UGM Policy Library

The UGM Policy Library details all of the policies that have passed at UGM in SOAS SU over the years. You can view both Currently Active Policies and Archived Policies.

 

Currently Active Policies

The following SU policies were passed at UGMs within the last 3 years and are currently active in the SU. 

2021/22

25 November 2021:

  • SOAS SU to Stand in Solidarity with UCU and UNISON
  • SOAS Complaints Procedure Reform
  • Extension of Online Tutorials for International Students and Students Facing Health Vulnerabilities Preventing them from Joining in Person

Progress on each of these motions can be viewed in the 2021/22 Progress Report webpage.

These motions will lapse on their respective dates in 2024/25.

 

10 May 2022:

  • Change the name of ‘Womxn’s Officer’ to ‘Women’s Officer
  • Demanding more support and inclusion for study abroad programs and immigrant students
  • Cops off Campus
  • SOAS Justice For Workers proposal for a mural of Consuelo Moreno, Lenin Escudero & Sandy Nicoll in the JCR
  • Affiliate to and actively promote London Nightline at SOAS
  • Improve SOAS student support
  • Solidarity with GOSH Workers
  • Solidarity with Couriers Organising Against Pay Cuts and Discrimination
  • Resist SOAS’ Authoritarian Crackdown

Progress on each of these motions can be viewed in the 2021/22 Progress Report webpage.

These motions will lapse on their respective dates in 2024/25.

2020/21

21 May 2021:

  • Introduce a ‘Welfare Officer’ as a mandatory role in SOAS SU society and club committees
  • To reaffirm commitment to BDS and pressure SOAS to divest from and boycott Israeli Apartheid
  • Sabbatical Role for Black African, Black Caribbean and Black Students of the diaspora

7 May 2021:

  • The University Should Cover Any Costs Associated with Mitigating Circumstances Applications
  • To Stand in Solidarity with and Support the Mass Campaign to Resist the Police Crackdown Bill (the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill)

26 March 2021:

  • Remove Adam Habib as Director

22 February 2021:

  • SOAS SU Incorporation
  • Declaration of a SOAS Housing Emergency
  • Solidarity with the Uyghur People: Stop the Genocide
  • Introduce a Student Parents Officer to SOAS SU
  • Introduce a Part Time Students Officer to SOAS SU

Progress on each of these motions can be viewed in the 2020/21 Progress Report webpage.

These motions will lapse on their respective dates in 2024.

2019/20 

20 January 2020:

  • My Reading List is Black Campaign
  • Stop University of London Collusion with the Egyptian Regime
  • Support the UCU Call for Strike Action Over the Four Fights One Voice Dispute
  • Save Our Teachers, Save SOAS. Cut Managers.

21 November 2019:

  • The SU to Support the Kurdish Struggle in North East Syria
  • Demilitarise SOAS: End Institutional Collaboartion with DCSU and Ministry of Defence

24 October 2019:

  • Mandatory Environmental Education Workshops
  • Introducing an Online Voting System for UGMs

Progress on each of these motions can be viewed in the 2019/20 Progress Report webpage.

These motions will lapse on their respective dates in 2022/23.

 

Archived Policies

The below documents archive the policies passed at UGMs in SOAS SU from years previous which are now outdated.

Archived Policies

 

This webpage was last updated on: 12 May 2022 11:14