Autum 2006

I would like to start this blog with apologising for the lack of blog’s over the last term, I don’t think I’d realised before term started quite how busy it would be and how much that I would struggle to find time to blog, so one of my new years resolutions is to blog more. In this one I will tlak about last term and then will post a new one about next term.

Last term started with a shock announcement from the university about the closure of physics but it set a trend for the next term. Then there was Freshers week which was a busy week but some of the highlights for me were the busy society’s day and then a busy Friday day. We had a record number of people interested in the MASIV, RU Ready and community volunteering. The next week kicked off with spark in a day and Junction11 in day. This was the 1st time we’ve run Junction11 in a day and we had lots of people attend which was really positive.

The term just seemed to continue with a big push for the national demo, I was upset that I couldn’t be there for the beginning but it was amazing standing on the side of the river waiting and watching the demo go passed and joining the reading group. Then the next major campaign was the fight to keep physics open at reading the physics students put up an excellent fight one of the best moments of this campaign was sitting with the UCU staff members whilst university council was going on and them telling us that it was the best fight they had seen for a course closer for a long time apart from Sussex where they overturned the decision.

Other highlights of the term include making sure that spark got published with out any major hiccups, the masqurAID ball run by campaigns forum,
hearing that the RAG total for the last year totalled over £10,000, training over 50 course reps and running faculty rep training for the first time, being involved in writing the university’s teaching and learning strategy which means that we can shape how the university delivers teaching and learning for the next 5 years, hearing that we’ve managed to place over 80 students in community volunteering placements, having a record number of students (260) enrolled on the MASIV scheme.

It has been a busy but amazing term I have learnt a lot about the university, RUSU and my self and am looking forward to the next term with excitement.