Articles
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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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Hawks Complete Charity Lift for Life
The Huddersfield Hawks American Football Club don’t do things by halves. For their latest charity fundraising effort they set themselves the target of lifting over 1 million kg in one day. Club media exec Dean Scicluna explains why: “Every October the NFL has a campaign to raise money for breast cancer research. As a club…
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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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Homesick? You’re not the only one.
BY SOPHIE MITCHELL Moving away from home is something that many students will experience when they start University. For some the change will be an easy transition, allowing them to thrive on the freedom and independence that living alone offers. For others, it can feel like a struggle. If you’re in the latter group then don’t…
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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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EXEC TEAM: VP Wellbeing & Equalities Officer Resigns
Written by EXEC TEAM President Nosheen Dad It is my unfortunate duty to inform you that Emily Wright VP Wellbeing and Equalities has formally handed in her resignation from her post. As saddened as we are to see her go, as an Exec team we fully empathise with her reasons to stand down. I have…