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5 unusual facts about Students' Union


Albert Benschop

In 1972 he made name as leader of the SRVU Students' union of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, who occupied the main building of the Vrije Universiteit during the student protests that year.

Barnard College

Every Barnard student is part of the Student Government Association (SGA), which elects a representative student government.

Bruno Julliard

Bruno Julliard (born 9 February 1981) is the former chairman of the UNEF, the main student union in France.

Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth

Butterworth's period as vice chancellor was not without controversy, particularly regarding his opposition to the establishment of a Students' union.

Student union

Students' union, a student organization at many colleges and universities dedicated to student governance.


Adyar Library

The Adyar library is also used by post-graduate students in Sanskrit and Indology of the University of Madras.

Angela Nikodinov

The pairs team of Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen and Tenile Victorsen are among her and Dinev's former students that have qualified for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the senior level.

Athletic scholarship

In February 2012, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives proposed a bill named HB 2675 which would have required students attending a public university in the state of Arizona (Arizona State University, University of Arizona, or Northern Arizona University) to pay an additional $2,000 fee in order to attend one of the 3 universities.

Carl Wunsche Sr. High School

Wunsche High School includes students who currently attend Dekaney High School, Spring High School and Westfield High School.

ChampionChip

ChampionChip was a Nijmegen, Netherlands based company, started in 1993 by a group of students to improve the time tracking in the Zevenheuvelenloop.

Dorados Fuerza UACH

The team has a loyal base of fans, which is usually students, among them is the Barra, "La Impuntal" a group of faithful followers of the golden team, composed of about 50 members and have been supporting the team since its first home game and have emerged as major force encouraging Dorados UACH.

East Hills Boys High School

Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and cricketers Mark and Steve Waugh are notable former students.

Finley High School

Finley High School is a school with 486 students, located in Finley in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

Grand County High School

It enrolls over 400 students in grades 9-12 from Moab, Castle Valley, and Thompson Springs in Grand County and Spanish Valley in San Juan County.

Hamden L. Forkner

(March 10, 1897 – November 25, 1975) was an American educator and writer who created Future Business Leaders of America, an educational organization for high school and college students, and developed the Forkner shorthand system for taking dictation.

HGM

Highly Gifted Magnet, a program for talented students in Los Angeles, United States

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

In 1998, Taiwanese American students at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University established the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA) to serve the many campuses in the Boston area.

International Mathematical Olympiad

Several students, such as Teodor von Burg, Lisa Sauermann, and Christian Reiher have performed exceptionally well on the IMO, scoring multiple gold medals.

Irish Language Association of Australia

It is now held in January in a forest site close to Bacchus Marsh, and has an average attendance of 50 students, with language classes supplemented by music, dancing and singing.

Jibou Botanical Garden

The works for the organization of the Botanical Garden from Jibou started between the years 1959-1968, when Vasile Fati (1932-2007), a biology teacher, with the students and with the other teachers manages to prove that the parks around Wesselényi Castle, where the high school was functioning is appropriate for a botanical garden.

John L. Jinks

He was educated at Birmingham University and remained there for the majority of his career, contributing to the development of biometrical genetics, human behavioural genetics, and supervising a number of students who went on to make their own contributions, among them David Fulker.

Kathrine S. French

In later years of her life she remained active in anthropology, advising students as well as taking on numerous consulting projects on behalf of tribal groups, including research for Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Inc., throughout the lower Columbia River area.

Kokoda Track

John Landy, the long-distance runner, set a record of four days for the crossing using carriers and guides during the 1950s, and in 1964 Angus Henry, the art teacher at Sogeri High School with two of his students, John Kadiba and Misty Baloiloi, set a new record which was to stand until after the millennium by completing the journey in three and a quarter days without guides, carriers or any signposts or bridges.

Labasa College

It has a roll of more than 650 students as of January 2013, including a collection of boarding students from across the Northern Division of Fiji making it one of the most diverse and academically proficient educational institutions in the country.

LIBT at Brunel University

LIBT students complete a one or two-year university transfer programme and, subject to meeting the required progression criteria, transfer into the second year of Brunel University’s three-year undergraduate BSc degree programmes in Business & Management, Information Systems & Computing and Economics & Finance.

Lutfi Haziri

Haziri was part of the students' leadership structures within the University of Pristina during the 1990s.

