This year for World Mental Health Day, I wanted to focus on why mental health and wellbeing matters so much for us at university. Whether you’re a returning student, or a first year starting out, it can be an overwhelming time and often we don’t realise that our mental health is starting to worsen until we’re in the middle of a crisis.
Students have a lot of different motivations for standing as Liberation and Community Officers – these are rewarding positions that offer the chance to affect real change within Imperial. We spoke to Grace Fisher about her motivations for joining the Working-Class Network and her journey towards standing as Working-Class Officer.
The 2021 Stay Safe Campaign is about reintegration of the student community and the provision of a safe and welcoming reintroduction to night life after a year spent in collective isolation.
Graduation is a profoundly meaningful part of the student journey at Imperial College. Walking across the stage at the Royal Albert Hall is an unforgettable experience, and one of the many lesser tragedies of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the loss of this experience for those students graduating over the last year.
We are pleased to announce that following a review of our pay structure, an increase to all Union casual staff pay rates has been approved by our Board of Trustees.
From now on, the Imperial Bursary will be fully extended to cover Medicine students in all years of their course. Find out below how this has come about.
