- Wes Streeting
(NUS). He has been a member of its National Executive Committee since 2005, holding the post of Vice President (Education) from 2006 until 2008.
Early life
Attended
Westminster City School , a voluntary aided, non-denominational Christian school in Victoria, central London (not to be confused with the independentWestminster School ).The first person in his family to go to university, Streeting is a graduate of the
University of Cambridge , where he served as President of theCambridge University Students' Union during 2004-5. He read [http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk History] atSelwyn College, Cambridge where he was JCR president.NUS President
Streeting was elected as NUS President in April 2008 as a candidate of
Labour Students . He beat his closest rival Ciarán Norris, an independent candidate, in the fourth round of voting by 496 votes to 376 after the elimination of Daniel Randall, theEducation Not for Sale candidate and the NUS Black Students' Officer, Ruqayyah Collector, who stood as a candidate of theStudent Broad Left .As Vice-President of NUS, Streeting was a strong proponent of his predecessor
Gemma Tumelty 's proposed reforms to the NUS governance structures, which had been denounced and narrowly defeated by many left wing groups in NUS as an attack on NUS democracy [ [http://www.nusdemocracy.org.uk/ www.nusdemocracy.org.uk ] ] , as well as the leading figure in efforts to change the NUS' position on higher education funding in advance of the Government's 2009 review of top-up fees in England [ [http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/politics/story/0,,2270267,00.html NUS drops free education doctrine | Students | EducationGuardian.co.uk ] ] . His election was reported by theThe Guardian newspaper as 'a move that will lend weight to the fight to modernise the union' [ [http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/politics/story/0,,2270234,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=8 New NUS president voted in | Students | EducationGuardian.co.uk ] ] .His membership of
Labour Students and strong support for the Labour Party have led to charges by Streeting's opponents that he is too close to the Brown government [http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2008/04/notes-on-nus-reform.html et al.] , though Streeting cites his opposition to unpopular Labour policies like top-up fees and the Iraq war as evidence of his independence [ [http://wes4pres.co.uk/about/ Wes Streeting for National President ] ] . He is a member of the Labour Students' National Committee.External links
* [http://www.wes4pres.org.uk Official election website]
* [http://www.officeronline.co.uk/blogs/wesstreeting/ NUS officer's blog]Video clips
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsd31Ba4m1g Interview] with [http://www.youtube.com/user/SUTigerTV Tiger Television] at
Birmingham City University References
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