{"id":2614,"date":"2015-12-22T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2015-12-22T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:26:09","slug":"this-weeks-news-festive-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/this-weeks-news-festive-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s news &amp; festive greetings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/tag\/monday-7-december-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Tuesday\u00a022 December 2015<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Firstly, all in the International Experience Team would like to wish you a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/12\/22\/a-merry-christmas-from-your-international-experience-team\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">Merry Christmas<\/span>! <\/a><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/social-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Social<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you staying in Sheffield over Christmas? Check out our <u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/12\/22\/trips-over-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">events post<\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/u><span style=\"color: #000000\">and get involved in some activities!<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Want to win \u00a350? Have a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/12\/22\/photo-competition-your-chance-to-win-50\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">fantastic photo\u00a0competition!<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Can you sing, dance, play an instrument? Perform at our festival and <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/20\/perform-at-our-festival-and-showcase-your-talent-2\/\"><u>showcase your talent<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Want to join <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/international\/global\/projects\/culture-connect\/\"><u>Culture Connect mentoring scheme<\/u><\/a><\/span>? The next intake will be in January. Apply now to be added to the waiting list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/employability\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Employability<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you taking part in extracurricular activities whilst studying at Sheffield Hallam? Apply for <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/06\/sign-up-for-hallam-award\/?doing_wp_cron=1446807382.5838029384613037109375\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Hallam Award<\/u><\/a>!<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Are you interested in working full-time in the UK after you graduate?\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/10\/12\/want-to-work-in-the-uk-after-your-studies-6\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Working in the UK after studies<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>sessions provide information about Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 5 visa routes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/student-voice\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Student voice<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Help us with our\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2015\/11\/20\/international-student-health-project\/?doing_wp_cron=1448022185.5381469726562500000000\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Healthy Relationships Project<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">by completing our anonymous survey.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/immigration\/?doing_wp_cron=1443603548.2131049633026123046875\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Immigration<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/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\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Is your\u00a0visa due to expire soon<\/span>?<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0If\u00a0so, you must attend a group session.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/category\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Experience Team<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday\u00a022 December 2015 Firstly, all in the International Experience Team would like to wish you a Merry Christmas! Social Are you staying in Sheffield over Christmas? Check out our events post and get involved in some activities! Want to win \u00a350? Have a look at our fantastic photo\u00a0competition! Can you sing, dance, play an instrument? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/this-weeks-news-festive-greetings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This week&#8217;s news &amp; festive greetings!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3036,"featured_media":2608,"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":[94],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welcome","tag-tuesday-22-december-2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2015\/12\/12341308_860936607336891_2339872681864981199_n-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-Ga","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","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=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}