Week Ending March 12th: Steady as he goes…

This week seems to flown by, and not as productive as it might have been. After 2 / 3 weeks of not doing much course related work or student officer work, it has been a challenge to get back into a productive mood.

But I have made progress on our SUEI self assessment statement, looking at how decisions made by officers and senior staff are scrutinised, plus I have put the wheels in motion for my big discussion on the future of the SU at Riseholme.

Talking of Riseholme, on Wednesday we met with the Dean of AFAS, Head of Commercial Services, Head of Space & Strategy and our Bar manager to discuss the R-Bar. It was a really productive conversation where we outlined a brief for the bar’s redevelopment, which will be released soon for consultation – and hopefully we’ll see a five, if not six figure investment in the social spaces for our students at Riseholme.

I’ve also written an email to the President, Chris Charnley, asking him to make representations to the Vice-Chancellor, with regards to my concerns over the future of Riseholme and the need for vision and strategy at the campus.

Hopefully our efforts in different places will collectively result  in tangible improvements for students there!

We haven’t made much progress on planning our ’12 months on’ review of the student reps system, but we do have a project team meeting next week which should change that!

The last bit of my week will happen in about two hours, I’m going to meet Lord Young who has some ministerial responsibilities for students and Higher Education, which should be interesting. I’ll be thinking up some challenging questions over my chip shop lunch!