Have Your Say

LUSU will hold its termly General Meeting on Thursday 9th February (Week 4) in the George Fox Lecture Theatre at 6.30pm.

The meeting will include discussions on the items and motions listed below, as well as reports from your Full Time Executive Officers. We ask all students to bring their library card or Purple card along to the meeting to help prove their membership status.

Read the papers for the General Meeting

Motion Against BPR

How do you feel about only talking to a computer? This may not be far from reality if our voices are not heard!

The University are trying to find more effective ways of administrating University business through their Business Process Review (BPR).

However, none of the proposed changes are being communicated to or discussed with students or staff. We believe there is a worrying lack of concern for the opinions of those that count.

We want the University to halt the review and ensure proper consultation takes place before any changes are initiated.

You can read the full motion here.

Discussion on Lancaster and Liverpool

On July 1st 2011, it was announced to all Lancaster University staff that a joint group had been set up with Liverpool to "explore the benefits of closer collaboration". Since then, the University have held several consultations, released papers discussing potential options and met several times with counterparts at Liverpool University.

It has been requested that the General Meeting holds a discussion on the progress of this process. LUSU President George Gardiner will inform the meeting of the most recent updates before the floor is opened for discussion.

Statement on College Bars

Since early summer last year LUSU officers and  senior staff have  been engaged in discussions with University  officers and  staff about  how a positive future could  be developed around student social life  in colleges, and  in particular how the bars could  be best  run to deliver that.

Those discussions were conducted  in an amicable and forward-looking  way. A sustainable  operating model, which improved the student experience was developed with co-operation from all involved.

However recently it became  clear that various legal and  business related issues were insuperable obstacles  and meant  that  an agreement  could  not then  be concluded, regrettably.

LUSU remains committed to the  principle of each  college  having its own bar, with a renewed focus  on meeting the needs of current  students, staff and  their Colleges. We will continue to work in that spirit and  in the belief that the ideas developed last  year are the kernel for the future.

George Gardiner
LUSU President