NUS website updated - New NUS Cards and Discounts

Venny

I've just noticed on the Amazon website that they will be offering 5% off to nus extra card holders. Anyone know of any other new affiliates?

Tsugua))

about the nus card, you dont actually recieve the card until you get to uni. just a warning incase anyone was hoping they would get it before (like me!). if however you are a 2nd or 3rd year student it might be different i dont know.

bobtastic

I checked the NUS site today and it seems there are more discounts being added daily.

BARGAINADDICT_4

black-saturn wrote:

Thanks but I'm afraid the drop down list doesnt include correspondence courses

did you check the list for the affiliate card or the extra card? try checking the affiliate card seems to have lots of courses listed.
wish i had known about the affiliate card afew years ago, studied with O.U for 4 years and never heard of this.:(

going to apply for an extra card (cant do it online, just checked) as now officialy a student again.loads of discounts/offers to be had:T
only found out in may/june that i could get 1 on my course so i didnt think there was any point in getting one for that year, but just been on the NUS site and found out they run till sept.couldve saved loads of money over school hols:(

Tallulah22

got my NUS card today in Uni, all i need now are the bargains..

Stpuid question it has an expiry date on it, 2007 it runs out do i have to pay a £10 to get a new one next year?

karl_a

Yes you need a new one every year.

dogthomson

No 10% off hardware at PC world, that's dissappointing!

What would an iPod come under?

missnd

My Daughter has just purchased one of these from Student Services at her college. It doesnt have anything filled in, she has to fill in the back in ballpoint, and add a picture herself. I thought that the college would take and add her pic, but now we have to find a pic small enough to fit under the sticky back paper on the back!!
AND - she tried to use it in Argos to be told 'you can only use it at the branch near the University', I find all this quite a pain.........

pinkfluffybabe

kittiwoz wrote:

When was that then? You had to pay £10 for an NUS card if you were a Salford student last year. The year before that I got a joint library card and NUS card as a result of the merger between UMIST and Manchester which I didn't have to pay for but I think I had essentially already paid for it since I paid a membership fee to UMIST students association when I started to course, I think it was included in the tuition fees. I could be wrong but I think it has been the case for many years that you had to pay for NUS membership and if you didn't directly pay it to the NUS it was only because you'd already paid to your university students union (possibly without having noticed) and they paid the money to the NUS on your behalf.

The NUS card was free until a couple of years ago when the NUS exec decided that better student discounts could be negotiated. and the scheme could be bettered if a fee was charged. I left my students association in 2003 and it was free then, so charging maybe started academic year 2004.

Students generally don't pay a fee to join their student's association as you are automatically a member under the 1994 education act, although you have the option to opt out in writing. Student's associations are generally funded by the institution by way of an annual block grant which I suppose you could argue comes from tuition fees, although it has been the case since way before tuition fees came in.

Students associations affiliate to NUS and pay an affiliation fee based on, amongst other elements, their university block grant and student numbers. If a University is affiliated, then all their students have automatic access to NUS support and campaigns, and these days, the ability to buy a discount card. The bigger the students association, the more they pay to affiliate to NUS.

pinkfluffybabe

Diminutive wrote:

The NUS actually need to start listening to SU's to stop even more withdrawing.

100% correct. Although the affiliations to NUS are tightly wrapped up and it can be difficult for a students association to dissafiliate. They need to pass a referendum, which, as soon as NUS learn about it happening, will flood your campus with campaigners to tell your students that the students association is trying to take away their discounts, to which the students then don't vote to dissafiliate as they don't care enough about the politics behind it.

NUS is too big and too overrun by political hacks to make any particular difference to the student experience of your average student on campus.