The Ideas System is simple way for students to submit ideas and vote on ideas from other students. When an idea is submitted it will be reviewed by the Student Voice Team together with an Executive Officer, who will usually approve the idea but may decide not to publish/approve an idea when it may potentially:-
- be illegal
- impact on our ability to fulfill our charitable objectives/obligations,
- include the names or identities of individuals this includes University or Union Staff
- include material/words that could be seen as defamatory
In this situation. we will get in touch with you to explain the reasoning for the decision and work with you to, where possible, edit the idea to resolve the issue/s and then publish the idea. We will also within this communication outline how you are able to appeal this decision.
All other ideas will be published on this page and students will be able to indicate whether they think it is a good idea (thumbs up) or not (thumbs down) for 10 working days, students can also comment on the idea. When:-
- Ideas receive <50 likes are sent to the relevant Council for consideration. If the Council think the idea is worth doing, they can lead with implementation or policy development.
- Ideas receive >50 likes but less than 100 likes it must be discussed by a Council, but they’re not obliged to act on the idea, if they do then they will either develop a plan of action or create a policy for presentation to the Leicester 100.
- Ideas recieve 100+ likes within 10 working days allows a proposer to take the idea to Leicester 100 if they have a full policy. Otherwise, the idea will be presented to the relevant Council, who must create either a policy for presentation to the Leicester 100 or plan of action to implement the idea.
When an idea is presented to a Council you will be invited to attend the meeting, you can be as involved as you would like in the discussion, implementation, or development of a policy. If it is decided that it will go forward as a Policy to the Leicester 100 to vote on, then the Council will help you put this together, we have also put together a useful guide to help with putting together a policy. The process through which a published idea is either implemented or becomes a policy is summarised in this flow chart
To rate an idea that has already been submitted, simply select thumbs up or thumbs down to indicate whether you like the idea or not. That's how simple our system is! You can also add comments to ideas and start a discussion with your fellow students.
If you have any queries regarding the ideas system, please email su-council@le.ac.uk
Please note: Once an idea is submitted, it has 2 weeks to reach the 50 positive votes needed to move to the next stage in the policymaking process. Ideas will automatically be removed after 6 months.