AN OPEN LETTER TO VICE CHANCELLOR DAVID RICHARDSON AND THE UEA EXECUTIVE

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academics, david richardson, featured, norwich, open letter, pensions, research, retirement, staff, strike action, students, students' union, trade union, UCU, UEA, UEA executive, UEASU, Union of UEA Students, university, University and College Union, University of East Anglia, USS, UUEAS, UUK, vice chancellor.

We the undersigned are writing to complain about the mistreatment of the university’s staff, and the fact that their mistreatment has led to such a major impact on our education. We wholeheartedly believe that the staff are the greatest asset to the university. The fact that they have been forced to take strike action shines a harsh light on the lack of care UEA’s executive and you, our Vice Chancellor, have for university staff.Continue Reading

BITEGATE: STUDENT BUBBLES AND WORKPLACE PROFESSIONALISM

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Boris Johnson, employment, feminism, jo swo, LCR, LGBT+, LGBTQIA+, Nigel Farage, political correctness, student, student bubble, student life, UEA, UKIP, UUEAS, work.

By Robyn Banks

Jo Swo, UEA Student Union’s Welfare Officer, bit a bouncer at the LCR. Social media went haywire, the anti-SU brigade had a field day and The Tab published no less than five articles on the subject. A motion was put to union council for a vote of no confidence, which, if passed, would have resulted in her being removed from her position, but the motion was then withdrawn and it was a controversy. In a surprising plot twist an online petition was started to create a safe space for bouncers on campus. Then the council voted to censure Jo, a public condemning of her behaviour which doesn’t directly affect her position. Some people were happy, some people were angry, somebody started another petition to reinstate the vote of no confidence in Jo, and there was apparently a lot of excitement on all sides. One tab article even successfully mimicked a crime thriller with its dramatic depiction of the council meeting. However, after a long time watching from the side lines as one of UEA’s female full time officers was subjected to a barrage of seemingly groundless abuse, one comment in particular stood out to me:Continue Reading

#LOVESUs DAY – 3 REASONS TO LOVE UEA SU

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #loveSUs, black history month, campaigns, disability history month, liberations, NUS, student accomodation, students, tef, tuition fees, UEA, UUEAS.

by Sam Naylor

Today, Friday 2nd December 2016, is this year’s #LoveSUs Day. It’s a time to encourage positivity and togetherness with our Students’ Unions, highlighting the impact they have on our student experiences. It comes at a time when student maintenance grants have been scrapped by the government, English university tuition fees are set to rise even further based on performance in the new ‘Teaching Excellence Framework’, and student accommodation prices are rising more rapidly than any other rates in the private rental sector. All students need an organisation that will speak for us when the government of the day is constantly ignoring our needs and actively promoting policies that are having negative impacts on our lives.

BUSTING THE MYTH – ARTICLE 4 IS NOT ANTI STUDENT

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged article 4, campaign, campaigning, Community, HMOs, house, house prices, housing, housing controls, norfolk, norwich, Norwich City Council, student, student housing, student life, student union, students, students' union, UEA, UEA SU, universities, university, University of East Anglia, UUEAS.

By Georgia Waye-Barker

Norwich has been identified as a popular place to live in England, bringing plentiful benefits, as well as its fair share of challenges. Its diverse population needs a range of housing solutions, and these need to be carefully balanced throughout the city to ensure a sustainable community and good quality of life for all.

Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMOs) often provide housing for students and young people, who are unable to access other forms of housing. HMOs therefore provide a vital element of Norwich’s housing options. However, evidence suggests that large numbers of HMOs located in concentrated areas can have an adverse effect on the mix of housing use in the community.Continue Reading

SOCIAL CLEANSING 101: NORWICH CITY COUNCIL AND ARTICLE 4

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged article 4, Community, Golden Triangle, homes, house, housing, norwich, Norwich City Council, social cleansing, student, student housing, students, UEA, UEA SU, universities, university, University of East Anglia, UUEAS.

by Cherry Somersby

The estimated cost of living for students currently stands at £12,056 per year excluding course costs, and their average income from loans and funding leave students having to find an extra £6,071 each year. You would be forgiven for assuming that Norwich councillors would want to keep rent low and appeal to as many students as possible considering that students make up such a significant proportion of their voters, however it seems that the councillors themselves are not quite on the same page.

