UCOL students urged to vote

UCOL is leading the way in a campaign to encourage more young people to vote in this year’s General Elections.

UCOL is supporting a campaign on all three of its campuses this month, to encourage students to vote. The campaign is being run by the Association of Students at UCOL (AS@U) as part of a wider national campaign run by the NZ Union of Students’ Associations.

Jo Hymers, president of AS@U, says the campaign is backed by Young Labour, Young Nationals, Young Greens, Young Progressive and Young United Future. It is also supported by the Electoral Commission.

“UCOL is the first tertiary institution to agree to facilitate the campaign, by allowing us to go into each class to talk to students and by ensuring that teaching staff are aware that AS@U and an Electoral Commission representative will be interrupting each class for five minutes, at UCOL’s Palmerston North, Whanganui and Wairarapa campuses,” says Ms Hymers.

In her tour of UCOL campuses, Ms Hymers will be joined by representatives from the Electoral Commission.