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Hallo our names are Marian Aruna and Ryan Harris. We are currently in a share post of Vice Presidents of Campaigns within the Students’ Union. Our role is to campaign for the rights of the students and listening to their problems, views and opinions about what concerns them in their college lives and as students.

So you might be thinking of why we ran for the post?

(Ryan) I ran for this post of Vice-President for Campaigns because “I feel that students are not been listened too” and as a young person myself, I feel the decisions that the current…

Hi all,

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…

Hi All,

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…

Hi all I would like to run a Halloween event and I would like to see what the students May want. I can be a week long or it can just be on the 31st I was considering doing a Halloween ball, like fancy dress and stuff, but what do you think. Also I would like to run some other event’s if you got any suggestions just pop into b4 or tell one of the Exec Team. Thank you =7

Anime club has become a huge success this year and i hope to get most clubs up and running to become as successful as Anime, Gamers has also had a good turnout.

Some awesome new Clubs such as : Warhammer club, and The Writers Guild i am currently helping the founders, to get the club up and running and hopefully they will become successful i hope to see the Club’s and Society lovers to join and get these clubs on their feet.  =7

Hi all not too long ago on the Wednesday the 28 the Exec Team went to the labour conference i was just starting off think it would be all boring but the event was well organised and well-presented accessible to all. The event had lots to offer and it gave me a chance to look at what we could do for re-fresher. Although i thought i was going to be boring i actually learnt something new and it was interesting.

It was a good day for the exec and i hope to see their blog about it soon…

Hi All,

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…

Thanks to all students, staff and external organisations for attending Freshers and helping to make it the best one yet!
Congratulations to the team who have made an epic effort over the last 3 months in preparations, a special shout out goes to Amanda Appleby (SU front of house and admin support) for her fantastical organisational skills.
We hope that you enjoyed it and keep a look out for more events brought to you by the SU over the coming year.

Hi all hope you enjoyed Yesterdays Freshers I felt like it could of been better but to be honest I was helping out instead of looking around and getting into the activities that where there. But it did turn out better than last year and let’s hope that RE-FRESHERS on the 20th of Jan will go well as well. Just tell me what you thought that could have been improved at Freshers Fayre.

Thanks for attending hope you had fun, Wesley Tony Whittick.

Hi all,

Welcome everybody to the new academic year at Dudley College, for some it’s the start of the wonderful world of college,with new life long friendships you’ll meet along the way, for some it’s a chance to continue your college life and catch up with old friends!

As the new student governor my role will be to represent you on the highest decision making board of the college, so if you need help just leave me a message in the Students’ Union office (Room B4) and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

I will also be…

Hi all finally managed to get around doing a Blog, was nagged a little but Kim suggested doing it in the time that I had free. However I am actually quite proud of the amount of external Companies that are coming to our Freshers Fayre so far we have got 34 but I am hoping to drag some more in by the end on this week. Here are some that may interest you in popping in to the Freshers Fayre Event (DCT = Dudley College):

• Kerrang Radio Station
• Subway
• West Midlands Police
• West Midlands Fire Service…

Hi all,

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

I did run for V.P Campaigns this year and got elected in but I will be stepping down from this post due to having found fulltime employment.  So I just want to tell you off all the great experiences I have had with the Students Union.
Well what a year I have had it was my first year at Dudley college this year and sadly my last which I did not expected but I have had a great year with the students union and done so many things which I never thought I would do.
My first contact with the…

Hi All,

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.…

Hi All,

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…

Hi All,

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…

Yes we went on scavenger hunt because Dudley SU do not turn a challenge down and Wolves SU challenged us so we all got up early on Saturday morning to set off and prove Dudley Su as fighters.
So me Kim, Leah Dave and Ray set of to find the place and wow was that missions because were not very good at directions and none of us have our pink driving licences lol. So we eventually make it to wolves and it starts to rain and we all dressed for summer because it was bright and warm in Dudley so…

PAY – This year the pay deal was 0.2% for FE (college) teachers. Inflation stands at 5%, this in reality works out as a pay cut. It is even more unfair on FE teachers as they already get paid a lot less than teachers in schools.

PENSIONS – the government wants to cut millions of pounds from lecturers pension scheme. This means that lecturers would get their pensions at 65 instead of 60 and the average lecturer would pay an extra £1500 a year while losing £65,000 over the course of their retirement

Dudley…