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UBU Telegram
Hello and welcome to the latest UBU Telegram, with everything you need to know about life at the University of Bradford.
We hope the new term is progressing well. If you find yourself with any issues or problems relating to exams or coursework or dissertations then don't forget that our advice centre is here to help; just drop them an e-mail at ubu-advice@bradford.ac.uk or come and book an appointment at UBU reception, Student Central!
Remember to keep in touch with us using the social networks and sites below!
Visit us on Facebook - www.facebook.com/ubuonline
Visit us on Twitter - www.twitter.com/ubuonline
Visit us on Google Plus - www.ubuonline.co.uk/googleplus
See all the planned events for the year - www.ubuonline.co.uk/events
And for everything else there is www.ubuonline.co.uk
Plus, make sure you check out all the fantastic shows RamAir 1350AM, our very own student radio station - www.ramair.co.uk plus all the latest films by the BSC, and all our excellent sport, societies and volunteering opportunities. Come to UBU reception in Student Central to find out more!
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Pick up edition nine of the paper featuring all the latest news, events, features, photos and sports reviews, plus lots more. Available around campus or online.
We have joined together with West Riding County FA and Bradford Council, Bradford College and Leeds City College to hold a female only football festival.
When: 23rd May starts 1pm
Where: Bradford College, Trinity Green Campus astro pitch. (We will be meeting outside Unique)
Teams: 5 aside (can have subs)
What: Football tournament
Deadline: 23/5/11
Cost: FREE
Requirements: yourself and sports clothing, any trainers will be appropriate.
If you are interested in playing please fill in the form below. If you would like any more information please contact us. If you cannot get a team together we can help organise teams.
This is not a serious event it is aimed at encouraging more females to take place in the sport. It will be fun day with many coaches around to give pointers about playing or about continuing with the sport after this event.
Click here to download the form.
The agenda for the Disability Forum on Thursday 17th May 2012, 3-6pm, in the UBU Boardrom is as follows:
Introduction by Disabled Students Officer
Speakers - advice centre - Becki, disabilities service
Management of the Green
What are we going to do for freshers?
News on car parking issue
Participatory budget
Volunteers to help over the summer - select committee
Remploy discussion
Electing reps for the forum
Events and how to make them more inclusive and accessible
Inclusion 4 All
AOB
Q&A to Disabled Students Officer
Time to strap yourself in for a scary, thrill-packed day at the World Famous Alton Towers resort with more rides, rollercoasters and attractions than you can throw up your lunch at.
Tickets are just £30 from UBU reception and include entry and transport. Monday 21st May.
£18 adults
Drop off Lakeside, pick up at Windermere
Leave University 8.45am
Leave Windermere 5.30pm
A chance to check out the beautiful scenery of the Lake District and the ticket price includes a boat trip on Lake Windermere!
Tickets available at UBU reception. Saturday 26th May.
Register for football and tag rugby before 18th May 2012.
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Dark brown leather wallet lost at FND on 4 May 2012.
Contents included Residence Permit for France.
If you find the wallet or permit, please contact s.m.baker@bradford.ac.uk urgently
Thank you!
Trailtrekker is an epic 100 km team challenge across the stunning Yorkshire Dales National Park, from 25- 27 May 2012 and is aiming to raise £500,000 for Oxfam's vital work around the world.
Volunteers are an essential part of the event and we need a team of 150 at the start, finish, water stops and checkpoints on route to:
Register and assist teams and support crews
Support teams with information, directions, food and drinks
Provide lots of support and encouragement!!
Please follow this link if you are interested in signing up to volunteer at Trailtrekker 2012:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/register-trailtrekker/volunteer-form.html
Facebook: Trailtrekker 2012 - Volunteers
Twitter: @OxfamEventVol
Have you not got your Varsity t-shirt yet? Then come and get it from UBU reception!
The following changes have been introduced from 6th April for student visas.
