College closed on Monday 21st February - no lessons

Due to some damage to the building caused by the recent storm, the college is closed this Monday and all lessons are cancelled (there are NO online and/or onsite lessons).

George Marshall's (Director of Student Engagement) Quote of the Week:

''Behaviour is the mirror in which way we can display our image ''

Mahatma Gandhi


Dates for your diary:

Consultations Evenings

Year 1 and Level 2

THIS WEEK

Surnames A – I:

Wednesday 23rd from 5pm - 8pm


NEXT WEEK

Surnames J – Z:

Thursday 3rd March 5pm - 8pm.

...in Tutorials this week:

Year 1:

Logging on Unifrog


Year 2:

DE: Apprenticeship Talk

HE: Student Finance


UCAS Exhibition

4 March 2022

The Brighton Centre

Student Advert (1).pdf

How to use your revision notes ?

  • Read and recall

  • Mindmap the concepts

  • Test yourself (or ask someone to test you)

  • Use diagrams ( flow charts, maps, etc)

  • Condense to 80% of the original

  • Cut them up and make connections

Upcoming SU Elections

  • Applications for SU roles are to be submitted by midday on Friday 4th March

  • Hustings on Monday 7th March and Friday 11th March at lunchtime

  • Voting between Monday 14 March and Thursday 24 March

  • Results will be announced on Friday 25 March

Email your manifesto to Stephanie (sjj@varndean.ac.uk) and the Student Union (nus@student.varndean.ac.uk)

Roles:

2 x Presidents

Communications Officer

Graphic Design Officer

Charity and Events Officer

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer

Democracy Officer

Enrichment Officer

Environment Officer

Social Media Officer

Wellbeing Officer

Rewilding Cinderella

There are four places left for the Rewilding Cinderella Workshops starting on 2nd March.

6 x 1 weekly workshops on Wednesdays at 4:20pm

in room 13

If you'd like to attend, email Fleur - fms@varndean.ac.uk


CAREERS

Job opportunities

Maximum number of per week should be 10hrs otherwise it will affect your at college!

VOTS 4-1-2022 (2).pdf

Please email the Careers team to book an appointment or if you have any enquiry email: careers@varndean.ac.uk

LIBRARY NEWS

LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH

Look out for our displays in the library this month, celebrating LGBT+ History Month and highlighting some of our resources. Have a look at our LGBT+ folder of TV films and programmes on ClickView...


NEW ON CLICKVIEW

Loving Vincent
A young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. (12A)

Sorry We Missed You

A hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in a vicious circle of modern-day labour exploitation. (15)


Moor Murders: The Witness

An eyewitness to a killing alerts the police to a series of gruesome child murders. What do the never-before-seen letters from Myra Hindley and Ian Brady to a 1960s pop singer reveal? (15)

Subway: How Do They Really Do It?

Inside the restaurant chain Subway to reveal how a American sandwich shop became the most ubiquitous fast food brand on the high street. (U)

NEW BOOKS & eBOOKS

Ghostsby Dolly AldertonNovel
PopCoby Scarlett ThomasNovel
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Happenedby Andrew MarrBook
Plato: The republic, Charmides, Meno, Gorgias, Parmenides, Symposium, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, PhaedoeBook
Everyday Economics: a user's guide to a modern economyeBook

Mastering Modern United States HistoryeBook


If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email on library@varndean.ac.uk and we will do all we can to help. Visit the library website for further information and everything you need to know about using the library.

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