Mary Canberg

She also taught music to many students, a number of which have gone on to have highly successful performing careers, including cellist Ronald Thomas and violinists Joseph Lin and James Buswell.

Michael Valpy

He has won three National Newspaper Awards (two for foreign reporting and one for an analysis of dysfunctional students in the public education system) and been nominated for a fourth (for a profile of Michael Ignatieff), In 1997, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Litt) from Trent University.

Mount Lawley, Western Australia

In addition to MLSHS, the suburb hosts the Anglican girls' school Perth College, a private K-12 campus for both day and boarding students, and two primary schools, being Mount Lawley Primary School and St Paul's Primary School.

National Center for History in the Schools

More recently, NCHS has developed materials for World History including World History for Us All: The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students with Ross E. Dunn, a professor emeritus and co-Director for World History.

North Carolina Science Olympiad

An article was published in the Journal of Chemical Education in January 1978 documenting the success of recruiting students through Science Olympiad.

Operation Lobster I

Tributh and Gärtner were both students and neither spoke English well.

Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School

In a self-paced class, students complete coursework through Calvert, Lincoln Interactive and Little Lincoln.

Peter Elbow

Elbow cites diaries, letters, stories, poems, and so forth as ways that students write for themselves with no teachers involved.

R. K. Sinha

Alison Richard, The Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge, Dr Sinha served his country, his University, and scholarship with great distinction and imbued generations of students with love of the English language and its literature.

Religion in Mexico

However, Christmas is a national holiday and every year during Easter and Christmas all schools in Mexico, public and private, send their students on vacation.

Revaz Gabashvili

Briefly fleeing police persecution to Paris, he returned in 1907 and enrolled in the University of St. Petersburg, from where he was excluded on charges of being involved in students’ disorders in 1910.

Richard Boleslawski

Among his students were Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Harold Clurman, who were all founding members of the Group Theatre (1931–1940), the first American acting ensemble to utilize Stanislavski's techniques.

Rose Cleveland

Rose then prepared a course of historical lectures; one lecture in particular focused on Altruistic Faith, which she delivered before the students of Houghton seminary and at other schools.

Roy J. Glauber

He currently lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, and is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where both past and present students enthusiastically praised his teaching to Harvard Crimson reporters.

Rudy Crew

Crew was the first male in his family to attend college, and he was among the African-American students that helped integrate Babson College as undergraduates.

SACI

This location places SACI students in the vicinity of the Duomo, the churches of San Lorenzo and Santa Maria Novella, and is just steps away from the central market and the new Alinari photography museum.The Palazzo was remodeled as a residence in the 17th century for the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, who had been a pupil of the astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei.

Sadie Hawkins

Sadie Hawkins dance, a school dance in which female students invite male students

SCEP

Student Career Experience Program, the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) program to bring experienced students into new government careers.

Scott MacRae

He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zalischyky, Ukraine for over two years teaching elementary students.

Sharman Apt Russell

Russell is a professor in the Humanities Department at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, where she teaches writing for graduate students.

Storm Bull

During his time at CU-Boulder, his students would include classical musician David Schrader and composer/pianist Dave Grusin.

StoryBox

International schools that teach English as a Second Language (ESL - update of the previous English as a Foreign Language - EFL) allow their students to subscribe en masse to StoryBox as it aids their students improvement in English while they are at home.

The Jackie Robinson Story

On April 19, 2005, 20th Century Fox and Legend Films released a colorized version of the film, donating a portion of the proceeds to the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a charity that benefits education for gifted students.

Trout Lake School

Trout Lake School is a public school that serves 88 students in grades K–12 located in Trout Lake, Washington.

University of Kragujevac Faculty of Economics

Futsal club “KMF Ekonomac Kragujevac” was founded by Professor Veroljub Dugalic, several teaching assistants and a group of Faculty of Economics students on 7 November 2000.

Utzenfeld

Primary school students attend the elementary school in Wieden.

Vadim Chaimovich

His teachers were two distinguished musicians: Lev Natochenny, a professor of piano at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and Peter Rösel, a renowned pianist from Dresden, both of them students of the legendary Lev Oborin.

VIBOT

An induction week is organized starting the first semester, in September, in Le Creusot during which the enrolled students are informed about the program, the assessment and the rules.

Virginie

The show examined the public and private lives of teachers, students, and families at the fictional Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc high school.


