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International postgraduate scholarship winners welcoming ceremony
10 December 2019
Some 33 nations were represented at an event for Queen Mary’s international postgraduate scholarship winners last week. Around 50 scholars from all three faculties attended the ceremony – which was intended to mark their success in securing international scholarships and to formally welcome them to Queen Mary.
Message from the Principal: Industrial action update 5 December 2019
5 December 2019
The Principal has written to all students to update them following the recent industrial action by members of the University and College Union (UCU).
Now you see it... now you don’t!
28 November 2019
Thieves are targeting mobile phones and valuables of Queen Mary students and staff in a spate of distraction thefts at the Mile End campus.
Estranged Students Solidarity Week
26 November 2019
Are you not in contact with family? This is referred to as ‘estrangement’.
It’s Estranged Students Solidarity Week 25-29 November.
Message from the Principal: Industrial action update 25 November-4 December 2019
22 November 2019
The Principal has written to all students to update them on planned industrial action by members of the University and College Union (UCU).
Message from the Principal: Daniel Kato
21 November 2019
A message from the Principal sent to staff on 21 November 2019
Queen Mary graduate awarded joint-first prize in dissertation competition
19 November 2019
Recent geography graduate, Tabitha Shell, has won the RGS-IBG Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group Dissertation Prize for her dissertation Emotional geographies of breastfeeding: private and public spaces of support and stress, taking home a prize of £60.
Talk Money Week
19 November 2019
Worried about money? This week isTalk Money Week! Learn how to take control of your money and stress less. Come and have a chat with a Welfare Adviser in The Nest on Thursday 21 November from 12-1pm, or Ground Café on Friday 22 November from 12.30-1.30pm, to find out about budget planning, increasing your income, and money saving ideas.
Financial Inclusion Group - Learn how to budget better
19 November 2019
Ever feel scared to check your bank balance a few weeks into the semester? Feel like you don't know where to start when it comes to budgeting? If so, this workshop could be for you!
Annual Student Meeting - Student Guest Article
12 November 2019
An account of the Annual Student Meeting on Tuesday 29 October, as written by Max Cunliffe, first-year English and Creative Writing student.
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