Posted 98 Months Ago
Our five-week campaign to get the university to reinstate student pricing in the Edinburgh catering outlets has been successful!
The Student Union listened to the concerns of Heriot-Watt students and launched a petition calling on the university to reverse their decision. It attracted more than 1,400 signatures from concerned students. We met with the Principal and other senior management from the university who agreed to look again at the pricing changes. The University have now agreed to re-introduce a student price band in their catering outlets.
"The continued increase in Heriot-Watt University’s food supplier prices throughout 2016 resulted in some price increases in 2017. The University has been listening to our student feedback on these prices and will be reintroducing a new student price band.’
-Malcolm Deans, Director of Campus Services at Heriot-Watt
"It’s a win for students that they’re getting their prices back, but it’s only fair."
- Diarmuid Cowan, Student Union President
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You should start to notice the lower food prices soon. The University are in contact with their suppliers of the new
Now onto the next campaign...! Visit our Campaigns page for more information and to submit your own campaign suggestion. Or if you think you'd like to make your day job helping students, then why not consider running for
"We have a meeting on the 2nd March with Baxter Storey (SBC catering providers) to try get them to lower their prices. The victory in the Edinburgh campus and your complaints about the food prices in our online survey + on the iPad located in the canteen will all help to pressure them to do the same."
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Whilst it's great the University is building new accommodation and in theory, the new accommodation should be nice and shiny...there have been lots of teething problems with the new halls.
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Posted 99 Months Ago
You might have noticed recently that food prices in the university catering outlets have gone up, with the removal of student prices.
We’ve heard your concerns on this. So we’re launching a petition calling on the university to reinstate student prices in its catering outlets. If you want to make your voice heard, take a minute to sign it and we’ll make sure the university hears your concerns:
https://www.change.org/p/we-the-undersigned-call-on-heriot-watt-university-to-reinstate-student-prices?recruiter=597461420&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
Petition closes on Friday 27th January at 10am