NUS leaders attack lecturers’ campaign
By Daniel Randall, NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS (NUS) executive (personal capacity) In a recent press release, NUS has “condemned” the decision by the lecturers’ union AUT to refuse to set exams (as part of their pay dispute). The student organisation has vowed to “up the pressure” to “demand” that AUT back down. Leading NUS officers such as National President Kat Fletcher have said that they believe the “immediate priority” is to demand that the AUT sets exams. A letter signed by sabbatical officers from 20 of NUS’s member unions recently appeared in the Independent. Admirably, pro-strike...