Last week catch up!!

Last week was a funny old week...here's a rundown:

Undergraduate Openday
The sabbs and many staff came to the Guild en masse on Saturday the 12^th September for the Undergraduate Openday, and it was a HUGE success. We chatted to loads of prospective students, gave out lots of membership handbooks and answered many questions about the Guild (often ‘yes, we are a student union; just called a different name’!!). It was a lovely day, the sun was shining, and everyone was in a great mood. Good work team – we have hopefully bagged lots of new students for next year!!

Interviewing
I spent two days last week on the interviewing panel for a number of Guild staff vacancies. It was a great experience, there were great candidates, and I thought it was fantastic for a student representative to have such an input.

University Training
We spent a couple of afternoons at University training meeting the key players in some of the University departments, such as HAS and Library Services. It was really useful to start building up those contacts and relationships with relevant members of university staff.

University College Quality Assurance and Enhancement Committee
Each sabbatical sits on a university college ‘Quality Assurance and Enhancement Committee’ and I had my first Social Science ‘C-QAEC’ meeting last week. Some of the items of relevance to the Guild include Student Reps, module evaluation and National Student Survey results.

Media Law Training
On Friday, members of the media student groups (BurnFM, GTV and Redbrick), Fabian and I, and a few members of Guild staff had Media Law training at the Guild. Our instructor had over 25 years experience of being a journalist, and we all seemed to really benefit from the training. We discussed issues such copywrite, contempt of court, defamation and privacy – all really key issues for the Guild and media groups to have a working knowledge of.

ZEST
At the end of last week, Ed and Fordy officially opened the Guild’s new clothing and merchandise retail shop – ZEST. A number of people turned up for the special occasion, and by the looks of how busy it is now, students are loving the shop and the new merchandise! Check out the teddy bear changing room next time you go in!!

Welcome Week
YAAAAAYYYY its WELCOME WEEK!!! The last two days have been pretty crazy meeting and greeting new people, giving presentations in lectures, directing people all over the guild, and dealing with lots of questions!! It’s been great though – all the staff and student staff have worked so hard so far, and I have see lots of student groups about doing their bit! Our very own BurnFM have been broadcasting out into mermaid square and are doing a fiiiiine job!! They are giving shoutouts to any groups that want a mention – so get in touch with them! It’s only a few days to the societies and volunteering fair, for a list of the groups that will be present, head to the Societies and Volunteering Fairs Facebook Event. External activities and companies won’t be allowed at the fairs and will be asked to leave, so interested students are all yours!! It’s been a great chance to start talking to some of you guys – if you see me walking about, be sure to grab me for a chat!!

Things are pretty busy at the moment as you can imagine, so I’m sorry it’s quite a brief one today!

Em