Hi! Victoria here, your Education Officer, running to be your next President at Goldsmiths SU.

As Education Officer, the Officer team and I work closely to support and advocate for our community. We:

• Developed a working strategy for presenting issues to and seeking demands from the College through the Performance Audit Report
• Adopted a proactive approach to holding the College, its governance and duty of care to account
• Executed the College's Communication duties for them
• Personally represented multiple students across issues, seeing through support and resolution
• Achieved representation on industrial action complaints panels, standing for students' rights
• Knowledge-building through projects such as Community Chats and the Archive
• Ongoing campaigns in progress: SEAtS, student complaints and rights, the handbooks project

This has given me a clear and in-depth understanding of what the College continues to get wrong. There is a fundamental disconnect resulting in an incompatibility within the university’s structures and a marginalisation of students based on marketised approaches. This contradicts the values and history of Goldsmiths. As a Goldsmiths student, I share in the experience you came here for. There is immense potential for the College to do more. I know what needs to be done, and am confident in leading us forward. I want to see through the commitment I made as Education Officer.

Here is what I will deliver as your President. Engage with me and find accessible versions at https://lnk.bio/votevictoria. I look forward to continuing this work!

What will I deliver as President?

Our Legacy: Sustaining Movement 

Objective: To honour the history of Goldsmiths student work and campaigns, sustaining our collective legacy

• Complete existing projects, including the Student, International Student, Student Rep and Student Rights handbooks
• Continue the Archive Project, ensuring accessibility
• Continue strategic action for compensation, complaints and student rights, demanding written commitment to uphold within institutional strategy
• Develop a comprehensive working document on campaigning in the Goldsmiths context
• Ensure the College conducts a full transparent review of the costs and effects of the centralisation
• Research into which students fall through the cracks of administrative failures, ensuring support
• Conduct a full review of the performance of new administration and processes such as RASAs and ECs after centralisation

Our Experience: Revolutionising Student Voice

Objective: Greater student agency over education and experience

• Lobby for:

1. Permanent increases to the hardship fund
2. Greater access to student cost-of-living bursaries
3. More funding to student projects, spaces and equipment
4. Permanent funding to GARA and the CARE Project

• Centre BAME and Queer perspectives across curricula and institutional structure
• Campaign for the rights of international students against the cash-cow framework, building an accessible and dedicated support and feedback platform for marginalised students 
• Campaign against the marketisation of higher education
• Reorganise Student Representative networks (e.g. DSCs) to ensure greater support and agency
• Redevelop feedback loops from departmental to College levels, ensuring students have more power to influence changes while they are students
• Push for student agency over learning and assessment
• Empower students to campaign for issues that matter to them, both through the curriculum and extracurricular funding

Our Spaces: Accessible Support

Objective: Eliminate precarity

• Build Community Chats towards a stable funded space for learning outside the institution
• Lobby for dedicated funding for student spaces within Estates
• Ensure the College delivers on regular maintenance works e.g. lifts
• Redevelop the College's Communications strategy towards accessibility and accountability
• Organise interdisciplinary collaboration, appreciation and publication of student work
• Designate more rest areas and safe spaces for students and staff across campus
• Campaign for more student control over timetable, such as reserving space for society & sports club activities, placements and work