Tier 4: Increase in maintenance required
On 6th April 2012, the amount of maintenance required by students applying for a Tier 4 visa increased from £600 per month to £800 per month (if studying in outside London).
Tier 1 Post-Study Work scheme now closed
The Tier 1: Post-Study Work (PSW) scheme closed to all new applications from 6th April 2012.
Tier 4: Changes to application from 6th April
A new version of the Tier 4 (General) student visa application form was introduced on 6th April 2012, replacing application form version 07/11.
From this date, Version 04/12 of the form should be used for new applications.
Tier 4: Five year cap on study at degree level or above
For those making Tier 4 applications from 6th April 2012 a grant of a visa should not result in the student spending more than five years studying at degree level or above in the UK.
This means that students can have a student visa for a maximum of five years to complete their Bachelors and Masters degrees in the UK. This may affect students who have had to repeat periods of study in the UK.
If you have been in the UK for four years or more and wish to continue your studies you should get visa advice as soon as possible.
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Tier 4 visa extensions: Apply early
If you need to extend your Student Visa to complete your current course, you need to start preparing early. It is advisable to start preparing your application at least 3-4 months before your current visa expires so that you give yourself enough time.
Where possible, you should request your CAS at least 3-4 months before your current visa expires.
You can apply for up to £300 cash to run a project to help make things better in your local community. You will also receive training and support and you could win gig tickets!
Don’t miss this opportunity to get your project off the ground! Running a community project could develop your employability skills and enhance your CV.
All information and entry criteria can be found at Think Big with O2 http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk/
Want any support or advice in applying for this fund? The community engagement team based within SLED would be happy to support you. Contac us on 01274 236772 or e-mail community@bradford.ac.uk
We are pleased to invite you to a very special event as part of our public lecture series ‘An evening with Tony Benn’ on Wednesday 20 June 2012 – 7.30pm.
Expect an evening of frank responses and political anecdotes when veteran Labour politician Tony Benn will be talking about his life in politics and what he thinks about the changes in the Labour Party.
It’s more than a decade since Tony Benn - the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour party - retired from the House of Commons and famously announced that, after 50 years in Parliament, he was planning “to spend more time on politics.”
In recent years Benn has condemned the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has published eight volumes of diaries as well as collections of speeches and writings.
Forthright, outspoken and tireless in his campaigns Benn has been as good as his word.
Tony Benn comments “I get quite excited about bringing political debate back to the people through these evening events, which is probably not a good thing for a man of my age!”
Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to hear Tony reminisce and give his views on politics today. There will also be time for audience questions and answers.
Date: Wednesday 20 June 2012
Time: 7.30-9.15pm
Venue: The Great Hall, University of Bradford
To book a place either:
Email: community@bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 234009
Visit: www.bradford.ac.uk/sled/public-lectures
Pay online: http://estore.bradford.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=109&modid=1&compid=1
Places cost £12.50 (general) or £7.50 (concessionary) and are going fast!
Are you working in the EU over Summer? Then you may be eligible for an Erasmus grant of 372 Euros per month in addition to any payment from your employer.
There are also additional payments for students who work in the following countries:
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey
Summer Placements should be for a minimum of 3 months and must commence before the end of June . Students on full year work placements can start from June onwards. All work placements need to be relevant to your degree.
International, Home and EU students can apply - applications available on the International Office website: www.brad.ac.uk/international/erasmus-and-international-exchanges/ Follow the links for Work Placements. A training programme needs to be completed and signed by your department - the details are on the web.
Please contact the Careers Advisory Service for help with your cv and to help with possible employers, careers@bradford.ac.uk
Contact the International Office for information about the grants, international-office@bradford.ac.uk
Due to unexpected leftover funding, the grants offered are on a first-come first-served basis!
