The National Union of Students (NUS) has announced that Leeds University Union is one of nine students’ unions to be participating in its Lad Culture Pilot Scheme. After conducting a Lad Culture Audit earlier this […]
NUS activist abused over defeated IS motion
NUS’ Black Students Campaign officer Malia Bouattia has received threats of violence on social media amid widespread disagreement over the defeat of a motion to condemn IS. Bouattia was criticised after giving a speech that […]
News| Cuts to Disabled Students’ Allowance postponed
Planned cuts to the Disabled Students’ Allowance have been postponed until 2016-17. The postponement was announced by Greg Clark, the Universities and Science minister, this morning. The changes, originally unveiled by then universities minister David […]
News | Otley Run under ban threat
Student pub crawls like the Otley Run could be banned by a Home Office-backed NUS scheme. The NUS Alcohol Impact scheme is currently in a trial period and will run for 12 months at 7 […]
News | Student loans campaign gains momentum
A group of students is set to tackle the government’s controversial plans to privatise student loans. Students from a range of backgrounds met this week to plan Leeds’ role in the nationwide week of action […]
News | LS interviews NUS President Toni Pearce
This week LS interviewed Toni Pearce, President of the NUS about the most important issues affecting students across the country. How did you feel about the recent lecturers’ strike? I think a really important thing […]
News | NUS: student loans not enough
Students can expect to spend £7,000 more while at university than they receive from student finance, according to a damning report. The National Union of Students’ (NUS) research reveals student loans are failing to match […]
News | Union accidentally orders thousands of Jagermeisters
The Union was left bewildered this week when 4,000 bottles of Jagermeister arrived on campus. After placing their regular order for 240 bottles, staff grew alarmed when delivery personnel began dropping off a ‘very large’ […]
‘That’s what she said’: ‘lad culture’ on our campus
In March 2013 the NUS issued a report called ‘That’s what she said: women’s experiences of ‘lad culture’ in higher education’. Based on interviews with 40 female students, it was prompted by the NUS Hidden […]
Comment: “Our campus has not escaped the ‘lad culture’ identified by the NUS”
‘Lad culture’ is epitomised by websites such as ‘UniLAD and ‘the Lad Bible’ through offensive and misogynistic photos and jokes, and has been linked to the amount of harassment and assault experienced by students. The […]
LS interviews: Liam Burns, President of NUS
25.01.13 Would you encourage individual students unions, like ours, to implement the living wage? If it was possible, then yes – but it’s not as if people just get it overnight. There might be perfectly […]
Big Debate: Protest Without Progress
The recent NUS demo in London failed to attract a crowd anything like that of the 2010 march against the rise in tuition fees. Big Debate asks, was Demo 2012 a waste of time? […]