21 March 2011 »
Ultimate Frisbee, Rifle, Trampoline, ladies volleyball and I venture up to Sheffield for the premier weekend of higher education sport in the UK, while Lifesaving and Cheerleading showcase their talents elsewhere When I talked to my dad earlier in the week I had to explain to him, a lifelong devout rugby player, coach and official […]
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Tags: Athletic Union Ball, BUCS, Frances Wardlaw, UK
25 February 2011 »
Elite is a difficult term to define when considering it in a sporting context. It is easy to consider a gold medal winner in the Olympics and elite athlete, a world record holder or a premiership rugby or Super League netball player to be at the top of their game. However, at University in the […]
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Tags: Athletic Unions, BUCS, lectures, Leeds Met Carnegie
17 January 2011 »
Come and try something new this February in association with Kick the Habit, Fit and Fabulous and the Hampshire FA. Sign up at the Jubilee Centre from today to get involved with the fastest growing womens sport in the world! And it’s all free!
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Tags: Jubilee Centre
07 January 2011 »
‘Fit and Fabulous’ is an innovative new project at the Students Union which has the aim of better understanding how to motivate women into getting more active. Today 18 year old girls leave sixth-form or college half as active as their male counter-parts, often with a negative attitude towards sport and fitness and with critically […]
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Tags: Adequate Activity, Students Union, WSFF
13 December 2010 »
Christmas is always a dangerous time for those watching their waist line. It becomes a period where it is very easy to take your eye off the ball and let the season of excess get out of hand. I am in no way advocating that those of you who are planning a spell of debauchery […]
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Tags: Charles Poliquin, IBD, New Year, Nick Mitchell
13 December 2010 »
Never before in my lifetime have I seen a generation so mobilized into political activism so quickly. Last Thursday before the vote on higher tuition fees was passed by the coalition government students across the country descended upon London for the third time to show their displeasure of the betrayal of Liberal promises and the […]
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Tags: Aim Higher, higher education, Last Thursday, Solent University
27 October 2010 »
BUCS (British University and Colleges Sport) seemingly has a way of putting you at ease during a turbulent time. It very easily paints a picture of a bright picture of the future of Sport in Higher Education in the UK; but is it misleading information – simply a red herring in a greater scheme, or […]
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Tags: Active Universities, BUCS, higher education, Sport England
18 October 2010 »
Lord Browne seems to have taken a lot of flak recently – he seems to have single handily enraged most of the student population and worried all most all parents with a child around the age to fly the nest and start University. For those of you who don’t know or have been casually living […]
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Tags: National Demonstration, Southampton University, susu, Wessex Warriors
14 October 2010 »
To be honest what is there not to love? We found two massive ball pits, filled them with slightly tipsy students and then played the sound system as loud as we could! Wednesday night was easily one of the best that I’ve ever seen in the Cube – at last count we had 1,100 students […]
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Tags: Athletic Union, union
08 October 2010 »
Being a Sabb is a weird job – you’re not quite a student, but you kinda are, you pay council tax but still live with your Uni flatmates; damp and spiders, and on a Wednesday you still go out but now you have to get up to be in the office for 9 (OK 9.30). […]
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Tags: Athletic Union, BUCS, March Varsity, Portsmouth University