Zaine Jussab, a final year Biomed student is doing a mountain trek to Killimanjaro. You can support it at http://www.justgiving.com/ZaineTrek
GLEE (Green Library Environment & Education) is our latest Student Experience enhancement project for 2012 that will radically improve the learning environment on levels 1 & 2 of the city campus library. The £1.5 million project is jointly funded by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) and the University and will seek to enhance not only the learning environment itself but also our users understanding of the green impact of building design and function and importantly what green impact the individual user of the space can make.
We will radically improve our :
Natural light, views and open space
Control of ventilation and heating
Reduce universities carbon footprint
Feedback to you on our environment performance
The ways in which users can study and access technology
The project has a tight schedule, commencing April/May 2012. There will be an inevitable period of disturbance for users and staff, who will be working very hard to ensure that we maintain as excellent a service as ever for you throughout the project. In doing so we will:
We will continue to deliver our full range of services throughout the project
As of April key high demand stock that you can access will be relocated in different areas of the library building – this will be clearly signposted
Some less used stock will be located elsewhere and we will operate an ordering service for you where we will collect items for you to pick up
We will identify new and existing alternative study spaces in and external to the library itself
We will extend group study booking hours on level 01
As a trial for the project duration, we will remove Facebook access from certain PCs and PC quiet cluster spaces in the library
We will extend the limit of books you can borrow over the summer vacation period
We will be updating project plans on a regular basis and ensuring that all staff and students are kept informed via our project web pages, bulletin boards in the library and via Staff/Student Liaison Committees and the Union website.
With university fees and living costs rocketing, many students are looking for ways to earn a bit of extra cash, or to somehow reduce their expenses.
We highly encourage this of course, but ask that you are careful about how you go about this.
There have been a number of recent incidences of fraud where students are approached by ‘intermediaries’ who offer to pay tuition fees and other costs to their universities at a discounted rate, with the student in turn paying the intermediary.
However, the credit cards used by the intermediaries to pay the university are stolen, leaving the student unknowingly linked to criminal activity and still liable for costs.
Another recent fraud has involved ‘market research’ companies emailing students promising cash for filling in surveys. While there are a few legitimate companies who pay for surveys, most are scams and could lose you a lot of money.
Be very wary of any company that contacts you promising to make you money or save you money. If a company is genuine, it will most likely not be sending emails to you advertising its services.
If you are in doubt please check it out with the Advice Centre first, or do your own very thorough research. Never give out any personal details, especially bank details, and never make any payments unless you are certain that it is a genuine offer.
If you do find yourself the victim of any kind of scam, there may be something you can do. Don’t hesitate to contact the advice centre on 01274 233300 or at ubu-advice@bradford.ac.uk for help and advice
What's On includes all the events over the next eight days.
Pick up your copy around campus or download a copy here.
We are a friendly athletics club just set up this year. We provide athletics training; improve general fitness and technique to make you even more successful. Training sessions were, on core strength and endurance abilities, incorporating plyometrics, techniques in running and improvement in basic fitness levels. Track sessions vary from interval training to speed sessions. All sessions are led by our professional coach and starts with a warm up consisting of drills. We train at Bradford College Trinity and green is on Mondays at 4 PM and Wednesdays at 2:30 PM. In addition we train at Horsfall Stadium on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 PM. The sessions are free, and no previous experience is required. Come along to as many of you as you like. To get in contact or find out more information e-mail hbates@student.bradford.ac.uk.
We have an opportunity to host some football courses here at Bradford. As we are wavering the facility cost, our staff and students can attend the courses at a reduced rate. The courses we can host are:
FA Level 1 Football coaching course – (27/5/12 and 2/6/12 and 3/6/12 also one evening during WB 28/5) all date must be attended. The course costs £120 and we have limited spaces
FA Level 1 Goalkeepers coaching course – (21/7/12 and 28/7/12 and 4/8/12) all dates must be attended. The course costs £100 and we have limited spaces.
