The new design

We’ve chosen a new design for the USI website to harness the content production skills of our officers and the communication needs of SUs and journalists. At first glance, the site can look a bit busy – this reflects multiple policy briefs and campaigns...

Website planned outages

The USI website will be down for upgrades three times in June. Outage 1: 04/06/2014:  1200 IST until 1730 IST Outage 2: 12/06/2014: 1200 IST until 1730 IST Outage 3: 20/06/2014 1200 IST until  24 /06/2014 1730 IST  

A pharma attack

Pharma attacks are injections of code through backdoors in a website which change aspects of the site.  They can replace adverts, keywords and the description of the site on search engines. Imagine our surprise, then, when our listing on Google had USI as a purveyor...

Email Problems

USI Email is experiencing problems.  The process to re-synchronise has already begun and will be completed at the speed of DNS propagation, which could be minutes or up to 36 hours. Until this process is completed, email service into and out of USI will be patchy....

Planned Website Upgrade

We’ll upgrade the CSS of the USI website across the day of Thursday 22 August.  The whole website will be offline from 09.00 until 19.00 IST. Aims are: Reduce load times by rationalising CSS and calling fewer elements Provide space for a new commercial endeavour...
DNS failure takes USI Website offline

DNS failure takes USI Website offline

The USI Website went offline for some users from 15.00 on 25 July 2013. The issue is a glitch in our DNS listings and will take some time to work itself out across the internet.