NUS-USI
| National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland (NUS-USI) | |
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| President | Fergal McFerran |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Headquarters | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| International affiliation | European Students' Union |
| Website | |
| www.nistudents.org | |
NUS-USI, the student movement in Northern Ireland was formed in 1972 by bilateral agreement between the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS) and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), to address the particular problems of representing students in Northern Ireland.
Students at an affiliated college are members of both national students' unions, and benefit from full representation in each body. The elected leader of the organisation is a full-time representative, elected as a sabbatical from one of the member colleges, and serves as a member of the USI Officer Board and the NUS National Executive Committee. An elected term is one year long (July–June). An officer within the executive of the movement may hold an officer position for a maximum of two terms.
The current President of NUS-USI is Fergal McFerran, who graduated from Queen's University Belfast in July 2015 with a 2.2 in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
NUS-USI also has a number of part-time student officers filling the following roles:
The following short background to the historical development of the student movement in Northern Ireland attempts to place in context the relationship between local students' unions, the National Union of Students (NUS), the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and the Northern Ireland office NUS-USI.
Following the model of Scottish Universities, a Students' Representative Council (SRC) was formally established at Queen's College Belfast in 1897 in tandem with the opening of a Students' Union Building in what is now the music department on that campus. Student representatives from Queen's University subsequently played important roles in founding the National Union of Students in 1922 and the Irish Students Association, which stimulated the formation of the Union of Students in Ireland in 1959.
With the development of higher education in Northern Ireland, other students’ unions were established as constituent parts of their institutions to complement, by the provision of benefits, services and activities, the more formal aspects of post-school education. This constitutional relationship was formalised in University Charters and Statutes and the instruments and articles of other colleges. Such students’ unions were delegated wide measures of autonomy, promoting democratic accountability and self-government detailed in constitutions approved by their parent institutions.
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