A CAMBORNE woman has been elected as the president of the National Union of Students.
Toni Pearce was chosen to represent more than nine million students at the organisation's conference in Sheffield.
The 22-year-old was previously the NUS vice-president and she served two years as Cornwall College Students' Union president.
She also becomes the first NUS president who has not been to university.
In her manifesto, Ms Pearce said her priorities for her presidency would include linking college and university students' unions together to fight for local wins in the upcoming general election, to campaign for a single central admissions system for all colleges and universities, and to increase efforts to organise and support students to run and win campaigns in their local areas.
Speaking after her election, she said: "I'm really proud to have been given the opportunity to build the student movement around a vision for public education, and to be leading NUS as we build towards the next general election.
"Between now and 2015 we need to hold a full and frank debate about what education means to society and to properly articulate the public value of education in communities up and down the country."
