Cancelled Bursaries

A number of distressed students have been contacting me over the last few days because they have received letters from the university informing them that their bursaries are being cancelled.
This is absolutely disgraceful.
For many students the bursaries are a vital source of money that allows them to study at Reading.
Your students' union will be taking action on this.
As the university is closed until the 5th January I am unable to find out any more details. Once we know more we will let you know what we plan to do.
In the meantime please join the facebook group and invite all your Reading friends to join too.
If you have been affected by this please don't panic, we have a team of expert independent advisors who will be able to help you. They will be back at RUSU from Monday, you can come into the union to talk to them, ring up for a chat, or send them an email and they will get back to you. Find our more here - Student Advice
I will be keeping you updated on what's happening via this blog and the facebook group.
The students' union is here to ensure that you are represented - we will make your opinions known to the university, but we will need your help.
If you have any questions, and suggestions or simply want to rant please email me  or contact me on facebook.
Shivam x

Library

In week 8 we'll be launching our library campaign.
For many years now students have been demanding a better library, one that is open when they need it, one that has the book that they need and one that has enough space for them to work in.
This year we are determined to make sure that the university fully address the short comings of the library.
If you have something to say about the library then please leave a comment at the end of this blog - your voice will help us win this campaign!

 

Shivam X

The story so far...

WOW, it's been an amazing term - I didn't know that one person could have so much to do!
Hopefully you'll agree (although I'm sure a few of you wont) that we've had quite a good term.
Freshers week started the term off with a bang - more students sign up to clubs and societies than the previous year! We had a great RAG week, we developed our fantastic Give it a Go scheme which saw about 200 students try out a new sport.
We've made the library a top priority for the university. It will be open until midnight on weekdays from the summer term (and then for all the other terms too). There will be additional study space made avaliable around the university during the exam period. But we're still not happy with weekend library hours - and will be piling the pressure on the university next term to do something about it!
We've brought a farmers marke to campus, we've lobbied the university about social space in the new hall developments and we've given housing talks to over 1000 freshers.
We had 120 people come to our AGM - a bit of a record! It was great to see so many people who care about the direction of RUSU, who want to know what we're doing and how they can get involved in it all.
But next term is going to be even better! We're revamping our democracy meetings, producing some amazing video's so that you can better understand how we work and, of course, we'll be running loads more campaigns, putting on tonnes of great events and continuing to provide you with great services, advice and opportunities to get the most out of your time at Reading.
If you have any comments or questions please leave a comment on my blog, or email me
Enjoy the holidays
Shivam x