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NUS President Wes Streeting leads the fight for a fairer funding system

by: Wes Streeting

A call to arms to fight the lifting of the cap Today university vice chancellors fired their opening salvo in the upcoming fees debate with a blue print for the lifting of the cap and a BBC survey that reveals that two thirds of them want to raise...

18 March 2009  16 Comments:


We’ve come a long way. My journey to the blue print

by: Wes Streeting

I am really excited to be launching a Blueprint for an alternative higher education funding system. It seems like such a long time - when it was only two years ago that I sat down with my colleagues in NUS and developed a three year strategy for the...

05 June 2009  2 Comments:


Time to think again on fees

by: Wes Streeting

Today the Government published its response to the Downing Street e-petition that was set up to oppose moves by vice chancellors who are calling for the current cap on tuition fees to rise. With a grand total 33, 612 signatures, the petition is...

14 August 2009  4 Comments:


Tuition Fees: the silence is deafening

by: Wes Streeting

Today's editorial piece by Polly Curtis in the Guardian's education supplement is a critical expose of the coded, cosy consensus that exists between Labour and the Conservatives to keep the issue of student tuition fees off the general election....

15 September 2009  2 Comments:


A crucial time for the student movement

by: Wes Streeting

This year has began with a bang. Over Christmas Lord Mandelson announced more higher education budget cuts. Shrill warnings came from elite universities of the collapse of the British higher education system - with universities making the case that...

21 January 2010  0 Comments:

Wes Streeting

About me

Wes Streeting is the current National President of the National Union of Students. He was elected to the position in April 2008 with a convincing majority, having previously served as NUS’ Vice President for Education.

Wes has a strong interest in education policy, particularly on widening participation, and has held a number of positions within the higher education sector, notably membership of the ‘Burgess Group’ on measuring and recording student achievement.

He has also been a strong proponent of HE admissions reform as a member of the UK HE Sector Delivery Partnership Steering Group on admissions. He was a non-executive director of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education from 2006 to 2008 and has been a non-executive director of the Higher Education Academy since 2006.


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