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Over the last six months, university students and workers have experienced a massive onslaught of cuts to funding, jobs and courses. Many have responded by organising serious, and sometimes militant, campaign actions to defend higher education. And yet the National Union of Students has been almost entirely absent from the campaign.

Now, more than ever, we need national student representation which is willing to organise and lead wide scale resistance. This means electing a socialist to the position of national education officer.

The National Union of Students (NUS) is a national campaign body for students. As the only recognised national representative body for university students, it is best placed to call actions and coordinate campaigns across states. The union has a role dedicated specifically to this job: the NUS national education officer, whose main job is defending students’ rights and access to education.

This year, as students and staff have begun to fight back against one of history’s most significant attacks on universities, the NUS education officer has been entirely absent.

READ MORE: NUS has failed in this crisis. It needs a socialist education officer