Students' union
In higher education, the students' union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social, organizational activities, representation, and academic support of the membership.
This building is also referred to as a student activity center, although the Association of College Unions International (largely US-based) has hundreds of campus organizational members.
The purpose of these organizations is to represent students both within the institution and externally, including on local and national issues.
Australian student unions typically provide such services as eateries, small retail outlets (e.g., news agencies), student media (e.g., campus newspapers), advocacy, and support for a variety of social, arts, political, recreational, special interest and sporting clubs and societies.
During its action period ASU has formed stable structure, presented new suggestions about student policy to appropriate bodies, made close relations with international and regional student organizations, prepared new action plan according to the universities-students-companies' relations in Azerbaijan.
After that forum ASU established close relations with IAESTE which is one of the biggest student exchange organizations.
During 20–27 January Azerbaijan Students Union was accepted as associative member of IAESTE in 64th Annual Conference in Thailand.
India has developed a complex tradition of student politics dating from the era of Indian National Congress movement domination.
Recently few school administrations had also started including the student government system as co-curricular activities in one form or another.
OSIS organizes the school's extracurricular activities such as music shows and art gallery (pentas seni/pensi).
The percentage of voter turn-outs are usually high (70 to 95 percent) largely due to enforcements from the universities' management which, at the same time, acts as the Election Committee.
Every year, the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education would set meetings and arrange programmes with all MPPs.
[citation needed] Part-time work alongside the introduction of internal assessment and the change of semester structure has been attributed to the declining involvement in extracurricular activities and a shift in focus of the student movement from mass protest to lobbying.
[citation needed] Similar referendums at Auckland University in 2001, 2003 and 2005 have all elected to retain voluntary student membership.
They are vital organizations for student representation and advancing the struggle of the people for their democratic rights and freedoms.
Student councils, especially those in universities, have a history of activism in the local and national level due to various socio-political and economic issues, with the First Quarter Storm and the Diliman Commune being two of many examples.
[citation needed] In Sri Lanka, each state university has several Students' unions with formal links to respective faculties.
University colleges of applied sciences are oriented towards working life and base their operations on the high vocational skill requirements set by it.
As a consequence, student unions are generally established at national level with local sections in most universities.
The largest national student unions have a strong political identity and their actions are generally restricted to the defense of their vision of higher education rather than being focused on the particular interests of the membership of a single university.
Furthermore, student unions organize and support numerous activities such as political debates, demonstrations, university occupations, educational lectures, cultural and artistic events, conferences and so on.
An ongoing campaign of virtually every students' union in Ireland is to prevent the reintroduction of tuition fees which were abolished in 1995.
Additionally, Norwegian law requires two students to be appointed as members of the board of directors for all universities.
They often additionally seek to improve their school environment through encouraging social, cultural and other extracurricular events in the local community.
In Portugal, every university, polytechnic institute and any other higher education schools has their own students' unions.
Students' unions generally provide counselling services to its members and publishes their own magazines or newspapers.
Most students' unions are charged by their membership to protect their best interests at the university, municipal, provincial and federal government levels.
[20] Unions also generally offer health and dental plans, termly bus passes at costs negotiated with the local transit authority, and other student assistance programs.
Advocacy is also a main portion of what a students' union does including connecting with the university or College to advocate for changes to programs, co-op, and affordability.
At institutions with large graduate, medical school, and individual "college" populations, there are often student governments that serve those specific constituencies.
