Last month Sheffield Hallam were delighted to launch their newly established Hallam Fund telephone campaign, which aims to raise money to support our students and academics.

If you received a phone call from one of Sheffield Hallam’s student callers they’d like to thank you for your time and for your support. They were delighted with the positive responses they received from alumni and they successfully managed to secure over £73,000 in pledged donations – an incredible start to the Hallam Fund campaign.

These donations will help fund bursaries and scholarships for students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds; they will help to ensure students can take up career enhancing opportunities and will support Sheffield Hallam’s world-changing applied research.

To find out more about how Sheffield Hallam will use these donations to change lives follow them on Twitter, or visit our Facebook page.

If you would like to make a donation, please visit – shu.ac.uk/giving

When you complete your course(s), you may continue to access IT facilities provided by Student Learning Services for approximately 3 months.

After this, your usercode will be disabled. You will still be able to access some services, including My Student Record, email (via http://mail.my.shu.ac.uk/), and library facilities as an external borrower.

If you’re finishing a Master’s dissertation, your usercode will not be disabled until you have submitted your work and it has been assessed.

We cannot extend your access rights once you have officially completed all your courses as we need to free up the resources for new students.

Continuing students

If you’re likely to be returning to what is essentially a continuation of the same course (E.g. Certificate to Diploma, HND to BSc) you shouldn’t have to do anything and will continue to be able to use your usercode as long as your Faculty is aware that you are transferring to the new course.

If you’re returning to a completely different course in a different Faculty (E.g. BSc to PGCE), you should be able to keep your existing homespace and existing external email address (E.g. j.bloggs@student.shu.ac.uk) as well as the contents of your current Google mailbox and address book.

Please bear in mind, though, that homespace is an area for “work in progress”, not a permanent storage area. You are encouraged to back up your work to USB sticks, CD-ROMs, or internet-based storage regularly, especially if you are in what might be regarded as a “course finished” position at this time of year.