{"id":6261,"date":"2018-08-21T19:38:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T10:58:51","slug":"guru-purnima-2018-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/?p=6261","title":{"rendered":"Gur\u016b P\u016brnim\u0101 2018 Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Press Release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Gur\u016b P\u016brnim\u0101 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">27<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> July 2018 marked <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gur\u016b P\u016brnim\u0101<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a special festival which honours the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gurus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, teachers and guides in all aspects of our lives. Originating from a tradition where knowledge was passed from teacher to student through one-to-one interaction and questioning, it is celebrated by thanking academics, teachers and spiritual mentors for the guidance they provide. On this day, students appreciate those who invest time in them and help them to realise their potential.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Letters were sent to the Vice-Chancellors of all forty-six NHSF (UK) Chapters to reaffirm our bonds with them and share the high regard in which we hold them. As the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gurus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for our students, they were thanked for their hard work in enabling the progress of our society. We hope to continue to work together with Vice-Chancellors across the country to provide students with support throughout their time at university, and all the necessary resources to assist them through university life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For further information, please contact:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHSF (UK) Public Relations Team<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prteam@nhsf.org.uk<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Download a copy of the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/NHSF-UK-Guru-Purnima-2018-Official-Statement.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release Gur\u016b P\u016brnim\u0101 2018 27th July 2018 marked Gur\u016b P\u016brnim\u0101, a special festival which honours the gurus, teachers and guides in all aspects of our lives. Originating from a tradition where knowledge was passed from teacher to student through one-to-one interaction and questioning, it is celebrated by thanking academics, teachers and spiritual mentors for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}