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You decide who runs your Union. Vote on the 7th, 8th, 9th or 10th of March and get your voice heard.

The Students’ Union’s role is to make your university experience the best it can be. Whether that means taking part in a club or society, receiving independ-ent advice on academic or other issues from the SU Advice Service, campaign-ing to improve Anglia Ruskin or just us-ing the SU Shop. The Students’ Union ensures that your rights as a student are always defended.

The SU is run by five annually elected students who have either just fin-ished their final year or are taking a year off from their studies. They’re paid £16,000 for a fixed term of one year to lead the union and work for you. These students are called the ‘Executive’ and they work alongside a team of full time staff who help ensure the Union represents the students’ at Anglia Ruskin and improves your university experience.

The Union is a democratic organisation which means the Executive, who have overall control of the SU, are chosen by you, the Union’s members. Any student can run in the election and no experience is necessary. The 5 Executive positions are; President, Communications, Student Experience Essex, Student Experience Cambridge and Academic Affairs.

Your vote is your voice and your vote will make real changes to the Stu-dents’ Union and the University as a whole. The decisions the Executive make will affect you whilst you’re here at Anglia Ruskin, no matter what course you’re on or how you study. Make sure you use your vote and make your voice heard!

You can vote online or in person from the 7th to the 10th March. All information is available on the SU website www.angliastudent.com/election

Students’ Union Elections Inside this issue:

SU Elections 1

Student Housing Fairs

2,3

Prize Winners 3

SU reintroduce hot food

4

Volunteering 4,5

Ruskin Gallery Events

6

Passionate Mid-wifery

7

Be an ambassa- 7

Sports 8,9

New Park & Ride 10

PG Study Eve-ning & Courses

11

MA Film & TV Production

12

Comic Relief 12

New Alumni 13

Judo Success 13

UL—More for 14

Firemen on Facebook

14

Academic Eng-lish Language Support

17

Graduate Em-ployment

15,16

Student Finance 16

For Your Information


March 2011 Edition No 3

http://www.angliastudent.com/election





Student Housing Fairs for Continuing Students

Thinking about your home for next academic year?

To help you, this year’s Accommodation Fairs will be held in:

Chelmsford, Thursday 3 March 2011, 13:00–15:00, Michael Ashcroft Reception

Anglia Ruskin University

Cambridge, Friday 4 March 2011, 13:00–15:00, Helmore Restaurant

The fair will coincide with the 2011/2012 private sector student accommodation listings launch on www.angliastudentpad.co.uk

You’ll be able to meet and compare agencies and landlords, and speak to other services such as the local council, police and environmental health. You can also collect information about house hunting including tenancy deposit schemes and what to do and where to go if things go wrong.

We would strongly advise you not to sign a contract for the next academic year until after you have attended the Accommodation Fair.

Please don’t feel pressured by landlords to accept the first property you see, and don’t sign a contract until you fully understand it. If you have any accommodation related questions please visit the Accommodation Offices (Eastings in Cambridge and Ashby House Chelmsford) or con-tact a SU adviser.

When you’re choosing a new home, the first thing you often have to do after seeing a property you like, is hand over your deposit. Be cautious about committing to a property too early.

When you do sign, you will be handing over a large sum of your much needed money. This em-phasises the importance of the decision, and you must be sure about both the property and the people you will be sharing with when you commit.

When you’re moving in, you should take a full inventory of the house and its contents, including taking photos of its condition as evidence. If the landlord has promised improvements, make sure they are added to the contract before you sign and pay your deposit, otherwise the landlord is un-der no obligation to make them.

When you leave the house, you must leave it as you found it and again take photographic evi-dence of its condition as disputes will be more easily resolved. Even if you have an inventory and photographs there may still be disputes. This is where the tenancy deposit scheme helps protect you.

You can also check out our online resources to help you find safe and secure accommodation.

We hope to see you at our Accommodation Fairs in March.

It CAN pay to have your say! Congratulations to Patrick Wright, a first year Life Sciences student! He took the time to fill in the online survey about his experiences of Freshers’ Week 2010 and won himself £150 in cash when his name was drawn in the prize draw.

