When students apply to Warwick University, they don’t only include their outstanding academic achievements, but also what they bring as an individual to campus life. University is the time where students should be free to pursue their passions; whether that be through representing the University in BUCS Wednesdays, volunteering, undertaking part-time work, engaging in their societies, or simply having space away from academia to practice self-care.
As it currently stands, the University has a policy of ceasing academic timetabling at 1pm for taught undergraduate students on Wednesdays. However, this is not adhered to by multiple departments, is not applicable to all our student population, and often results in students missing their extra-curricular activities because of it. The Wednesday Afternoon Free campaign is designed to lobby the University and endorse the sabbatical team to encourage students to ‘enrich their Wednesdays.’ The motion includes:
- Lobbying the University to extend the existing policy to 12pm
- Mandating the Sports Officer and Education Officer to develop a system of authorised absence for students formally representing the University in competitive sport,
- Ensuring that this policy extends to all taught students on a campus-based, full-time majority course of a length of a year or more.
If you want to be free to pursue what you care about, and believe that your University experience is about more than just your academics, then vote for WAF and enrich your Wednesdays!!