Kaleya Baxe our Black, Asian and Minorities Ethnic Officer at Central Students' Union attended Black Students Conference on the 11th and 12th May 2018! Read her update below on everything that happened! Oh and just before you jump into reading all the important information below we wanted to highlight that Kaleya and #DearWhiteCentral picked up the Highly Commended award from the NUS Black Students campaign! A massive congratulations to everyone involved and we're excited to

NUS Disabled Students Conference - Manchester Hey peeps! So, I just got back from Manchester after being at the NUS Disabled Students Conference. I was there, proud to be representing the disabled students of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Firstly, can I just say that the event was run SO smoothly, which made its content even more accessible; so, thank you to all those who were involved in running the event! This level of accessibility was very refreshing and r

We kicked off NUS Postgraduate Sections Conference with a presentation of the groundbreaking NUS & 17:52 Group's investigation into staff/student sexual misconduct. This report, whilst stipulated as a descriptive study rather than a prevalence study indicated some significant trends in sexual misconduct in higher education and worked to map the impact of misconduct on top of occurrence. Some salient figures include: The group most likely to experience sexual misconduct is LGB

It is with great zeal that I write this report on the NUS 2018 Trans Students’ Conference, which I attended as a delegate and voted to represent transgender and non-binary students at Central. While this is only the first year for the NUS’s autonomous trans campaign, a monumental amount of work has already been undertaken. NUS trans officer Jess Bradley reported that over the past year, the NUS trans campaign and the NUS trans committee has successfully engaged in a multitude