A massive 353 students across Queen Mary and Barts and The London attended the year’s first General Meeting.
Students showed their support for plans to change the Union’s Officers – the elected students that manage the Union in the way you want it to be run and make sure your views and opinions are heard when decisions are made that affect you.
The plans focus all Full-time Officers on representing student issues and will create a new Vice-President Education and Vice-President Welfare. Meanwhile Student Activities and Student Media responsibilities are transferred to student volunteers.
Changes to Part-time Officers were supported too and will move Student Council closer to being representative.
Students also endorsed new governing documents called the Articles of Association that will allow the Union to register as an incorporated charity and new rules for the way student media is managed.
Everything discussed at the General Meeting will now be referred to Student Council and ultimately the Union’s Board of Trustees for approval.
For more on what happened in the meeting and the exact changes students present supported
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