If you are interested in any of these could you please send me an email to k.moore5@bradford.ac.ukT
Work is due to start shortly on a major improvement project which will upgrade the heating, lighting, ventilation and power supply on Floors 1 and 2 of the JB Priestley Library and create an enhanced learning environment . The work will require the decant of the entire book and journal stock, with the exception of the Health Studies books, while the project is completed. Whilst we will be starting to decant stock now we will not be starting actual building works until after the May exams are over.
Hi there,
I’m the student awareness campaign coordinator for the Lymphoma Association and I was hoping that you would be able to help us raise awareness of lymphoma with your students. The reason we are targeting students with our awareness campaign is that lymphoma is the most common cancer in the under 30s and a large proportion of students fall into that age group.
Our ‘PITS’ campaign, which is backed by the Department of Health aims to raise awareness of lymphoma amongst university students using ‘PITS’, an acronym derived from four of the common symptoms of lymphoma:
Persistent lumps (usually in your neck, arm pits or groin), Itching, Tiredness and Sweating (particularly at night).
Lymphoma is cancer of the lymphatic system which is part of the immune system. One of the challenges in detecting and diagnosing it is that the symptoms (above) can often be put down to the effects of a typical busy student’s lifestyle. We really want students to know about the warning signs, regularly check their bodies and not hesitate to visit their GP if they are concerned about any changes.
If you would like any further information on the campaign or would like to be posted some posters, please reply email to d.owen@lymphomas.org.uk or call me on 01296 619418.I look forward to hearing from you.
All workshops are for Bradford University Music Society members (BUMS) members and guests http://www.brad.ac.uk/music/venue/#d.en.28944 . BUMS membership is available through Student Union, membership is open to the public and you can register on the night from £5.
Beginners Hand Drumming, Mondays 5-6pm
What: Ever wanted to have go at banging a drum and make it sound good at the same time!? Well now you can come along and give it a try! On at the TLMC Ben Tongue will be running beginners hand drumming sessions.
£2.50 (including drum hire), £1.50 if you've got your own drum. Ben only has a limited number of drums to provide so booking places is strongly recommended to guarantee your place. Please email him on b.tongue@brad.ac.uk or call 07836224034
Bradford Singers: Mondays 7:30 – 9pm
What: An intermediate/high level singing group practicing and performing a range of material.
How To Get Involved: Email alexanderbkyle@googlemail.com] for details
Buzz with BUMS, Tuesday, 5:30pm
Come and join our new singing group!! You do not have to be able to sing well ( or sing at all!) just need to be motivated and willing to have some fun and get to know some new people! Singing a whole range of music including current songs, show tunes, traditions songs and world music. (suggestions welcome!)
How to get involved: Come along and give it a go!!! Contact liz Sooklall if more info is needed: ersookla@student.bradford.ac.uk
Bradford Scratch Orchestra, Thursdays 5.30pm onwards
Bradford Scratch Orchestra
Improve ensemble playing for musicians and non-musicians alike facilitated by Richard Ormrod
How to get involved: register your interest with Richard Ormrod <rinkadon@yahoo.co.uk>. Sessions will be £5 a head.
The Student Safety & Welfare Co-ordinator has been working on some student welfare policies, procedures and guidelines but is keen to consult with as many staff and students as possible. With this in mind there will be a Policy of Month each month.
For March the policy / procedure relates to student carers. Please have a look at the policy and the procedures.
If you have any comments or suggestions about the policy / procedures please e-mail: policyfeedback@bradford.ac.uk
Do you have a problem or concern?
Are you unsure of where to get help?
Are you interested in student welfare?
Would you like to talk about things which may be affecting you and other students?
Sara is the Student Safety & Welfare Co-ordinator and Shabeen is the Environment & Welfare Sabbatical Officer – they will be available for you to talk to every Friday, 2-4pm @ the Students’ Union.
In February Sara and Shabeen will be focussing on Positive Relationships: what constitutes a good relationship, safe sex, self esteem / confidence etc.
