OFFICER Training 2012
OFFICER Training 2012 On behalf of everyone at ULU, I welcome you to our annual summer training for sabbatical and part time officers and activists in London. It’s brilliant to have you here. I want you to use ULU Training 2012 (#ulutraining12) to learn, discover and debate. It will be a forum to share skills and experiences but also, importantly, begin to make plans for the upcoming academic year. Over the next two days you will be amongst officers and activists from London only. As well as being active locally, in your own Union, it is crucial we take a step into London wide organising around student opinion. The training provides the opportunity to develop working relationships with officers and students that will be doing very similar work to you in the same area. When we get together across London, whether it is for housing or cuts, we are extremely powerful - we should use this collective strength! The workshops and sessions throughout the two days are reflective of the priorities of ULU this year. From exploring the challenges and opportunities for small and specialist colleges, to engaging students in the workplace, to the support needed to help sports clubs and societies flourish - we have made a concerted effort to design the sessions around your local needs and plans. We want to make it loud and clear that we want to work with you this year. It is an important year for ULU. I am keen to re-cast it as a credible and active organ of student coordination in London. I see the training event as the first step to doing that. I really hope you enjoy the two-day training and I look forward to working with you.
Daniel LC ULU Vice President & Acting President
MONDAY 13 AUGUST Registration from 10am
11.00 Welcome & introductions (Malet Suite) 12.15 Break (tea & refreshments)
12.20 Workshops
a) The new higher education environment: Investigating HE policy and campaigning. Hosted by Dr. Andrew McGettigan, independent researcher and HE expert and Max Watson, Unison Trade Union NEC & London Metropolitan University. (Room 3E) b) University and students’ union Governance and democracy. Hosted by Ed Bauer, NUS Trustee. (Room 3A)
1.45 Lunch (The Gallery) & caucuses (Malet Suite): i. Welfare (Kenny Aruwa, VP Education & Welfare, SURHUL) ii. Liberation (Tama White, Goldsmiths) iii. International students (Maham Hashmi-Khan, SOAS)
2.30 Workshops
a) How do we relate to and lobby the government, the GLA and local councils effectively? Building ULU’s lobbying capacities 2012/13. Hosted by Kate Osamor and Alex Peters Day, LSE. (Room 3E) b) Campaigning for international students’ rights: Immigration, fees and life in London. Hosted by Maham Hashmi Khan, SOAS and Daniel Stevens, NUS International Students’ Officer. (Room 3D) c) The politics and economics of fighting cuts. Hosted by Cathy Nugent, Editor & National Union of Journalists. (Room 3A)
3.45 Break with refreshments 4.00 Workshops
a) London Living Wage and workers’ rights on campus: how to organise and win a successful campaign. Hosted by Naomi Bain, Birkbeck Unison Trade Union and Edwin Coupe, UCL. (Room 3E) b) Understanding and defeating Islamophobia on campus and the Prevent agenda. Hosted by James Haywood, Goldsmiths and Sahal Quazi. UCL. (Room 3D) c) Small and specialist colleges within the University of London: challenges, opportunities and forms of support. Hosted by Ashley Doolan, Heythrop and Matt Withers, Central School of Speech and Drama. (Room 3A)
5.15 Plenary and report-backs. (Room 3E) 6.15 Dinner & caucuses (Malet Suite):
i. Sports and societies (Hosted by DLC, ULU) ii. Education (Hosted by Lucy Hayes, KCL) iii. Postgraduates (Susan McGrath, IOE) 6.45 Evening Plenary (Malet Suite) Drama. (Room 3D) The role of ULU in the wider student movement; what do we want ULU to be? ULU plans for 2012/13. Hosted by Daniel Cooper, ULU. Followed by discussion.
From 20.30: “Dangerous Minds” - Spoken word, poetry and live music. (The Venue/Gallery) The University of London Union presents an evening of live music and spoken-word poetry to
accompany its 2012 officer training. The gig is open to the public.
YOUR HOST
Raymond Antrobus - leading light of the London poetry scene and co-host of Chill Pill. raymondantrobus.blogspot.co.uk/
YOUR POETS
Hollie McNish - Spoken-word artist with a dazzling performance history. holliemcnish.bandcamp.com Keith Jarrett - Hip-hop and jazz-influence poetry from this slam champion. applesandsnakes.org/page/84/Performance+poets/109 Suli Breaks - North London’s “new-school” pioneer.
