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8.news Tuesday 6 March 2012 Th eCourier Eighth Student Pride weekend takes over Brighton By Sophie McCoid An estimated 1000 students attended the eighth Student Pride event in Brighton over the weekend. The National Union of Students LGBT campaign marks its 30th anniversary this year with politicians such as Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband voicing their support for the event. Prime Minister David Cameron proclaimed it as an important landmark in the LGBT student calendar. The weekend included a Question Time style debate staged in association with Attitude magazine. The panel included prolific personalities such as Attitude Editor Matthew Todd, BBC newscaster Jane Hill and Dan Gillespie Sells , lead singer of The Feeling, to name but a few. People may see Gay Pride as ‘in your face’ or aggressive but they are simply a chance to be who we are and a bit of fun Other events included an LGBT jobs fair and various social events, concluding in a massive night at the Brighton Dome complex. A spokesman for the LGBT society at Newcastle said: “Student pride is a great opportunity for LGBT students to get together and be happy in who they are and celebrate how positive it is being LGBT in the twenty-first century. Although people may see Gay Pride events as ‘in your face’ or aggressive, these events are simply a chance to be who we are, have a bit of fun, and are generally really fun events for all who go along, including heterosexual people. It’s also a chance to highlight and publicise some of the key issues at the moment like gay marriage and homophobia”. Danica Histed, Chair of National Student Pride expressed her excitement for this years event: “The move to the Brighton Dome enables the event to get much bigger and much better, including allowing the Under 18s in to the daytime event for the first time.” Job Title: Sales Assistant Employer: G-Star Raw Closing date: 05.03.12 Salary: Competitive Basic job description: A Sales Assistant is required to work 8 hours per week at the store in the Metrocentre. Duties include liaising with customers to create sales and meet targets, cash handling and other general store duties as requested. Person requirements: Applicants must have previous retail and sales experience, possess excellent customer service skills and be able to work within a team. A knowledge of the brand and interest in fashion beneficial. Location: Gateshead. Job Title: Food Associate Employer: BHS Closing date: 07.03.12 Salary: National Minimum Wage Basic job description: Food Associates are required to work 4+ hours per week within the BHS coffee lounge and restaurant in Gateshead. Duties include advising customers on menu choices, serving customers hot/cold food, keeping the restaurant clean and tidy, clearing tables and other general duties. Person requirements: Experience preferred but not essential as full training and development provided. Applicants must be dedicated to excellent customer service, have excellent communication skills, the ability to work within a team and be able to follow instructions. Location: Gateshead. Job Title: Waiting staff Employer: Charlie and Evelyn’s Table Closing date: 10.03.12 Salary: £6.08 per hour Basic job description: Personable, energetic waiting staff are required to work with a young catering company to help out at a Wedding taking place on Saturday 31st March (all day, exact timings TBC) in Northumberland. Main duties will include: Room set up, waiting table, serving food and drinks, attending to guests’ needs, clearing table and general clear up. Person requirements: We are looking for reliable team players who love meeting new people and working to high standards. Waiting experience preferred. Clear communication and attention to detail advantageous. Although not mandatory but a passion for food (cooking and eating) useful. Location: Northumberland. Job Title: Male Personal Assistant Employer: Disability North Closing date: 16.03.12 Salary: £8.00 per hour Basic job description: A Gentleman recovering from a stroke who lives in the Slatyford area of Newcastle is looking to employ a Male Personal Assistant (Support Worker) to work 15 hours per week helping him with personal care such as showering and meal preparation at a weekend and to drive him to destinations of his choice on a Wednesday and a Sunday. It would be ideal if the applicant was also able to provide cover on a Friday. Person requirements: Other than a driving licence (which is an absolute requirement), no specific qualifications are required; just need a reliable, friendly