Archives for the ‘News’ Category

Police Launch New Web Portal for University of Gloucestershire Students

By Guest Contributors • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: News

Gloucestershire Police have been working with the Students Union at the University of Gloucestershire to create a crime prevention and advice web portal especially for students.
The portal, which was officially launched today, Tuesday November 4, was established to provide University of Gloucestershire students with information to help make their time studying in Gloucestershire as safe [...]



Cheltenham Police Urge Students To Keep Their Accommodation Secure

By Guest Contributors • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: News

Cheltenham Police are reminding students to keep their accommodation secure. The warning comes after two student homes in the town were burgled last week.
Sergeant Mark Stephens from Whaddon Safer Community Team, who are responsible for policing issues at the Francis Close Hall, Hardwicke and Pitville campuses said: “Sadly student houses are an easy target for [...]



Rise in Tuition Fees

By Guest Contributors • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: News

As the sky darkens, and the nights draw in, so to do the purse strings.  Its official the United Kingdom is now in recession the boom times are over and we must face the bust.
How then does this affect me I hear you ask? Well as a student on an already low income unless you [...]



Mumps Outbreak?

By Guest Contributors • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: Education & Welfare, News

A number of students have been diagnosed as having mumps.
Mumps is very infectious. It is passed on by coughing and sneezing the virus into the air. It takes 14-21 days to develop symptoms after being infected. Affected people are infectious after a parotid gland begins to swell. It is best not to mix with others [...]



RAG: Raise and Give

By Guest Contributors • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: News

RAG stands for Raise and Give and is a group of students dedicated to making a difference and using their time at University to help local and national charities.
The previous academic year has brought significant changes to the RAG committee which has undoubtedly lead to it’s success.
With over forty kitted up students the [...]



Bestival Round - Up

By Guest Contributors • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Events, News

For many of us, starting university is a daunting thought. Fortunately the University of Gloucestershire has made new students feel welcome through providing top notch entertainment! Students have been encouraged to make friends and accustom themselves to uni life.  Certainly the university emphasises it not all work and no play.
The main event of the week [...]



CSI: Gloucestershire??

By Guest Contributors • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: News

Since students arrived (14th September) there have been a number of crime-related incidents within Cheltenham and Gloucester involving our students.
 
At the time of writing there have been 5 officially reported assaults on students by members of the local community, 2 of which have led to the student victims needing serious hospital treatment.
 
There have been a [...]



SU Team America

By Guest Contributors • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: JobShop, News

The end of June was a monumental time for your Students’ Union as 2 of the team were lucky enough to be invited to visit Northwest Missouri Sate University. The visit was planned after the President of Northwest had visited UoG and inspired the powers that be with the vision and culture of quality prevalent [...]



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 [...]



New student reps scheme in place.

By Niki Rose • Sep 13th, 2008 • Category: News

Arriving at University is an important part of your life; it opens so many doors and you get to meet so many new people. More importantly, it’s your first step to getting that dream career. There are many things you can do while you are at University to improve your chances of finding that dream job such [...]