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Abu-Abdullah Adelabu

As a delegate of the African Students Union and general secretary of the West African Students' Union in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, Adelabu visited prisons and hospitals during the time when over 10,000 African migrants had been killed, jailed, or wounded in their adventures to reach the Middle-East, many for sanctuary and others to get to Europe for what they had expected to be a better life.

All Idu Mishmi Students Union

All Idu Mishmi Students Union (AIMSU) is a community based student’s organization of Idu Mishmi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Anuraadha Tewari

ISC, Welham Girls' School, Dehradun National Topper, ISC Commerce B Com (Hons)Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi President, Students Union MA Mass Communication MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Topper, the Class of '95

Bishop Grosseteste University

Despite having limited funding, Bishop Grosseteste Students' Union has expanded its entertainment and activities provision over the last few years, having Comedy Dave from BBC Radio 1 DJ at Graduation Ball 2011 and The Loveable Rogues performing with support from I am Titch and Rita Payne the following year.

Chalmers Students' Union

Before the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China from the United Kingdom in 1997, the students' union wrote a request to the British Prime Minister asking if they could hire the whole of Hong Kong for a few minutes in connection with the transfer to China.

Cornwall College Students' Union

Cornwall College Students' Union provides democratic representation, services, and welfare support to all Cornwall College students, including Duchy College and Falmouth Marine School, across seven campuses.

Forge FM

Originally the Radio and TV Society (RTVS) formed in 1991 at the Sheffield University Students Union (SUSU), the name Forge was chosen through a competition prior to the first 28-day RSL broadcast in October 1992.

Goldsmiths Students' Union

The Students' Union primarily organises student-led events but also hosts big gigs and has seen the likes of the Mystery Jets, Metronomy, Late of the Pier, Shy Child all player.

Griffith College Students' Union

The Students' Union organizes a number of different events throughout the year from Freshers Week, Halloween Ball, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Eid, Christmas Ball, SHAG Week and RAG Week and the formal Griffith Ball which takes place towards the end of the year.

Groupe Union Défense

The GUD is also regularly censored by the head of the Assas university because of racist hate speech, in particular following provocations towards the Union des étudiants juifs de France, the French Jewish Students Union.

Hong Kong University Students' Union Choir

The Hong Kong University Students' Union Choir (Traditional Chinese: 香港大學學生會合唱團), also known as Union Choir, HKUSU, is a choral society affiliated with the Hong Kong University Students' Union.

Independent Democratic Union

It was during the university strikes of 1960's when Jaime Guzmán, President of the Law Students Union at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile -who was against the protests and strikes, led by Christian-democrats and left-wing students- gathered a group of students and founded the Movimiento Gremial (Guildist Movement) and ran for the University's Student Union (Federación de Estudiantes) election.

Karilopatna

Present day leaders from Kendrapara include individuals such as Supreme Court of India Lawyer, Mr.Sanjib Kumar Mohanty,Advocate and Former Spokesperson of Delhi University Students' Union and Mr.

Kendrapara

Present day leaders from Kendrapara include individuals such as Mr.Sanjib Kumar Mohanty Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Former Spokesperson of Delhi University Students' Union, as well as Supreme Court of India Lawyer Mr.

KPUM

KPUM (Malay: Kesatuan Penuntut Undang-Undang Malaysia di UK dan Eire) (English: Malaysian Law Students Union in the United Kingdom and Eire) is the official Malaysian Law Students Union in the United Kingdom and Ireland ("Eire").

Mymensingh Medical College

The Head of Departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Community Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics and all other full Professors, two senior-most Associate Professors, two senior-most Assistant Professors and two nominated representatives of students union are the members of the Council.

Rabin Deb

He served as the President of the Students’ Union of Surendranath Law College during the period when the semi-fascist terror struck the lives of West Bengal under the Congress(I) administration in 1970s.

Radio Warwick

Formerly known as W963, during the years when broadcasts were conducted via an induction loop around the university campus on 963 kHz AM, Radio Warwick now broadcasts from inside the Students' Union HQ building on 1251 kHz AM to the campus and previously on FM for four weeks of the year to Coventry, Kenilworth and surrounding areas.

Rashed Khan Menon

The Menon-Zafar group built a base in Khulna (in Begerhat), amongst workers near Dacca and had a student group named Revolutionary Students Union.

UNEF

Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of Students of France), a French students' union