Other lucky winners include 9 students each of whom have claimed their prize of a £25 Amazon Voucher. The students were selected at random (on our be-half) by i-Graduate for completing the International Student Barometer Ques-tionnaire. Have you got an email from Lizi Milne informing you of this win in your student email account and haven’t claimed your prize yet? Get checking, and if you have one, please forward it to me, [email protected]

http://www.angliastudentpad.co.uk/

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TenancyDeposit/index.htm

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/central/estates_facilities/accommodation_services/links_and_downloads/Private_rented_accommodation/Infomations_for_students.html

mailto:[email protected]

Hot food on the menu once again in SU Café, 1st Floor Tindal, Chelmsford


Volunteering Finds a New Home

The Chelmsford Café Bar is lo-cated on the first floor in the Tin-dal building and is open Monday – Friday from 08.00am.

During the day, the SU Cafe is the perfect place to meet up with friends, relax between classes or grab a well earned Starbuck’s coffee and quality snack while on the go.

The SU Cafe is now providing HOT FOOD. Look right to see the new menu.

Coming up in the SU Bar in the next few weeks:-

Wednesday SKINT! Most drinks £1, including select spirits, bot-tles and shots. Then take ad-vantage of our shuttle bus run to town and Free entry to Chi-cago’s Student night Spank, with more £1 drink offers.

Thursday:- Indie Night. An eve-ning dedicated to pure indie tracks through the eras. All the classics will be played (well some, all would take too long) Free entry

For several years the Community Development Office has run a volunteering referral service. Volunteering has provided our students with some amazing opportunities to gain valuable work experience in the local community. They have gained many transferable skills, such as organisation, communication and time management.

During the last two years we have seen a significant growth in students taking up volunteering. We have placed over 300 volunteers with charities and community groups in Cambridge and Chelmsford. The stu-dents have been involved in running local radio stations, helping at hospitals, befriending and mentoring, fundraising, financial and accounting assistance, teaching support and working with young offenders and

other vulnerable groups in society. We helped guide and support our students in choosing opportunities which benefit their academic learning and personal interest.

January 2011 sees the next step of the delivery of this exciting opportunity for our students as the function moves to the Students’ Union. As a front facing service to our student body this move provides the oppor-tunity to grow this important activity even further.

Community Development staff provided the SU with a comprehensive handover of processes, contacts and experience, and we are confident that the volunteering activity at Anglia Ruskin will be in good hands.

Community Development as a function has now merged with the External Liaison Team, and we are cur-rently developing an exciting new Community Outreach focus for this activity in line with our Corporate Plan – so watch this space.

External Liaison Team

Students’ Union Take Over Volunteering The Students’ Union is delighted to be taking over Volunteering and is excited about providing stu-dents with the opportunity to enhance their skills and to give them the extra attributes employers are looking for.

We are happy to welcome two new part-time members of staff to the Unions’ team who will be dedi-cated volunteer coordinators. They will be starting shortly and you will find them in Helmore 125, Cambridge, and the Student Activities Centre on the 1st floor of the Tindal building, Chelmsford.

Recognition for students’ volunteering is also essential; a Student Representative Accreditation mod-ule is currently being piloted through the University and it is hoped that over time the module will ap-pear on students’ transcripts to recognise time spent volunteering as a Student Rep. The Union hopes to roll this accreditation out to all students involved in any form of volunteering activity.

The Union plans to work with a variety of organisations to offer the students connections to a variety of business and community organisations to provide them with relevant volunteering opportunities to improve their employability. There is also scope for students to start up their own volunteering projects to gain project manage-ment and leadership skills.

The Union would also love to hear from Faculties so that we can target volunteering activity that fits with courses delivered and the expected career paths of our students.

Any students that are interested in volunteering can register their interest on the Students’ Union web-site: http://angliastudent.com/volunteering/hello

Or for more information please contact Jo Harbrow, Student Experience Manager (Activities): [email protected]



Ruskin Gallery Events

MA Printmaking Interim Show

Wed 16 - Thursday 24 March

Ruskin Gallery and Balcony

Private View: Thursday 17 March, 5pm

This exhibition provides an opportunity to view the work in pro-gress of artists from the MA Printmaking at Cambridge School of Art.

