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NUS President Calls For Lecturers To Have Teaching Qualifications

The president of the National Union of Students Liam Burns has called for university lecturers to be forced to get teaching qualifications to ensure students are getting the most out of their degrees. Burns believes that to coincide with the recent rise in tuition fees, universities should also be looking to improve the standards of [...]

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Vote now for your Student Officers

If you thought the student elections and campaigning was over, you were wrong! Voting’s now open for the second round of elections – this time it’s to elect Student Officers.

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Students are being priced out of Uni

Students are being priced out of university, according to a campaign from the National Union of Students.

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RAG Week

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This week, 16th-21st April, is RAG week here at Trent and the RAG team are putting on plenty of activities in the hope of raising £2,000 for World Child Cancer Care, When You Wish Upon a Star and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. The beginning of the week saw a 24 hour sponsored trampoline bounce and [...]

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Want to be a Fresher Rep in 2012?

At Nottingham Trent we like to think we’ve got the biggest Welcome Week in the country. To make it happen, though, our Student’s Union needs a load of people in bright t-shirts (Fresher Reps) to help kick start life for new students at NTU.

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How Will The Budget Affect You?

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On the 21st March the man in charge of UK’s money, George Osbourne, announced the budget for 2012/2013. Despite tuition fees being on the up this year there was little mentioned that directly relates to students. The word “student” was mentioned just once in the whole 116 page Budget,  but there a few points to [...]

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Trent’s Sporting Stars Head To Olympic Trials.

4 Trent students will be heading to Olympic trials this weekend, hoping to be selected to canoe for their country later on this year. After weeks of hard work and 7AM wake up calls for training Adam Burgess, Joe Coombs, Emily Woodcock and Tom Quinn will be taking to the water to show the coaches and [...]

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Elections: Round 2

So the Exec have already been chosen for next year, now its time to nominate your Officers. Nominations for 2012/13′s Student Officers opened on Wednesday. You can put yourself forward for the following roles: BME Officer (Black & Minority Ethnic) Disabled Students’ Officer International Students’ Officer LGBT Officer (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Mature Students’ Officer [...]

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The Society Olympics… Ready. Set. Go!

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This weekend the Clifton campus will hold the first ever Olympic games for the societies of Nottingham Trent University. The games will be on the Saturday 14th of April with the opening celebrations starting at 12 noon until the closing ceremony at 5pm. Head of societies, Lekan Adebanjo, told Fly FM what to expect, “We have a variety [...]

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FLYing The Flag For Student Radio

Over the Easter break, Fly FM  and its presenters have been recognised for their efforts. The I love Student Radio Awards took place at the National Student Radio Conference in Bradford last week. These awards recognise people and stations who contribute lots to student radio… and Fly FM won! The Most Improved Student Station Award was picked up by some [...]

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