The Student Support Team have had an enormous response to new students requesting a fellow student for support during their first trimester.   We have never experienced so many requests for assistance.  Whilst this is great, we are DESPERATE for supporters!

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Lectures commence for trimester 1 – 25 February, 2013 Get to know your study buddies – The Library and The Academic Skills Office Use the Vibe in MyUNE to tell us how you’re feeling about your studies. Join the Peer Support Program.  If you would like a Peer Supporter (another student who’s already studying to [...]

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If something is starting to became a hassle, make sure you ask for help!  Contact The Student Support Team for confidential advice:  studentsupport@une.edu.au or call 02 67734430 Have you registered for the New England Award?  It’s designed for both on and off campus students and looks great on your CV.  Go to www.une.edu.au/nea for more information. [...]

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We’re just about to do a celebratory 1000th post revamp of the Insiders’ Guide to make it even more student friendly but we want to know what features you’d like, how should it look etc etc. Hit us up in the comments and we’ll our best to put all your ideas into action!

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At the start of each year, the Student Support Team hits the road to run a couple of Orientation sessions and to meet some of the new and returning students … so if you’re in any of the following places, keep the following dates free: Tamworth – UNE Centre, Feb 22 Taree – UNE Centre, [...]

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Part of the work the Student Support Team does (along with our Facebook, Twitter & Youtube accounts) is listening to what students are saying and feeding that info back to the people who make decisions which affect the student experience. But there’s a whole bunch of great ways to get your voice heard which you [...]

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For a little while, UNE has been looking into the introduction of a trimester system. Much of the feedback to the Student Support Team has been positive but up until now we’ve had very little detail to work from. Thanks to the PVC (Students and Social Inclusion) Eve Woodberry, there’s now a discussion paper available [...]

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I’ll post more on this tomorrow but today we launched ‘The Vibe‘ (in honour of the aussie movie ‘The Castle’). It’s the new tool from the Student Support Team for you, as students, to give feedback. Here’s a quick video on how it works … check out the vid then log into myUNE and tell [...]

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One of the challenges we face as a Student Support Team (Blake, Frances and I) is how to support approx 18,000 students -  80% who are not on campus. This site is one of the ways we do that, we’re also in regular contact with the folks at the Student Centre who look after the [...]

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Meet Meredith, Frances and Ed from the Student Support Team … we’re here to help make your study life easier. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/CnXNXAZWU5U" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]Contact us via this site or via email at studentsupport@une.edu.au.

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It’s such a nice day that instead of recording our daily podcast update at TUNE!FM, we thought we’d shoot a bit of video in the Courtyard instead. So here’s Ed with the news (thanks to Meredith from the Student Support Team for the camera work and Mac1 for the loan of the iPod nano to [...]

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If you’re on campus today (Jan 25) here’s where to get food and coffee during the day: Booloominbah is open (until 1.30pm) Campus Essentials is trading as per normal (along with the 2nd hand bookshop) Delimarche is closed … see below for an explanation:

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Brooke, who is the Off Campus rep on UNEG, wanted us to remind students they’ve put together a catchup for Sydney-based students next Friday (Jan 29). I’ve just booked a flight and I’m looking forward to meeting you all! I believe the University Chancellor will be there along with a bunch of UNEG reps, the [...]

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Part of the Student Support Team (i.e. Ed and his boss Rhonda) and a few of the Student Assist staff are in Brisbane this coming week for a conference – any students in Brisbane want to catch up for a little Chrissy celebration/End of Semester get together? We thought we might meet at the Victory [...]

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When we (Meredith, Frances & Ed from the Student Support Team) started this site we never imaged just how popular with students it would be and thanks to all our readers (and supporters) we cracked 25,000 views for the year earlier this week. A big THANKS from the Student Support Team – we really do [...]

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