Constitution
Welcome
Welcome to the uwesu Constitution and Laws mini-site, admittedly probably not the most entertaining place on the web, but as your here your almost certainly looking for uwesu's Laws & Constitution.
You can navigate the site in one of several ways. Firstly the quick links at the top of the page you can jump strait to a page if you know which one you want. Secondly you click on one of the banners above to get you into a section and then used the next and back buttons to read the site.
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Download
The complete Constitution and Laws document can be downloaded from the links below, either in MS Word (.Doc) format or Adobe (.PDF) format.
About the Constitution
In spring 2004 UWESU finally passed a new Constitution to govern the Students' Union. The Constitution is essentially the SU's rule book or to be more formal its 'document of governance'.
This document sets out how UWE students are represented and how the SU is organised. The differences between the previous constitution and the new one are radical, in fact no other SU in the country has a constitution like it. One of the key aims was to involve more students in new decision making bodies to create a more representative system.
"Students' Unions are changing and so our current constitution is well past its sell-by date. Having six officers to represent the views of 24, 000 students no longer works; the new constitution seeks to rectify this." - Raines Walker (President 2002-04)
If you would like more information about our constitution you may like to read Out with the old, which goes into detail about why the union has changed the constitution, and what it all really means.
Constitution - A Brief History
- Feb 2004 - Constitution debated at AGM but narrowly fails to be passed.
- April 2004 - Constitution passed in a referendum.
- March 2005 - Approved by UWE's Board of Governors.
- August 2005 - Constitution comes into effect.
