One of the key areas I aim to tackle is the current library policy. Currently, students are constrained by a £20 printing allowance, and the inability to top up when needed can hinder their access to essential resources. I am committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all students by advocating for a change in this policy. If elected, I will actively work towards removing unnecessary restrictions, allowing students the freedom to print and top up without financial barriers. I strongly believe that students should have the freedom to access necessary resources without limitations.
Furthermore, I aim to bring about positive changes within the student union by fostering improved communication between students and faculty. This involves organising more educational events and workshops that not only enhance academic knowledge but also create a platform for constructive dialogue. Strengthening this connection will contribute to a more collaborative and supportive learning environment.
We all know that the current timetable is not efficient or student-friendly. I would like to address issues such as clashes, gaps, and late notice changes, ensuring that students can plan their schedules effectively. A streamlined timetable contributes to a smoother academic experience, allowing students to focus on their studies without unnecessary disruptions.
Addressing concerns specific to each faculty is crucial for a tailored approach to student welfare and experience. I will actively engage with students to identify and address their unique needs, advocating for additional resources and more interactive teaching methods where necessary. This personalised approach will contribute to a more enriching educational experience for all students. Improving the email communication system is another key aspect of my agenda. Clear and timely communication is essential for keeping students informed about important updates, events, and opportunities. I will work towards enhancing the efficiency of the email system to ensure that information reaches students promptly and effectively.
Lastly, I am dedicated to promoting awareness and education about plagiarism. Collaborating with individual faculties, I will implement effective strategies to prevent and address plagiarism cases and allow students to thrive.
In conclusion, my vision is to create a university environment that prioritises the needs and success of every student. Through these initiatives, I aim to build a stronger, more inclusive community where academic excellence and student well-being go hand in hand. "As an executive within the Islamic Society (ISOC), I have honed my leadership skills by actively contributing to the planning and execution of events that fostered religious understanding and community engagement. This experience has equipped me with the ability to collaborate effectively and create inclusive environments for diverse groups of individuals. As part of the executive team, I played an active role in organising events but also was the prayer room co-ordinator for the sisters side of the prayer room and would regularly help set up for Jummah prayers.
My role as the Women's Officer, I have led many campaigns for women’s safety and advocacy. I actively worked towards promoting a safer and more inclusive environment for all students, demonstrating my commitment to social justice and equality. Campaigns include:
• Organising a Henna night social to appreciate the beauty of Henna and to teach others about its cultural significance.


• Celebrated international men’s day to show inclusivity around campus.
• Breast cancer awareness campaign in collaboration with the health faculty.
• Organised the Reclaim the Night march to advocate for an empowering and safe environment for students.
• Worked with the west Yorkshire police and CEO of UBU to address safeguarding issues raised by students.
Serving as the Founding Executive and Vice President of the Sri Lankan Society has given me invaluable insights into how to gather a community of people together with a common identity. I successfully contributed to creating a space that celebrated cultural diversity while fostering a sense of belonging among students who were away from home.
My role as a Council Lay Member further strengthened my understanding of governance structures within the Union. I have also supported students with and raised motions myself including the Palestine Motion. This experience has equipped me with the knowledge necessary to navigate institutional frameworks and represent the interests of the student body effectively.
As a Student Ambassador, I've had the incredible opportunity to assist numerous students on campus during open days and experience days. I've been able to share valuable information about our university, showcase the various programs and faculties, and help guide prospective students in making informed decisions about their educational journey. Also visited high schools, and colleges, have done several open days at different schools and colleges, and promoted our university and faculties, courses, and facilities.
Collectively, these experiences have provided me with a well-rounded skill set, including leadership, advocacy, organisational development, governance, and effective communication. If nominated, I am confident that I can use these skills to contribute positively to the university community, ensuring the representation and well-being of all students.
  "To enhance the UBU student experience, I propose implementing a multifaceted approach that focuses on offering academic support services, such as tutoring programs, study groups, and mentorship opportunities, can help students excel in their studies.
Academic Support Services - Offering academic support services is essential for student success. Implementing tutoring programs, study groups, and mentorship opportunities can provide students with the additional assistance needed to excel in their studies. Additionally, clear and accessible guidelines for academic requirements and expectations will help students navigate their educational journey more effectively.
Community Engagement and Collaboration - Fostering collaboration between departments, student societies, and the wider community is crucial. This interconnected approach creates a more supportive learning environment. Organising events that bring together students, student representatives, faculty, and industry professionals will encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, providing students with valuable real-world insights.
Transparent Communication - Ensuring transparent communication between students and academic staff is vital for a cohesive educational experience. Regular forums or town hall meetings should be established to address students' concerns and share updates on changes in curriculum, assessment methods, and other relevant information.
Academic Workshops and Seminars - Organising workshops on study skills, time management, and exam preparation will empower students with essential tools for academic success. Hosting seminars featuring guest speakers, professors, or industry professionals will enrich students' educational experiences by exposing them to diverse perspectives on relevant topics.
Student-Staff Forums - Facilitating regular forums where students can engage with faculty members fosters a constructive dialogue. These forums allow students to discuss concerns, provide feedback, and ask questions, contributing to an improved overall educational experience.
Student-Led Conferences - Encouraging students to organise conferences provides them with a platform to showcase their research and discuss academic topics of interest but also lets them lead and educate staff about campaigns they are passionate about. Providing support for students to attend external conferences broadens their academic perspectives and contributes to their professional development.
Advocacy for Educational Policies - Advocating for student-friendly educational policies, including fair grading practices, flexible course scheduling, and accessible learning materials, is crucial. Collaborating with university administration to address issues surrounding these areas will greatly benefit the student experience.
By implementing these ideas, we can create a more enriching and supportive educational experience for UBU students, fostering academic success and personal growth.

