Usman Ali becomes NUS VP Higher Education

Posted by Ricky

If you popped into the Students' Union last week you would have noticed that none of the Sabbs were about. We were all at the NUS National Conference in Gateshead.

Myself and Matt go automatically as President and President Elect, Jim, Joe and Alan Bailey came as they were elected delegates in March.

On Thursday was the election for the Vice President Higher Education and former SU President Usman Ali was up against six other candidates.

Below was his speech to conference how why he should be elected!



I have never seen Usman speak so well before.

There were late nights and early mornings campaigning for Usman during breaks and all the hardwork of everyone pulled off and he was elected.

I am really looking forward to working with Usman next year, on some of the key issues that will be affecting our movement nationally. The key one being the Browne review and the outcome of that.
At Conference, we passed policy to hold a National Demo and you can guarantee we will be getting involved with that.

The good news will hopefully set to continue as Alan Bailey is running unopposed for the open place officer for the NUS LGBT Campaign.

It is awesome that next year we will have two former sabbaticals on the National Executive Council of NUS!

I am sure one of the others will be blogging about the full details of conference soon.