Community
In the 2004–05 academic year, the university had 4,024 staff and 15,326 students.
Reading University Students' Union is the affiliated student organisation which represents the students' interests. The university also has a number of Junior Common Rooms that are nominally independent from the Students' Union and the University.
The Students' Union publishes Spark*, a bi-weekly newspaper aimed at the student population of the University, which is published fortnightly during term-time, it also runs the student radio station Junction11, an online student radio station running 9am-9pm Monday-Friday, and television station RU:ON.
The Students' Union building on Whiteknights Campus contains an 1800 capacity venue called 3sixty, two bars, a number of retail outlets, and The Hub. The Hub is the Union's new volunteer, advice, student activity centre, cost around £1.8m and was officially opened in March 2007 by Bill Rammell MP, Minister for Higher Education.
The University of Reading has around 80 societies open to and run by its students.
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