individual who is physically fit enough to assist with getting into and out of bed and the shower and who will be happy to do whatever other basic tasks, such as tidying up, shopping etc that are needed on any given day. Location: Newcastle upon Tyne. Job Title: Waiting & Bar Staff Employer: Frankie and Bennies Closing date: 15.03.12 Salary: Competitive Basic job description: We are looking for part time Front of House Team Members at Frankie & Benny’s in Sunderland. Positions available include Waiters, Waitresses, Door Hosts, Bartenders, Bussers, Food Runners - we’re looking for great personalities with a great passion for hospitality. Person requirements: If you have relevant experience and a genuine passion for hospitality and providing excellent service we would love to hear from you. Location: Sunderland Job Title: Domestic Assistant Employer: NHS Closing date: 07.03.12 Salary: £13,903 to £14,614 pro rata Basic job description: A Domestic Assistant is required to work 20 hours per week at North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields. Your main responsibility will be to maintain the standard of cleanliness as specified throughout the designated work area by means of approved cleaning methods. Person requirements: If you are a friendly, conscientious and highly motivated individual with good organisational and communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team we would like to hear from you. The successful candidate should have previous experience preferably in a care setting and be able to maintain excellent standards of cleanliness and hygiene in the ward and surrounding areas. Location: North Shields. Job Title: Lunchtime Supervisory Assistant Employer: Gateshead Council Closing date: 08.03.12 Salary: £12,787 - £13,589 per annum, pro rata Basic job description: A Lunchtime Supervisory Assistant is required to work 5 hours per week at Highfield Community Primary School. The key roles of this post will include: Helping pupils to select lunchtime options with due regard to health and hygiene requirements; ensuring table used for packed lunches is cleared and cleaned after use and assisting in the delivering of age appropriate activities over the lunchtime period. Person requirements: N/A Location: Gateshead. Job Title: Food & Beverage Team Member (casual) Employer: Close House Hotel Closing date: 31.12.12 Salary: £5.05 - £6.08 per hour Basic job description: Working as part of the Restaurant, Bar, Clubhouse and Banqueting Teams, this position is on a 0 hour/casual basis. The purpose of this role is to provide guests with a speedy, efficient service that is of the highest standard, ensuring food and drink service standards are maintained, under the supervision of the department manager. Close House Hotel is based in Heddon on the Wall which is approximately 8 miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne. Person requirements: You should be able to work as part of a team and have a “can do” attitude. Previous experience preferred however training will be given. Location: Heddon on the Wall. NUS to find ‘true’ cost of going to uni By Harriet Sale With university fees and funding being very much at the forefront of peoples’ minds recently, it is unsurprising that studies are underway to find out how much it actually costs to be a student. Both Warwick University and the National Union of Students (NUS) have introduced the ‘Pound In Your Pocket’ campaign to expose the true cost of university life. The main focus of Warwick Students’ Union’s investigation is to find out how students spend their maintenance loans, and the cost of courses compulsory ‘extras,’ such as textbooks and field trips. The study will also illustrate the amount of debt graduates expect to face having left university. National Book Tokens deduced that PRIDE PERSONIFIED The NUS LGBT community celebrated its 30th anniversary in Brighton with marches commonplace amongst such communities throughout the world Photography: philipe leroyer (Flickr) over half of all first year students do not anticipate or accommodate for the cost of requisite books. Warwick University and the NUS have introduced the ‘Pound In Your Pocket’ campaign to expose the true cost of uni life Warwick SU hope to introduce several initiatives such as bursaries, books tokens and printer credits to help compensate unrecognised course costs. The NUS survey aims to evaluate the financial support systems set in place for students, as they do not believe that enough attention has been paid to this issue. They will look to similar systems internationally, whilst testing the current support system.
