page_title: List of students' unions in the United Kingdom
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hierarchical_section_title: List of students' unions in the United Kingdom / M
caption_attribution_description: Manchester Metropolitan University Students' Union building on the corner of Higher Cambridge Street and Boundary Street West, Manchester, England.
context_page_description: In the United Kingdom, students' unions are organisations which exist at universities to represent the interests of students. Although most are known as "Students' Unions" other common terms include "Guilds of Students " and "Students' Associations", the latter being the more common term in Scotland. Student unions facilitate student societies, such as sports clubs and student newspapers, as well as representing students politically to their respective universities and at a national level. Most unions are affiliated to the National Union of Students, although it is possible for unions to disaffiliate from the NUS and for individual students not to be a member of their union. Although most students' unions are members of the NUS, there are several other representative bodies of which unions may be members, such as the Aldwych Group, for unions of Russell Group institutions, and the National Postgraduate Committee, which represents postgraduate students. In Northern Ireland, all unions are members of the National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland.
  Students' unions tend to be run by a team of student-elected sabbatical officers.
context_section_description: University of Manchester
  University of Manchester Students' Union
  Manchester Metropolitan University
  The Union MMU
  Middlesex University
  Middlesex University Students' Union
caption: The Union MMU
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