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Will Jones

Vice President (he/him)

Will Jones, Vice President

BIO

  • What is your Union Brew order? ☕ Iced Oat Vanilla Latte with an extra shot.
  • What is your Guild Meal Deal? 🥪 Hoisin Duck Wrap, Salt and Vinegar. Squares, with a coke

My Priorities

Improve accessibility of the University Hardship Fund for students in need.

Work alongside Liverpool Student Homes to advocate for good quality & affordable housing for students through reviewing their accreditation schemes and exploring improvements

Lobby the city for the introduction of a student busy ticket alongside increased service on student routes, including timetabling and frequency of services within student areas

Lobbying the University to increase the Liverpool bursary alongside a review of eligibility and thresholds as well as increased support provision for students needing financial support

Lobby the University to reduce unexpected course costs and reduce student financial pressures

Further enhancing the Universities widening participation plans including advocating for addition financial support for students from under-represented communities

Get in touch

@vicepreswill

William.Jones@liverpool.ac.uk

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My Committees

Education Committees

This committee has oversight of the three Service Units based in the North-West region: Liverpool University Royal Naval Unit (LURNU); Liverpool University Officer Training Corps (LOTC); and Liverpool University Air Squadron (LUAS).

Focusing on post-graduate research students, this committee oversees any proposed changes to post-graduate policies.

Provides leadership of all doctoral related activity across the University and is responsible for ensuring an integrated and inclusive approach to doctoral recruitment and the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience.

Senate is one of the highest decision-making bodies at the University and is responsible for promoting research, promoting and regulating learning and teaching, and for maintaining the quality of standards of the University’s academic provision. The Guild’s officers, along with three elected Student Reps, work throughout each academic year to ensure that student voice is at the heart of the decisions made by Senate about/for the University.

Corporate

This committee audits and monitors the University’s compliance with the Office for Students regulations regarding Consumer Law. The focus is on student’s consumer rights being abided by when ‘purchasing’ degrees and other products from the University. This committee focuses on students’ consumer rights being adhered to when ‘purchasing’ a degree and other products from the University. Adnan, an ex-President, successfully removed academic sanctions for non-academic debt as part of the “Cut the Rent” campaign in the academic year 20/21.

This committee sets all tuition fees and bursaries and formulates strategy on student numbers and widening participation students.

This committee forms the strategic relationship between the University and the Guild. It monitors and signs off the Guild’s reports and accounts. This committee acts as a forum to discuss university and Guild joint campaigns and activities.

Student Experience Committees

This committee looks at the nursery on campus which is available to staff and students with nursey age children at the University. It deals with a range of issues relating to the nursey and the contract they have with the University. The Guild stopped an increase in the campus nursery fees for both staff and student parents

The University consult with the Guild on rent setting for future academic years at this meeting. This did not previously take place until a former Student Officer’s ‘Cut the Rent’ campaign which won students a ‘memorandum of understanding,’

Liverpool Student Homes is a student accommodation service that is funded by University of Liverpool, John Moore’s University and Hope University. The group includes members from different universities who report on the service in their respective campuses.

This committee meets annually to look at the standards that LSH expects landlords who are registered with LSH to adhere to.

This is a cross-organizational group that includes all the Universities and city partners to discuss city-wide safety campaigns.Chloe, an ex-Deputy-President, worked with this group to reform the University’s Report and Support system. This resulted in the introduction of an annual review of the University’s sexual assault reporting system to ensure it is agile in responding to new forms and conditions of incidents. In response to the spiking endemic at the start of the 21/22 academic year, ex-Vice-President Jamilia sought action at this committee to protect students. She produced the “Zero Tolerance” proposal which sought to update the Liverpool City Region Council’s Licensing Policy to tighten up health and safety training, incident reporting systems and expand considerations to make venues responsible for protecting customers from a wider range of issues such as racism and other forms of hate crime, as well as gender based and sexual violence. The proposal was adopted by Student Safety as part of their package of work and has been taken to a senior city safety committee, CitySafe JAG. Work is ongoing.

There are three strands to the Student Success Board: The Academic Success strand addresses the University’s institutional aim to ensure that ‘all students have the opportunity and support to achieve their full academic potential’. The Future Success strand addresses the University’s institutional aim to ensure that ‘all students have space and opportunity to build their intellectual, social and cultural capital for the future’. The Personal Success strand addresses the University’s institutional aim to ensure that ‘all students experience a welcoming and supportive environment which prioritises well-being and belonging’.

International

This group meets twice a year to go through applications for the Asylum Seeker’s Bursary. An Asylum Seeker’s Bursary for Undergraduate courses was introduced in 2017, this covers tuition fees and maintenance with some students offered accommodation in halls.

Officer Joint Committees

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