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What is the ideas system?

The Ideas System is the easiest way to share your suggestions and vote on ideas from other students. When you submit an idea, the Student Voice Team and an Executive Officer will review it. We only decline ideas if they:

  • Break the law
  • Prevent us from meeting our charitable obligations
  • Name or identify individuals (including staff)
  • Contain defamatory or harmful content

If there’s an issue, we’ll contact you, explain why, and help you adjust the idea. You’ll also be told how to appeal.

Once approved, your idea is published for 10 working days, where students can give it a thumbs up, thumbs down, or comment.


What happens next?

  • If your idea gets under 50 likes:
    Sent to the relevant Council to discuss. If they support it, they’ll start planning or developing policy.

  • 50–99 likes:
    Must be discussed by a Council. They may choose to act by creating a plan or policy for Leicester100.

  • 100+ likes:
    You can present your idea to Leicester100 (if you have a full policy). If not, a Council will create a policy or action plan with you.

You’ll be invited to any Council meeting where your idea is discussed, and you can be as involved as you like. If the idea becomes a policy proposal, the Council will help you build it—along with a handy guide.


Voting is simple

Just hit thumbs up or thumbs down on any idea. You can also comment and join the discussion.


Important to know

  • Ideas have 2 weeks to reach 50 positive votes.
  • Ideas are removed after 6 months.
  • Questions? Email su-council@le.ac.uk

 

Ideas

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  • 120 score
    130 voters

    SU publicly supports striking staff and UCU

    Submitted 4 months ago by Anna Fisher​
    Current
      1comment

      The SU has yet to make any real commitment regarding support of UCU and striking staff, despite acknowledging via email to all students on 30/10/25 that "students have strong feelings on the strategic review and believe that the University should look at alternative solutions to address the challenges.  They have asked that the SU opposes the review, course closures and staff redundancies and supports the strike action taken by UCU."  

       

      Many students remain poorly informed about the reasons for the strikes and impact of the Strategic Review upon staff and students.  Information is repeatedly presented in a way that is not relevant to young people or transparent.

      There has yet to be a student Referendum and one does not appear to be planned. 

      Information supplied by the SU regarding the students' ability to demonstrate support for the strikes was considered misleading by many students.

      Students motion that the SU informs all students accurately regarding the reasons for strike action and impacts of the Strategic Review on staff and students.  Students motion that the SU then conducts a Referendum on the subject.  Pending the outcome of the Referendum, students motion that the SU publicly support striking staff and UCU.  Should the Referendum confirm a majority vote that students support striking staff and UCU, the SU must publicly and unreservedly support striking staff and UCU.

    Chloe Oliver
    9:20am on 5 Dec 25 Thank you for your contributions! This idea has reached the required threshold to be progressed. We are working closely with the proposer of the idea to take a proposal to the next Leicester 100 meeting. SU Voice Team

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