Getting political!!

Hi guys,
A couple weeks since my last post, and needless to say myself and the other two Sabbaticals have been rather busy.
We have all attended part of the NUS summer training programme which helped develop our skills and also allow us to network with other Sabbaticals from across the country whilst sharing good practices.
Myself and James, the President, attended a course called Active Political Leadership which got us thinking about how we can best get the views of students and represent them to the university.
Being a Sabbatical Officer, we need to think about how we represent you on a local and national scale, and the big debate in the UK at the moment is that of top-up fees. As a Students' Union, we know that in the recession, money is tight for evereyone and so the proposed lifting of the 'cap' on top up fees has not welcomed by students across the country. Rest assured, that for anyone with younger brothers or sisters, we will be campaigning on your behalf this year.
The course itself was hugely beneficial and I certainly took alot from it.
Since being back from Sheffield, I have been working on Student Reps and organising the training and how we can make it even better for students so there is more scope to affect changes on your programmes.
We have been busy welcoming new members of staff as well with a new design team joining the union and hoping to get young student designers involved in what we do.
This year is going to be a very exciting one, and you can be sure that we have a few ideas in the pipeline to ensure that all students know who their Sabbaticals are, and how to contact us.
Looking forward to seeing you all
With affection
Scott xx