Regions
Across England our regional teams work to develop strong and active students’ unions in further and higher education. They work with students’ unions, their officers, staff, activists and reps by providing day-to-day support, training, learning, briefings, best practice-sharing, events and other activities designed to improve unions’ capacity to promote, defend and extend the rights of students.
NUS in England is divided into four regions and these are organised operationally to provide the best possible service to CMs. Across the country, this network of local staff teams, in four ‘super-regions’, providing direct, on the ground, support to unions.
These staff teams:
- Deliver on the ground support for your and NUS’ campaigns
- Organise and deliver training events to unions in the regions. Regional staff can provide in-house and regional training events tailored to the needs of your union or the region as a whole
- Encourage the development of students’ unions and officers within each region
- Run training for FE colleges on a regional basis
- Assist with union elections
- Maintain and build links with other local organisations, eg trade unions and Learning and Skills Councils
- Promote NUS within the regions
You can expect to have regular contact with your regional staff. However, you don’t have to wait for regional staff to contact you – we’re always glad to hear from you to find out what your union is up to or provide any support required.
Nations
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are known as nations of NUS and have autonomous policymaking powers. They each hold a conference, where (one or more) sabbatical officers are elected and policy is set.
The Presidents of NUS Scotland, UCMC/NUS Wales and NUS-USI, in addition to their own responsibilities, also sit on the National Executive Council and are joined by an additional rep from every nation.
These officers are accountable to the conferences that elected them.