I blog to you today from my 'sick bed' and no it isn't man flu but I should be back fighting fit in the next day or two!
So last week things finally began to settle down after welcome week and my sights along with the rest of the sabbs turned towards the next term and what we plan to do.
- working on finalising plans for student parent coffee morning.
- ammended the terms of reference (the membership and aims) for the Equality and diversity committee that will go to the next guild council along with the election of 4 student representatives
working on plans for world aids day on the 1st December - some big ideas coming out of this but if anyone has any more suggestions on what we can do let me know.
- I also started thinking about this years multi-cultural festival. Myself and Fabian will be taking the lead on this event this year and had the opportunity to meet with the International Students Office (ISO) at the University to ensure that we were both on the same page with this and that we can move forward together in making sure this will be a great event. Provisional plans are now drafted and we are planning to run this event in Februrary so watch this space.
- This week I also attended a pre mediation meeting to represent a student, along with Appeals and and Misconduct cases the Offcer team can also offer support to students who are making a complaint to the University. If you are going through this process and would like some support please pop into the ARC anytime between 10-4 weekdays.
- I also took part in the final interviews for the ARC advisors this week and we all beleive we have found some great candidates that will hopefully be starting very soon
- Thursday saw me visit our Sattelite Site the Ironbridge institute, this was a great opportunity to meet the students we have over there, introduce the Guild and our services to them, and find out what we can do to make sure the Guild or at least the services that it provides are relevant to them. The institute is absolutely beautiful and the time that I spent over there was really productive in terms of some small changes that we can make that could make a big difference. We are also going to be looking at how we can make better provision for satellite students on our website. I can't wait to go back and visit again soon.
- Friday was a busy day with the Guild hosting the end of Mental Health Week Lunch. The disability support team and in particular the mental health adivsors at the University have run a packed week of events that tackled mental health isues and its stigma straight on! There was a lot of positive discussion that came from this and I am hoping to work a lot more closely during the next campaign which is being planned for March next year.
- Finally, I rounded off the week with a discussion about whether the Guild will allow the Medical School to advertise for Sperm and Egg donation in the Guild for fertility purposes. There is quite a lot to talk about with this so will blog seperately.
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