This year, NHSF has embarked on a new project - the Sixth-Form Project. The aim of this initiative is two-fold: provide guidance and realistic expectations to sixth-form students about university life, especially the Hindu aspect of it, and assist them with university and gap year applications. With over 30 local chapters at universities across the UK representing over 10,000 Hindu students, sixth-formers will be able to gain general friendly advice about anything they wish to discuss. At the same time, the project aims to increase the awareness of the student run organisation at sixth-form level, so that students can get involved with their local NHSF chapter from their very first year at university. The new initiative hopes to make the transition from home to university a smoother and more stress-free one.

If there’s one thing that I’ve learnt from university it’s don’t stick to a plan but seize the day, carpe diem! This is where NHSF has been ever so effective in bringing out the best in so many people with the same ‘work hard - play hard’ mentality which helps students channel their energy into something positive. NHSF provides a platform to university students to think for themselves rather than submit to the monotonous and maybe perhaps somewhat detrimental social peer pressures at university.

The new Sixth Form Project will actively seek to meet as many sixth-formers as possible and to support their needs. A poster campaign (titled “Going To Uni?”) for mandirs, youth groups and schools should be launched by the end of October. Likewise a sixth-form specific webpage on the existing NHSF website (www.nhsf.org.uk) should be completed by the end of autumn. The popular social networking website Facebook has also been targeted. The project team will be open to being contacted and will place a representative at universities across the country. Sixth-formers can sign-up to a mailing list to receive a two-monthly e-newsletter on topics affecting them and are also able to contribute towards the e-newsletter. Any parent or sixth-former wanting to contact the team is able to do so via email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The team wishes sixth-formers out there all the success in their A-Level examinations.