Our proposed revised Articles & Schedules have been voted on by students.
The Highlands & Islands Students’ Association (HISA) held a referendum on the following question between Monday 9th March and Thursday 12th March:
“Should the Highlands & Islands Students’ Association (HISA) adopt the proposed revised Articles of Association and Schedules?”
Why was this referendum being held?
On Friday 20th February HISA’s Board of Trustees passed a resolution to hold a referendum on the proposed revised Articles of Association and Schedules.
The proposed revised Articles of Association and Schedules were developed as a set of revised governing documents to fix the following four identified issues with HISA’s current Articles of Association & Schedules:
- Missing Information
- Outdated Information
- Conflicting & Contradictory Information
- Complexity & Duplication
We are required to fix these issues to ensure that our democratic decision making processes are working properly for students.
For example, HISA’s current Articles of Association & Schedules don't allow the Students’ Association to run All Student Meetings (ASMs); these enable students to decide the campaigns we run to improve both the learning experience and wider student experience across the UHI Partnership.
Therefore, the existing Articles & Schedules were proposed to be replaced with the following revised documents:
What was the result?
Voting took place between 10am on Monday 9th March and 4pm Thursday 12th March 2026.
The result was as follows:
- For 200
- Against 1
- Abstain 19
While this is a clear indication of student preference, it did not achieve HISA's referendum quorum of 400. Therefore HISA’s President will make a recommendation to our Trustee Board to hold an all student meeting in due course to ratify the Articles and Schedules.
For more information about this decision, please contact referendums.hisa@uhi.ac.uk.