{"id":2583,"date":"2015-12-08T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2015-12-08T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:21:04","slug":"this-weeks-news-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/this-weeks-news-28\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s news"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/tag\/monday-7-december-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday\u00a08 December 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>Make friends from around the world at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/12\/07\/christmas-conversation-club-wednesday-9th-december\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Conversation Club<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday 9 December.<\/li>\n<li>Staying in Sheffield over Christmas? Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/12\/07\/staying-in-sheffield-over-christmas-2015-join-our-vacation-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\">events booklet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Join <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/19\/a-chance-for-you-to-meet-with-a-local-british-family-join-host\/?doing_wp_cron=1448022410.9823989868164062500000\" target=\"_blank\">HOST UK <\/a>and meet with a local British family!<\/li>\n<li>Can you sing, dance, play an instrument? Perform at our festival and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/20\/perform-at-our-festival-and-showcase-your-talent-2\/\">showcase your talent<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Want to join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/international\/global\/projects\/culture-connect\/\">Culture Connect mentoring scheme<\/a>? The next intake will be in January. Apply now to be added to the waiting list.<\/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>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\/student-voice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Student voice<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Help us with our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/20\/international-student-health-project\/?doing_wp_cron=1448022185.5381469726562500000000\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Relationships Project<\/a>\u00a0by completing our anonymous survey.<\/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>Tuesday\u00a08 December 2015 Social Make friends from around the world at Christmas Conversation Club\u00a0on Wednesday 9 December. Staying in Sheffield over Christmas? Check out our events booklet. Join HOST UK and meet with a local British family! Can you sing, dance, play an instrument? Perform at our festival and showcase your talent Want to join &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/this-weeks-news-28\/\" 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":2587,"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":[92],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welcome","tag-monday-7-december-2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2015\/12\/1623713_649364595144660_1238486553_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-FF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","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=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}