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student politics
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Student solidarity, or lack thereof? A guide to SU politics
Student participation in SU politics is at a dismal level. This is perhaps most apparent in the fact that many positions in the recent elections were vacant or featured a single candidate.
Race To The Bottom: UCL’s Commercialisation Comes At A Cost
British universities are in the midst of a transformation. Higher education institutions are competing, like enterprises in consumer markets, to…
Voting shambles
In the first successful SU UCL General Assembly for four years, the Union was saddened to discover that their electronic…
Why did only 160 students turn up to that much-hyped General Assembly?
For the fourth year running, last Tuesday’s promised Union General Assembly never took place, because too few students turned up.…
The indomitable ISoc election machine
UCL know that there is one person who guarantees electoral success: the President of the Islamic Society (ISoc). In this…
Misogynist Runs for UCLU Women’s Officer
[Note: this post contains descriptions of violence against women.] UCLU’s newly created full-time Women’s Officer position has a man running…