University of Bradford. Staff Briefing.

Week ending Friday 1 June 2001

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For all staff.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), from Helen Crabtree Staff Development.

This 2 day course takes place on 14 & 15 June 2001 at Heaton Mount. Course tutor - Henrie Lidiard NLP offers you insights and techniques for improving your communication skills, personal effectiveness, understanding other people, motivation, and commitment.

It originated in the United States in the late 60s and was originally inspired by psycho-linguistics - hence the title. Since then it has developed into a way of modelling the way successful people behave and communicate. Working on the assumption that us ordinary mortals could learn from such people if only we had a language for understanding how others did it and what processes we might need to go through in order to learn from them, NLP practitioners have devised a variety of awareness raising exercises and techniques that are relatively easy to acquire and use in the training room.

2 days of entertainment, insight and learning is what this course can offer you.

If you would like to attend this event, please either call us on ext. 3102, e-mail us at: staffdev@bradford.ac.uk, or complete the on-line booking form at: www.brad.ac.uk/admin/staffdev/whatson/booking.html

For staff in academic departments.

Teaching Quality Enhancement Group, from Beverley Lyons, TQEG.

Quality Assurance and Enhancement Strand of Learning Support Seminar Series - Student Handbooks: Good Practice Guide

Presented by Jon Owen and Julie Hodgson. 18 June 2001, 12.45 - 2.00pm (tea/coffee available from 12.45pm). D51 Richmond Building.

Some of the information contained in current student handbooks will appear in programme specifications in the future. The majority of the session will describe what a programme specification is, and how it is developed and reviewed. It will then address the information that should be provided in student handbooks, giving examples of good practice.

  • to describe how a programme specification is developed and reviewed;
  • to present an example programme specification, with its annexes;
  • to identify provision of handbook information at three specific levels: university, departmental and stage;
  • to identify a minimum table of contents for a student handbook;
  • to consider how to enhance the consistency in the provision of such information by effective cross-referencing to avoid duplication.

Please reply by 13 June 2001 to TQEG, K35, Richmond Building or ext 3286/email tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk

For staff involved in QAAHE.

Teaching Quality Enhancement Group, from Beverley Lyons, TQEG.

Quality Assurance and Enhancement Strand of Learning Support Seminar Series - Developments in the QAAHE Framework for Quality Assurance

Presented by Jon Owen and Lynn Mcvey. 4 June 2001, 12.45 - 2.00pm (tea/coffee available from 12.45pm). D51 Richmond Building

The session will set the context of subject review, and the key documents that support the review process. The majority of the session will concentrate on the self-evaluation document. The objectives are:

  • to outline the key features of the new QAAHE method for academic review, comprising both subject review and institutional review (audit)
  • to describe the likely impact of the new process;
  • to present examples of the key documents used during review, and the status of them;
  • to describe the structure of the self-evaluation document, and the questions that will be used to review it;
  • to demonstrate how the University's internal review arrangements support and complement the external reviews;
  • to show how all of the key features of the review process can be used within the University to support and enhance its provision.

Please reply by 1 June 2001 to TQEG, K35, Richmond Building or ext 3287/email c.a.rayment@bradford.ac.uk

 

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