NOT SATISFIED, BUT IRATE – WHY STUDENTS MUST BOYCOTT THE NSS

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Concrete, conservative, conservatives, education, government, HE, HE White Paper, higher education, national student survey, nss, NUS, NUS conference, nusnc16, sombrero, sombrero gate, student, student movement, student union, students, Teaching Excellent Framework, tef, Tories, Tory, UEA, UEA SU, universities, university, University of East Anglia, UUEAS.

by Cherry Somersby

Just last week, a key date in the university calendar fell for another year – the release of the results of the National Student Survey (NSS). The NSS, completed by thousands of final year undergraduate students each year, is a data collection tool that is used to promote competition and rank student satisfaction in universities across the country.Continue Reading

BLACK STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE 2016

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #NUSBlack16, aadam muse, Africans, Afro Caribbeans, black activism, black history month, black student, black student conference, blackness, BME, BSC, delegates, disabled, malia bouattia, mental health, NUS, NUS BSC, oppression, political blackness, racism, representation, safe spaces, student unions, twitter, UUEAS, working class.

by Julian Ignacio Canlas

On May 28-29^th, the Black Students Conference happened in Bradford, where black student delegates across the country congregated together in the conference hall of Bradford Hotel.

We listened to BME activists and journalists discuss about their own experience of oppression, institutional racism, and the hard, arduous path that led to Malia Bouattia’s victory as the first black female president-elect of the NUS. This included renowned journalist Gary Younge, who delved upon the progression of black activism and condemned the forms of racism existing in right and leftwing media. Younge later received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

We went through rounds of motions and amendments. We voted for our new committee members, including the Black Students Officer, now Aadam Muse. Most contentiously, we debated about political blackness and its relevancy or outdatedness within the movement’s campaign structure.Continue Reading

IT’S TIME TO REFORM UNION COUNCIL

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged access, accountability, democracy, student, student democracy, student elections, students, UEA, UEA SU, UUEAS.

by Elliot Folan

For the last 3 years, I’ve sat on the UEA Student Union Council. Council has the power to set SU policy, call referendums, mandate Officers to take political stances and actions, rewrite the SU budget and elect members of various committees. In the last year, however, it has become clear that its ability to exercise these powers – and to represent the 14,000 students that make up UEA’s student population – has been hamstrung by various issues. A handful of councillors have blamed the rules of Council, but I strongly disagree: there are only a few rules that every councillor should know, and those can fit on one side of an A4 piece of paper. The rest are all rules that the Chair and Deputy Chair should know in intense detail, and interpret and explain for the rest of the meeting.Continue Reading

WE ALL LOVE STUDENT ELECTIONS!

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged apathy, conservatives, democratic procedure, environment, healthcare students, House of Cards, paper, politics, student, student bubble, student elections, student manifesto, student politics, student unions, UEA, UEA SU, union bubble, union election, Union of UEA Students, UUEAS.

by Sam Naylor

It’s over, people. Candidates and students alike will be breathing deep the post-election buzz. Well not everyone and probably not even most people. Though a record breaking year for UEA elections, still only 23% of those who could vote did — there was a total of 3404 votes. Granted this is student elections and across the country it appears engagement at this level is struggling to grab the majority’s interest but it still supposes a democratic deficit. Negativity aside for a sentence, it was great to see the highest turn out ever for the voluntary position of Ethical Issues officer. However, letting the gloom resume, the positions for mature and post-graduate students received a shockingly low turnout — only a 7% turnout for mature students and an even lower 4% turnout for post-graduate students. This begs to question: are our democratic procedures within university effective?

Without diminishing the achievements of candidates, student elections are in part a glorified popularity contest. Policies are an important aspect of the elections, but people play a much larger part of the parcel. You know how it is — voting for friends, or friends of friends or that girl that you met at a house party once and she kind of seemed like a decent human being. I can’t see a way for this to move beyond the realm of people politics or the ‘Union Bubble’ with its internal divisions and machinations.Continue Reading

UUEAS ELECTIONS – NON PORTFOLIO AND MATURE STUDENTS CANDIDATES

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged mature students, non-portfolio, student, student election, student union, students, UEA, UUEAS.

The Norwich Radical contacted the candidates for this year’s Student Union elections. Here are the people running for Non Portfolio and Mature Students Officer that responded.

You can vote for your favourite candidates until Tuesday 8th March at midday on ueastudent.com/vote.

UUEAS

AN OPEN LETTER TO VICE CHANCELLOR DAVID RICHARDSON AND THE UEA EXECUTIVE

BITEGATE: STUDENT BUBBLES AND WORKPLACE PROFESSIONALISM

#LOVESUs DAY – 3 REASONS TO LOVE UEA SU

BUSTING THE MYTH – ARTICLE 4 IS NOT ANTI STUDENT

NOT SATISFIED, BUT IRATE – WHY STUDENTS MUST BOYCOTT THE NSS

BLACK STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE 2016

IT’S TIME TO REFORM UNION COUNCIL

WE ALL LOVE STUDENT ELECTIONS!

UUEAS ELECTIONS – NON PORTFOLIO AND MATURE STUDENTS CANDIDATES

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