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⚠️SNOW
Following 0.2inch of snowfall overnight, all campus roads are closed and most heating has shut down. Please avoid all automatic doors as they are stuck on full speed. The library is partially flooded, and a fire has broken out at… (1/12)
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Repeated suggestion from Hunt that he's acting to protect most vulnerable. No mention of (and no measures for) students as usual. Be interesting if Treasury docs justify the most vulnerable households claim, or whether students have been missed out of the DWP analysis as usual.
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Today @elliebgomersall spoke at a @million_plus event at #SNP22 with @jamiehepburn who recommitted to raising the total package of student support to the real Living Wage. #FightingForStudents
ALT Ellie Gomersall with Minister for Further and Higher Education Jamie Hepburn MSP at the SNP conference, holding a sign that says "I'm fighting for students."
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Tomorrow 115,000 brave postal workers will strike and take on the multi millionaire bosses once again.
They kept the country connected during the pandemic and now need your support.
RT if you stand with your postie.
#StandByYourPost
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We are at the STUC rally!! Scotland’s students demands a pay rise! #studentsdeservebetter #workersdeservebetter #freezestudentrent #STUCrally
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Student mental health crisis: with over 2000 students on waiting lists for counselling, we need the government to urgently confirm clear long-term funding for counsellors in our colleges and universities. 👇
thenational.scot/news/206851…
Loving the @nusconnect Elections 22 Playback session at the Membership Services Conference ❤️ #MSConf22 #LoveSUs
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I can't begin to explain the chaos this is going to cause in HE
NEWS: It gets worse!
I've just got uodated price cap predictions from @CornwallInsight.
The latest spike in year-ahead wholesale price means the OCT cap prediction is now UP 78% (so £3,500/yr on typical bills) & likely up again in Jan.
Its will be desperate. Intervention needed
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😡 The cost of living crisis has students on the brink, cutting back, racking up debt and using food banks - and are now in another summer without support.
Help us DEMAND a Student Summer Payment, sign our petition: nus-scotland.org.uk/campaign…
ALT Text reads: students are at breaking point over the cost of living. 96% of students are cutting back, a third have less than £50 to live on after paying rent and bills, 90% say crisis is affecting their mental health, 11% are using food banks. Results of NUS survey of 3,500 students, June 2022.
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Committed to quality and interested in shaping the strategic vision of QAA?
We're recruiting an independent student board member. This position is open to:
👉 Current students (undergraduate & postgraduate)
👉 Elected student officers
Closes 18 Aug
cezanneondemand.intervieweb.…
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It’s giving SU Officer candidates flyering outside the SU Advice Centre
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🚨 NEW: Students are at breaking point over the Cost of Living.
A UK-wide survey of 3,500 students has found that they're cutting back on food, getting into debt and struggling to afford their education.
Students need urgent support. Sign if you agree 👉 nus.org.uk/campaign-hub/cost…
There are two vacancies in our team at Edinburgh University Students' Association! Check them out:
Academic Engagement Coordinator: lnkd.in/eVGtC4Hx
Student Voice Administrator: lnkd.in/ehBWr9fb
#lovesus
