By: Andrew Fisher
It produces a slightly odd effect when you admit openly in the body of the piece that ‘the question is about who has power and what form does it take’ and end on the note that the staff shouldn’t have...
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Thank you Debbie!! I almost didn’t read this because this discussion has become so predictable but I agree entirely with your piece. Frankly there are bigger issues to discuss. This isn’t about not...
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How do students’ representatives feel about this? Does the NUS think of itself as the champion of the students’ rights? And do those rights include consumer rights? How students are represented...
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“I personally loathe the idea of the student-consumer, if only because it substitutes economic power – which is no power at all, because someone else determines the product – for self-determination, or...
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