Your Ideas

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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22 score

26 voters

Children-friendly room

Submitted 7 years ago by Bianca Semczuk

Passed
3comments

I consider that students with kids are put at disadvantage around the campus, especially when it comes to using the Library. They are not particularly welcome if they choose to bring their children with. This is a big issue especially towards the end of the semester, when the assignments are piling up and also during exam period. Therefore, parents need to invest even more money in childcare and extra hours in order to be able to study. I think that a children-friendly room where students can study, while the little ones are playing would be incredibly beneficial, and help them improve their academic performance as well.

May Huxley: 8:29pm on 13 Dec 19 Such a great idea! Studying as a parent can be overwhelming, especially now my daughter is at pre-school. Christmas holidays are spent trying to juggle writing in the evenings as childcare becomes unavailable. It would be an amazing facility at the university and one many people would make full use of! (Also it would be cute for the children to benefit from a social aspect)
Zoe O'Neill: 9:50pm on 13 Dec 19 Such a good idea! I'm in the same boat as May. My son is 4, due to go to school in September and keeping him entertained while studying and trying to cram in the evenings are a nightmare.
Kirsty Louise Smith: 10:45pm on 18 Dec 19 Fabulous Idea! My children are slightly older (11&12) but I still bring them in occasionally and just having somewhere we can go where I won't get disapproving looks whilst they play quietly on their tablets would take so much pressure off. Definitely something that should be looked into further.