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About NUS

Empowering students: Students unite for a fairer funding system

NUS (National Union of Students) is a voluntary membership organisation which makes a real difference to the lives of students and its member students' unions.

We are a confederation of 600 students' unions, amounting to more than 95 per cent of all higher and further education unions in the UK. Through our member students' unions, we represent the interests of more than seven million students.

Our mission

Our mission is to promote, defend and extend the rights of students and to develop and champion strong students' unions.

Our vision

Our vision is of NUS as a pioneering, innovative and powerful campaigning organisation: the national voice of students. We will fight barriers to education, empower students to shape both a quality learning experience and the world around them, supporting influential, democratic and well-resourced students' unions.

Equality

We believe there should be equality of opportunity for everyone to participate fully in a society that celebrates diversity.

Democracy

Our policies and priorities must be student-led and students’ union-focused through building open, transparent and accessible democratic structures.

Collectivism

Students and students’ unions are more effective when they organise together locally, nationally and internationally: unity is our strength.

NUS President Liam Burns

Liam's message to students

NUS has been campaigning for more than eight decades and winning victories for our members as well as wider society. You can see the full impact we have made in our timeline but here is a list of our more recent successes.

Our Successes

Our Ethics

Ethical & Environmental ethos

NUS and students feel passionately about the environment

Ethical and Environmental principles are core to our culture. These values underpin all of our work and have done since the Company’s inception.

Ethical And Environmental

NUS Nations

While NUS represents the interests of students across the UK, the movement is made up of autonomous nations: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Elections

If you want change you need to vote

Effective change can only happen through democratic voting and elections. If you want to change something at your students' union then you need to vote or stand for election.

Who We Are