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Welcome to SUBU's Your Idea Platform!

This is where your ideas make real change!

 

This platform is for submitting ideas for change across SUBU, BU and Beyond. Below you can also vote and comment on other ideas, and popular ideas will be taken to our Student Meetings to decide whether it will become SUBU Policy!

 

Submit New Idea

Before submitting your idea

Before you submit your idea, consider what it is you want to change. This can be big structural changes or small amendments. They can call for change from within SUBU, BU or even the wider community. Your idea could be action based such as having SUBU lobby the university on an issue or your idea can be more ideological such as supporting a specific group or cause.

You can find out more about Union Policy, as well as viewing the current list of live policies here. Please ensure you look at existing policies before submitting your idea so we can avoid duplicates of policies.  

Please also note the Your Ideas platform is NOT for complaints.  

Example of what IS an Idea: 

For SUBU to lobby BU for lecture and seminar resources to be shared one week in advance.

Example of what IS NOT an Idea: 

Misleading packaging on food sold in SUBU shop.

This is not an Idea as this is something SUBU would action immediately for the health and safety of students. An Idea of this nature would not need to go to a SUBU Summit or Student Members Meeting to be voted upon.  

When submitting your ideas, you’ll be asked to answer the following questions: 

  1. What is the problem or idea? – what do you think needs to change, be amended, be introduced;  keep it concise and relevant and use research/data/feedback where necessary to back up your Idea 

  1. How is your suggested solution? – what steps should SUBU take to achieve this, what is the solution to the problem. 

  1. Which Full-Time Officer you think should lead on it?

    1. President 

    2. VP Education 

    3. VP Student Opportunities 

    4. VP Welfare and Community 

Once you have submitted your idea

We review ideas continously throughout the year, but an idea can only become policy at one of four democratic student meetings. Each meeting usually takes three ideas to be voted on by attendees but this may differ throughout the year. Additionally, some ideas may be easy to implement, already in policy or can be done without the need of an approved policy, in which case we will action these seperately.

Once students submit an idea, other students can vote and comment on this to indicate their support or lack thereof for the proposed ideas. Students will be able to  vote in favour of  the idea or to vote against the idea. Ideas require 15 votes in favour to be moved forwards to the discussions stage. Subsequently, ideas with 15 votes against will be rejected.

SUBU reserves the right to reject any Idea that poses a financial, reputational or legal risk to the Union. SUBU may also reject an idea if it does not align with our student-led and informed strategy found here.

Once an idea achieves the necessary votes the student who submitted the idea will be invited in by a member of the Democracy and Campaigns team to discuss their idea in greater depth, to provide further context and create a draft policy. This draft policy will then be taken to an agenda setting meeting where Officers will discuss and vote on whether to take the motion to either SUBU Summit or Student Members Meeting.  

If the idea is not selected by the committee to go to meeting, it can receive one of two outcomes; Decline – The idea is closed and updated accordingly but can be resubmitted without time penalty OR Revisit – The idea will be on hold and reviewed again before the next SUBU Summit where it will either be selected to go to meeting or will be Declined. 

If an idea that is made presented as a motion at either the SUBU Summit Meeting or Student Members’ Meeting it will be updated on ‘Your Ideas’ accordingly and made into Union Policy. 

All ideas on the platform will be kept updated accordingly .

Your Ideas

  • Ideas 67
  • Submitters 45
  • Last submission 23:47 on 01 Dec 2024
  • Voters 256
  • Commenters 28
  • Current 23
  • Locked 0
  • Passed 15
  • Rejected 4
  • Expired 25

Your Ideas

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  • 1 up votes 14 down votes
    15 voters

    Equal Weighted Grades for Each Academic Year

    Expired
      My idea proposes that each year has an equal weighting on the final overall grade; year 1 - 33.3% grade weighting, year 2 - 33.3% grade weighting and year 3 - 33.3% grade weighting. See this as a fair way to distribute grades as 120 credits must be attained on each year meaning that to complete each year the same amount of study time must be given, that way I think it would be fair to represent this in the grade distribution. Also students pay £9250 a month so it seems a bit pointless paying the same amount of money for each year if one year is more important than the other.

      What is your suggested solution?

      I see this being achieved if there is big public support for this system and the academic officer favours students preference towards this system.

      Which Full-Time Officer should lead on it?

      VP Education.
    Zainab Abdul-Obitayo
    1pm on 25 Jan 24 I don't that this is a realistic or sensible idea. First year is intended to introduce students to the university system and the education style. By making those grades count in the final one, this would drastically reduce students ability to learn and improve their academic skills without negative impacts.
    Anthony Douglas
    5:22pm on 1 Feb 24 The only problem is though that you pay the same amount of university tuition fees every year so for none of the degree to count for first and only a small proportion for second seems like a bad idea. The reason I think this because if individuals feel like they aren’t going to do much work towards their actual degree grade then I suppose it gives students less motivation to try early on and not take it seriously. Also students are still having to pay massive amounts of money so it would be good if people got something for the effort they put in early on and some people may do better in first year and some may do better in third year. Not everyone is the same. Also students could still learn because say their first year was not the best and they scored 60% as a n example, those students then have a chance to do better from what they have learnt to bring up their overall average by scoring say 70% in second and then 80% in third year to average at a first.