• The Students’ Union has recruited a huge 651 student reps to represent you on your courses. Ask your tutor if you’re not sure who your rep is and see below for some of the wins our student reps have achieved for students!

•Representing the student voice in the creation of the University’s new Student Charter. This outlines rights and responsibilities for students including the right to three week feedback. 

• Reinstatement of free printing for PGR students after the service was withdrawn. This had left graduate teaching assistants paying themselves to print materials for their classes.  

• Working with the University to ensure the new Student Channel website provides the information students need in an accessible format. 

• Taking a minibus full of students to Student Activism 2011, the UK’s biggest ever student activism conference. Student Activism brought together student activists from across the political spectrum to learn, share and inspire. 

• In the University review of academic roles, ensuring job descriptions are fit for purpose and that roles particularly important to students such as retention champion and personal tutor, are retained and developed. 

 • Salford students raised hundreds of pounds for Children In Need last month and your Union even appeared live on the show! Click here to watch! 

 • Campaigning against Manchester City Council’s plans to limit housing with multiple occupancy, which many of our members live in. 

• Placing student needs at the heart of the Blackboard upgrade project . Our concern at the new development’s potential issues led to us successfully lobbying the University to postpone the project, until a pilot has been undertaken. 

• Representing the student voice when it comes to rewriting the Assessment Guidelines Handbook. This will set a number of University standards and policies for best practice in this crucial area for students. 

• Student Rep, Robert Midgley secured an extension on an assignment and a three hour class for his course mates after they received insufficient training on editing equipment. 

• Working with the University on options for improving the current PMC system to make it fairer and more accessible to students. This is linked to the University’s review of late submission penalties. We are working closely to ensure that both policies work together and do not disadvantage any students. 

• After campaigning and lobbying for change, the sabbatical officers are delighted that the University is working towards providing all students with three week feedback time on their work. 

• Lobbying the University to request more immediate evaluations from students and to communicate more quickly the changes undertaken as a result of student evaluation questionnaires. 

• Student Rep Benjamin Keane worked to ensure printing facilities for students were reinstated in Crescent House after these had been switched off. 

• The Union has called upon the University to change one of its academic regulations. This states that students in any debt to the University can have results withheld and be prevented from progressing onto the next year. In line with a recent OFT ruling, we believe that this measure should be restricted to academic debt only. 

• Another Student Rep Joe Woods, secured additional teaching time and regular one to one slots after many of his lectures had been cancelled, often without explanation or advance warning. The situation is being monitored by senior University staff, with Joe’s input. 

• We’re working with the University to ensure that students receive feedback on exams as well as assignments.  

 • The University now fully supports our Salford Bill of Student Rights a document that outlines seven key rights that the Students’ Union believes all Salford students should be entitled to. Click here to see which rights this document entitles you to. 

• Student Council passed a motion to encourage BME and international students to sign up to the UK blood and bone marrow donations registers. The sabbs have met with the University, local mosques and community groups and are working together to achieve this aim. 

 • As a result of sabbatical officer lobbying and significant student disapproval, the University has agreed to pause the library development project, to undertake further consultation and discussion with students. 

Following the announcement that the University was to make its sixth round of redundancies, the Students' Union lobbied the University to hold face-to-face consultation meetings with students at a School and University level to explain the cuts and to receive feedback from students.

• The Students’ Union is pleased to announce that following the introduction of our Salford Bill of Student Rights, hidden course costs are now a thing of the past. All extra course costs are now listed on the new course guide on the University’s website. With this information now available, students can plan and budget for these costs rather than being hit with them without warning.  

After lobbying from the Students’ Union, the University has taken action to ensure that January 2011 international students are able to apply for their post study visa on time.

These students who started at Salford this January, faced missing the visa deadline because their exam results were due too late. The late results meant that the University confirmation letter they would need for their visa application wasn’t available.

As a result many international students would have had to leave the country sooner than they wished too, without gaining valuable work experience in the UK.

We’re delighted to have secured this #win for our many international members at Salford.