This month: Exam Results, Bursaries and Farting Cows!
A’ Level / Scottish Higher Results
A’ Level / Scottish Higher Results
It’s that time of year again! Congratulations to all of you who are receiving your A’Level / Scottish Higher results this month.
For many of you, it’s now time to start getting ready to head off to uni. Whether you’re staying at home or going away, you should start thinking about your money situation. Are you going to have enough time to study, play and work the way you’d like? Plan your lifestyle with the UNIAID Student Calculator here
Clearing the way for clearing!
Some tips from UNIAID
UNIAID Students become graduates!
We’d like to congratulate our bursary students who have graduated this summer. The UNIAID Foyer Bursary scheme gives free accommodation to students in hardship. We’d like to thank UNITE, Nottingham Trent University and Plymouth University for their support.
Mark came to UNIAID after living with Foyer. The bursary enabled him to study a three-year degree in Arboriculture, and he has now started his own business called ‘Hunters Treeworks’.
Good luck, Mark!
"My stay at Unite’s Trinity Student Village was a very nice one which enabled me to have a good place to study for my qualification. I graduated last Thursday and had the whole cap and gown experience which made my mother and father very proud. I was very lucky to have the opportunity, for a relatively stress free environment to study in. I cannot say thank you enough.” – Mark
Kelly has been supported for two years at Liverpool John Moores University. She has now been accepted onto a masters course in Criminal Justice.
Congratulations, Kelly!
New UNIAID Student Trustee
UNIAID is delighted to welcome Michael Shillingford, a student at Nottingham Trent University, to its board of trustees.
Mike says:
"I aim to give UNIAID another student point-of-view, and bring new ideas into the charity - helping it to expand its already fantastic programmes and to widen its audience.”
Read more here
Going to uni in 2008?
It is estimated that two thirds of undergraduates who start uni in September 2008, will be eligible to receive a full or partial maintenance grant. This is financial support that you don’t have to pay back.
If you’re thinking of going to uni next year, why not experience higher education before you go? Check out All About U and see if you’ve got what it takes to survive on a budget and to get through freshers week. Play here.
Flatulent cows contribute to climate change
Our Favourite story this month was the news that burping and farting cows are contributing to greenhouse gases.
Ruminant farm animals are apparently responsible for up to a quarter of all “man made” methane emissions, which is a more potent global warming gas than carbon dioxide. A single cow is capable of emitting a wapping 100 to 200 litres of methane every day.
Good news though; scientists in Germany have developed a pill that reduces the amount of methane produced
Calculate your carbon footprint & and find out how to reduce it – here.
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