Increase student participation in the
The Sports Sponsorship is running reasonably well although there have been some problems. Whilst a number of the teams have been attending our nights, 1 team has been buying the tickets for the evening and then going elsewhere.
The Safety Bus now has vinyls for the 2nd semester. However, as of 21st Jan OUSU have failed to return a signed copy of the contact and consequently we have yet to receive any money from them (£10k). We have been pursuing them for the money for some time but the deadline for getting their vinyls on the bus has passed. We are still able to service their students as they still maintain a willingness to pay. Re-vinyling with their artwork will cost more so there could be an additional charge. They have now finished looking through the contract but have requested yet another copy, which is being sent today.
The UGM is taking a slightly different slant this time around. Being scheduled on Valentines Day we are running ‘A Date with the
The Promotions Team continues to develop and build on the success of last semester. With the clubnights running to budget we are now forming much closer links with Oxford Colleges and developing a College Rep system for generating extra custom at Peachy and Pleasuredome.
My Tell10 met for a meal and a chat about the elections and at least two out of the 5 that attended have said that they will be running for positions in this years election.
Most of GOAL time in the first half of the semester is going to be centred around elections as well as a number of perception and information campaigns.
Attract a greater number of students to run in Union Elections and provide access to comprehensive training and information regarding the available positions and the
Unfortunately we are unable to provide an e-voting option this year. The University have agreed to share the required information with our service provider but have not yet processed the contractual details.
I have been using events such as the Bill Rammel lecture to identify and talk to interested students. Students that are already making the effort to attend events such as this in their own time may well be interested in further involvement and so it is worth trying to catch them.
If anyone is thinking about standing for elections or knows anybody who is then please ask them to get in touch with the relevant officer or rep to talk about what it is like to be in that position. It is part of a team objective to attract more students to run in elections and so all Officers will be more than happy to talk to potential candidates and discuss exactly what it’s like to be a student rep.
To ensure that the
We have sent the Sound Impact assessment book off but there are several criteria that are currently lacking evidence. The Sound Impact Award assessment has been tightened up this year and we will be fortunate to retain our Bronze Status. It is my intention over the next few weeks and after the election to develop much closer links with the Union outgoing and incoming Environment Officer. Hopefully between us we will be able to cover this area of the Unions work more effectively.
Communicate the achievements and successes of the
We have had several positive high profile stories featured in the local press recently involving a number of the executive officers, with more underway at the moment. I will be posting links to these stories for inclusion in Onstream. The Information sharing meetings with the University have been a very good way of getting across some of the Unions achievements to the University’s senior management. The Students’ Union hosted NUS Regional Conference during which we were able to present key successes, challenges and campaigns to other SU’s from region.
Develop the Commercial Services of the
Following on from the disappointing performance last semester, anecdotal evidence suggests that our bars are receiving more trade this semester. We are holding events for various student groups including
There has been a sustained campaign to publicise the fact that Harts now offers food and again anecdotally this appears to be having an effect.
We have borrowed a student perception questionnaire model from Keele University Students’
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E-voting sounds interesting. I wonder if the SU, perhaps under the aegis of the national "Rock the Vote" campaign for getting students involved in local and parliamentary democracy, would help campaign for electronic access to Brookes students by local political groups wanting to "e-canvass". In fact Brookes students are disadvantaged as against Oxford students because the university (though rightly in my opinion) does not wish to give out student numbers and names. But for years now local political parties have been asking to be able to send email to students to inform them or canvass their opinions. The university is sympathetic but we have never managed to find (as in had the time to findd and develop) a suitable mechanism that respects privacy and data protection law yet provides fine grained enough information to enable meaningful correspondence.
In some Oxford university halls for example we have enough information to match a student resident with an electoral roll entry such that we can provide a link to a web based survey that will capture their electoral roll number so we can do proper e-canvassing and follow up information if requested. Not with Brookes though! We probably don't have time, yet again, to develop something before this May's local elections, but perhaps we can talk about how we might join efforts to achieve that for future ones.
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