Hello Pgt
Welcome to your newsletter for week 4! With Lunar New Year around the corner and new events coming up from Warwick Presents, Student Opportunity and the SU, there are lots of social activities and development opportunities for you to join. We also update you on further flexibility in extending deadlines, and share important information about the on campus rent waiver extension.
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Further flexibility in extending deadlines
As a result of the extended lockdown, it is clear that many of you continue to encounter challenges relating to your studies. We are fully aware of the need to listen to what you are telling us, and implement changes that ensure you are best placed to succeed. Your department, your student representatives and the Students’ Union have understood that many of you specifically need more flexibility on deadlines at this stage. So two changes are now underway:
 Your department is creating some additional leeway on deadlines for your course. In some cases this will be another blanket extension of deadlines, in other cases particular deadlines will be extended. Exactly what your department is able to do, depends on how your course and assessments are organised so this information is just designed to make you aware of the intention to deliver ongoing support in recognition of the feedback we are getting from you; what the arrangements look like at a course level will be communicated to you directly by your department.
We’re also developing an online portal for all students to use. It’s a way you can manage requesting extensions for deadlines yourself in Tabula without the need for additional documentation (evidence) and will sit alongside the mitigation portal. This is in the final stages of development and we’ll inform you when it’s ready.
What do you need to do?
Please continue to check your inbox for specific details on the exact arrangements for your course.
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Rent waiver extension
The University will be extending the rent waiver for eligible students with on campus accommodation until 6 March 2021. Student who may be eligible have received an email this afternoon. |
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Wellbeing Support - Studying or working remotely
This week's wellbeing theme is studying and working remotely. During the current pandemic, much of our learning and day to day contact with others has moved online.
If you need some support with this, take a look at our self-help resource Work-Life Balance which includes a short 5-minute video for you to watch, with some top tips. You can also sign up for our Specialist Skills Session: Work-Life Balance which provides useful strategies and tips to help you maintain a healthy balance, whatever the circumstances. Find out more about the available support.
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What's on
Join the Lunar New Year Festivities
We know this year is different, but we encourage you to join in the online Lunar New Year fun and festivities. Join in the Lantern Making brought to you by Warwick Presents and share your creations on Instagram by tagging @universityofwarwick and #WarwickLNY21. We will be updating this page with more events so stay tuned!
Global Connections - February events
Warwick University Global Connections is a great way to stay connected; have fresh conversations with new people; and to meet people outside your halls or your course! With Online Games Nights, Tea & Talks and a fun Blind Date game, check out what else is taking place in February.
Warwick Presents: Escape Room Live - Rogue Agent
Join a game as a team of 6 or as an individual (and we will match you with other Warwick students playing). Compete against the other teams online in real-time, hosted by a live actor, to solve the puzzles.
Warwick Presents: Student-cook-along - Pancakes
Want to learn a new dish, or polish your cooking skills? Join us for a pancake cook-along on Tuesday 16 February - Shrove Tuesday! Register by 14 February.
SU POP! Livestream
POP! livestream is back and will be on every Wednesday 8 – 10 pm till the end of Term 2. Find out more.
Alliance Intensive Study Programme (AISP) Q&A session
Explore AISP, your opportunity to take part in a dynamic intensive global blended-learning experience. Join our Q&A session on 5 February to find out more. The link to join the AISP Q&A session has changed. Please visit the AISP website to access the new event link and find out more.
Warwick Food GRP: Understanding the food system and its impacts - Webinar Series
Join Dr Charlotte Allender and Dr Graham Teakle from the Warwick Crop Centre on Wednesday 24 February at 4.00 pm, for the webinar 'Vegetable variety – how diversity in our crops keeps food on our plates'.
The webinar falls under the "Food and the Environment" theme and it will be followed by a Q&A session. Find out more and register. |
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Design an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) Award trophy
The ED&I team and the Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team (SAT) plan to give an award to the best example of ED&I practice by a department or faculty. We need your help to design a trophy for this award, which will subsequently be made in the School of Engineering. We’re calling on all staff and students to enter a competition to design the trophy. Find out more.
Her Innovation Collective Online is back
Connect with a supportive community of students and professional women who create, inspire and lead. This term, Her Innovation Collective will hold four online sessions featuring inspirational speakers and virtual coaching. Hear from leaders within larger organisations and entrepreneurs who have had to pivot their business during the coronavirus pandemic. They will provide insights on resilience, adaptability, seizing opportunities, and reimagine with you what the future could and should look like. Apply to the programme through the Warwick Enterprise website by 18 February 2021.
Congratulations to the Warwick Institute of Engagement’s new Fellows
See how students are shaping the future of the public engagement at Warwick. We’ve now appointed 38 Foundation Fellows, 27 Honorary Fellows and 32 Associate Fellows and we’d love for you to meet our new faces and see what they have to say about engagement!
WATE and WAPTE Awards Nominations now open
Nominations for Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE), WATE PGR (for Postgraduates who Teach), as well as Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE) are now open. Find out more and see how to nominate a team or an individual.
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Best wishes,
and the Student Communications Team
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