The show platforms the quality and diversity of work on the Masters degree programme and the creative directions of the individual artists. A wide range of print technologies are demonstrated in the work of stu-dents from across the programme. The work demonstrates the expanding potential of print media as a powerful image-making tool for fine art research and practice. The artists in the show come from a wide range of creative backgrounds, including fine art painting, design, illustration, photography and textiles. In each case however, they have been drawn towards printmaking as a dynamic research tool.

2011 Degree Show Auction

Monday 28 March

6pm start, viewing from 5pm

Ruskin Gallery

This annual fundraising event offers an opportu-nity to buy work by up-and-coming student art-ists and designers as well as Cambridge School of Art staff. Proceeds go to support the Degree Show for the graduating students.

Payment, to be made at the event, by cash or cheque only. Photograph shows auctioneer David Palmer encourages bidders at the 2010 auction.

Searle Award for Creativity Exhibition

Wednesday 30 March - Fri 1 April

Ruskin Gallery

Private View: Thur 31 March, 5pm

The annual Searle Award for Creativity, initiated by the great artist and alumnus Ronald Searle, aims to recognise excellence in any artistic discipline and is open to all students in Cambridge School of Art. Every

year, the chosen theme reflects an aspect of Searle’s wide-ranging artistic output as a graphic artist. The theme for 2011 is ‘Crisis’. The exhibition will feature the shortlisted artists’ work with the winner announced at the Private View.

A series of monthly extra curricular activities open to all midwifery students, midwives, mentors, academics and alumni will continue on:

Tuesday 22nd March (Fvh016)

Screening and discussion surrounding ‘A breech in the system: a natural breech against all odds’

Produced & directed by Karin Ecker

and

Wednesday 27th April (Fvh016)

Screening and discussion surrounding ‘Biological nurturing – laid back breastfeeding’ Suz-anne Colson

Both will take place at:

Anglia Ruskin University,

Victoria House,

Fulbourn,

Cambridge

Time: 1600 - 1800

Free to attend – to book a place email [email protected]


Passionate Midwifery 2011

Student Ambassadors needed in FHSC.

The Faculty of Health & Social Care are looking for motivated individuals to become Student Am-bassadors.

The role involves helping out at recruitment events including open days, welcome days, external conferences and events, taster days and acting as ambassadors to help promote the courses that the Faculty offers.

We are currently looking at signing up ambassadors who are studying nursing, midwifery, ODP, social work, social policy and youth and community work and to cover events at Chelmsford, Cambridge and Peterborough.

Pay starts from £6.90 an hour and all students must be registered with the Employment Bureau at Anglia Ruskin University.

For further information please contact [email protected]




Sports and Active Lifestyles (Chelmsford)

Fairtrade Football Match - In support of the Fairtrade fortnight;

The annual Fairtrade Football match will be on Monday 7th March,

5.30pm - 6.30pm at the Chelmsford County High School. If you are a student or member of staff and would like to get involved, whether you are a regular player or not, please come and see us at Mildmay or e-mail

[email protected]

Comic Relief Mile - Sunday 20th March.

Join us in this event for a great cause at Central Park in Chelmsford just a short distance away from our Rivermead campus.

If you don’t think you’re fit enough for these types of social jogging / running events, why not join us for our led Walk / Jog, Jog / Run sessions that will be taking place at lunchtimes and early evenings from Easter onwards.

If you prefer cycling, then join us for another great event on our Rivermead campus in Chelms-ford; The Little Havens Essex Countryside Bike Ride comes to us on Sunday 26th June. As well as offering an enjoyable but challenging 60 mile route, there is a very pleasant 25 mile route and a family 10 mile route. All these will start and finish from Anglia Ruskin, and as part of the wider BIKE WEEK organised by Chelmsford Borough Council, there will be all sorts of bike re-lated stalls and stands in and around our campus, to help inspire you.

