This university term we've been riding the student vibe with our 'student season'. We've posted lots of student-friendly content to help students get the most out of climbing and walking as well as getting the banter going on social media.

During student season we covered a wide range of topics including how to climb on a student budget, top trips for university clubs, walking the world in your GAP year, and lots more, with great jobs in the great outdoors and a month in the life of a uni club still to come.

Despite being bleary-eyed from all that freshers' week partying, we were eager to get stuck in and have kept to our deadlines for every week of term....well nearly! 

It's been a busy term.  In October the BMC ran its annual Student Safety and Good Practice Seminar at Plas y Brenin in North Wales. Around 100 students from 50 clubs gathered together with 30 volunteer experts to gain valuable knowledge to help university clubs improve their practices.

We also launched a survey to find out more about what 14 – 25 year olds want from BMC membership.  The survey runs until the end of 2013 and everyone who completes the survey will be in with a chance to win £100 worth of Cotswold Outdoor vouchers.

If you haven't read our news articles yet, we hope you'll browse the reading list and see what interests you.

Week 1 – Freshers' week

• Why students love clubbing – BMC regional development officer Rob Greenwood looks at back at his experience of joining a university clubs and gives some top reasons to sign up in freshers' week.

• How to run the perfect freshers' climbing meet – essential tips to help keep your club and other climbers at the crag happy.

Week 2 – Get the most out of climbing this term

• Climbing on a shoestring budget – money saving tips

• London University Bouldering Event (LUBE) returns for a fifth year. All UK university teams can compete in this four-round competition held throughout the academic year at different climbing walls in London.

Week 3 – Which university?

• Ten great universities for climbers and walkers

Week 4  – Student safety

• Student safety: good practice and a great weekend.  Warwick University Climbing Club president report back from the BMC Student Safety Seminar weekend.
• Film of Student Safety Seminar coming soon to BMC TV!

Week 5 – Survey time

• Young people: tell us what you think. Are you aged between 14 and 25? Want £100 to spend on shiny new gear from Cotswold Outdoor? All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is to spend the next five minutes filling in our online survey.

Week 6 – More top tips!

• Our top five tips for students: How to get skilled up, tooled up and clued up. We're sending out BMC membership cards to all BMC affiliated student club members along with these top five tips.

Week 7 – New skills courses

• New skills courses for students. The BMC is providing a series of subsidised courses aimed specifically at students/freshers for 2014.  

Week 8 – Gap years

• Five ways to have an epic outdoor gap year.  Thinking of travelling the world on an ‘outdoors’ gap year? Here are five ways to do it.

Week 9 –  Digital maps for expeditions and fieldwork

• Using free online mapping for expedition planning.  We tap into the expert knowledge of mountaineer George Cave to explain the basics.

Week 10 –  BMC Student seminar film now live on BMC TV: see the event through the eyes of Philly from the Warwick University Climbing Club, one of the participants in the 2013 seminar.

Watch this and more skills videos on BMC TV.

Week 11 –  Walking: winter refresher

• Defrag your brain: swap screen for scenery. Sarah Ryan tells us why the hills are the ultimate screen break for weary minds.

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