T’HUD Admin
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Hold Off On Your Housing
Every year the Students’ Union Advice Centre deals with a huge number of cases where students have rushed into signing for properties without properly thinking it all through or making any checks and then live to regret it because the property is unaffordable, they’ve fallen out with their housemates or the property is unsuitable. And what they don’t…
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Give It A Go – Yoga!
The Sanskrit word ‘yoga’ is translated as a union between body, mind and spirit. I have never tried any form of yoga before, but had heard it was extremely rejuvenating, beneficial and cleansing for the soul, so when my friend suggested coming along to a beginner’s class that she was teaching it tempted me to…
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Don’t have sex…because you will get chlamydia…and die
Although the title was written with comedic value in mind, there is a cause for concern when it comes to sexual health at University. You’re away from mum and dad possibly for the first time, and you’re ready to lose your dignity to the first person who asks for it. But a recent study by…
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Undergraduate Support to be cut
With students already struggling to face the prospect of anything up to £53,000 debt at the end of their degree, the news of George Osborne cutting the undergraduate support budget by £150 million won’t be taken lightly. This means axing the National Scholarship Programme – but it doesn’t stop there! The way the NSP works…
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5 Ways to stay fit at University
Staying fit at university is a challenge. With a plethora of activities going on all at the same time such as napping, drinking, studying, socialising and more drinking it’s sometimes hard to fit in very important things such as sleep and exercise. However finding time to stay fit doesn’t have to be a huge chore…
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VP Communications & Democracy – NHS Charges for International students: Unfairness or Xenophobia?
In July 2013 the Government offered a proposal to charge foreigners for using NHS health service in England. The following proposal was also decided to solve the net cost loss of £12 million invested in treating foreign nationals in the UK. To follow, the UK Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt announced that: “It is a national…
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Change For The Better ?
A number of you may be aware that the Students’ Union will relocate to the brand new Learning & Leisure Centre in January 2014. This project has been in the pipelines since March 2011, but we have now reached the stage where plans for the move have become finalised. Over the past few days the plans have…
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Uni Registry wins top award
THE University of Huddersfield’s Registry Team – responsible for assuring the quality of all courses and overseeing rules and regulations – has been voted the nation’s best at the 2013 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards. One of the achievements that earned the award was a new system leading to dramatic falls in student problems…
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Huddersfield Students to Play in the Student Rugby League World Cup
After months of preparation and fundraising, including financial support from the Students’ Union, Huddersfield University Rugby League players Callum Boyle and Billy Griffiths are about to play in the Student Rugby League World Cup. The World Cup takes place across some of West Yorkshire’s most famous Rugby League grounds and culminates sees the best student…
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Education goes green: 25 universities receive HEFCE sustainability funding
The National Union of Students (NUS) today announced details of a ground breaking Students’ Green Fund, worth £5 million and involving sustainability projects from 25 universities across the country. Diverse projects such as the sustainable food focus of ‘Sheffield on a plate’, to the community focused ‘Guerrilla Gardeners’ in Newcastle, to Staffordshire’s ‘Green Pad’ on…