Further details can be obtained from Mildmay or by emailing [email protected]

New Active Lifestyle classes to watch out for include;

Yoga

This is a great class to help you unwind and relax the body; Thursdays 5.15pm – 6.15pm, this class is aimed as an introduction to yoga, but is also suitable if you are experienced.

In addition to your active lifestyles or full membership, why not have a go at the following activi-ties;

Zumba (Pay class) A Latin American, calorie burning, easy to follow dance fitness class. Sign up for our free taster session on Saturday 26th February; 1pm – 2pm, if you enjoy that then sign up for our 6 week course.

Fitness for Females (Pay class); Simply, a fitness class that works on all the areas that ladies dislike the most. The class is designed for all levels. Tuesdays; 6pm – 7pm.

Hula Fit (Pay class); Hip swinging, body toning, waist trimming fun. Let the adult weighted hoops work their magic J

All these classes take place in our Sawyers Gym, but please check with us at Mildmay for spe-cific dates and times.




Sports and Active Lifestyles (Chelmsford)

Join us for our Bleep Test mayhem.

Ever wondered how far you can get in the renowned bleep test?

This is a great way to judge how much you have improved an aspect of your cardio vascular ability. Why not come along to the test and at the same time help an Anglia Ruskin Charity; Mission Croatia – a great cause!

Basketball

If you have an interest in basketball, come and get involved. We have regular Wednesday and Friday gatherings. Next year, we will be teaming up with Baddow Eagles providing access to high level basketball where you can play locally. We will also be arranging a couple of friendly games between March and May, but in the first instance come along and simply play basketball.

Cricket

If you have an interest in cricket and already play, please make contact with us. We are looking for cricketers to play in our six-a-side representative team and to help us go one better and make the Southern England Student Sports Association cricket cup finals this season. The tour-nament is played locally, and is an ‘all action style’ of cricket which engages quick thinking.

In addition, we will be looking to have a Staff V Students game on Wednesdays, this will be a ‘limited over’ affair starting around 5pm in late May early June – providing something to take your mind off exams.

Finally, regardless of whether you want to get involved in any of the above we will be running some indoor sessions under the watchful eye of a coach from Essex County Cricket Club. These will start in April and use both our indoor nets and space to improve your readiness for the new season.

Fun Rounders

On some sunny early evenings in May and June, we will be playing Rounders. If you are inter-esting in putting a team together you only require 9 players. Failing that, you can join one of these social teams; International Students, Chaplaincy, Student Services, Students Union or Faculties. If you don’t want to play, you can always come and watch

Rounders matches will be taking place on the grassed area opposite Tindal and Marconi from May onwards. Come and find out more, it really is great fun!

To find out more about any of the sport activities and Active Lifestyle classes, please contact Mildmay reception ext.4321 or email [email protected]

Remember: The Sports Hall is available for all to book, whether you are a member or not. So all the sports that you might just want to play with friends, are available to you, and we even have equipment that you can borrow.

Finally, Well Done! All our Sports teams here in Chelmsford; Football, Netball and Rugby are doing brilliantly in their leagues.


Do you live in the City of Cambridge? We’d like to remind you that our regulations state that no full-time students (Undergraduate or Postgraduate) are permitted to keep or drive a motor vehicle, other than a moped or motorcycle, in the City of Cambridge. This is with the exception of disabled students or students whose per-manent family home is within the City of Cambridge. This is a rule which applies to both Anglia Ruskin and Cambridge University students and is a condition imposed on us by the City Council Please be aware that Anglia Ruskin University will investigate all claims of the regulations being broken and, where appropriate, take necessary disciplinary action in line with our disciplinary procedure.

Please refer to clause 5e of the Rules, Regulations and Procedures for students, 16th edition April 2009, Amended July 2010 for the full regulations relating to car parking.


Students and Cars in Cambridge

Chelmer Valley Park and Ride—Coming Soon!

Good news, if you travel to our Chelmsford campus! Buses will start running between campus and the new Chelmer Valley Park and Ride from 1 April.

