Please take your time to look at the numerous Robb College scholarships that are offered to first year residents, closing dates commence from late November.

If you require further information or would like to provide feedback on Open Day, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

A School Leave’s Guide to Robb College

School Leave’s Guide to Robb College.pdf

Are you a potential student?

If you are a potential student - soak up as much information as you can for your Open Day Experience Blog Competition entry. You can either do a blog or photo blog on UNExtra about your Open Day to win a great Get Set Up in Armidale pack, including great offers and gifts from local businesses, such as a funky picnic pack from Newcastle Permanent and a free an oil & filter service and safety check from Hardmans of Armidale, and gift vouchers for textbooks from the United Campus.

2009 Robb College Art & Craft Exhibition

Conditions Of Exhibition

Entry Form

Exhibit Form

Cheers,

Robb McCollege

The online Photo Album has been updated with photographs from 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006 check out the online page for new photos around the college; especially the July 2008 snow photographs that the college took during midsemmester. The snow was quite amazing! In summary the album contains the following:

2009

• Freshers O-week
• Fresher Match

2008

• July Snow

2007

• Introductory Dinner
• Academic Dinner
• Court Debates Inter Court
• Parent-Student Weekend
• Project Week (rollerblading)
• Vice-Chancellor Dinner
• Rural Focus Dinner
• Valedictory Dinner
• Scenes and Developments
• College Pictures

2006

• Christmas Quiz
• Parent-Student Weekend
• Valedictory Dinner

During the year we will be updating the album with 2009 photographs. If you have photographs please talk to Rainsey or the Robb College office to have them uploaded online for the official Photo Album. The link to the Photo Album is location on the Robb College homepage and under the Current Members subsection of the Robb College website, and on this blog under links.

Cheers,
Robb McCollege

Hope you all had great holidays and are looking forward to a fun filled 2nd semester! The upcoming MB dates are as follows:

Sunday 3rd August - Basketball, Sport UNE
Sunday 17th August - Lawn Bowls, Armidale Bowling Club
Friday 29th August - Run Swim, Consett Davis, UNE Pool (5:30pm start)
Sunday 31st August - Touch Football, Bellevue

Note:

- We decided not to nominate for Water Polo due to Robb Ball Recovery (so we will have to try extra hard to maintain our leading position!)

- Dates for Netball and the Hodson Relay are yet to be determined.

So lets get out there and have some fun, everyone is welcome and it would be nice to see some new faces out on the field.

Good Luck,

Spotty

The new printing system has arrived at all the colleges and university wide – including the Dixon Library and Robb! Please refer to the ITD booklet found here to setup your UNE Student Card with the system. Printed copies of the booklet are available and are kept with the new Multi-Functional Devices, please refer to them when setting up your UNE Student Card, and please do not remove the booklets from the computer lab or office.

Currently the costs for students are:

Printing and copying charged at:
$0.12 per A4 black&white, and
$0.24 per A3 b&w and A4 colour.

Scanning to email is free of charge.

Please refer to the UNE ITD website for additional help by click here or alternatively call extension 5000 for printing help.

In simple English the once off steps to use your UNE Student Card are:

1. If you have not changed your password this year (2008) using MyUNE (http://my.une.edu.au/) you will need to change your password.
2. Enter your UNE Username using the keyboard and press ‘Enter’ when complete.

   Note: special characters, such as ‘!’, ‘@’ $ etc can be accessed the following two ways:
   A. Hold down the shift button and press the number key that corresponds to your character.
   B. If your character is not displayed on the keyboard press and release the ‘Hold’ button to display an onscreen list of all characters. Use the ‘F1’ and ‘F2’ buttons to move left and right then press ‘Enter’ to select the character. Press ‘Hold’ to return to the password screen.

3. Enter your UNE password using the keyboard and press ‘Enter’ when complete.
4. Press ‘F3’ button to select ‘More’.
5. Press ‘F1’ button to select ‘PINs’.
6. Swipe your UNE Student Card again.
7. Swipe your UNE Student Card again to confirm your PIN.
8. Once ‘PIN update complete’ is displayed press ‘F2’ to end your interactions!

Please note: If steps 6 and 7 do not work your UNE Student Card may be faultily and will be replaced free of charge. Contact the Robb College office or ITD if this occurs for help.

