I’m Chris Jenkinson, the Academic Affairs Officer at the University of Manchester Students’ Union.
Posted in Student politics on Jul 2nd, 2008
JR Hartley has written some interesting aims for the new executive at the Students’ Union for Manchester Metropolitan University which are quite transferable to other unions across the country. A session or interview with the various officers on Fuse FM every so often (which could be recorded and put on the website) is a potentially [...]
Posted in Student politics on Mar 17th, 2008
I just thought I’d mention that I’ve been elected as the new Academic Affairs Officer for the University of Manchester Students’ Union for the 2008/9 academic year. The post is to represent students, individually and collectively, within the University, to advise students on education/academic issues, and to inform students about education issues.
It’s a full-time position, [...]
Posted in Student politics on Mar 11th, 2008
Not able to gracefully admit defeat, learn the lessons and move on, several members of the Socialist Workers’ Party at the University of Manchester have started attacking students for democratically booting them out. Dave Sewell, one of the few SWP members who will be on Union council next year has written a rather bitter message [...]
Posted in Student politics on Nov 11th, 2007
The University of Manchester Student Union’s Council is an interesting contraption; it’s frequently criticised as being rather pointless. The obvious question is why is it pointless? I am going to attempt to answer that question, and propose some solutions. That question can be broken down.
Is Council pointless:
- because of its structure?
- because of its [...]
Posted in Student politics on May 20th, 2007
I fail to see why LDYS needs a policy committee. Its members are volunteers doing the job in their spare time, and they don’t receive any special training - in other words they are just regular party members with a fancy title.
When committees are created they disenfranchise normal members. They take the power of things [...]
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 [...]
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