However, you can come to the drop in and talk about anything that is important to you!
Sara and Shabeen look forward to meeting you!
For further information you can contact Sara: s.blagbrough@bradford.ac.uk or Shabeen: ubu-eew@bradford.ac.uk.
Romanian Language and Culture Class @ 4pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Women's Initiative @ 5pm
Activities Room, Student Central
Spanish Club @ 3pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Want to learn Spanish? Our student led Spanish group will help, and be loads of fun too!
Debating Group @ 4pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Debating Group. All welcome. We discuss the serious and the silly. Join us.
Room 101 Art Club @ 3pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Our international (and anybody) students art club. Come along to relax and draw and paint in the friendly environment of Room 101.
Karaoke @ 5pm
Amp Bar, Student Central
Enjoy the best cocktails and mocktails, along with some fantastic karaoke. Get up and sing or just sit back and enjoy.
Urdu Class @ 12noon
Room 101, Richmond Building
Come and learn Urdu in Room 101.
Russian Class @ 1pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Join us to learn Russian in the friendly environment of Room 101.
Korean Club @ 4pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Want to learn Korean? Join the Korean club.
Black and White Ball @ 11pm
Mercure Hotel
Pyjama Party FND @ 11pm
Ents Mall, Student Central
FND is back and to celebrate the end of exams (for some!) we're whipping out an old favourite with our pyjama party.
So come on down dressed in your favourite PJs for a night of great music, all your requests and the best drinks prices in town, with three rooms of music including dubstep in the Biko and urban in Escape, and Aftershock for just £1!
Have fun rolling around on the giant bed in the middle of Amp Bar!
Tickets available from UBU reception and bars from Monday!
The Ultimate Final Pub Quiz Of The Year @ 8pm
Amp Bar, Student Central
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Hosted by RamAir, and featuring six rounds of great questions including General Knowledge, Film (written by the BSC), Random, Musical Intros, Current Affairs and one chosen by the losing team of the previous week, with questions for everyone!
To celebrate the final pub quiz of the year expect some surprises and exciting antics!
The top three teams win great drinks vouchers to use over the bars.
The first five teams in get a free plate of nachos!
Also includes a round chosen by the loser's team, this week on seventeenth century methods of torture.
The pub quiz is followed by rounds of 'Play Your Cards Right' with thirty drinks vouchers to win, plus 'Ant's Balls In A Bag' where you could win £80 in cash, with a 1 in 5 chance of getting it, getting better if no one wins it each round!
Questions start around 8pm. The quiz is free to enter.
If you have any feedback for the quiz please e-mail events@ramair.co.uk.
UBU Trip to Alton Towers @ 8am
Time to strap yourself in for a scary, thrill-packed day at the World Famous Alton Towers resort with more rides, rollercoasters and attractions than you can throw up your lunch at.
Tickets are just £30 from UBU reception and include entry and transport.
Polish Class @ 1pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Do you want to learn Polish? Come along to Room 101 for our Polish class.
SCIM Degree Showcase @ 1:30pm
Norcroft Centre
German Club @ 4pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Student taught German group.
AU / SF Council @ 6pm
Student Central
BSC Screening: Haywire @ 6pm
Student Central Lecture Theatre
A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission.
Admission is free for all University of Bradford students and staff.
Dementia Awareness Event @ 10am
Atrium, Richmond Building
Romanian Language and Culture Class @ 4pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Women's Initiative @ 5pm
Activities Room, Student Central
RamAir BBQ @ 11am
The Green
Come join us for some live music and some tasty tasty BBQ at The Green. Double fun if it's sunny!
Spanish Club @ 3pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Want to learn Spanish? Our student led Spanish group will help, and be loads of fun too
Debating Group @ 4pm
Room 101, Richmond Building
Debating Group. All welcome. We discuss the serious and the silly. Join us.
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