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The Students' Union works to enhance students' lives, to help you get the most of your time here. This can involve campaigning for protect and promote the interests of Salford students. Click here to view some of our recent successes.
Current Campaigns
Details of our current campaigns are below.
There are no campaigns going on currently.
Previous Campaigns
Staff Cuts
The University intends to make 150 staff redundant in 2009. This includes academic staff across a number of Schools, raising concerns about the impact of the cuts on Salford students.
At the You Decide meeting last year, students voted for the Union to campaign against the University’s proposals. Together with some of the campus trade unions the Union has formed Salford University Defend Education (S.U.D.E), a campaign group fighting the cuts.
Two demonstrations have taken place and a week of action will begin on Monday 2 February. Petitions have been distributed around campus calling for the cuts to be reversed.
These redundancies have been split into two phases. We are currently at the beginning of phase 2. Details of the areas targeted are below:
Phase 1
Information Learning Service
Phase 2
HSC Faculty Office
School of the Built Environment
AMSS Faculty Office
School of Art & Design
Information Learning Services
School Environment & Life Sciences
School of Computing, Science & Engineering
Estates & Property Services
Enterprise & Development
Torchlit March
Update
Thanks to everyone who took part in the Torchlit March or signed our petition. In direct response to the campaign, the Council have already installed lighting in the park! This is a great example of what can be achieved if students work together.
Background
The Torchlit March 2008 was a campaign to improve safety in Peel Park. We called on the council to improve lighting and install CCTV cameras in the David Lewis Recreation Ground area, which thousands of students, University staff and local residents use every day. This area has seen a high number of verbal and physical attacks over the years, the last one leaving a Salford student with cuts and bruises and a broken arm.
Torchlit March Video
Tuition fees are on the rise….
Currently universities are ‘capped’ on the amount they can charge, at the moment that stands at just over £3,000 but the government is now going to ‘review’ fees in 2009, in other words how much the cap stands at and therefore how much tuition fees we pay is up for debate. Some have made guesses that the average tuition fee could double, some are lobbying the government for universities to charge whatever they want.
Tuition fees already have a huge negative effect on students. Most of us have to work in order to survive rather than put our full time into our study. Some people never make it to university because the costs are just too much. Support may be out there but many of us fall through the means testing net.
If fees rise these problems will only be increased and yet more people will be priced out of education. We need to fight any increases in fees and continue the fight for a return to a free education. The fight is on yet again for the future of education.
The 5th of November is the international day for action for free and emancipating education and is also the day of action for the NUS (National Union of Students) ‘Broke and Broken’ campaign. A video for the International Day of Action against the Commercialisation of Education:
We are planning action on this, as are other unions and groups in the Greater Manchester area. Look out for more news. If you want to get involved or have any thoughts on what action we should take on the 5th and beyond let us know.
For more information please email: president-ussu@salford.ac.uk
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