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The recommendations made by the consultant and solicitors were:
- The status quo is not retained.
- KCLSU should restructure as a Company Limited by Guarantee in order to limited the liability of the trustees and the College. All students would be members of the 'company'.
- The trustee body should include up to five full time sabbatical officers elected for one year. It should also include three other student trustees. The trustee body should include four co-opted non-members who contribute to the skills mix for a set term of office of three years.
- Only the President post should be fixed with the other positions flexible and decided every two years in November.
- The trustee body should be the Executive Committee and would set the policy direction and lead rather than SRC.
- SRC should be reconstituted as some form of 'interim' body with a more proportionate representation to harness the interest of students (for example from the school of medicine where this year we have 22 students standing for 6 positions). The interim body would make recommendations to the Executive Committee, scrutinise, appoint scrutiny committees, co-ordinate student forums, and can mandate and no confidence the trustee board with the majority vote of the members of the Union.
- Scrutiny committees should be established. These committees review performance and make recommendations, conduct research and consultation, scrutinise and review the decisions and performance of the trustees and KCLSU.
- KCLSU should make explicit efforts to connect with its members and should engage members on their terms. Community Forums should be established based where students are.
- Electronic voting should be introduced.
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