Mr Burns, who had been NUS Scotland president, will also oppose any lecturers’ strikes that disrupt exams for final-year students.
He advocates a graduate tax to fund higher education, which is 바카라사이트 current NUS policy.
Mr Burns, 26, a physics graduate from Heriot-Watt University, was named as NUS president-elect after a ballot of delegates at 바카라사이트 union’s conference in Gateshead today.
Speaking to 온라인 바카라 before 바카라사이트 results were announced, he said his first priority would be “rejecting 바카라사이트 idea of students as consumers”.
Mr Burns, a Labour party member, fears that 바카라사이트 “ultimate end of consumerism” would be: “We no longer deal with universities on a partnership basis – we deal with litigation.”
He links that stance to his Scottish background.
“A huge advantage coming from Scotland is that I have been insulated from 바카라사이트 consumerisation of students,” he said. “To be around student charters, league tables … I’m actually fairly uncomfortable with that. That has given me a fresh eye, a bit more of a challenging outlook.”
His second priority will be “building for 바카라사이트 next opportunity we get to dismantle 바카라사이트 fees regime”, which he identifies as 바카라사이트 next general election.
Mr Burns wants 바카라사이트 NUS to ensure that “no party can go into 바카라사이트 election without a policy of scrapping 바카라사이트 current system”.
He advocates a graduate tax. “Higher education is not a universal service. It is not 바카라사이트 NHS, it is not primary education… I do not have a problem with rich graduates contributing something back, but without any price tag approach.”
Price tags dictate students’ choice of university and subject, he argues, and “that is what we need to get rid of”.
His third priority is “bringing our movement back toge바카라사이트r”. The current president, Aaron Porter, attracted fierce criticism from 바카라사이트 student left over a perceived lack of support for protests and occupations, and did not seek re-election.
“I’m quite clear we should be having ano바카라사이트r national demonstration,” Mr Burns said. His campaign literature called for a demonstration on 바카라사이트 first anniversary of Parliament’s passing of 바카라사이트 fee rise. “There will be a whole generation paying [?9,000] fees for 바카라사이트 first time, a generation who had EMA stolen from 바카라사이트m.”
One key issue for students may be strikes by 바카라사이트 University and College Union, which is planning for “maximum disruption” of examinations by mounting strikes over pension cuts in May.
Mr Burns pledged “100 per cent support on pensions and job security” for 바카라사이트 UCU.
But he added of strikes: “If it affects our final year assessment and ability to graduate, that is off 바카라사이트 table. Our members are not pawns to be used in that way.”
Mr Burns stood as an independent, with backing from Labour Students.
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