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Improving Student life over the next three years – The Queen Mary IT Strategic plan Over the next three years, IT Services will be implementing new tools and improved ways of working. As valued ‘customers’, you will be given full support from a single point. Improved learning tools, modern communications and networking products will be made available and become our new learning culture. How will your day to day life change and improve? IT Services plan to give you: • Active Directory • Improved timetabling • Virtual Learning Environment • Access to the Queen Mary network via any device, anytime, anywhere.
Student Mentoring and Tutoring Opportunities in Local Schools Are you interested in earning some money by helping pupils in local schools reach their full potential? Would you like to gain some valuable work experience to enhance your CV? If so, then the Education Liaison Office has a number of paid opportunities for students to work as mentors and tutors over the coming academic year. The work is flexible and designed to fit around your academic studies. For more information on these opportunities, please contact Roisin Hurst, Education Liaison Office (Room E107), Queens’ Building or email her at r.m.hurst@qmul.ac.uk
Some tools will be available sooner than others. Please refer to the IT Strategy plan to see what is in the plan for the next three years. Want to know more? – To view the Queen Mary IT Strategy plan for 20112015 and other useful information, visit www.itstrategy.its.qmul.ac.uk For further IT Services and Support please go to: http://qm-web.its.qmul.ac.uk/ services.shtml If you have any problems, visit the Library Help Zone or Welcome Desk, where a member of staff will help you.
WiFi (Wireless Internet Access) is available across all three sites and throughout the majority of Student residences. Using the service is simple. When you launch your web browser, you will automatically be taken to the main Queen Mary pages and can browse these freely. However, when you attempt to browse outside the main site you'll be asked to authenticate. This means you'll be asked for your Student Services / IMAP username and password. Once you have correctly entered these, you must agree to the terms and conditions displayed. Then simply select 'Full Internet Access' and click connect. Please note that there is no access to the wireless network for NHS staff. Getting Started: Information on how to access and use the College Wireless Network can be found at: www.its.qmul.ac.uk/halls
HOST
ISH
HOST is a voluntary organisation, a nation-wide group of UK residents who welcome adult international students to their homes for a weekend visit. By taking part in a HOST visit you are not only given the opportunity of visiting other parts of the UK, your host family will make you a part of their own way of life for a weekend. There is no better way to find out more about the real life of this country- sharing meals together, eating home-cooked food, chatting, asking questions and cultural exchange. You will see life in a private home and in a local community; you will make new friends; and be an ambassador for your own country. HOST visits are free, and QMUL cover the administration fee. The only costs would be return travel to the home of your HOST family.
International Students House (ISH) is a social and cultural centre in London. QM pays the membership for our students, saving you £20. ISH is near Regents Park, a beautiful royal park in central London. The nearest tube station is Great Portland Street on the Metropolitan line, Circle, or Hammersmith and City line.
If you are interested in applying please click on the following link: www.hostuk.org/student_app.html
ISH offers free karaoke (Thursdays), jazz sessions (one Monday a month), a Pub Quiz every Tuesday and a disco every Friday. They also offer educational events such as language classes and lectures. For information about events and activities at ISH, including information about the ISH Travel Club, please visit the following website www.ishevents.org