Last Week (Monday 13 - Friday 17 February)
Monday 13 February
TUC/NUS Unpaid Unfair Illegal campaign launch
Dannie Grufferty, Vice President (Society and Citizenship) and Hannah Charnock, Campaigns Manager attended the launch of the joint campaign on unpaid internships with Hazel Blears MP, the TUC, Intern Aware, the NUJ, NUS PSU staff, and various stakeholders. For more information contact Hannah.charnock@nus.org.uk
Tuesday 14 February
NHS sustainable development conference
Charlotte Bonner, Green Impact Development Manager, attended to build a network of contacts and identify opportunities for students within the NHS. She also shared good practice following our successful pilot of Green Impact with University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust. For more information contact charlotte.bonner@nus.org.uk
Residential meeting of the Council for Education in the Commonwealth
Christina Yan Zhang, International Students’ Officer joined leaders from 54 commonwealth countries to discuss future education priorities. For more information contact Christina.zhang@nus.org.uk
Wednesday 15 February
Department for Business Innovation and Skills student mobility advisory group
Alex Bols, Head of Education and Quality, attended to look at the final recommendations on ways in which more students can be supported and encouraged to study abroad. For more information contact alex.bols@nus.org.uk
Thursday 16 February
NUS immigration campaign ‘way forward’ meeting
Christina Yan Zhang and Daniel Stevens, National Executive Council attended to discuss campaign ideas and action plans for implementation. For more information contact christina.zhang@nus.org.uk or Daniel.stevens@nus.org.uk
Next Week (Monday 27 February - Friday 2 March)
Monday 27 February
Universities UK quality in HE group
Usman Ali, Vice President (Higher Education) and Alex Bols will be attending and presenting a paper on student engagement calling for a national strategy. For more information contact alex.bols@nus.org.uk
Peace One Day/NUS press launch of Global Truce 2012 student campaign
Liam Burns, Dannie Grufferty, student reps from the UK and around the world, Jeremy Gilley and Jude Law will be attending the press launch of Global Truce 2012 student campaign. There will also be a film screening, interviews and Google+ Hangout. For more information contact Hannah.charnock@nus.org.uk
Tuesday 28th February
Academic Registrars Council quality assurance group
Alex Bols and Kate Wicklow, Student Engagement Manager will be speaking about student engagement. For more information contact alex.bols@nus.org.uk
Electoral Commission
Dannie Grufferty; Hannah Charnock; Caroline Roberts, Sponsorship Development Manager; and Alex Birkett, Special Projects Executive will be meeting to discuss how NUS and the Electoral Commission can work together to increase student voter registration. For more information contact Hannah.charnock@nus.org.uk
Wednesday 29 February
Access Bootcamp
Alan Roberts, Policy Officer and Debbie McVitty, Research and Policy Officer will be delivering the first of a series of bootcamps for students' union staff and officers on access agreements. There are four more of these the week after. For more information contact alan.roberts@nus.org.uk
Friday 2 March
Centre for Sustainable Health
Charlotte Bonner will be meeting to develop a partnership to assist the roll-out of Green Impact NHS as well as identifying further opportunities for students in greening the NHS. For more information contact charlotte.bonner@nus.org.uk