The Students’ Union is full of weird and fun facts that you may have never known about…until now!

• Let’s start with one of our favourites…we have our own cat called Susu!

Susu is a stray cat who has adopted the Students’ Union at Highfield as her home – you can often see her chilling on the sofas by The Cube being cuddled by students.

• In preparation for Freshers’, we ordered over 7,000 pot noodles to give away to this year’s intake! 

True story – don’t say we don’t spoil you.

• In last year’s Union elections, Private Rented are the JCR

On Friday we attempted to create a carnival atmosphere on the Redbrick Area for the last day of term. We have been made aware that despite all our best endeavours to compliment our earlier bookings we may have not 100% succeeded in our intent. We did have an open dialogue throughout with both Surge Radio and the Freshman’s Tour Bus but despite this it appears not everything went according to plan and for this we would like to sincerely apologise.

Nothing about the day was about generating commercial income and no financial incentives have been received by SUSU as an … Read the rest

Sunday marks the biggest day in SUSU’s sporting calendar: Varsity 2015 this year it will be held at Portsmouth so make sure you make plans to watch Team Southampton as they #PlayToWin!

Last year Southampton excelled themselves to ensure they came out on top with an astounding score line of 204-64! The teams have been training harder than ever to retain the Varsity trophy and  we’re right behind them! Go #TeamSouthampton!!

Tickets are selling out fast so if you have plans of supporting your sporting heroes in person then you best act now to avoid disappointment!, If you’re unable … Read the rest

University of Southampton student Emma Real-Davies has won a celebrated Student Radio Award (SRA).

The 21-year-old from Reading  received the bronze Best Female Presenter award at the prestigious indigo2 at the O2 Arena, London.

Emma, who has just started the final year of her degree in English Literature at the University, is the Programme Controller for Southampton’s Surge Radio. Surge began life in 1976 as a ‘pirate station’ before being licensed in 1977. Over the last 10 years, the station has been short-listed 28 times for SRAs taking four gold, six silver and four bronze awards. Emma was proud to … Read the rest

The University of Southampton’s student magazine the Wessex Scene has been nominated for this year’s Ones to Watch Student Publication of the Year Award. The Award goes to a publication who have ”constantly hit high standards of journalism” and is chosen by a combination of public votes and a decision by an expert panel.

Editor Sam Everard said: ”It’s a huge honour for all of our writers, our editorial teams for this year, and for myself and Ellie Sellwood, who did such a great job in the role until I took over a few months ago. Voting only takes … Read the rest

This morning, SUSU was on BBC Breakfast discussing changes in Higher Education; and whilst the nation is talking about how students are treated, we’re giving you a chance to have your say as well. Click here to see the story, including interview with Union President, Sam Ling.

This Friday, 5th October (tomorrow), at 3pm in the Bridge Bar, Surge Radio will be relaunching its topical debating programme, The Key Debate.

The first edition will be on current issues in higher education, including tuition fees and place allocation, with a range of different views and personalities represented on the … Read the rest

The University have shared information on their Noticeboard blog regarding recent system issues at the Student Loans Company that may affect the timing of some maintenance loan payments.

For full details, see the University notice here:

You can also check out the Surge Radio report and Wessex Scene article on how it’s affecting students.… Read the rest