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Editor's Note
Dear Reader,
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Welcome to NTU! Whether you are a returning student or a Fresher, we want to welcome you back to Nottingham Trent University and its Students’ Union. All the staff have been busy preparing for your arrival and we couldn’t be more excited to kickstart the new academic year.
Allow me to introduce myself - my name is Faith Pring, I am the current Editor-in-Chief and President of Platform Magazine society here at Nottingham Trent Students’ Union. I am currently an MA News Journalism student, but ‘graduated’ this summer from my BA Spanish and Linguistics degree here at Trent. I first joined Platform way back in October 2017, before being voted in as News Editor and then President!
Last year was a huge year for us here at Platform magazine. We received two national Student Publication award nominations (fingers crossed!), a nomination for our graphic design team at the Nottingham Young Creative Awards, and we also won a regional Student Publication Award for being the best developed new publication. We also had some great success internally, breaking our record for monthly and daily viewing figures on our website, and we received two nominations at the NTSU Awards, and we won NTSU Society of the Year!
To make settling back into university life easier for all our students, we’ve prepared a jam-packed Freshers edition of our magazine fit to burst with everything you could ever need. Check out page 6 for our guide to the music scene around Nottingham, page 18 for everything you need to know about online teaching and remote learning, and in case you might be concerned about finance, give page 48 a read for some great budgeting tips.
May this year be the best of your life so far, stay safe, study hard and have fun!
