This is the conference organised by student councillors from the High School section, in collaboration with student councillors from Nanyang Girls High Schooll, HCI's sister school.
The council is starting to provide more work experience, offering students to shadow councillors even if there aren't enough placements available – but we need a lot more.
Vivek Rajcoomar, 26, a Sussex student running to be a Green councillor in a student-heavy Brighton and Hove ward next month, says: "The economy is a lot more important to me, but it's not a false dichotomy.
"The more barricades they tear down, the more barricades we will put up," said José Vicente García, a student leader and city councillor who has been co-ordinating the protests.
Or take politics, where the people whose votes I sought as I went from student hack to local councillor to party staffer couldn't have cared less.
A Paris appeals court will on Wednesday consider a longstanding civil test case brought by 13 French men of black or north African origin aged 18 to 35, with professions ranging from student to teacher, local councillor to professional sportsman, who all say they were stopped by police in various cities across France because of their race.
Police, student reps, local councillors and Leeds North West's Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland are meeting today, Friday 25 November, to discuss the situation.
A petition has been signed by over 300 Oxford students and staff, and Labour councillor John Tanner has called on the Oxford Union to revoke Le Pen's invitation.
William Lloyd, an 18-year-old A-level student became Britain's youngest councillor when the Conservative defeated the sitting Liberal Democrat in a ward at Brentwood in Essex.
A focus leaflet deliverer in Lancashire, then a student activist in Newcastle, a councillor in Lancashire, a couple of stints as a parliamentary candidate in unwinnable seats, then candidate for Westmorland – my home – and eventually success.
