Hive and the rent for second hand stalls in the Street Approved policy on the Equal Opportunities Committee setting up a structure and timeline for reporting with the first annual Equal Opportunities Review to be delivered by 1 July 2015 Heard a query from the International Officer on Student Trustees’ involvement in election campaigns and asked the Trustee Board to review the matter Agreed policy to support the proposed UCU marking boycott Agreed policy on encouraging wider participation in Higher Education and to campaign against any cuts to student hardship funds Agreed policy to ban pay day loan ‘sharks’ advertising, to support students in debt and promote credit unions Agreed policy to campaign for student loan payments to be made monthly Agreed change to the rules on Clubs and Societies that if they failed to undertake the activities set out in their constitutions, UUEAS would be empowered to freeze their membership accounts Agreed support for Office of Fair Trading ruling that students should not be prevented from progressing or graduating because of outstanding debt (e.g. library fines) Agreed to support for the Sweatshop Free campaign on the monitoring of the supply chains for all the electronic goods that are purchased by universities; in order to prevent exploitation of workers and defend workers’ rights Agreed to form a joint University/Union group for sport at UEA Agreed Bye-Law change to add ‘sub-culture identification’ to the categories specified in UUEAS’ anti-discrimination policy and to lobby the University to follow suit A wide-ranging motion on Union Democracy was withdrawn by the proposer with a view to calling an emergency meeting to consider the proposal Proposals on the tabling of emergency resolutions and to set up a Scrutiny Committee were withdrawn by the proposer with a view to referring them to the soon to be established Democratic Procedures Committee A resolution on campaigning against the provisions on international students in the Immigration Bill was withdrawn due to the absence of the proposer
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 22:45:08 +0000
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