Aberexpress - Stress free coach travel to your hometown.

Aberexpress.co.uk has been developed to cater exclusively for Aberystwyth University students. It is run by an outside transport company who have asked for us to promote their new services.

They are providing express, value for money coach services taking you from University to towns and cities across Wales and England, at the end of each term and returning again at the start of each term.

Their outward services for this Summer will run on Sunday 27th May and Saturday 2nd June and return on Sunday 23rd September as detailed on the timetables published on their website.

Simply look up the destination nearest to your home, and then make a booking by PayPal or cheque. In the event of a large amount of bookings being taken for one destination, they will run direct services, reducing journey times even further. As this service develops it is hoped to run mid-term weekend coaches to the same destinations and also to concert/sporting events. Have a look on the website www.aberexpress.co.uk and see if this may benefit your journey home from Aber!

Business Start-up Week 28^th May - 1^st June 2012

Aberystwyth University’s Summer Business Start-up Week will be held on campus from Monday 28^th May – Friday 1^st June 2012.  This ‘Business Boot Camp’ provides an excellent opportunity to take part in FREE essential business skills workshops.  Sessions are open to all, including staff, students and graduates.  Full programme and registration information available at:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/ccs/staff-students/business-start-up/crisalis-events/business-start-up-week/programme/

At the Annual General Meeting of the Guild on Wednesday 9th May, we agreed to continue our affiliation with the National Union of Students and re-appointed KPMG LLP as our auditors. Jess Carr, Heather McLean and Duncan Haslam were elected to the Democratic Procedures Committee (who help organise and run meetings) and Ainsley Gilbert and Guy Drury were elected to Elections Committee (who help organise and run elections). Both committees still have free spaces on them, so there will be by-elections in October.

We also passed a number of motions. In brief, they were:

- a technical one limiting the number of members of the Democratic Procedures Committee to 6,

- one putting the UMCA President and Welsh Affairs Officer on the Council of the University (one of the decision-making bodies) instead of the Education Officer,

- one supporting the new integrated student media organisation and lobbying for more money and space for student media,

- one supporting the better integration of international students,

- one reforming the way sports and societies are managed and run,

- one in support of a new anti-bullying and anti- harrasment policy for the Guild,

- one in support of taking action against cuts to undergraduate funding,

- and finally, one that will change the Guild to a Union - a name change that will have effect from the start of the next academic year.

The policy document and the Constitution, Bye-Laws and Regulations of the Guild will updated in the next few days.

Next year, instead of General Meetings we'll be holding elections to a new Union Assembly in October. There will be a lot more information about this over the next few months, but in the mean time if you have any questions about this or any other aspect of democracy in the Guild (or now the Union!) feel free to email Guy Drury, the Guild Chair, at union.chairperson@aber.ac.uk.