Chelmsford’s second park and ride site will be located to the east of Essex Regiment Way (accessed from Pratts Farm Roundabout).

Seven hundred spaces will be available, as well as covered cycle parking facilities for 20 bikes. The Park and Ride buses will come straight to our doorstep on Chelmsford campus to help make commuting in easier.

We are thrilled by the opening of the new park and ride, which will help to alleviate local air pollu-tion, congestion and pressures on limited parking - in turn reducing our travel carbon footprint. At Anglia Ruskin we are firmly committed to doing all we can to reduce the environmental impact of traffic travelling to our university. One of our core values is to ensure that concern for a sustain-able environment informs every aspect of what we do. This encompasses travel to and from our campuses, and the activity taking place within them.

We have worked in partnership with Essex County Council to make this possible, and invested in major road works at and near our campus over the past year. Since January, we have been straightening the main campus road to allow the buses to come through. Last Summer, we built the Chelmer Valley Road junction to create a priority route-way to our campus for the buses.

Buses will run from 7am until after 9pm. Over the coming months, the council will build bus stops with real-time information.

Fares will be £2.20 return, £11 weekly and £42 monthly.

See timetables, and find out more about smart travel to all of our campuses at

www.anglia.ac.uk/travel

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/travel


Postgraduate Study Information Event

Come and have a chat about postgraduate study.

In a difficult job market a postgraduate qualification could give you the upper hand. Find out more about our range of full and part-time postgraduate courses at our next Postgraduate Information

Event:

Tuesday 22 March 2011

4.30pm – 7.00pm

Cambridge & Chelmsford Campuses

For more information, click: www.anglia.ac.uk/pgevent

Postgraduate Arts Courses

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/pgevent


New MA Film and Television Production course wins Channel 4 support Our new, year-long MA in Film and Television Production will run from September 2011. Taught by lecturers with years of experience in the BBC, Channel 4 and the independent TV sector, this Master’s degree will give you the media skills to communicate your subject to the world. Its focus is on factual pro-gramming: documentaries, educational programming, programming for campaigns. You will learn: how to produce broadcast-standard films; how to research your audiences; how to design, produce and direct programmes; all of the financial and commercial aspects of programme making that will equip you to sur-vive and prosper as a producer.

Working in groups, you will produce increasingly-complex programmes, culminating in a pilot for a re-searched and business-cased programme or series. You will this complete the course with a saleable as-set at your disposal.

As well as expert teaching from our own staff, you will have additional lectures and seminars, in Cam-bridge and London, from Channel 4’s editorial and business staff. They will also look at your proposals. 4Rights, the commercial arm of Channel 4, will make funds available to develop those pitches which it considers justify investment. Thus you will have privileged access to an important source of potential funding.

Dr David Hoyle, MA Convenor said of this link with Channel 4:

‘We’re delighted that Channel 4 and 4Rights have kindly offered to support our new MA in Film and Televi-sion Production. Having inputs and insights from experts at the heart of the TV world is a massive bonus for our students. And 4Rights’ kind offer to provide development funding for students whose work they consider worthy of investment is a huge benefit for this degree.’

The MA has also won support elsewhere in the industry with former Executive Producer for BBC Televi-sion and Managing Director of EfS Television Production Ltd, Peter Walton describing the course as ‘exactly the kind of degree the industry needs.’

For an informal discussion about this MA, please call Dr David Hoyle, Cambridge School of Art, on 0845 196 2087

Student Services Staff to support Comic Relief

Look out for Student Services staff in Chelmsford who will be dressing up and shaking their tins for Comic Relief on Friday 18th March.

If you can spare a bit of loose change, it will go to help people in need.

The photo here shows how they dressed in a previous attempt to raise money for Comic Relief (not the new Student Services Uni-form!!!)


New award for Cambridge School of Art Alumni

Wysing Arts Centre have teamed up with Cambridge School of Art to offer graduates from our BA (Hons) Photography the opportunity to win the inaugural Topham Award.

