@catsnknots wrote:
it is a charge that does nothing to benefit my education... it goes to the student accociation... the new name for the student union...
I know that for a fact... think what you want.... I know it for a fact... the uni does not keep it they pass it on.. they just collect it.
There is no fact there at all. You actually are completely misinformed. You know nothing about student administration other than from assumptions made.
Compulsary Union Fees are well and truly gone.
The only reason that university admin provides some money for the student association to fund the various activities is because it is the cheapest way to offer the services. Counselling is a good example. If the university I worked for had to pay for counselling, then it would have to employ specialist staff and there was not money for this. Instead it provided funding to the association for the administration of a counselling service which was provided by union members on a volunteer basis.
Pretty much every other activity on campus that falls outside of a faculty has to be funded. Universities do not have the money to do this. They rely on their student bodies to step in. And those student bodies do it all on a volunteer basis.
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