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Firstly let me just say Happy New Year and hope you had a good holiday along with welcome back to the new term and hope all is going well.
Now what have I been up to, Well for starts the office is now allot more tidy I’m trying to stay allot more organised (wonder how long it will last could be a new year’s resolution) and sorting through the emails that I seem to have accumulated over the holiday.  I’m currently working on the motions that have been passed at council along with working on new policies that…

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Hope your enjoying the first term of college and its almost half term time just seems to be flying by,  I keep forgetting what day were on however im still managing to stay somewhat organised :) that’s always a good thing whoop. Totally wishing that there’s more hours in the day after all there’s lots to do. I will also never look at =7 in the same way that’s to Wes (VP Social Activities),  hers a bit of a random challenge can you figure out what =7 means?

Ok back to the blog xp now what I have…

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Hope your having a good time at the college and getting n the brilliant opportunity’s that are available to you alongside your course. These past few weeks I have been busy doing inductions so its almost safe to say that most of you have a the chance to see the SU (Students Unions) induction video, hope you enjoyed it and the best event freshers that was on the 15th September and im hoping you had a good time there. Also feel free to email studentunion@dudleycol.ac.uk with your thoughts on freshers and any ideas that you may have for…

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Firstly let me just say good luck to everyone thats receiving there GCSE Results today :) and hope that everyone that got there Alevel results were happy and got what they wanted :). Its really nice to meet students that are enrolling and that I can’t believe how fast the time flys, seems like it was only a few days ago that I was doing this last year. Anyway so far we have had the executive team come in and do some training and team building in preparation for the unpcoming year and we have been mega busy organising one of the best events of the year our famous Freshers Fayre

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Well let’s start this off with some good news as you may already know we have been short listed for an LSIS award and two NUS awards. Results are in (well for the LSIS one) we got an award for the category “social cohesion and civic participation” for our save our EMA campaign and we got highly commended in this category. This is all thanks to YOU the students for supporting and participating in this campaign and the results for the NUS awards will be on the 20th so don’t forget to keep an eye on our twitter.…

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I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for the support that you have given us over this year and to also thank the executive team for all of their dedication and hard work. It has been a fantastic year and as a result of this we have been short listed for two NUS awards and an lsis award. We fully intend to continue this work ethic into the next year ready to face any challenges in order to make sure learner voices are heard.   

Also there are some opportunities for you to get involved such…

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Hope everything’s going well especially with course work and revision for upcoming exams. Also good luck to all of you that have exams over the next few weeks and keep up the awesome work: ).

Also just a quick update we have a Blackpool trip that tickets are now available for that is set for the 22nd June for £18. You can download the forms from http://dudleysu.org/howto/book_onto_a_trip or drop by the SU office (B4). On the 19th of May we also have Student council and we have also combined this with our AGM (annual general meeting) so all…

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Have to say its been a busy couple of weeks back. We have been on the radio talking about the Wolf review (that was about vocational education) along with the principle Lowell Williams. Also we have had the BBC come in to listen and recorded some students and their views about the government’s choices on EMA. Im hoping to put these pieces up on this website soon :) and had Ed Balls visit the college to talk to students about their views. Along with this we have also been working on saving services for young people such as…

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Just an update we managed to get a meeting with Chris Kelly MP on Friday 14 January to have a discussion about EMA. Me, two students from Chris Kelly constituency and a Dudley college corporation member John Freeman (the person that got us this meeting) attended this meeting that was held at the Dudley council house.  Myself and the other students provide our story on EMA and how it has and still is supporting us, that Chris listened to and taken on bored what we have said and that we should let our MPs which we did considering…

Just wanting to give a big thank you to Emily Moore, Sharon Kirton and Clare Wright for getting so many of the letters signed. Also a big thank you to the travail and tourism area for making such awesome banners ready for Monday.

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Have to say it’s been a busy time at the union office especially with our save our EMA and against cuts to education campaigns running. So you may have seen us running around getting letters signed we currently have over 700 letters.

Also we have been running the CM meeting in the past few weeks that in my opinion were very productive and a good place to hear your views. So on that note to all the class reps keep up the good work and hope to see you on the 6th December for student council. From the…

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Hope you all enjoyed freshers fayre and had a good time also don’t forget to let us know what you think about freshers fayre. We always look forward to hearing your opinions. Something’s to keep a look out for:
When tickets are on sale for Alton Towers it will be posted on this website as soon as they are available to purchase and this is the same for the Drayton manor trip.
Also the Students’ union elections are now open so why not have a look at the posts available you might see…

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Hope your all having a good time enrolling and hope you got the results that you wanted from your exams. Just been busy organising Freshers Fayre and getting everything ready for September from the looks of things its going to be great so keep an eye open for it.

Kim ^^

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Hope your all enjoying the holiday. Well firstly the website is up and running so I recommend taking a look around it and it would be appreciate if you could send us some feedback so we can keep improving it for youJ. Also for the ones that have seen the old website you can see the improvement. Now what have I been up to?  Well there’s been the nice long paged constitution that should be finished soon so keep an eye open for it, once it’s got the go ahead then we will…

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Hope your all doing well and enjoying the holidays and looking forward to September maybe? Anyway what have I been up to, Well theres getting this website up and running have to say its going well just a few areas need a bit of work should be up and running by the 26th July (thats the deadline date ^^). Also I went to a networking event at Stratford, nice place and it was good to meet the other unions and seeing what everyone is up to and sharing best practice. It also came with…

Hi there and welcome to my blog, Just finished my first week in post, have to say is been going pretty well and im getting into the swing of thing. This is the first of many updates from me to keep you up to date with whats going on so keep your eyes open you won’t want to miss a thing. It been a unique experiences in being in college in the summer holiday but its joyful one at that and I am looking forward to the work ahead of me.  I went to the NUS (national union of students)…