Cheers, Robb McCollege

This blog will in the next few weeks become a glimpse and collection of your favorite love stories, news, events and of course; your source of gossip, hints and experiences from North, South and West court to ensure you’re in the know and keeping it real @ Robb – remember your mark will remain here, in the blog achieves for decades to come and look back on!

This space, the Robb College Blog is to replace the Robbers Newsletter but be assured it will have the usual favorite sections featured from Robbers to keep all of you out there updated on the news, reviews and reminders.

The Robbers Newsletter will also be continuing, however, it will cover upcoming events here at our great college – what to expect and hints to cope…

What new stuff will you see on this space?
Quotes, pictures, saying etc from your favorite blogging team; which consist of SHAPES reps, Resident Fellows, Academic Assistants and JCR position holders. That’s over 25 people to report back to you.

So after an event, check back here on the blog for a run down on what happen with classic moments and highlights from your friends and mine.

So now thats all out of the way lets get this blog rollin’…..

Robb McCollege

Friday 16th May 2008

• The 21st Annual Robb College Art and Craft Exhibition Opening Night
  To be held in the Junior Common Room (JCR), from 6pm.

Saturday 17th May 2008

• Netball - University of New England Competition To be held at Sport UNE Netball Courts: Games from 9am to 12pm.

• Rugby - New England Rugby Union Competition Robb College Vs St Alberts College To be held at Bellevue Oval, UNE.

• The 21st Annual Art and Craft Exhibition
  will be open from 10am-2pm Cost gold coin donation.

• The 21st Annual Parent Student Ball
  To be held at the Wright Centre, University of New England
  6:30pm for 7:00pm Buses will be leaving from the information centre
  1st bus - 6:15pm, and
  2nd bus -6:45pm.
  Parking is discourage, as limited parking is available.
  There will be busses returning to the information centre from 12:30am.

Sunday 18th May 2008

• Robb Women’s Sport Association Brunch
  To be held in the Robb College Court yard from 9:30 am.

• The 21st Annual Art and Craft Exhibition
  will be open from 10am-2pm Cost gold coin donation.

• Mary Bagnall (MB) & President’s Trophy (PT)

For additional infomation please call the Robb College office, or click here to complete an online enquiry form. Gosh, looking forward to meeting everyone!

Cheers, Robb McCollege.

Parent/ Student Weekend -
Friday 18 May to Sunday 20 May

Art & Craft Exhibition Opening -
Friday 18 May - Smart Casual

Dinner Dance/Auction -
Saturday 19 May - Black Tie/Formal

Vice-Chancellor’s/Faculty
Dinner -
Tuesday 7 August - Black Tie/Formal

Robb College Ball -
Saturday 18 August – Back Tie/Formal

Robb Recovery -
Sunday 19 August - Casual

Debating Final/Inter-Court
Public Speaking Final Buffet -
Tuesday 21 August - Semi-Formal

Robb College Rural Focus
Dinner -
Tuesday 11 September - Semi-Formal

Valedictory Dinner -
Tuesday 16 October - Black Tie/Formal

President’s Changeover/
Sporting Awards Buffet -
Tuesday 30 October - Semi-Formal

Members of Robb College I am delighted to announce that Jan Moran has accepted an invitation to serve as Head of Robb College. Jan has already served the College very well and I know she has great support in Robb. I thank Jan for agreeing to take on this important task and I wish her well.Professor David Rich
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Academic)

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Using Outlook/ Outlook Express,

Step 1# Download RSS Popper and Install RSS Propper addon.
Step 2# Open outlook/express and press “Alt + P” followed by “E”
Step 3# Select all listed and click “Delete”
Step 4# Click “New >>”, Select “RSS/Atom Feed…”
Step 5# Copy this URL into the selected textbox: http://blog.une.edu.au/robb/feed/#
Step 6# Click Ok
Step 7# Click “RSS is OFF” until “RSS is ON” appears

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Using Outlook 2007,

Step 1# Select tools, Account settings, Tab “RSS Feeds”
Step 2# Select “New..” and copy the following URL into the textbox: http://blog.une.edu.au/robb/feed/#
Step 3# Select Add, select OK

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Now your Email program will recieve Live updates from the Robb Blog via Email. Where Menus, events, results, weekly updates and helpful posts will be appearing forming the Robb Newsletter! Your first source for infomation for the Robb College community.

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