Meeting with the Student Centre

On wednesday 6th february I will have a meeting (possibly recording it) with someone in the student centre to get the student centre and Goldsmiths administration involved in our intervention. In the meeting I wil discuss the following lines/questions:

• do they agree this is a student issue that is worth to be brought forward;
• have there been other students or third party organization in London that have already tried to implement change or policy?;
• is the student centre, and Goldsmiths interested in taking part in this intervention, and how could they take part, and which tools can they provide us?;
• I will bring out that on Godsmiths web- site there is very little information on where to turn up if any students would have financial transport issues;
• In conclusion, I will show and discuss the example of Unilink in University of Southampton that Katy discussed in her first blog post.

We are not necessary suggesting the exactly some thing, such as a shuttle bus, because London students are spread all around the city. Our intervention aim to get a deal between Universities and Tfl that goes further to the 30% discount, a unique advantageous price that would include Goldsmiths University students. Our two main ideas are:

big flat discount of 50% off (zone 1 to 3, where the majority of the student is located);

or perhaps free busses in the Borough of Lewisham for students studying in Goldsmiths.

This step will give us more awareness on the goal we want to pursue and will be a step closer to creating some real change, possibly the university by our side.