A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
YUSU was nominated for its ‘University of York Campus Tour’ video, which was created in August 2010 to introduce new students to the university.
The video, made up of 2683 images, shows a stop motion tour of the University campus, travelling around places such as the colleges, 22 acres and Central Hall.
It has so far had 7,554 hits on Youtube and proved very popular with freshers.
It is accompanied by videos of all the colleges, showing student accommodation tours.
Tim Ngwena, YUSU President, told The Yorker: "It's great to have recognition at a national level for the work that officers and college chairs put into the videos. I hope we can go all the way and win the award."
"It was very much an objective of this year's team to delve into technology and use varied social media to reach out to students and it suited the challenges we faced this year. Next year these may be different and more difficult," he added.
YUSU faces competition in the category from the University of Derby Students’ Union and a joint nomination from Liverpool Guild of Students and Liverpool Students’ Union.
The University of York could walk away with another NUS 2011 Award, as Nouse has been nominated for Best Student Media, alongside entries from Sheffield and the University of London.
York won this category last year, as Lemon Press took the accolade, despite being only one year old at the time.
The NUS Awards offer 13 categories in total, including Student of the Year, Club or Society of the Year and Student Unionist of the Year.
NUS President Aaron Porter said: “I am very impressed by the quality of the entries this year. It has been an outstanding 12 months for the student movement and the nominations for this year’s NUS Awards back this up.”
“I would like to congratulate everyone who has entered for making it a great contest to judge. Good luck to all those who have been shortlisted for their outstanding work.”
The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Leeds on 20 July.
Watch YUSU's videos on their website here.
Is this supposed to be a backhander for not seceding when we had the chance?
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