 

My name is Jonathan Victor Ogbonnaya, and I study international relations and security studies at the University of Bradford. I am standing to be elected as the EDUCATION OFFICER of the student union. PAST EXPERIENCE: I have been involved with the Students' Union during my stay at the university. I started off as a welfare executive member of a student society, as a welfare executive. I catered to students’ needs and concerns. I later went on to become the president of the Winners Student Fellowship where I organised study seminars that transcends different spheres of the students experience in the university and I also offered assistance to students when needed. My successful tenure in this post serves as evidence of my leadership development, as does my move from an executive to the presidency of a society.
  WAYS TO IMPROVE STUDENT LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY:
• Ensure that the hardship fund is accessible to international students who are in extreme need.
• Collaborate with the Compliance Team to improve support for international students regarding post-graduation visa sponsorship.
• Work together with the career and employability service to plan skill-building and employability-boosting programs that will help students become more equipped for their future careers.
• Tackle the difficulties that international students face in their academic lives.
• Work together with the team responsible for timetabling to make sure that modules and timetables are updated regularly and on time for both new and returning students. Missed classes because of timetable instabilities have a detrimental effect on student attendance. IDEAS TO IMPROVE UBU STUDENT EXPERIENCE
• Advocate the J.B. Priestley Library to get the continued upgrades, with an emphasis on boosting coherence, consistency, accessibility, and general benefits to enhance the learning experience for students.
• Offer peer mentoring and support programs for new students to help integrate them into the university system.
• Create student union awards and recognize outstanding volunteers to encourage involvement.
If elected as your Education Officer, I commit to prioritizing the welfare and interests of all university students. I promise to fulfil this role with unwavering dedication, excellence, and a strong commitment to serving the needs of the student community."
 

