Streeting

I agree with my predecessor as NUS president, Wes Streeting now chief executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation, writing for the Huffington Post last week who said that "it's time to consign this university bargain basement to the dustbin of history."

First or fail: university admissions tutors and the Scottish government 2011

But Streeting says the changes represent just one aspect of the difficulty young people seeking sanctuary in the UK have in going on to university.

Asylum seekers barred from university 2011

Wes Streeting, chief executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation, an educational charity, said: My main concern is about widening participation.

Tuition fee rises deterring A-level students from university – poll 2011

In October 2007 Wes Streeting posted a piece entitled "Academic freedom, religious freedom and progressive political leadership", it's the text of a speech he gave to the "annual conference of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies".

Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008

Thankfully it appears that we can stop worrying as the National Union of Students 'president, Wes Streeting, has said that the Islam on Campus report was a "reflection of the biases and prejudices of a right wing think tank -- not the views of Muslim students across Britain".

Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008

Wes Streeting (history, Cambridge), outgoing president of the National Union of Students, says he never intended to get involved in politics, but got fired up when he discovered that "the Labour party was proposing to introduce top-up fees, against its manifesto commitment".

Student activism proves a springboard into politics 2010

Streeting says that the campaigning he led as president of his JCR and subsequently his student union was both passionate and furious.

Student activism proves a springboard into politics 2010

Wes Streeting posted a report of the July 2005 NEC Meeting that followed the 7th July bombings, when four Muslim men blew themselves and many innocent commuters and travellers up in the name of Islam, What did Wes Streeting have to say on that occasion?

Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008

"The thing I'm most proud of in my NUS work is reorienting our policy on higher education funding towards a graduate contribution," says Streeting.

Student activism proves a springboard into politics 2010

Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students, branded the study as ‘disgusting’ saying the results only served as a ‘reflection of the biases and prejudices of a right-wing think tank – not the views of Muslim students across Britain.’

One third of British Muslim Students: Killing in the name of Islam is acceptable 2008