{"id":2491,"date":"2015-11-06T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2015-11-06T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T12:02:49","slug":"this-weeks-news-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/this-weeks-news-26\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s news"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/tag\/friday-6-november\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friday 6 November 2015<\/a><\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/social-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Perform at our festival and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/06\/perform-at-our-festival-and-showcase-your-talent\/\" target=\"_blank\">showcase your talent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/05\/diwali-celebrations-at-a-community-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrate Diwali<\/a>\u00a0at a local community centre in Sheffield &#8211; it&#8217;s the brightest Hindu festival.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/05\/experience-british-culture-trips\/\">Experience British culture<\/a> by attending our trips to Edinburgh and Cambridge.<\/li>\n<li>Come along to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/05\/british-cultural-event-18-november-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Cultural Event<\/a> on the 18 November. There&#8217;ll be live performances, a quiz and British food!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/employability\/\" target=\"_blank\">Employability<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you taking part in extracurricular activities whilst studying at Sheffield Hallam? Apply for <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/06\/sign-up-for-hallam-award\/?doing_wp_cron=1446807382.5838029384613037109375\" target=\"_blank\">Hallam Award<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Apply for ICE Club and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/10\/27\/recruiting-for-international-experience-ambassadors-for-ice-club\/\" target=\"_blank\">become an International Experience Ambassador<\/a>\u00a0for the University.<\/li>\n<li>Are you interested in working full-time in the UK after you graduate?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/10\/12\/want-to-work-in-the-uk-after-your-studies-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Working in the UK after studies<\/a>\u00a0sessions provide information about Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 5 visa routes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\">Support<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Get help with masters level study with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/10\/12\/help-with-study-at-university-level\/\" target=\"_blank\">Masterclass<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/student-voice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Student voice<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>We are launching a new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/05\/new-project-healthy-relationships\/\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Relationships Project<\/a> &#8211; please help us by completing our anonymous survey.<\/li>\n<li>Want a free hot drink? Complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/06\/2486\/?doing_wp_cron=1446807256.2634029388427734375000\" target=\"_blank\">Student Barometer Survey<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Are you feeling festive and creative? Do you need some Christmas cash?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/10\/26\/are-you-feeling-festive-and-creative-do-you-need-some-christmas-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take part in the Christmas card competition<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Are you amazing at cooking? Help create an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/06\/help-create-an-international-recipe-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Recipe Book<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/immigration\/?doing_wp_cron=1443603548.2131049633026123046875\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/10\/12\/is-your-visa-due-to-expire-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is your\u00a0visa due to expire soon?<\/a>\u00a0If\u00a0so, you must attend a group session.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Experience Team<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 6 November 2015 Social Perform at our festival and showcase your talent Celebrate Diwali\u00a0at a local community centre in Sheffield &#8211; it&#8217;s the brightest Hindu festival. Experience British culture by attending our trips to Edinburgh and Cambridge. Come along to our British Cultural Event on the 18 November. There&#8217;ll be live performances, a quiz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/this-weeks-news-26\/\" 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":2495,"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":[75],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welcome","tag-friday-6-november"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2015\/11\/12185103_936941543053568_7489543853388032578_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-Eb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}