{"id":1173,"date":"2015-02-03T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2015-02-03T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:32:52","slug":"this-weeks-news-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/this-weeks-news-10\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s news"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/tag\/tuesday-3-february-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday 3 February 2015<\/a><\/h3>\n<h5><span style=\"font-style: inherit\">In this week\u2019s edition\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/social-activities\/\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit\">Social<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/01\/31\/shu-fest-is-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\">SHU Fest<\/a> is coming!!! It&#8217;s the biggest cultural festival at Sheffield Hallam, including\u00a0live music, singing performances and cookery demonstrations.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">We introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/01\/29\/join-global-community-a-new-student-society\/?doing_wp_cron=1422962344.3177819252014160156250\" target=\"_blank\">Global Community<\/a>, a new student group which hosts cultural workshops, networking events and monthly socials for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cultureconnectshu\" target=\"_blank\">Culture Connect<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">Take part in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/02\/03\/language-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Language Week<\/a>, there will be performances, workshops and talks.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">Join our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/01\/31\/join-global-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Friends project <\/a>to experience British culture.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">Check out our extensive<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/events-65\/\" target=\"_blank\"> events calendar<\/a> for other activities\u00a0and trips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/student-voice\/\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit\">Student Voice<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/01\/31\/shu-goglobal-blog-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Create a blog <\/a>about your global experience and you could win an iPad mini.<\/li>\n<li>Fancy winning \u00a3250?<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/02\/03\/want-to-win-250\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Complete a survey<\/a> by the British Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"font-style: inherit\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/employability\/\">Employability<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">Improve your business acumen with ICE Club Xtra&#8217;s \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/02\/03\/ice-club-xtra-decisions-decisions\/?doing_wp_cron=1422962693.2803781032562255859375\" target=\"_blank\">Decisions, Decisions <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/02\/03\/ice-club-xtra-the-pizza-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Pizza Game<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/support\/\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit\">Support<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Feeling stressed? Find out how you can improve your concentration with this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/02\/03\/introduction-to-mindfulness\/?doing_wp_cron=1422962988.8220329284667968750000\" target=\"_blank\">introduction to mindfulness<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/immigration\/\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit\">Immigration<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/01\/29\/is-your-visa-due-to-expire-soon-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is your visa due to expire soon?\u00a0<\/a>You must attend a group session.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">If you are interested in working full-time in the UK after you graduate, then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/01\/29\/want-to-work-in-the-uk-after-your-studies-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Working in the UK after studies<\/a><a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/01\/09\/want-to-work-in-the-uk-after-studies\/\">\u00a0<\/a>sessions provide information about Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 5 visa routes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/internationalstudentsbulletin\/category\/support-team\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: inherit\">International Student Support Team<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 3 February 2015 In this week\u2019s edition\u2026 Social SHU Fest is coming!!! It&#8217;s the biggest cultural festival at Sheffield Hallam, including\u00a0live music, singing performances and cookery demonstrations. We introduce Global Community, a new student group which hosts cultural workshops, networking events and monthly socials for Culture Connect. Take part in Language Week, there will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/this-weeks-news-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This week&#8217;s news<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welcome","tag-tuesday-3-february-2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2015\/02\/Selfie2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-iV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}