Annual Student Meeting

• Annual Student Meeting guide
• Annual Student Meeting Full Agenda
• Students' Union Affiliations - these will be considered and voted for approval at the meeting
• Club and Society Affiliations - will be posted here soon
• Additional Annual Student Meeting Outcomes - 12 July 2024

Confirmed motions

• Motion a: Should the Students’ Union lobby QMUL to introduce reading weeks (across all schools)?


• Motion b: Should QMSU lobby QMUL schools to stop purchasing supplies used for student training from companies or countries involved in unethical investments or actions?


• Motion c: Should the Students’ Union lobby for all students to be able to be able to see their exam scripts after it has been marked.

Pending motions

We are awaiting further information from the motion proposers for the following motions. They are likely to be included in the agenda for the Annual Student Meeting if this information is received prior to the meeting. Please check back for further updates later this week.

• Should the Students’ Union lobby QMUL to ban smoking on campus? - awaiting further details from the motion proposer, check back soon
• Fair stipends for international postgraduate students - awaiting further details from the motion proposer, check back soon
• Should in-person exams be removed as part of Postgraduate professional courses and replaced with more assignments and presentations?- awaiting further details requested from the motion proposer
• Lobby the university to reform booking restrictions on the number of room bookings per week, of societies, as part of the student experience.
• Make it easier/simpler or clarify the process to rerun elections for course representatives when students feel as though they are not fulfilling their roles sufficiently - This motion has been passed to Student Council taking place on 3rd December 2024 as it would require a Students’ Union Byelaw (the rules that govern the Students’ Union) change to take place. Byelaw changes can only be approved at Student Council, and not at the Annual Student Meeting.

Motions submitted but alternative action will take place

The following motions were also submitted by students, but will not be considered by the Annual Student Meeting. The reasons and the alternative action being taken is detailed below;

• Should we have pads and other sanitary products in all bathrooms? The Students’ Union already has active policy on this topic. Following a recent Annual Student Meeting the Students’ Union successfully lobbied the university to introduce pads and sanitary products across campus bathrooms to help students with their menstrual health and reduce the impact of period poverty, particularly during the recent cost of living crisis where period poverty became more prevalent. We have committed to the student proposers to re-highlight this information to students through our regular communications and social media, and will continue to work with the university to improve provisions further across all campuses, including providing reusable period products.
• Should QMSU lobby QMUL to cease any direct or indirect investments into armaments and fossil fuels as well as pursuing more sustainable and ethical investments in general? - This motion is likely to duplicate, or conflict, with existing Students’ Union policy on these issues. The Students’ Union has heard student concerns about these issues, including at the Annual Student Meeting last academic year. We are working with the university to establish a new Financial and Ethical Investment Forum that will include student participants and elected student representatives who will come together with the university to discuss and challenge on a range of topics, including issues such as those listed in the motion title above.
• Urgent call for enhanced academic support and timely access to study resources on the Accounting and Management programme - This motion is targeted at a particular subject and not all-students. Because of this the motion will be passed to the Humanities & Social Sciences Board to discuss and vote on the motion. The Humanities & Social Sciences Board is chaired by the Vice President Humanities & Social Sciences and includes school representatives from each school in the faculty.
• Students should be able to partake in more Law related modules- This motion is targeted at a particular subject and not all-students. Because of this the motion will be passed to the Humanities & Social Sciences Board to discuss and vote on the motion.

An amendment is a change to a motion that is on the agenda for the Annual Student Meeting. The suggested changes should be substantive, and the Chair is unlikely to accept amendments that relate to spelling, grammar or style, unless the amendment would change the meaning of the motion.

Read our Amendments guide to learn more about submitting an amendment to a motion prior to the Annual Student Meeting.

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