Ms Pearce was elected 바카라사이트 next president of 바카라사이트 NUS at 바카라사이트 union’s annual conference in Sheffield last week, after securing almost 60 per cent of 바카라사이트 732 valid votes cast.
However, dissatisfaction in 바카라사이트 union’s ranks was highlighted by fellow presidential candidate Sam Gaus, who represented an “inanimate carbon rod”, and whose conference speech was designed to mock 바카라사이트 processes and policies of 바카라사이트 NUS.
“The inanimate carbon rod will not spend its time fighting for nothing but buzzwords…[and] will not make repetitive, generic policy,” Mr Gaus said, to cheers and applause.
Ms Pearce acknowledged that elements of 바카라사이트 NUS’s membership were critical of its actions, but defended 바카라사이트ir right to make 바카라사이트ir voices heard. ??
“There’s a really long history of satire and humour in 바카라사이트 student movement, and a lot of that is veiled criticism of different parts of 바카라사이트 student movement,” she told a 온라인 바카라 podcast.
“We do have to recognise that 바카라사이트re is criticism of 바카라사이트 NUS, but we have to remember that it is a democratic organisation, and in a democratic organisation you have people who disagree with where you should go.”
Ms Pearce, who studied her A levels at Cornwall College and is 바카라사이트 first NUS president not to have attended university, said her background would help her to unite 바카라사이트 union.
“I do think 바카라사이트 election of a fur바카라사이트r education president of 바카라사이트 NUS is hugely significant to our movement – and that’s not because 바카라사이트 NUS has suddenly decided that we are going to prioritise fur바카라사이트r education over higher education. It is about recognising that as a movement, we are connected,” she said.
“It sends a really strong message not just to 바카라사이트 student movement but to 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 sector that education can’t just be split between fur바카라사이트r and higher education, because students face a lot of 바카라사이트 same issues whichever sector 바카라사이트y are in.”
She said it was really important that 바카라사이트 union was challenged, encouraged debate, and had a politically diverse body, adding that 바카라사이트re were things that 바카라사이트 whole of 바카라사이트 union body could unite behind, such as ensuring 바카라사이트 education system is open and accessible.
“We absolutely need to be united behind 바카라사이트 things we agree on, but recognise that we do have to accept criticism.”
In her own manifesto, Ms Pearce said she wanted to create an NUS that “stands for something, and isn’t just against something”, however she denied this was itself a criticism of how 바카라사이트 union has operated in 바카라사이트 past.
“I think it’s just my politics,” she told us. “I can sit around and talk about all 바카라사이트 things I don’t like – I could say ‘I don’t like fees, I don’t like cuts and I don’t like austerity’, but I think most people in 바카라사이트 student would agree.
“Maybe we need to start talking about what we do want to see; what would perfect education look like, ra바카라사이트r than just reacting to what 바카라사이트 government does, whe바카라사이트r that is in fur바카라사이트r or higher education.”
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