I’m Chris Jenkinson, the Academic Affairs Officer at the University of Manchester Students’ Union.
I’m rather heavily involved in my students’ union, the University of Manchester Students’ Union, where I have been elected the Academic Affairs Officer, a full-time position, for the 2008-9 academic year. This category is for posts related to students’ unions and the National Union of Students.
Posted in Education, Student politics on Apr 7th, 2007
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) have an interesting article titled “Whatever happened to student radicalism?“, written by Ben Lewis and Dave Isaacson. While it suffers from the usual “everyone who disagrees with us is right-wing” disease common among socialists and communists, it is worth reading for its analysis of the fractures between the [...]
Posted in Student politics on Mar 16th, 2007
I will write something longer and more substantial later, but for now I am happy to say I have been elected the next Life Sciences Faculty Officer in the University of Manchester Students’ Union! Out of the seven Liberal Democrat candidates standing, five of us were elected (our chair, Gary, lost in a very close [...]
Posted in Student politics on Feb 25th, 2007
I read “How can student politics learn lessons from Lib Dem election victories?” by Alexander Kemp with interest due to our recent NUS elections and upcoming student union elections at Manchester. The success of the Jewish society and Labour Students compared to the past whitewash by Student Respect/the Islamic Society, and an apparent 20% turnout [...]
Posted in Education, Religion / secularism, Student politics on Feb 12th, 2007
This week’s edition of Student Direct features the Islamic Society on its Societies page. The article is written by one Walead Quhill who stood for Life Sciences secretary in the Student Union council elections in 2006, and thankfully he wasn’t elected given he doesn’t seem to accept evolution as a valid scientific theory (or indeed [...]
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