Th eCourier Tuesday 6 March 2012 nationalnews.9 Baltic 39 finally opens after seven long years of turmoil By Elliot Bentley Deputy Editor The Baltic gallery is set to expand over the river into Newcastle after seven years of scandal and controversy. The first exhibition in Baltic 39, as the new space is to be known, will open on 6 April and will be curated by Phyllida Barlow, a Newcastle-born sculptor. Situated around the corner from the Royal Theatre, Baltic 39 will also house studios for 32 artists and serve as a new home for Northumbria University fine art students. A statement released by the Baltic Centre said that the new studio is hoped to “act as a magnet to draw artists from across the world for teaching, residencies and exhibitions”. The road to opening an art gallery in the unoccupied Grade II listed buildings on High Bridge has not The new studio is hoped to “act as a magnet to draw artists from across the world for teaching, residencies and exhibitions” been a smooth one. Plans to convert the site to an art gallery have been in place since 2005, and were originally to be overseen by an arts organisation called Waygood. However, by February 2010 the project was £6m over its £4.7m budget. After an independent review described Waygood as having “been in crisis for five years”, the Arts Council withdrew support for the project - just three months before The Waygood, as it was then known, was set to open. Th e J o u r n a lreported that Arts Council England justified the decision over “concerns about the organisation’s governance, business planning ability and capacity to work in partnership”. These accusations were at the time rebuked by Waygood’s chairman Ivor Stolliday, who accused the council of “panicking” over a £1m project deficit. However, despite Waygood’s protests – including a Tumblr website for members of the public to post messages of support on – the project was taken over by Newcastle City Council. Some of the complex has already been renovated into a new comedy venue, The Stand, and another art gallery, High Bridge Studios. Waygood, which was originally founded in 1995 by Newcastle University graduate Helen Smith, was also embroiled in scandal over two tribunals. In the 2009 tribunal, a judge described Smith’s behaviour as “not normal and unpredictable”, and though the second tribunal was dismissed it served as a bittersweet finale. Stolliday, who had only served as chairman for six months, said that “with the case out of the way, we can go ahead and close the company”. Councillor Henri Murison, Newcastle’s cabinet member for quality of life, told Th e J o u r n a last l week: “I think the council has learned a lesson and what we now have is of fantastic benefit to the city. I think we need to talk about what this project has become rather than how it got here.” Leeds stand up to slow Virgin broadband speed By Emily Osmond and Helen Lam University of Leeds It seems Newcastle University students aren’t the only ones having problems with their Virgin internet connection. Hundreds of students in Leeds have complained to Leeds Student Union, OFCOM, even their local politicians about Virgin’s and terrible service in an attempt to get their voices heard. Despite Virgin’s promise of fast and cheap broadband, the average house in a student area of Leeds is getting only one tenth of its promised bandwidth, meaning even simple pages such as Google won’t load; and to add insult to injury, Virgin are putting their prices up on 1 April. Local Councillor Jamie Matthews is now involved, demanding an apology and financial compensation for all those affected, and failing this, Virgin are set to be banned from advertising at any of Leeds University’s Freshers’ Fairs. Welsh pitch tent for recovering uni drunkards University of Cardiff Plans for a new recovery centre in Cardiff for drunken students were revealed this week. Serving as a space for patients to be taken to sleep off their alcohol induced lethargy, the centre will take pressure off doctors and nurses in A&E who will be able to focus more heavily on patients with more serious conditions. The decision came after representatives from Cardiff Students’ Union, the local A&E, police, and the Cardiff health board came together to discuss the issues of excessive student drinking with a main problem arising from the shortage of much needed beds taken up by drunk students in A&E every evening. The scheme has already been provisionally used in London’s Soho, over Christmas, to so much acclaim that the trial has been extended to March. Photography: kelp and jovike (Flickr) Expulsion threat for St. Paddy’s Day shenanigans University of Ulster Students at the University of Ulster have been warned that if they get into trouble on St Patrick’s Day they will face expulsion. In the past, rioting and drunken street parties have become accustom to ‘Paddy’s Day’ celebrations, and in the prerecorded video warning, Vice Chancellor professor Richard Barnett tells students: “If any of you are involved in anti-social behaviour this year I will ensure that the University’s disciplinary procedures are brought in swiftly and severely. So let it be clear - within one week of St Patrick’s Day you could be expelled from this University.” Infamous Oxford thief finally jailed University of Oxford A 47 year old man has been jailed for two and a half years after stealing thousands of pounds worth of items from a student property in Oxford, including a laptop containing a student’s whole dissertation. Martin James has 27 previous convictions, and committed this crime within weeks of release from his last stint in prison, something which the judge described as “utter folly”. The student whose items were taken had not saved his dissertation anywhere else, and so lost hundreds of hours of effort. Atlantic Records give 35 humanities scholarships University of Oxford Oxford University has been given a £26 million donation from Atlantic Records label, which released music from Soul legends such as Aretha franklin and Ray Charles. Mica Ertegun donated the money, which is to go towards 35 fully funded student scholarships in the humanities department. It will also pay for the refurbishment of a building, which will become a base for these scholars. John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin attended the announcement of the donation in London, which is Oxford’s biggest ever donation in humanities and remarked that: “the money couldn’t have come from a better place.”
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