The award is

a year’s funded studio space at Wysing Arts Centre, an architect-designed venue near Bourn, 8 miles from Cambridge.

studio support from artist Matthew Topham, after whom the award has been named, and

a solo exhibition in conjunction with Anglia Ruskin University towards the end of the residency.

Wysing Arts Centre is located in the countryside outside Cambridge and has 10 separate buildings in-cluding studio buildings, specialist new media facilities, a large gallery, education facilities and a 17th cen-tury farmhouse. Wysing supports artists to maintain their careers and explore new ways of working to-gether and with audiences. The centre is accessible by hourly buses between Cambridge and Bourn.

The winner of the Topham Award, to be announced in March, will be selected by a panel consisting of Donna Lynas, Director of Wysing Arts Centre, Kerstin Hacker, Pathway Leader BA (Hons) Photography, Anglia Ruskin University, and Mr William Topham and his son Matthew Topham.

For more information please contact: Katie Hanlon at Wysing Arts Centre by emailing [email protected]

Danny and Josh Celebrate double success at British Judo Trials Congratulations to two of our students who did really well at the recent Brit-ish Judo Trials in Sheffield.

Danny Williams who is studying BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching (European Judo Union) won the senior men’s U73kg class. He is a member of Team 2012, a programme designed to support talented young athletes in the run up to the London Olympics and is combining studying at Anglia Ruskin with training full time at Camberley Judo Club in Surrey. The British No 1, origi-nally from Wolverhampton is hoping to build on a successful 2010 season when he finished seventh in the European Championships as well as repre-senting Great Britain in the World Judo Championships in Tokyo (Photo of Danny by Mike Varey, official photographer for the British Judo Associa-tion).

Josh Plant who is studying (Bsc (Hons) Sports Coaching and Physical Education at University Centre, Peterborough (UCP) , won a bronze medal in the U100kg division. Origi-nally from Leicester and a member of the Red Phoenix Judo Club, Josh’s success will see him move up from the England Squad to the Great Britain Under 20’s squad. (Sorry, no photo of Josh to include here).

Well Done Guys — Keep up the good work!


Out of hours IT support for students now 24/7 and 365 days

We really are here to help if you’ve got an IT problem, or have forgotten your password etc..! You can now call our IT Support line (0845 196 6600 or 0845 196 6601) or send us an e-mail ([email protected]) at any time of the day or night including on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Thanks to a new part-nership agreement, your call will be answered by the out-of-hours service at Northumbria University. Professional IT staff there have been given full access to Anglia Ruskin University systems in order to assist you whenever you need them.

Book an Appointment with your Librarian

Having trouble in finding the information you need to help with your assignment or research? Why not book an appointment with your librarian? We have recently introduced a new automated system to book a 30 minute consultancy appointment with your librarian. Simply access the service from our website, choose your preferred time and librarian, and take advantage of expert advice tailored to your specific needs.

Easter opening hours

Easter is holiday time, but for students it is also hand-in stress time! This year it has all come together: Easter, Royal Wedding, May Bank Holiday - and deadlines. Because of this, just for this year we are ex-tending our twenty-four hour opening at Cambridge and Chelmsford over this period.

Full details are on the University Library website, but basically we are opening:

twenty-four hours Monday 18 - Wednesday 20 April, Tuesday 26 - Wednesday 27 April and Tuesday 3 - Thursday 5 May

till 12 midnight on Thursday 21 April and Thursday 28 April

twelve hours daily (self-service only) Friday 22 - Monday 25 April and Friday 29 April - Monday 2 May

Could take some of the pressure off! Full semester service will resume on Friday 6 May.


University Library, Here to help – even more!

Firemen on Facebook to keep you safe….

Green Watch at Cambridge Fire Station has launched a Facebook page to help them communicate with stu-dents in the city.

They aim to build a rapport with students in the city and to encourage you to think more carefully about fire safety and evacuation.

The page is designed to raise awareness of fire safety with you, in a fun and educational way.

They will be delivering snippets of fire safety advice, together with news about the firefighters on their watch. They want you to stay safe, not feel lectured (lectures are our job!)

