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Unpaid Internships are Pants!

On 31 May NUS Society & Citizenship protested outside of Calvin Klein Underwear on Regent Street in central London.

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Become a Living Wage Community Organiser

NUS have teamed up with Citizens UK to deliver Living Wage masterclasses. Learn to become a community organiser and how to run a successful living wage campaign on your campus.

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Unpaid Unfair Illegal - Campaign Launch Event

We've teamed up with the TUC to launch our new campaign Unpaid Unfair Illegal, come along to the launch and find out how you can stop the exploitation of interns.

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World AIDS Day 2010

Today, NUS will be joining other organisations from across the world for World AIDS Day.

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Green Impact Students’ Unions - registration deadline extension

The deadline to register for Green Impact Students' Unions has been extended to 12 October 2012

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NUS and St Andrews Students Express Solidarity with Egyptian Protestors

NUS and St Andrews students have expressed their solidarity with students at Ain Shams University after demonstrators were killed outside their campus on 1 May

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The Oxford Living Wage Campaign - Gathering Steam

Momentum is building as the Oxford Living Wage Campaign held its first Living Wage Forum last term to encourage all Oxford University colleges to pay their staff a living wage.

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Students' Unions striving for Excellence

Our newly launched Excellence programme has sparked the imagination of Unions across the country.

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Support the Quebec Student Movement

NUS expresses support for students in Quebec as their decision to strike over an 80% increase in tuition fees has been met with both violence and the limiting of civil liberties.

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Ethical Banking: A Guide for Students' Unions to Moving their Money

Learn how your SU can move its accounts to an ethical banking provider.

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Dividing Families, Disrupting Integration

New immigration laws are set to divide immigrant families and strip them of their human rights. Migrants' Rights Network are calling for people to lobby their MP and join the demonstration outside the...

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NUS and Move Your Money Launch Ethical Banking Campaign

Find out how you can move your money to more ethical banks.

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The Open Book Project

Open Book is a Goldsmiths University project which has genuine commitment to widening participation. Offering a way into higher education for ex-offenders and ex-addicts the project has had over 60...

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UN Climate Conference - guest blog

In May, NUS Society and Citizenship Zone Committee member Paul Tobin spent a life-changing fortnight at the UN’s climate change conference in Bonn, Germany.

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Students' Unions join NUS and Move Your Money ethical banking campaign

To celebrate National Ethical Investment Week, NUS and Move Your Money are releasing a briefing that encourages Students' Unions to shift to ethical banking.

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Green Impact Students' Unions programme launches!

The workbooks for Green Impact Students' Unions 2012/13 have been officially launched.

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Widening Participation: a class issue?

Goldsmiths' graduate Danny writes about how Open Book is working with Goldsmiths students’ union and NUS to roll out their project which aims to open up education to all.

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Syria - Response from the Foreign Office

Last month NUS Vice President Society and Citizenship, Dannie Grufferty wrote to the Foreign Secretary William Hague to relay concerns over students safety in Syria. Here is the response from the...

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Peace One Day - Student World Record Attempt Launch

The Peace One Day campaign is calling for a global truce on 21 September 2012 and NUS is joining with them for a Guinness World Record attempt!

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Be a Champion - blog

Abi Carrington, a student union trustee and mum of five blogs about her involvement with NUS's Be A Champion intiative and the London 2012 legacy.

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