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Next edition
of the briefing and guidelines for entries
- Monday 17 May (morning)
Please send entries through in plenty of time to guarantee entry to the briefing.
Note that entries to the briefing should be 'brief', preferably no more than a few lines, with a link to the full information somewhere within your departmental/area website. This keeps the Staff Briefing short and snappy and easier to skim read.
Please avoid sending entries or headers in UPPERCASE as these will be changed to sentence case as appropriate.
In summary:
- Use arial 12 font
- Avoid uppercase (apart from capitalisation!)
- Keep entries brief
- Include a web address for further details as appropriate
- Send entry through in plenty of time
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
Many thanks
Claire
(Briefing editor!)
Cybernetics Final Year Project Open Day
Cybernetics Final Year Project Open Day will be on Wednesday 12 May, with poster presentations between 11am and 2.00pm in the Small Hall, Richmond Building.
Everyone is invited to come and give support to students, they will appreciate your presence there.
Foyer Jazz
Wednesday 12 May
Starts at 12.15pm in the Richmond Building Foyer - FREE
The University Jazz Quartet performs quality classics from mainstream repertoires and beyond.
Learning Support Seminars from the TQEG
Excellence Plus Strand
- "Coping with Diversity" on 17 May 2004
- "Helping Students to Cope with Job Placement Interviews, Using Multimedia" on 19 May 2004
- "Student Motivation" on 21 May 2004
- "Widening Participation" on 2 June 2004
- "Everybody Works but Careers Need Planning" on 7 June 2004
Further information can be obtained via: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/LSSeminars03-04/excellenceplus.htm
Specialist Strand
- "Assessment Regulations and Training for Chairpersons of Boards of Examiners (Update)" on 12 May 2004
- Annual Review of the Work of the Course Approval and Review Panel (CARP) on 14 May 2004
Further information can be obtained via: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/LSSeminars03-4/qualityassurance.htm
To book a place e-mail tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk or phone ext 3286.
Adult Learners Week - 15 to 21 May
For more information on Adult Learners Week go to http://www.niace.org.uk/alw/2004/Default.htm
If you are planning any events to co-incide with Adult Learners Week or have any events happening that tie in with this, or if you have entered any of your students for the Adult Learner Awards then please contact Kevin Spencer in Corporate Communications on ext: 3034 or k.spencer1@bradford.ac.uk
Staff Development Events
Writing Skills - a one-day course open to all staff to help you with word choice, sentence length, structure and clarity of your own writing and to provide a general approach to the stages and structure involved in writing and distributing a business report. Monday 17 May 2004, 09.15 - 16.45. For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=520
Special Collections News
Now available - May 2004 (Issue 3) of "Special Collections News" our digital newsletter intended to keep readers informed about the collections, services and events in Special Collections.
This issue includes
- Isaac Holden's Turkish Bath
- Seagulls versus submarines
- A new look at Mortimer Wheeler
http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/newsletters.php
Learning from Success
The third annual Bradford Conference on Learning And Teaching takes place on Tuesday 8 June 2004, The Graduate School, Richmond Building, 9.30am - 4.00pm.
The final programme will be available next week.
More details can be obtained via http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/excellenceplus/MiniConf04/flier04conf.htm
To book a place now, email tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk
Civic and Community Education Programme
Islam and Democracy: what's
the problem?
Speaker Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi.
Thursday 13 May from 6.30 - 8.00pm in John Stanley Bell lecture theatre,
refreshments available from 6.15pm in D4 foyer area.
Nature Conservation in the
Aire Valley: the story of Bingley South Bog
By Les Barnett
Friday 14 May from 10.30 -12 noon, in John Stanley Bell lecture theatre,
Richmond Building.
£3 payable on the door.
JB
Priestley Society Lecture
Home is Utopia: Priestley's Vision of an Ideal Society
B y Holger Klein
Saturday 15 May from 2.30 - 4.30pm, in John Stanley Bell lecture theatre.
For further information please contact the Short Course Unit: tel: ext 3213/6; email: scu@bradford.ac.uk; website: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/sled/
European Computer Driving Licence
Applications to join the programme next year - additional meeting arranged
An additional Information Session has been arranged for those interesed in applying for a place on the The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) progamme next year.
The additional date is Tuesday 15 June 2004.
There are also still places available on the session this Thursday 13 May 2004. Both sessions are held from 1pm - 2pm in room 2.7b J B Priestley Library.
The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) is an internationally recognised IT qualification demonstrating basic computer literacy over a wide range of common applications. Staff Development is able to fund a number of places under the Post-Entry Training scheme.
Closing date for applications is Friday 18 June 2004.