Examples of the posts already on the Facebook page include:

Dry your washing at all costs?!.



Red watch attended a fire in student accommodation. It appeared the occupant was hanging T-Shirts to dry over a one bar electric heater. The clothes burnt through, then fell on the floor & continued to burn.

Their advice: Use the laundry room - They understand it's difficult to get your washing dry in this weather but this isn't the way to do it!! Fortunately no-one was hurt this time.

The watch have planned the year ahead and will be focusing on a differ-ent college each month. Using the Facebook page will help to promote events, post photographs and discuss events afterwards with you.

It will also give them the opportunity to post surveys/questionnaires in order to get feedback to ensure the fire safety message is getting across.

Events will include kitchen fire safety demonstrations and exercises, so you can practice evacuating quickly and safety from the building during a mock fire.

Firefighters also carry out familiarisation visits of its key buildings as – in the event of fire – it is vital that firefighters are aware of the layout and content of the buildings and can locate water supplies.

To become a fan of Green Watch on Facebook, go to www.facebook.com and search for ‘Green Watch – Cambridge Fire Station

Supporting your journey - student to graduate recruit!

Josh Moore graduated from the Ashcroft International Busi-ness School, Chelmsford in 2010 with a BSc (Hons) Market-ing and, with the help of the Employment Bureau team, he started work as a Marketing Executive within weeks of com-pleting his exams. So, what’s the secret of Josh’s success in finding the perfect graduate job?

Josh had worked on a part-time, temporary basis via the Employment Bureau since 2008; his first job was as an extra on an episode of Police, Camera, Action! filmed in Chelmsford by Optomen TV. The subse-quent roles were not quite so glamorous: call centre operator, events assistant, graduation catering assis-tant, administrator etc. However, as Josh says, “I have been provided with numerous jobs which have supported me throughout my studies, kept my bank balance topped-up and offered many great experi-ences which all looked very good on my CV. I learnt a lot of people skills, boosted my career confidence and was prepared for the road ahead”.

In early 2010, Josh approached the Employment Bureau to work with him on finding a permanent job when he graduated. The team knew Josh well and talked with him to clarify the type of job he was aiming for as the first step on his career journey. When an Ipswich-based IT firm placed a vacancy for a Market-ing Executive with the Employment Bureau their consultants knew Josh was a great match; not only in terms of his academic qualifications, but also the skills and experience he acquired whilst doing part-time work.

After a couple of interviews, Josh was offered the job and started in July 2010. “The Employment Bureau found me a job working in marketing, which is a brilliant experience. Since getting the job, they have kept in close contact to ensure everything is ok, which is really good. I recommend the Employment Bureau service to every student”.

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If you're a full-time student and are going back to university or college in

autumn 2011, it’s time to apply for your student finance. Don’t wait, log in to your Student Fi-

nance account today and apply now!

If you’re applying for student finance that doesn’t depend on your household income, and your

circumstances haven’t changed, Student Finance England will send you a form that you just

need to sign and post back.


If you are graduating this year, remember it is never too early to start preparing yourself for finding work.

What you can do NOW!

Come along to the Employment Bureau in Ashcroft Recep-tion, Chelmsford or Helmore 109, Cambridge to pick up a registration form and book an appointment with a recruitment consultant to discuss your career aspirations and find out about vacancies with regional employers.

You can also email your CV to the Employment Bureau consultants: [email protected], Chelmsford and [email protected], Cambridge.

Also here to offer you advice and guidance are the Employability and Careers teams who have offices in Chelmsford (2nd floor, Tindal) and Cambridge (Helmore 341). Employability Advisors can help you with

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What would YOU like to see in this newsletter? I would love to hear what sort of things you would like to read about either in this newsletter or any other publication aimed at students. You may like to consider whether it can or should be used to

promote events organised by clubs and societies,

advertise for willing subjects for your research projects,

let people know of your successes in sports, arts etc or

anything else you think our university should be communicating to you

Let me know what you think by calling 0845 196 2415 or by emailing me at

[email protected] or [email protected]






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