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Last Friday, your Pulse team was joined by Shoaib and Bessima from the Islamic Society, who came to speak to us about their upcoming 'Muslim Women of Today: Divided By Culture, United by Faith' conference.

First off, Shoaib outlined for us what topics the Conference would be discussing:

Having established what topics the Conference would be addressing, we also asked Shoaib to outline the various speakers who would be at the Conference, and what each of them would be contributing:

Funds raised from the tickets for the event, are going to the organisation Peace trail, something which Shoaib told us more about:

Finally, Shoaib gave us a key outline for why what being discussed is a pertinent issue and the relevance that it has to the modern world today:

You can buy your tickets for what promises to be a fantastic event either beforehand from the Islamic Society or on the day itself, for a price of just £15. The event is being held on Saturday 8th February in Coates Road Auditorium, and you can find more details and video content demonstrating what the event will be discussing on the facebook event; https://www.facebook.com/events/1426057894277822/

Today on The Pulse we looked at the rise of new eating habits and considered why more people are opting for part-time diets. The lastest month to be re-branded is January with the latest craze Veganism. What do you get? Veganuary of course.

According to the organizers 3,200 people have committed to go vegan for the first month of 2014. For those of you who don’t know what a Vegan is it is someone who does eat dairy or meat. Some do this because of their opinions on animal cruelty others do it as a way to keep up a healthy diet. Even celebrities like Beyonce and Jay Z have got involved.

I asked today’s reporters what they think of Veganism and whether they have ever considered becoming one.

Ash Simpson who has been a Vegan for two and a half years spoke to us about Veganary and his thoughts on the new craze of ‘part-time’ diets.

Veganism isn’t something that gets discussed very often and I certainly found it interesting to hear what Ash had to say on the matter. You guys seemed interested too. Here are some texts we had from our listeners:

Less meat consumption is a) healthier for the individual and b) better for everyone as it would reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Revision motivation

You may have seen the news flying around social media and news outlets Nottingham students are apparently the most desirable graduates, according to the country’s top employers.

Interest from companies such as Goldman Sachs place Nottingham graduates at the top of the pile.

The research was conducted by High Fliers in December 2013 – with one hundred leading graduate employers including BP, The Civil Service, IBM, PwC and HSBC.

Nottingham registrar Dr Paul Greatrix said: "This is terrific news for our students – it confirms that the University of Nottingham is delivering the global graduates that employers are looking for.

A lot of people are misquoting this and claiming this makes us the best university, so we had a chat with Sharon Bell, the Associate Director at the careers and employability services;

So it seems just having University of Nottingham next to your name on your C.V is NOT quite enough!

What do you think it is that perhaps places Nottingham graduates at the top of the pile? We asked the exam-stressed student populous what they thought the reason was;

Leave your thoughts below.

Tonight at 6:30pm, the first Students’ Union Council of the year will be held in B62 of the LASS building. The Tuesday Pulse investigated what the council is, why is it important, and how students view it.

University of Nottingham Students' Union

We discussed what each of us in the studio knew about the SU Council before it was explained to us:

To get the full lowdown on the SU Council, we spoke to Laura Theobald, the SU Postgraduate Officer, who explained the role of the Council, and the significance of the meetings:

Laura also told us about other platforms for change at the University:

We spoke about ways that the SU could promote the SU Council in the future, to ensure that more students are aware of the meetings:

If you have any comments on the SU Council, post them below.

The Friday Pulse team discussed Animal Testing at University, following the recent revelations that 1.3 million animlas had been killed because of testing at Institutions around the country.

Animal Testing

Caroline introduced the story for us:

Whilst Caroline continued to outline the views both for and against animal testing, the team gave their initial views on the topic:

With University of Nottingham researchers having killed 26,985 animals during animal testing last year, we got a statement from the University's regarding its posistion on this issue:

Finally, the team discussed whether the fact that 80% of people are unaware that money donated to charities such as Cancer Research could be use to fund animal testing had any impact on the debate:

If you have comments on this story, let us know by leaving them in the comments section below.

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