Our Sector: Elected officers- strategic problem or strategic solution?

There has begun to be some movement within students’ unions and the wider charitable sector around the need for strategic plans. In other sectors they are indeed beginning to lose their tyrannical grip, being replaced with risk registers and beanbags. This of course is nothing new as management fads wax and wane as they always […]

The Fiver: Strategic Plans

Every so often we’ll take five things from the SU sector to illustrate a range of approaches to the same issue. This week: Strategic Plans. 1. Back in 2011 Kent Union launched its current plan, which runs to this year. It has a central “one page plan” wheel, with underpinning goals and objectives throughout the […]