"I would like focusing:
• To engage students by going to them rather than asking them to come to the student officers for their problems. Because most of the international students are not familiar with these roles and facilities they’ve access to. I think bringing all the students at University of Bradford under under one umbrella of students union to make them feel comfortable that someone is here for you all the time.
• To advocate for improvements to student facilities and resources, such as libraries, laboratories, and recreational spaces. I would focus to address any concerns regarding accessibility, safety, and cleanliness to ensure that students have a conducive environment for learning and socializing.
• As the union’s commitment is to help the students up to any extent to make them feel as a home in University of Bradford. So, I propose to arrange meet up sessions with the students who are international and who are local as well to ask them the problems they are facing during their initial days at University regarding their studies.
• To initiate surveys from the students who are thousands of kilometre away from their houses, to ask them for their mental satisfaction and all the things they are trying to do to settle down in Bradford as a student.
• There should be surveys in the University as well to have feedback of the student officers that how they are working for the university students. There should be different sessions for the students for different issues regarding their finances, jobs, studies, and other things to show them a right direction.
• To support students in their career development and to enhance their employability by providing resources like career counselling, job fairs, and networking opportunities. Also, by collaborating with employers to offer internship programs, mentorship opportunities, and professional development workshops.
I propose that there should be enough awareness of the student union roles and programs to the new coming students and old students as well to make everyone able of having advantage of brilliant facilities in the University and Kickstart programs as well. I think these are the things which are best for enhancing the union’s commitment to its mission state values." "My name is Shoaib Khan, and I am a student of Law. I have been an International Student's Officer and Minority Ethnicities Officer for two consecutive years in the student union and worked as an executive council member. I was awarded the UBU Unsung Hero Award by the University of Bradford Student Union. I organized successful events at university level like Cultural day, One World Week and Student's Entertainment Day.
I helped many International students regarding their allowed hours job finding guide based on my own experience, helped them in establishing contacts to find a better accommodation in Bradford and how to maintain the academic integrity by not involving themselves in plagiarism and any other activity that can have a bad impact on their studies.
I have also worked with different University of Bradford campaigns with other student officers like Black History Month, Women History Month, Women Safety at Campus and South Asian Heritage Week. I also worked with ex sports and wellbeing sabbatical officer to promote wellbeing activities for students at campus.
I worked as a volunteer in Prime Minister’s Tiger force team in Pakistan during Covid-19 pandemic situations for price controlling on district level and I was the head of the youth team in my city. I was a part of “Get Motivation” and ""Education Our Right"" societies in my University where I worked closely as an executive with professionals on motivation, basic academic and finance problems of the students. I worked for the students with them, motivated them, enhanced their confidence level by just making them realize, “They’re the one who can do” and they have rights to get all the educational and academic facilities. Consequently, there were so many positive results from them. These things made me realize that our sincere positive words and motivation are the most powerful keys to other's success. I was also a part of “Adopt Best” society whose motive was to aware students of adopting positive and healthy habits to focus on their goals rather than being stressed and depressed. A healthy mind is a wealth and the one who is providing this wealth to you is the one who is more loyal to you. I have also worked with “Billion Tree Project” by the Government where I worked as a Tiger Force District Leader with the Ministry of Disaster Management, and local government to grow 2,000,000 trees (2 million trees) in our district to limit the climate change and to reduce the global warming effect in my city as it is one of the well known industrial city in Pakistan.
I’ll bring an experience of helping students to feel ease, to make them realize that you can do anything you want to do, but for that you’ve to move forward to take a step. I’ll bring an experience of helping students to think with a fresh mind about their plans to tackle different situations by self-determination.
It is good in finding spectacular ways to make people realize that your success does not belong to someone’s failure as I worked as a president of the society whose motive was to aware people to get rid of jealousy and hate. I’ll bring these amazing experiences to the role I’m going for, to make everyone enough capable to tackle their studies problems to achieve anything they want to achieve in their life and to help them to overcome difficulties they are facing in the university regarding their studies, job issues, study burden and many different things they are going through as a student.
  By working in the student union and closely with the university students, I have a clear understanding of the academic issues students are facing at campus. I’ve an aim to engage the students from all cultures and regions to feel like a family to enhance their experience so they can work better and can improve their studies.
I’ll try my best to help all the students and will speak to them at different times to have feedback from them by arranging feedback sessions. I’ll make sure to go to the students if they are hesitating in discussing their minor to minor problems. I’ll let them know that I and the student union officers are always here to help you.
I’ll try my best to boost up the confidence of the students to talk about different things and would try to work on the students to make them ready for the next year elections. I think there should be no gap and wastage of time to learn those skills which the prior officer had. I’ll make new students ready for the union’s roles to tell them how to use the finances and how to tackle different situations, how to help others and how to grow together.
I always motivate and try to make the students active in their existing skills which they underestimate because sometimes what all is required is a little push. I’ve an aim to motivate the students to work together, live together, smile together, and grow together. I believe it will enhance their experience of studies in University of Bradford and with the Student Union. I think of making students realize that student union is by you, with you and for you. So, we have to love our union and work for our union whenever the union wants us.
My aim is to learn and let others learn that our success doesn’t belong to someone’s failure. I will appreciate others to put more effort rather than demotivating them and letting themselves down. To do best for the facilities they have, I will arrange weekly meetings with the students to get the university and student union updated of the ongoing and persisting problems students face every day.
It is important to organize student representative system to aware the incoming intakes what does plagiarism means and how to avoid this to successfully achieve the degree with academic integrity. I will also work closely with the university management to introduce a mechanism through which we can get rid of academic misconduct by the students which they sometimes commit unintentionally just because of the lack of awareness.
My aim is to “Grow Together.” This is the thing which will enhance the experience of the students that they are at a place where they will have an equal chance to show their leadership skills and where they are free to present their new and extra ordinary ideas which they underestimate due to lack of confidence. I will be open to have feedback and ideas from the students that how can I do best for them.

 

Enhancing university student life necessitates a diverse strategy. Enhancing mental health resources, creating a welcoming campus community, offering a variety of extracurricular activities, encouraging academic success through efficient teaching strategies, and guaranteeing access to essential resources like reasonably priced housing and wholesome food are a few examples. Every facet adds to a comprehensive and enriching educational experience for students. I have been involved in student union since day one, when I began university. This helped me understand what happens in the union & inside the office itself because as an outsider you don’t see the real image inside. I know the work and dedication which is put in to ensure students are happy. Working as UBU media team, I made connections with students in university and the staff. I have got involved and ran societies so I know the work that’s put in for this. For example as president of Nursing, Afghan and Absoc society I’ve held events for my members and done collaborations with other societies within the UBU. Events I have done is meets & greets, girls night and few other collaborations with other societies. I know the amount of effort which is put into planning for events whilst also having a job and degree happening. "As community and activities officer I will ensure that there will be more financial transparency, making event planning process and form filling easier. I would like to implement a strategy of going fully digital as well as sustainable for the future and the environment. For example I would implement this to events and finance process to make it easy for students.
I will ensure that in this role I am actively engaging and listening to the students needs and requirements as student voice in the university matters to ensure they are enjoying their time at university and have all the required resources and facilities to bring them success.
Furthermore in this role, I will ensure that UBU is reached out to the wider audience and fresh starters. This can be done through the course reps and during the enrolment process.