YOUR MUSIC
PoetiCat - Psychedelic-ethereal-trance folk + spoken-word? Go on then... poeticat.co.uk The Ruby Kid - Alt. hip-hopper debuts material from forthcoming EP ‘Strange, Lively, & Commonplace’ with DJ Dan Angell. therubykid.com
tuesDAY 14 AUGUST 11 am Day 2 Start 11.30 Workshops
a) Students’ rights and the workplace. Hosted by Jamie Green, RHUL and Daniel Randall, GMB Trade Union. (Room 3A) b) Student housing in London. Hosted by Andrew Fisher, PCS Policy Officer and Babs Williams, QM (Room 3D)
12.50 Lunch (The Gallery) and caucuses (Malet Suite): i. Small and specialist colleges (Hosted by Ashley Doolan, Heythrop) ii. Communications and media (Hosted by Charlotte Richardson, KCL) iii. Environment and ethics (Hosted by Natasha Gorodnitski, UCL)
1.50 Workshops
a) Sports and societies in London: how to help them flourish and ULU’s mission 2012/13. Hosted by David Adams, ULU Student Activities and Keiko Ono, SOAS. (Room 3A) b) How do we build strong liberation campaigns across London? Hosted by Vicki Baars, NUS Vice President Union-Development and NUS Liberation Campaigns (Room 3D)
3.15 Workshops
a) Building for #demo2012 in London. Hosted by Daniel Cooper, ULU and Vicki Baars, NUS VP. (Room 3A) b) Student media and communications: developing strong campus radio stations, newspapers and magazines and communicating with members and stakeholders. Hosted by Charlotte Richardson, KCL & Alex Hackett, Heythrop and Sarah Honeycombe, RHUL. (Room 3D)
4.40 Break 4.45 Plenary: ULU Elections 2012 (Malet Suite) 5.45: Closing speeches and feedback. Finish by 6.30
University of London Union
what is a caucus? This year at ULU we are very keen to set up online and offline networks for sabbatical officers, activists and part time officers in their specific portfolio or areas of work. These networks are to share information, best practice, enable everyone across UoL to remain in touch with each other easily and coordinate an event or activity across London. For example, there would be an online network, which one could email into, for welfare sabbaticals/activists/part- time officers in London to ask advice on a particular welfare concern that has arisen at an individual college. There would also be a page on the ULU website with all the contact details of the people involved in each area. The reasoning behind this is that officers across London share similar kinds of work and student issues, and we recognise that it is extremely useful to have points of contact amongst officers for advice and collaboration. We would like to kick this off with a series of “caucuses� at ULU training, dotted throughout the two days. These small get-togethers are each open to all but with a focus on Sabbs/Officers and activists to attend, who work in a specific area. We will be holding numerous caucuses including: international student matters, welfare, education, postgraduate issues, ethics and environment, liberation, sports and societies and small and specialist colleges. There are a number of caucus leaders who will make themselves known throughout the training. The short meetings (lasting approx. 20 minutes) will be used for people to meet each other, introduce their work areas for the year and begin to plan for the year ahead. Each of the caucuses will be taking place in the Malet Suite on the second floor. Feel free to attend as many as you desire, but please do send a representative from your campus to each of the (relevant) caucuses.
Training Rooms 2nd Floor: Malet Suite, The Gallery/The Venue 3rd Floor: 3A, 3D, 3E
lunch menu Monday 13th August 10am Refreshments - Malet Suite Tea, coffee, water and biscuits also available throughout day and evening 1.45 Lunch - The Gallery Water and juice Selection of deli sandwiches, wraps and baguettes: Meat, fish and vegetarian fillings Tortilla chips 6.15 Evening Meal - The Gallery Water and juice Choice of: Roasted mediterranean vegetable tartlets with pesto Beef lasagne al forno Roasted supreme of salmon set on a mediterranean vegetable ratatouille Panache of vegetables (baton carrot and sugar snap peas) Roasted herbed baby new potatoes Luxury assortment of cakes Tea and Coffee in Malet Suite
Tuesday 14th August 11am Refreshments - Malet Suite Tea, coffee, water and biscuits also available throughout the day 12.50 Lunch - The Gallery Water and juice Selection of deli Sandwiches, wraps and baguettes: Meat, fish and vegetarian fillings Selection of hot finger food: Meat, fish and vegetarian options Cold meat and fish platter Selection of salads Cheese board