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Staff BriefingA joint initiative by MIS, Corporate Communications and Inprint & Design |
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Next editions and entries to the briefing
- Monday 17 January 2005
- Monday 24 January 2005
Please keep entries concise with, if necessary, a link to further details on the web. Please check entries for accuracy and timeliness before sending.
Deadline for entries is (generally) 12 noon each Friday.
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
Coaching
Skills (2 days) - Thursday 20 & Friday 21 January 2005
Target Audience: Anyone who manages other staff.
Techniques and insights that enable managers to be more effective coaches.
Springboard
Reunion - Monday 24 January 2005, 10.00-13.00
Target Audience: Previous Springboard Women's Development course participants
An opportunity to discuss the progress you, and others, have made; or
to gain advice from the tutor or from your Springboard colleagues on where
to go next.
Disability
Issues - Friday 28 January 2005, 09.00-16.30
Target Audience: Essential for staff recruiting for the University, but
also open other members of staff. Raises awareness of the employment issues
for staff who recruit on behalf of the University, but also for staff
who wish to understand the implications of Disability issues on their
work.
Financial
Transactions - Wednesday 2 February 2005, 09.00-12.00
Target Audience: Support staff who deal with financial transactions within
Planning Units and admin departments on a regular basis. Prerequisites:
University Staff Only Provides information that will help staff to understand
the University's financial processing system.
Committee
Support - Friday 4 February 2005, 09.00-12.30
Target Audience: Committee Secretaries Aims to clarify the actions of
the administrator/secretary involved in committee servicing and to look
at the processes involved.
(NB There is an optional follow-on session in the afternoon for Minute
Writing and Taking - see below)
Minute
Writing and Taking - Friday 4 February 2005, 13.30-16.45
Target Audience: Staff who wish to learn about the University and College
conventions for minutes at meetings. This 1/2 day course aims to provide
you with some tips on minute taking and a framework for producing them
based on the College and University minute-writing formats.
(NB Staff who service Committees may also wish to book a place at
the morning 'Committee Support' session - see above)
Stamps from the Festive Season
Shirley Moorhouse in the Students' Union Advice Centre would like to ask all staff to send in their stamps from the festive season and overseas to go towards Guide Dogs for the visually impaired.
You can send stamps all year round to - Shirley Moorhouse, Student Adviser in the Students' Union Advice Centre, Room 0.111, Communal Building. Many thanks.
Annual Staff Review/Promotions Exercise 2004/05
Letter to all staff from Janet Jones, Director of Human Resources
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Further information about the Pay & Modernisation Agreement and HERA is available at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel/HERA/
Learning Support Seminars and
Events from TQEG
Assessing Group Work on 12 January at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Chris Alder of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group
Dealing with Diverse Groups on 19 January at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Udi Archibong of the School of Health Care Studies
Assuring the Quality and Standards of the Off-Site Provision on 24 January at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Allison Campbell of the Academic Standards and Support Unit
Supporting Reflective Learning on 26 January at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group
How ePortfolios Document, Enhance and Assess Learning on 1 February 1300-1400 in Room 1.7, JBP Library Building - Presented by Sharon Hamilton of the Office for Integrating Learning at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and Carol Higgison of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group
Bradford University Academy on 16 February at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Sally Raby of Marketing and Corporate Communications
Details of the above events and online booking can be found via: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_courselist.pl
Please contact Christine Rayment or Beverley Lyons on 5138 or email tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk if you have further enquiries.
Research Bulletin
The next issue of the Research Bulletin No. 15, 7th January 2005, has been published on the web and can be accessed at http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/rsil/Newsletter/newsletterfp.htm Included in this issue:
- Higher Education Research - Full Economic Costs (FEC)
- The Wellcome Trust - electronic web application form - eGrants
- NERC - Ethics Policy · NERC - Knowledge Transfer Projects
- Nuffield Foundation - Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005
- The Wellcome Trust - Biomedical Ethics Programme: Research Studentships
- Royal Geographical Society - Neville Shulman Challenge Award
- The Leverhulme Trust - Philip Leverhulme Prize
- The Royal Society, International Exchange Programme - Joint Projects
Courses available for staff from SLED (School of Lifelong Education
and Development)
Do you have a first degree? If not, you might be interested in one of a number of courses available through SLED.
You can study a vocational Foundation Degree (see note) that relates directly to your field of work, or you might prefer to take one of our part-time BA programmes.
Public Sector Administration FdA
This course is appropriate for university staff who find themselves involved with the many aspects of administration.Guidance and Learner Support FdA
If you are called upon to offer informal advice and support, but have no formal qualifications in this field, then this could be the course for you.Education and Training Policy FdA
This course looks at change management, how policy is developed and implemented, the structure of the UK education and training system and how that system relates to others in Europe.Social Studies BA
This was the first part-time degree offered by the University of Bradford, it has a hugely successful track record, particularly from members of University staff.Community Regeneration and Development BA
Proving to be a popular choice for a number of organisations, there are some interesting modules here to get your teeth into!Local and Regional Studies BA
Find out more about Yorkshire! This course has a multidisciplinary approach and looks at the subject in terms of Geography, Literature, History, Economics, Politics and Sociology.
