The Student Room is proud to announce that their 6 ‘tache-tastic Movember participants raised an incredibly impressive £980! They didn’t just rock the face fuzz for style points, but for a great cause too…

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.

Find out more about Movember and maybe take part next year

Those that didn’t take part also donned the fake ‘tache to show our support!

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As the year draws to a close, you know what’s coming…

It’s time for the TSR awards, recognition for the most happy, flirty, famous members of TSR… along with loads of other categories

The awards are given to those firstly nominated, then voted on by TSR members. Nominations are currently OPEN until the 22nd December. Voting will then take place until the 3rd January.

Click here to see all the categories and get nominating

Only one rule, no nominating yourself, cheeky!

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In recognition of the hard work our moderators do on the site, each month we award up to two mods for outstanding contributions.

This month, the award goes to:

Illusionary for his brilliant efforts in organising and following up from the Study Help mods meet. The meet was very productive and we are making good progress with the follow up tasks thanks to his excellent organisation and commitment to Study Help and the mod team!

Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work!

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are one of the world’s leading law firms providing business law advice. Each year they run a four week vacation scheme for talented young law students.

Jess from the Trainee Recruitment team at Freshfields will be on TSR to answer your questions about opportunities at Freshfields or a career in law in general, from Mon 12th – Fri 16th Dec.

Please post up any questions you may have in our dedicated Freshfields Q&A sub-forum to get official help, tips and advice.

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This month’s Mods’ Member of the Month goes to…

Gofre

for his helpful posting and post reporting in the Technology forum. Congratulations; enjoy your free subscription and £10 amazon voucher!

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We’re looking for new member of the team to join our London office, whose task it will be to liase with clients, project manage the implementation of ad’ campaigns and support the ad’ operations team.

You will need to be:

• Client focused, commercial, sociable
• Highly organised
• Very diligent
• Technically comfortable and very online savvy
• Good at juggling lots of tasks
• Comfortable with tight timelines and working under pressure
• Experience of Word, Excel & Powerpoint

For full details including how to apply, please read the full job description here.

The closing date is Friday 13th January 2012. [Date extended by 1 week]

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As of early this morning The Student Room fell dark, gained a snowy backdrop and accumulated a number of decorative baubles to welcome the month of December and the festive season running up to Christmas.

Along with the temporary theme, for the first time we’ve also opened the TSR Chrismas Grotto forum, where those eager to talk all things Christmas can get chatting, whilst the scrooges can simply sit and shake their heads.

We’re also running 2 official competitions this year. Get involved in both the TSR Christmas Cooking Competition and TSR Best Dressed Christmas Tree Competition. We’re giving away presents for the best 3 in each competition, we look forward to seeing your creations!

So get chatting, baking, decorating, listening, watching, shopping… and anything and everything else you love to do in the run up to the 25th

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… so says online community consultant Richard Millington of FeverBee.

Richard talks of the 6 key factors that makes TSR one of his “favourite examples of a successful online community”

These being:

1. The Platform
2. Interactions
3. Events / Activities
4. Strong sense of community
5. Monetization
6. Wealth of knowledge

Thanks Richard!

As  we’re always saying, the site wouldn’t be anything without it’s members, moderators and members willingness to get involved and help each other out

You can check out the full article here.

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By popular demand, along with an increase in activity within the Fashion and Beauty area of the site, we have now introduced an all new Makeup, Skincare and Beauty Products subforum

For all your makup, skincare and beauty product needs this subforum will sit within the main Fashion and Beauty forum alongside existing subforums of Hair care and Hair styles and Clothes and Accessories.

So if you need tips, recommendations, want to shout about particularly good products or just need advice, check out the new forum!

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In addition to the annual mods meet, we also have smaller meets throughout the year to discuss section-specific issues. This weekend the Study Help mods met up for a pow wow about all things relating to the Study Help section.

We had a very productive afternoon and covered a lot of ground! Some of the key topics we discussed were:

- Written and practical exam discussion policy

- Management of past papers on TSR

- Review of forum structure

- Review of moderation coverage

- Study Help Member of the Month (click  here for more information)

- Academic level thread tags – currently being trialled in the Maths forum (click here for more information)

- Textbooks Classifieds forum

Thanks to the  mods who took time out of their weekends to attend, and keep an eye out on the forum for future Study Help developments!

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Today the first issue of the TSR Times was mailed out to members of The Student Room. WHOO HOO!!

Click here to view the first issue of TSR Times

TSR Times is very much a community newsletter, bringing together highlights (and some lowlights *ahem*) from the previous month on The Student Room – The world’s largest student community.

The name TSR Times was chosen in a site wide survey back in the summer. Did you know there used to be a member produced ezine with the same name? Older members will know it was TSR’s own Private Eye crossed with a dollop of Perez bitchiness. It died out… but from the ashes this slightly cleaner newsletter has risen

Regular features (again asked for in that summer survey) will be:

* Awards for member of the month – mod of the month, member of the month and study help MOTM

* Member shout outs

* Features (sometimes linking to a newsletter theme)

* Hot forum threads

* Members showing off their ‘skills’ in Creative Corner

It’s a perfectly formed collection of cool stuff from all our members. If you’re a TSR member find out how you can get involved with the next issue and please tell us what you think so we can continue to improve it!

Thanks

J and CJ

p.s To quote one of our very sensible moderators…MHorman “TSR Times about to be read with a cup of tea…”

p.p.s Want to get the newsletter to your inbox each month? It’s simple – Sign up to TSR

p.p.p.s another MHorman quote “TSR Times was interesting “

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In recognition of the hard work our moderators do on the site, each month we award up to two mods for outstanding contributions.

This month, the award goes to:

letsdothetimewarpagain for her dedication behind the scenes in managing the Debate and Current Affairs team and development of the section. She has been brilliant at supporting the mods and helping the new recruits settle in, and has been very organised and proactive when it comes to developing the section.

and

secretmessages who has used his impressive technical skills to make us several Firefox and Chrome extensions which make modding so much easier and more efficient! With the site having grown so large, the volume of work has increase substantially over the last couple of years, and these extensions make a real difference.

Congratulations to both letsdothetimewarpagain and secretmessages, and thank you !

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