Hello there~ How’s your week?
Have you voted for your preferred candidate if you’re an eligible voter for the 2016 New Territories East by-election on 28 Feb?
Surrey is starting its online voting of the annual election process of the students’ Union (Surrey Decides 2016) 2 March as well! The Students’ Union is led by 5 full time officers and they are the President, Vice-President Voice (VP Voice), Vice-President Support (VP Support), Vice-President Activity (VP Activity) and Vice-President Community (VP Community) respectively.
The president obviously is the lead representative of the Students’ Union and helps managing the Vice-Presidents.
VP Voice is responsible for keeping democracy of the Students’ Union by focusing on student surveys and feedback, supporting change campaigns led by students along with maintaining the relationship between Surrey and national Union of Students (NUS).
VP Support mainly runs awareness campaigns and provides support services to students representing the Union.
For VP Activity, encouraging students to get involved with extra-curricular activities other than just studying is the major task. These include physical activity for students’ individual development and wellbeing, society activity by cooperating with Societies Executive Chair and students volunteering in the local community.
The responsibilities of VP Community have more fun! He/She would hold different social activity and events which bring students together and represent the view of students within the campus and local community are the major tasks. These activities can be Freshers’ Week for new students, showcase events such as Colours Ball, Student Awards and One World Week etc.
These five officers together with the part time volunteer officers form the Union’s executive team which cooperates to lead the Union and represent students throughout the year. So, it is important for us to vote! Every student like us automatically becomes a member of the Students’ Union of Surrey at University registration which entitles us to vote in the election, support the nomination of another student, and even run for election ourselves. From what I understood, quite a number of secondary schools in Hong Kong allow students to form a students’ union or students’ association themselves and vote for their representatives. For example, I had experience in voting for my student’s association and inter-house committee when I was studying in my secondary school. It is so important to vote for a team which can represent yourself!
Oh by the way, Happy Birthday to all who were born on the Leap day!
