Well this post is a little behind schedule, but it arrived in the end! It's been an interesting week, though academically a lot quieter as I've not got both an exam and coursework due in at the same time! Now that's out the way (at least for a bit anyway!) I've been busy with a RAG raid to Reading for the Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) on my birthday last Saturday. It's an usual thing to do on your birthday bit I have to admit it was well worth the trip as the group of us who went raised a substantial amount for charity.
On Monday I attended the NUS regional conference with several others from BU. It was a great chance to meet the majority of the National Exec Committee (NEC) face-to-face and raise our profile as an active Students' Union. It was also a useful experience in that I found out that NUS has substantial ideas for postgrads in the future and are in talks with the National Postgraduate Committee (NPC) to merge their services into the NUS framework. It sounds promising and it's likely to be of great benefit to us as a Union as we would no longer need to have two seperate affiliations.
Tuesday featured an exec review meeting, where performance for last term was discussed along with proposals for changes in the coming year. Some of which are likely to be revealed at the upcoming UGM on the 12th February. All are welcome to attend and any ideas, opinions and suggestions are welcome. There's still time to get motions in for the meeting by collecting a motions form from the Union office.
More to come later!
Friday 30 January 2009
Monday 19 January 2009
Postgrad Plans
Well it's a short post this week as I'm pretty busy with coursework (well trying to be at least) and also an upcoming exam on Friday, which I'm certainly not looking forward to!
Last weekend, I went down into Poole town centre on a RAG raid for the Foundation into the Study of Infant Death (fsid), which is a charity that aims to prevent and eliminate cot death in children. It was a pretty successful day with many unsuspecting shoppers being caught (quite literally!) at the level crossing in the centre of town and we managed to raise a substantial amount.
There are also plans to found a postgraduate society, that would benefit from the opportunities provided to clubs and societies, extra promotion, funding for activities and also help to leave a lasting presence and increase involvement as a whole for both current and future postgrads at BU. We're also looking at becoming an affliate of the National Postgraduate Society (NPC), who are a nationwide, non-profit organisation that aims to promote postgraduate study and support both current and future students in postgrad education by campaigning for better funding and better support.
I'll include more details of this in next week's post but meanwhile after all the work has been done, I need to plan my birthday party for this coming weekend...ack 25, is it really as bad as it sounds? Is it really a quarter of a century?!
Until next time!
Last weekend, I went down into Poole town centre on a RAG raid for the Foundation into the Study of Infant Death (fsid), which is a charity that aims to prevent and eliminate cot death in children. It was a pretty successful day with many unsuspecting shoppers being caught (quite literally!) at the level crossing in the centre of town and we managed to raise a substantial amount.
There are also plans to found a postgraduate society, that would benefit from the opportunities provided to clubs and societies, extra promotion, funding for activities and also help to leave a lasting presence and increase involvement as a whole for both current and future postgrads at BU. We're also looking at becoming an affliate of the National Postgraduate Society (NPC), who are a nationwide, non-profit organisation that aims to promote postgraduate study and support both current and future students in postgrad education by campaigning for better funding and better support.
I'll include more details of this in next week's post but meanwhile after all the work has been done, I need to plan my birthday party for this coming weekend...ack 25, is it really as bad as it sounds? Is it really a quarter of a century?!
Until next time!
Monday 12 January 2009
New Year, New Term!
Well it's the start of a brand new term and this means it's about time I made an update to this blog!
I don't know about you but I had a great time at home for Christmas and New Year, in fact I'm still here until tomorrow when I'll be travelling back from Plymouth. Some of us postgrads have it fairly easy...well perhaps in timetabling at least! :P
While its nice to be home, I've certainly missed life at BU and look forward to getting back in the swing of things during this week. This term should be busy, both with work and social events. The first exec meeting of the term (and the year) is this coming Thursday, so as usual if there's anything you'd like me to mention there, just send it along in an e-mail. Also, there's plenty of volunteering events including two upcoming RAG raids this month, which is likely to be in both Poole and Reading. It's also my birthday in less than two weeks so that should be an event in itself! Heck almost 25...I so wish I was an undergrad again in some ways but would I really want to go through it all again? Maybe I would if I had studied at BU and not lived at home!
Anyway, as per usual I'll continue to post up regular updates on what I'm up to both in general and in regards to the Union. It would be great to get some more postgrad-oriented events organised this term and also start the foundation of a Postgraduate Society, something that may keep a continuing presence for all postgrads to be involved in for this year and the future.
I don't know about you but I had a great time at home for Christmas and New Year, in fact I'm still here until tomorrow when I'll be travelling back from Plymouth. Some of us postgrads have it fairly easy...well perhaps in timetabling at least! :P
While its nice to be home, I've certainly missed life at BU and look forward to getting back in the swing of things during this week. This term should be busy, both with work and social events. The first exec meeting of the term (and the year) is this coming Thursday, so as usual if there's anything you'd like me to mention there, just send it along in an e-mail. Also, there's plenty of volunteering events including two upcoming RAG raids this month, which is likely to be in both Poole and Reading. It's also my birthday in less than two weeks so that should be an event in itself! Heck almost 25...I so wish I was an undergrad again in some ways but would I really want to go through it all again? Maybe I would if I had studied at BU and not lived at home!
Anyway, as per usual I'll continue to post up regular updates on what I'm up to both in general and in regards to the Union. It would be great to get some more postgrad-oriented events organised this term and also start the foundation of a Postgraduate Society, something that may keep a continuing presence for all postgrads to be involved in for this year and the future.
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