The Preliminary Policy Motions & Motions to Change the Constitution (incorporating the whole new constitution) has now been published and is available with a variety of other documents from the Conference section of the OUSA website.
You can also use this direct link to the Preliminary Motions.
We in the East of England have put forward three Motions for Conference 2011, as follows:
Conference instructs Central Representatives to make known, in a brief report to students generally, the nature of those issues that are under consideration at governance committees that may lead to significant changes to modules and awards that students are studying, whilst preserving the requirement not to publicise information that may be of a potentially sensitive commercial nature or that names individuals. The report should be produced within a month of the governance committee at which the issue is discussed, where necessary obtaining confirmation by the chair of the committee about the accuracy of such a report.
The Association calls upon the University to continue without any exceptions with the custom and practice that all student representatives to the Open University Consultative and Governance Structures shall be, as appropriate, either elected through elections organised by OUSA or appointed by OUSA.
Conference believes that meaningful representation of the consensus student viewpoint can only take place where students have an opportunity to discuss issues arising within the University's governance structure. Conference recognises that some matters are necessarily confidential and that these should be protected by the "Green Paper" system but believes that such matters are only a minority of the business. Conference calls on the University not to place any unreasonable or unnecessary restrictions on reporting by student representatives nor upon discussions within the student body.
Your comments on these, and any other Motions are welcome!
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