{"id":54629,"date":"2025-03-20T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=54629"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:42:13","slug":"video-sheffield-students-go-to-the-polls-as-the-ballot-box-vote-for-student-officer-roles-close-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/video-sheffield-students-go-to-the-polls-as-the-ballot-box-vote-for-student-officer-roles-close-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Sheffield students go to the polls as the ballot box  vote for Student Officer roles close tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Student elections have begun at the University of Sheffield and are due to close at 10pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student Election: University of Sheffield 2025\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mS-Q3bFLiuI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This election decides who will be the student representatives for key areas at the University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes: Education officer, Elected Student Trustee, International and Welfare Officer, Liberation and Activities Officer, Sustainability and Development Officer, Wellbeing and Sport Officer and the Students\u2019 Union President.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A plethora of pamphlets for each of these positions showcase the fierce competition among student candidates who are all keen to represent their university and its student body.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, each candidate has a common message: Change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is after the news that the Student Union is set to face funding cuts by the University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A referendum is also being held, asking students if the University\u2019s union should express \u2018No Confidence\u2019 in the University Executive Board.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, students are also being asked whether or not Sheffield Students\u2019 Union should support University staff taking Industrial Action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student elections have begun at the University of Sheffield and are due to close at 10pm. This election decides who will be the student representatives for key areas at the University.&nbsp; This includes: Education officer, Elected Student Trustee, International and Welfare Officer, Liberation and Activities Officer, Sustainability and Development Officer, Wellbeing and Sport Officer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":54641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[159,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-2","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54678,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629\/revisions\/54678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}