SummerFest kicks off with the Headline Acts in May, followed by the Support Acts in June/July and the Virtual Acts in August. You can win Bestival tickets by attending three SummerFest events and entering their ticket into the draw.

To keep up-to-date with SummerFest, please like our SummerFest Facebook page.

• Headline Acts

Graduate Jobs Fair
Part-time and Seasonal Jobs Fair
Work Experience and Volunteering Fair
No Ideas Clinic

• Support Acts

One-to-one guidance with careers advisors
Get That Job
Interview Techniques
Presentation Skills
Networking
Tax Advice
Business Start Up Course
Enterprise Clinics
CV Advice
Application Workshop
Job Search Techniques

• Virtual Acts

Webinars
Blogs
Skype (one-to-one career advice)
Telephone interviews with careers advisors
E-guidance

Win Bestival tickets

You can win Bestival tickets by attending three SummerFest events between May and July and entering your ticket into the draw. During August you can win iTunes vouchers by taking part in virtual acts and entering your ticket into the draw. Full terms and conditions are available on the SummerFest Facebook page.

Open to:

SummerFest is open to all University of Portsmouth students and *graduates up to five years (including 2013 graduates).

For more details on all of the Acts above, visit www.port.ac.uk/careersandrecruitment/newsevents/news/newstitle.

Students from Year 2 Contemporary Fine Art, came up with the idea for ‘Albert Road Trail’ in order to bring contemporary art to a wider community audience. They wanted to exhibit their work in a community setting and forge links with local businesses.

Works on display range from painting and sculpture to photography and installation.

The event will run from Monday 13 May to Saturday 18 May 2013, with a celebration launch event on the evening of Wednesday 15 May.

An exhibition guide which includes a map of the trail will be available nearer the time. For updates, further information and enquiries follow @albertroadtrail on Twitter, like on Facebook or visit their blog.

The aim of the research is to examine the travel and transport implications of university choice across the UK and Ireland. It will also consider whether the fact that tuition fees vary geographically influenced your choices.

The survey can be completed here: www.survey.bris.ac.uk/ulster/ucd_university_choice.

Anne Stanford, Press and Public Relations Manager, said: ‘The rise in our position in the Complete University Guide is further evidence of the University’s continued investment in high quality education for our students.’

The Guide grades all UK universities on the following key measures:

• Student satisfaction
• Research assessment
• Entry standards
• Student:staff ratio
• Spend on academic services
• Spend on student facilities
• Good honours degrees
• Completion rates
• Graduate prospects

Venue: St Paul’s Sport’s Centre, Free Weights
Date: 15 May 2013
Time: 11.00am – 11.30am
Price: Free for members/£5.00 – non members

This class is limited to six spaces so book now to avoid disappointment.

To make a booking, please call 023 9284 5555 or for more information visit www.port.ac.uk/sport.

If you ride a bike for the first time in a year for the Challenge – or if you encourage someone else to cycle for the first time in a year - you both get a free cinema ticket voucher! You only need to cycle for 10 minutes or more!

There are loads of fantastic prizes on offer to tempt you, including local restaurant vouchers and bike accessories to support your cycle journey.

The aim of the Challenge? To enjoy cycling!  Encourage everyone you know to ride a bike to climb up the leader board and win the Challenge for the University of Portsmouth.

What’s in it for you? The chance to improve your health, reduce congestion and CO2 emissions, save money, have fun, win prizes! Cycle anywhere, at any time during May 2013 and log your journey to win.

What to do now:

• Join the Challenge
• Encourage everyone you know to join in!

You can win some great prizes just by taking part so join the Challenge, get your bike out and have some fun.  For cycling maps and a route planner, take a look at our Green Travel page.

Bike repairs

The University is hosting Dr Bike drop-in sessions to help get your bike back into shape. Just bring along your bike and any minor repairs will be fixed for free! If your bike needs more work you’ll be told what the problem is, roughly how much it would cost to fix and where to go in the city to get it done.

• Wednesday 8 May 2013: Outside the Hub, Burnaby Square, 11.00am – 2.00pm
• Thursday 16 May 2013: Outside the Union, 10.00am – 6.00pm

Subsidised cycle training

Pay £5 instead of £40 for a one-to-one two hour session. This is great for people who want learn to ride a bike, for those who haven’t been on their bike in a while, or for those who just want to improve their existing skills and safety. Email cycling@myjourneyportsmouth.com for more information.

Keep your bike safe

• Keep your cycle locked at all times – preferably with a D-lock – and take quick-release parts with you. You can purchase cost-price D-locks directly from the Civic Offices in Guildhall.
• Note the make, model and frame number and take a photo of yourself with the bike to help prove ownership.
• When using our secure storage spaces, lock your bike frame to the fixed racks, and please challenge anyone without a visible University ID card who might follow you as you enter storage areas.

Sport England, in partnership with the independent research company TNS-BMRB, has developed an online leisure survey for Higher Education institutions in England.

The leisure survey, running in May, will help universities to understand more about what students do in their free time and about student satisfaction with the leisure activities provided at the University of Portsmouth

The University’s Department of Sport and Recreation would like to encourage you to complete this leisure survey and your input is important and highly valued. We want to hear from you to help us understand what is really important to you and use this to help drive and shape the offer provided by the University of Portsmouth.

TNS-BMRB will send out invitations for participation in May to a sample number of students across the University.  Complete the survey for your chance to have your say and be entered to a draw to win one of three £200 Amazon vouchers.

The survey opens on Monday 6 May, so this is when you (if selected) will receive an invitation by email.

If you have any queries or need any further information please contact our Sports Development Officer at the Department of Sport and Recreation sarah.taylor@port.ac.uk.

Food waste doesn’t include food packaging. Please continue to use food caddies and black sections of dual (Meridian) bin for food waste such as tea bags, coffee grounds, uneaten food (including raw and cooked meats), napkins, fruit cores and skins. Food waste is composted in Dorset and you can find out more about the composting process here.

Food residue on waste in standard bins

A bit of food residue on waste is ok. Overall residue levels should be only small amounts that won’t cover other items in the bin. For example, crumbs are fine, some salad dressing/yoghurt on packaging is fine, used sauce sachets are fine as is chewing gum.

Liquids

A reminder that no liquids should be put in bins, as once liquid goes in a bin it contaminates all the other waste so it can’t be recycled. This then contaminates the vehicles which collect our waste, which incurs a financial cost to the university.

Liquid must be emptied from bottles – these bottles tend to ‘pop’ in waste collection vehicles or at the recycling facility.  This contaminates recyclables and equipment, and makes life unpleasant for the people who work at the facility.

Thank you for all your feedback and questions so far. They’re enabling us to tweak the system so that it works as effectively as possible.

If you have any queries about the new waste scheme, or about a specific item of waste, please see if it’s covered on our recycling page or in the waste information table.