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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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  • 32 score
    36 voters

    FREE HOT WATER ON CAMPUS

    Submitted 7 years ago by Anonymous
    Passed
      0comments
      Up until recently, there has only been 1 place on central campus to get free hot water - a single kettle downstairs in the Students' Union, or that was until that kettle went missing. Now, there's nowhere to get free hot water anywhere around uni, which is irritating considering the price of a simple cup of tea is £1.30 from the Library Cafe, and hot water on its own is 50p. As students on a budget, the sensible solution to this problem is to bring your own tea bags or coffee and milk, use hot water on campus and make a hot drink FOR FREE. Until the Union provides free hot water accessible to all students, this won't be a reality. The fact that the union doesn't provide free hot water facilities further shows that they care more about the profit their outlets make than the quality of life for their students. It might seem like a small trivial thing, but on a cold day when you're in uni 9-5, a cup of tea every now and then is the boost you need, but paying for hot water is a barrier that prevents students from doing this. As winter approaches too, it'd be useful to be able to make medicinal hot drinks (like Lemsip) without paying 50p for the privilege. Hot water taps, free hot water from union outlets or kettles in multiple accessible places around campus would be ideal solutions to this problem and would make uni feel more like home. I think that free hot water available to students on campus would be an excellent addition to student life in Leicester.
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