Your interests - Students' unions
Students’ unions are often the social centre of a university, not least because SUs usually run at least one, if not all, the student bars, as well as a veritable panoply of other facilities, services and amenities.
Sometimes the students’ union is little more than a social club, but sometimes unions meet almost all the daily needs of students (often the students don’t realise how many). In part, it depends on the students who run it.
These students who actually run the students’ unions on a day-to-day basis are elected to do so by other students.
Imagine that: up and down the country there are multi-million pound businesses, employing sometimes over a hundred staff, all run by students who are usually only a couple of years out of school. You want CV points? Try that on for size.
Last updated on: 01 May 2008