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Let’s Talk About Sex: It’s Official, We Have Chlamydia

By Lizzie Harkness • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: Education & Welfare, Lead Story

Tests at the Freshers’ Fayre showed that 1 in 8 students at the University of Gloucestershire has Chlamydia, that’s above the national average of 1 in 10. Sometimes it’s not always best to be above the average!
Let’s be honest, even the word Chlamydia has a nasty ring to it. If it was in reference to [...]



A Word From Lizzie

By Lizzie Harkness • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Education & Welfare, Features, Sabbaticals

I know we’re having a bit of an Indian summer this year and I for one couldn’t be more grateful for these last few rays of sunshine that we seemed to miss out on during our actual summer, but imagine my surprise when driving through town the other day to see that some stores have [...]



Breach Of Regulations Hearings On The Rise

By Lizzie Harkness • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Education & Welfare, Features

A growing concern for the Students Union in recent times has been the number of academic offence breaches that the university are calling in to question.
 A ‘Breach of assessment’ is basically anything that the tutor considers to be straying from the students original and individual work. The rules for academic assessment are put into place [...]



Know Your Limit

By Lizzie Harkness • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Education & Welfare

The Students’ Union has been working on a responsible drinking initiative throughout the summer months and after all the furore of Freshers has died down now seems the perfect time to showcase it.
‘Know Your Limits’ is a new campaign from the Students Union aimed at making you all aware of the possible dangers of alcohol [...]



A Quickie with Lizzie

By Lizzie Harkness • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Education & Welfare, Features, Sabbaticals

Well the biggest and most hectic two weeks of the year are drawing to a close as I write this and I’m exhausted but happy. I hope all of you are all suitably wiped out form all the fun and festivities as well!
It was so nice to see everything we’ve worked towards for the [...]



SU Team America Part 2

By Lizzie Harkness • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Education & Welfare, News, Sabbaticals

When I found out that for my first week on the job as a student union officer, I would be travelling to America I couldn’t quite believe it. This was a privilege that no officer before me had ever gotten to experience and I was hugely excited about the great opportunity. The idea behind the [...]



Lizzie Harkness: Freshers Safety.

By Lizzie Harkness • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Education & Welfare, Features, Sabbaticals

I’ve heard somewhere that you learn more between the years of a baby and a four year old than you will ever learn again in your life. I don’t know how true that is but I wholeheartedly disagree with it now! Since I stared in June we have all been busy meeting every person you can [...]