JUST a week before their week to discuss student union financing and What lies at the root of this discussion? PAMELA HOLMES reports.
The basic question is whether student unions should remain independent of the state and of institutions of higher education.
The Department of Education & Science proposals which jeopardise this have been rejected by virtually all sectors of thestudent movement.
So the NUS executive took on the job, and have produced what has been named the "elusive' compromise. It puts forward a different structure attack on the autonomy of local Not only were their proposals conference, but the executive was censured for failing to carry out its mandate from the NUS conference last Easter.
Its commitment to student union autonomy is such that it failed to draw up an autonomy charter, to organise a speaking initiate an autonomy campaign.
must start with a the anomalies of the present system •DECYCHE LETOL actin independently of the state and its institutions The confusion sown by the executive needs to be overcome if the student movement is to the issues up for discussion this weekend.
Socialist Challenge 7 December 1978 page 5