Yes way! I heard on Monday morning that my application ‘for Graduate HR Stream 2011 HR2011 has successfully progressed to the next stage of our recruitment process’. Excellent news!
They told me someone would be in touch to arrange further details about when/where the assessment centre would be but when I still hadn’t heard from them on Friday afternoon I emailed to enquire (/make sure they hadn’t forgotten about me!). Apparently they are still waiting to confirm what date it will be held but I’ve been told it’ll be in Windsor and the days start at 8.30am!!...
In other news, it’s been rather cold and quite snowy…had you noticed?.. I am a tad disappointed with the Manchester efforts, only a couple of inches. Definitely not enough for the University to close as it did in January this year or to force an 8-day pub lock-in!!.
The snow hasn’t deterred the protests at all though and more demos and marches took place on Tuesday afternoon. As of today (Sunday 5th Dec) the Roscoe Building at the University of Manchester has been under occupation for 12 days. I visited the Roscoe Occupation on Thursday to attend the emergency meeting that was called to create a plan of action for next Thursday (9th Dec) the day the MPs will vote in parliament on the proposed tuition fee increase. It was all a bit hectic but the meeting was run in the best way possible with so many young, fiercely political minds in the room. There were about 100 students in attendance (more than any lecture I’ve ever been to) as well as representatives from UCU, Unison and other trade unions. Let me just say I’m 100% behind the occupations and the marches and demos they’re organising but I did think it would have been a little more organised if I’m totally honest. I am however, loving the use of social media to create awareness and arrange demos at short notice. You can follow most of the occupations across the country on Twitter. It looks likely that there will be demonstrations across the country on Wednesday and a bigger march to parliament on Thursday. The vote itself will take place in the evening and will be shown live, on the big screen in the Students Union at MMU.
If you want to write to your MP before the vote to ask for them to vote NO on Thursday, the details can be found here (to find out who your local MP is) and here (for a guide on how to contact them).
I haven’t really had the chance to enjoy the snow properly yet because this week I’ve been spending most of my time here:
But the hard work paid off on Wednesday when I hit my word count target (for that day!) of 900 words.
And you'll all be pleased to hear that all 3202 words are now finished!
The snow seems to be on it’s way out for now anyway. Hopefully more soon (when I haven’t got so much work to be doing) so I can make one of these too!...
This week I also managed to take apart one of my housemate’s old laptops and connect the screen to my broken one and recover my photographs and songs and things J
This is the last blog I have to post for the LPD coursework. It’s been, emotional.
‘*gasp* is that where the term Emo comes from?! I never knew!’ (Copestake, 2010)
I’ve told you about what I’ve been up to over the last 9 weeks, inside and outside of university.
Thanks to everyone for reading. I’ve been pretty shocked with how many people have viewed my blog (316 and counting!) and left comments. I’ve had people visit my blog pages from 10 different countries too! If you want to stay in touch you can find me on Twitter @ThatGirlBren and on Facebook.Thanks again, and peace out x
