NUS Cards

SanTheMan

I'm studying at university and would like to know where i can get an NUS card, on the website it is only currently available to School and College Students. can anyone help?

lenora

You should be able to pick up a form from your student union

pavlovs_dog

although you may find that your uni intergrates it with say your library or id card...im at swansea and our library card is intergrated with the nus card - has the logo on it and all that jazz

crana999

pavlovs_dog wrote:

although you may find that your uni intergrates it with say your library or id card...im at swansea and our library card is intergrated with the nus card - has the logo on it and all that jazz

lucky you.. i have 4, count'em, cards to do various functions at my uni, including two to prove I'm an NUS member that have to be shown together?!

student100

SanTheMan wrote:

I'm studying at university and would like to know where i can get an NUS card, on the website it is only currently available to School and College Students. can anyone help?

The thing for school/sixth form college students is a NUS associate card not a proper NUS card.

The only way to get a "proper" NUS card is through a student union that is affiliated to the NUS (and has paid the fees to be a member). (Last year there was a lot of debate as to whether our union would remain affiliated, seeing as it costs them about £45,000 per year).

If your Union is a NUS member then they may issue separate NUS cards or you may have a logo on your current University/Union ID card (in Bristol we have one ID card which acts as University ID, Library card, sports pass, and Union card with NUS logo).

If your union is not a NUS member you can't get a NUS card. However you can if you wish get an ISIC - International Student Identity Card - they cost about £7 for a year and are availiable from many places including branches of STA travel (you need a passport sized photo and proof of student status) or mail order from BUNAC. ISICs should be recognised as valid student ID internationally as well as in the UK.

See also: http://www.isiccard.com (note that if you order using the BUNAC link above you don't have to pay the extra 50p p&p for ordering by mail)

mosherben

Back in the first week of uni I got mine by going to the students union and paid £1 for the whole year. So far, I've saved a bundle using it (cinema's,clothes shops). :-)