Your Changes

What's it about?

You wanted more plug sockets in teaching spaces so that laptops don’t run out of battery in lectures.

What's happened?

Your Education Officer has managed to secure agreement from University of Reading that all new lecture theatres built will enough plug sockets. They will have at least 1 double socket for every 2 seats installed.

The John Madejski lecture theatre had sockets installed on the 20^th September 2019.

What's next?

John Nike Lecture Theatre has had its first fix and will be completed by December 2019.

What's it about?

Students should be able to access recordings of lectures.

What's happened?

Your Education Officer has been working hard to make this happen. At the moment, we’re looking to find a system that can work for both lecture capture and personal capture.

By April, the facilities should be available to record audio and slides – this will be available to students in September 2020.

What's next?

UoR will start introducing this with third year students and work downwards, to make sure there is consistency of availability throughout the years of your course.

Phase 1 will start in September 2020. We’ll continue to review progress on this and work towards full lecture capture.

What's it about?

You wanted more indoor places to be able to heat up and eat packed lunches, particularly during winter. This would help students to make financially and environmentally sustainable choices, and will particularly benefit commuter students who can’t get home in the middle of the day to make food.

What's happened?

This is proving trickier than it sounds! We’ve managed to get a microwave in Eat at the Square, and you can eat your own food in Upper 3Sixty. Your President, Molli Cleaver, is still working on getting other spaces.

What's next?

Your President is working to get a map produced which shows indoor packed lunch spaces.

What's it about?

Students should be able to make environmentally sustainable choices about the products they buy.

What's happened?

Maya's Refillables is coming to the market on Thursdays and will be in the 3sixty box office. UoR also now have a shop in Eat at the Square with sustainable products.

What's next?

We’ll monitor impact over the Autumn term and review for progress at the end of term. This is part of your President Molli’s Make Your Mark campaign.

What's it about?

Students need to be more able to access mental health support at the University of Reading.

What's happened?

This has become part of your Welfare Officer Gemma's mental health campaign. This term a survey will go out to students to give their feedback so that we can make a case to the university.

What's next?

The results of this survey will be collated and taken as a report to relevant University committees.

What's it about?

We want to reduce the number of plastic straws sold in RUSU.

What's happened?

This has been in place since February 2018. In that time, we've only been selling 100 straws a week - that's between up to 5000 students across two Union nights! Straws are still available so that those who need them can have access.

What's next?

We will research straw use in other unions to measure our success in reducing plastic straw usage.

What's it about?

Being able to re-sell Union tickets should help avoid 'black market' ticket sales.

What's happened?

We have swapped from Fatsoma to Eventbrite as a platform for ticket sales to enable this to happen.

What's next?

Your President Molli Cleaver will be checking up to make sure this is happening.

What's it about?

RUSU support the campaign to have a second referendum on Brexit.

What's happened?

RUSU publically support the People's Vote Campaign. You may have seen volunteers from For Our Future's Sake at the Freshers fair!

What's next?

Wait for outcome on 31^st October before taking further steps.

What's next?

Your Welfare Officer Gemma is finding someone who might be able to give martial arts sessions in RUSU like the ones that ran in Welcome Week.

What's next?

Your President Molli Cleaver is working on this.

What's it about?

Including information about what texts contains helps students who might find topics difficult prepare well to engage with them. RUSU will work for these to be included in course materials.

What's happened?

A report will be taken to Delivery and Enhancement of Teaching and Learning committee by December 2019, outlining policy for the use of trigger warnings on course texts and in teaching.

What's next?

We’ll check up on how this report is used.

What's next?

Your Welfare Officer, Gemma, is looking into this.

What's next?

Your Welfare Officer, Gemma, is looking into this.

What's next?

Your Welfare Officer, Gemma, is looking into this.