If you're not sure you want to commit to a full award programme, you can enrol as an associate student and take modules that interest you. If you then decide that you would like to study for an award, the credits that you have already gained as an associate student may be taken forwards and count towards your award programme.
Come and find out more and meet some of the SLED team at our Open Day. We'll be in the Richmond Foyer on Tuesday 25 January from 1pm through to 7pm.
Foundation Degrees are qualifications in their own right. They are the equivalent to the first two years of an honours degree and should not be confused with a foundation year, which is at a lower academic level. On successful completion of a Foundation Degree, you can use the letters FdA, FdSc or FdEng after your name. It is possible with most foundation degrees to top them up to honours degree level, should you wish to do so.
Christmas Card Recycling Scheme
Last year the public recycled 45 million Christmas cards, or 883 tonnes, which is the equivalent of saving 15,011 trees.
In 2005 you can help surpass this figure and make a real difference to the environment by recycling your Christmas cards with the Woodland Trust’s Christmas Card Recycling Scheme.
Funds raised from the scheme will support the Woodland Trust’s major new campaign - Tree for all. Tree For All is the most ambitious children's tree-planting project ever launched in the UK, with plans to support children in planting 12 million trees over the next five years.
Simply take your cards to your local WHSmith or Tesco store during January 2005 and place them in the special bins provided.
Jaime Sullivan, Environmental Manager
Web Authoring Courses in January
Web workshop - 12 January
Web workshop – 19 January
Effective Web site design - 25 and 26 January
Web workshop - 26 January (pm only)
Lunchtime presentation series – appropriate for everyone producing documents that are circulated via the Web/Blackboard
Why make online documents accessible? – 2 February
Making Word documents accessible for online use – 10 February
Making PowerPoint files accessible for online use – 22 February
Choosing appropriate file formats for online use – 24 February
LSS Bulletin
The latest Bulletin from Learning Support Services is now available at http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/news/bulletin/
2-day Introduction course on Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
The Centre for Psychology (University of Bradford) and the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy will be delivering a 2-day Introduction course on Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th January 2005, 10.00am to 5.00pm in Room F21, Richmond Building. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Course content will be:
- The History of Hypnosis
- What is Hypno-Psychotherapy
- Definitions and Terminology
- Uses of Hypno-Psychotherapy
- Safety, Ethics and Confidentiality
- Contra-indications and Abreactions
- Relaxation, Altered State and Suggestibility
- Semantics and Speech Patterns
- Inductions, Deepeners and Terminations
- Autogenics and Self-Hypnosis
- Ego-Boosting and Confidence
- Memory Enhancement
- Sports, Examination and Performance Enhancement
- Pain Control
Cost for this 2 day introduction course is £80 (cheques made payable to University of Bradford)
Please note that this introductory 2-day course will not give you the authority to practice hypnosis or psychotherapy.
For further details please contact - Rachel McMahon on 01274 233515, emaill: r.s.mcmahon@bradford.ac.uk
Works around Campus
Richmond Building
Details of Work: Re-roping of Richmond No. 7 Lift (Link Block). The work
will commence on Monday 10th January 2005 and be complete by Friday 14th
January 2005. Should you have any queries regarding this work, will you
please direct them to Mr Geoff Simpson on extension 3431.
Chesham Building
Details of work: Hot and cold water will be off all weekend Saturday 15th
and Sunday 16th January 2005 in the Chesham Buildings. Should you have
any queries regarding the work please contact Mr Doug Scott on extension
3440.
Details of Work: Hot and cold water, gas, compressed air and vacuum supplies will be affected, this work commences on 4th January and will continue for two weeks and supplies will be interrupted intermittently. Should you have any queries regarding the work please contact Mr Dougie Scott on extension 3440.
Unity Building, School of
Health Studies
Following the Periodic Inspection and Testing of the Unity Building, major
remedial work is to take place on 6 successive weekends commencing Saturday
15th and Sunday 16th January 2005, to replace all the Electrical Distribution
Boards in the East Wing of the old building.
To carry out this work, the entire East wing will have to be switched off twice, once to enable the electrical contractors to disconnect the old distribution board and then again to reconnect the new distribution board after it has been installed. Work will commence on the third floor (B Wing), whilst this work takes place, the third floor (B Wing) will be without electricity for two days.
For the next 5 weekends the above scenario will be repeated, as the contractors move down the East Wing of the building.
To avoid corruption or loss of information, it is advisable to power down and switch off all File Servers and Computers on Friday 14th January 2005, prior to the commencement of this work.
For the next 5 weekends, the above procedure should take place on the following Fridays ie. 21st/28th of January 2005 and the 4th/11th/18th of February 2005. This work will not affect the new part of the building.
If you have any queries regarding this work, please contact Mr G. Simpson on telephone extension 3431 or Mr C. Overton on telephone extension 3425
Job Vacancies at the University and College
Current vacancies at the University and College can be found at the Personnel website:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel/jobvacancies/
The weekly bulletin can also be found as a pdf from the same page.
All queries should be directed to Personnel: ext: 5347, email: personnel@bradford.ac.uk
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