To book a place on one of the above sessions, e-mail training@bradford.ac.uk giving your name and department, or telephone David on ext 5356.
For more information about the university's ECDL programme, visit www.brad.ac.uk/lss/training/ecdl/
Are you wasting water?
May is the University's first Water Efficiency month and in conjunction with Yorkshire Water we are giving away 250 free sava-a-flush devices.
By placing the sava-a-flush bag in your home toilet cistern you will save 1 litre of water each time you flush. The sava-a-flush also comes with a handy water saving planner to help you further save water in your home.
Did you know that a third of an average family's water use is flushed down the toilet everyday - this is equivalent to two baths of water!
To receive your free sava-a-flush cistern bag e-mail our Environment Manager, Jaime Sullivan, at environment@bradford.ac.uk with your name and works address.
Are you doing your bit for the environment?
New grant to help support your ideas to improve the environment
If you have a project, which helps protect the environment by reducing staff or student dependence on the car or helps promote other forms of transport then you could be eligible for a grant from the Universities Environmental Levy Fund.
Perhaps you would like cycle shelters near your building, to train your essential car users on improved driving techniques, to set up a system for home working or to improve access information for visitors to your site.
Any School, Department or Student Organisation can apply to the Environmental Levy Fund.
The grant money has been raised through the environmental levy on car parking. The fund has limited resources so all applications will be considered and decided upon by the Universities Environmental Strategy Group.
The closing date for applications to the fund is 25th June 2004.
For further information e-mail Jaime Sullivan, Environment Manager, with your contact details to environment@bradford.ac.uk
Risk Management Seminars
The Finance Department have arranged a number of 2 hour Risk Awareness and Management Seminars on Tuesday 25th May.
Everyone in the University is involved in managing risks of one type or another and these sessions will help you identify these, assess the impact, control and manage these as appropriate.
You can see the Risk Management Policy at http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/finance/
Three Sessions are being held at Mezz 1 Conference Room, Graduate School at 10.00-12.00, 13.00-15.00,and 15.00-17.00.
To book your place on one of the sessions please contact Maxine Brown on 3061 or email m.brown3@bradford.ac.uk
Officer Staff Association Website
The O.S.A. website is now available at http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/osa/
Please see the Forthcoming Events tab for latest planned social events.
Non-members - joining details can be found on the site as well as information about the O.S.A.
Full Economic Costing (fEC) of Research Projects and Other Activities
The Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) and the Government have been concerned for some time that institutions are consistently not recovering the total true cost of research and other activities from sponsors, in terms of the 'price' that is charged. Evidence at a sector level, indicates that universities are generally cross-subsidising expenditure against research activities from teaching income.
Given the above, HEFCE have recently issued detailed costing guidance to institutions to allow them to arrive at the full economic cost (fEC) for research and other activities at a project level. Once enacted this should allow institutions to manage research (and other projects) on a fEC basis from various sponsors. Specifically, universities will be required to apply this methodology on applications to research councils from September 2005.
The costing guidance will be implemented and disseminated over the remainder of this calendar year following further advice from HEFCE. Appropriate training for academic and support staff will be arranged towards the end of 2004.
Should you require any additional information in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact Tara Singh Bhogal (3139 or via T.S.Bhogal@bradford.ac.uk) or Keith Waddingham (3132 or via K.Waddingham@bradford.ac.uk).
Staff
Satisfaction Survey 2004 - deadline extended
"The University of Bradford aims to be a better employer. What can we do to achieve this?"
In order to find out, the University is conducting a further survey of its staff. Please help us by completing a questionnaire and submitting your results by Thursday 13 May.
Please click on the link below; this will open a new window and take you to the research company Priority Research Limited's site.
Thank you for your support.
http://www.priority-research.com/wbs/bradfordstaff/
Annual
Review of the CARP 2003/04
The Annual Review of the Work of the Course Approval and Review Panel (CARP) will take place on Friday 14th May 2004 and will be held in Room 01.58 in the JB Priestley library from 12 noon until 4.30pm.
All principal and alternate members of an Annual Monitoring Team or a Course Approval and Review Team are invited to attend.
The review is intended to be a reflective event providing the opportunity for members to comment on how things have gone this year - what has gone well and what hasn't worked so well. We aim to share good practice among members and, if appropriate after full discussion, to bring forward suggestions for changes to policy or procedure for consideration by the Academic Policy Committee.
Feedback last year indicated that the 2 hour event did not allow sufficient time for full discussion of all the issues that came up, so in response the meeting this year will commence at 12noon and finish at 4.30pm.
The event is intended to be informal - so if you're unable to attend for the full session please feel free to turn up when you can and join one of the groups.
If you would like to attend this session please email tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk to reserve a place.
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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