Student Council

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Student Council

• Monday 16th November 2009

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Present
Can all members please sign the Attendance Sheet
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Apologies
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Absent
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Chairs Introduction

• Maiden Speaking Rights
• Chairs Ruling is Final
• All members must raise their hands to speak and
  state full name for the minutes.
• The meeting cannot progress until we have elected
  a Vice-Chair.

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Council Reps

• Vice Chair

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Minutes from last Meeting

• Monday 12th October 2009 Minutes
• Available online at www.newmansu.org/council

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Matters Arising
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Exec. Reports

• 1. President
• 2. Vice-President
• 3. Entertainments Officer
• 4. School of Community and Professional
  Development
• 5. School of Education
• 6. School of Social Science Humanities
• 7. Societies Officer
• 8. Sports Development Officer
• 9. Welfare Officer
• 10. Chair of Council

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Exec. Reports

• President
• No Report received

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Exec. Reports

• Vice-President
• Met with other Birmingham Students Unions to
  organise the campaign against higher tuition fees
   
• Went out and talked to students about their
  feelings towards semesters to gain evidence for
  the academic board.
• Attended the bar committee meeting to clarify
  students comments at the Union General Meeting   

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Exec. Reports

• Entertainments

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Exec. Reports

• School of Community Professional Development
• Helped Out at Graduation
• Dealt with Student issues regarding their course,
  placement issues and troubles they have had.
• Have trained the SSCC reps who have come forward
  so far.

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Exec. Reports

• School of Education
• 1) I attended the Higher Education Conference in
  Manchester with School of Social Sciences and
  Humanities officer looking at ways to improve
  higher education but also the delicate and very
  important issues that higher education are facing
  at the moment
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• 2) Been training the last few yep across yr 1-3
  who were not able to make any of training's
  offered
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• 3) I attend the HEAR (Higher Education
  Achievement Record) in London with the equality
  office looking what has been going on with HEAR
  and speaking about our continuous work that we
  start last year with our focus groups and the
  student perspective.

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Exec. Reports

• School of Social Science Humanities
• Attended my first school meeting
• Trained some of my SSCC reps.
• Met with all first year students within my school
  in a lecture.

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Exec. Reports

• Societies Development Officer

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Exec. Reports

• Sports Development Officer
• On October 29th I attended the National Union of
  Students Union Development Zone Conference in
  Manchester at the Thistle Hotel and got involved
  in the following sessions best practice in union
  democracy and best practice for governance and
  institutional relationships.
• Achieved a resolution which will provide best
  practice on how to campaign about
  freeing Wednesdays for Activities at a regional
  competitions meeting for the British Universities
  Colleges Sport (BUCS). 
• Continuously worked to support students' through
  involvement with a student issue, the Governance
  Review and the Union's constitution development.

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Exec. Reports

• Welfare Officer
• 1-Notice Boards. Finally I have 2 notice boards
  with a selection of information which shows what
  Welfare has to offer.2-Student Info Advice
  Centre. We have some trained Officers more on
  there way, with a rota and timetable for Officer
  hours. We have already had some students come in
  needing confidential and serious advice-so please
  do remember we're here to help with almost
  anything you can throw at us!3-World AIDS Day.
  The planning for this has continued with regular
  meetings/work, but has come up against many
  problems so has taken a lot of work for myself
  and all the others involved (Thank you guys
  gals!)

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Question Time
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Agenda Items

• For Discussion

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Items from Chair
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Any Other Business?
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Upcoming Events

• Christmas ball- 40 or 35 with NUS card. For
  more information come to the Union office
• Aaron Porter- Vice-President of HE talking at
  next Council.

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Next Meeting

• Thank you for coming, next meeting is
• Monday 14th December (Council)