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Car Parking Update - 25, 26 February and 3 March 2004
Please note that on Thursday 26 February the over flow car park (corner of Richmond Road and Longside Lane opposite the Peel Pub) will be reserved for visitors to a University event.
Any staff and students who usually use this car park will therefore need to find alternative parking. This will also be the case on Wednesday 3rd March.
Alternative parking can be found behind Revis Barber Hall on Laisteridge Lane. Permit holders are reminded not to park illegally.
Staff and students will be able to use the overflow car park park as normal on Wednesday 25 February, even though there is a University Applicant Visit Day (AVD).
Launch of Race Equality and Cultural Diversity Staff Forum
This invitation is for staff from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds to attend the launch of a Race Equality and Cultural Diversity Staff Forum.
The key aims of the Forum include:
- Promoting the University's approach to race equality and good race relations
- Providing a cross-disciplinary role models and advocates for progress in making diversity a reality happen at the University
- Contributing to the work of the Equality & Diversity Committee through the Race Equality and Cultural Diversity Forum
- Offering a formal and informal support network for BME staff within the University
- Celebrating and promoting success.
Wednesday 16th March, 2004
From 12.30 until 2:30 p.m
Mezz 7 Graduate School
If you are interested then please confirm your attendance by 10th March 2004.
E-mail Naseem Zaman at n.zaman3@bradford.ac.uk or alternatively by phone (6049).
Naseem Zaman
Equality and Diversity Adviser
Auditions for production of the Threepenny Opera
Auditions for the Threepenny Opera by Brecht and Weill will be held at the Tasmin Little Music Centre from 7pm on Monday 1 March.
Written in 1920's Germany set in London and based on the Beggars Opera by John Gay the musical follows the attempts by the authorities to hang MacHeath - the notorious Mac the Knife.
An ambitious joint production of the musical, between The Theatre in the Mill and the Tasmin Little Music Centre, will run from the 8th to the 10th of June at the Theatre in the Mill.
We are looking for both main and chorus roles.
We will be asking auditionees to sing and to do a short reading. Anyone is welcome to audition.
If you would be interested in taking any other non-performing role in the Threepenny Opera please contact Fellow in Theatre Iain Bloomfield on ext: 3190 or email: theatre@bradford.ac.uk
New Procedure Agreement for Technicians, Craft, Semi-skilled and Plant
staff
Working in Partnership - The University and Amicus have recently negotiated a new Procedure Agreement for Technicians, Craft, Semi-skilled and Plant staff.
This new Agreement is intended to foster the best possible relations between the University and Amicus by providing clear formal mechanisms for consultation and negotiation and for dealing openly, fairly and as near to the point of origin as is possible with issues as they arise.
A copy of the actual Agreement is available at: www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/personnel/TCSPproc-agreement03-04.pdf (will open in a new window)
It will also be circulated to all Technicians, Craft, Semi-skilled and Plant staff shortly.
Annual meeting of Court
This year's Annual Meeting of Court will be held on Thursday 29 April 2004. It will be followed by an Ordinary meeting of the University Council.
Please Note: this is one week later than the date published in the University's official Year Planner.
John Waller
Senior Assistant Secretary
ILTHE - Good News for Members
Payment Of 3rd Year Membership
In order to cover the period leading into the formation of the new Higher Education Academy, the University has decided to continue supporting members of the ILTHE into the third year of their membership.
ILTHE members will then gain guaranteed entry to the Higher Education Academy with registered practitioner status when it opens its register in Summer 2004.
In order to receive reimbursement for payment of third year ILTHE Membership, you need to pay the ILTHE personally. Once you have received a receipt from the ILTHE complete Form TE3 (University of Bradford Claim form for travelling expenses and subsistence allowance).
Send both to the TQEG office and we will process the claim. Finance will then arrange payment.
If you have already paid yourself, then the same procedure will apply.
If you have ceased membership, it is worth contacting the ILTHE to explore re-joining, then follow the above procedure.
If you have any queries please contact the TQEG office on ext 3286.
OSA Social Event - Ten-pin Bowling
Thursday 1st April
How do you fancy a couple of games of ten-pin bowling plus a basket meal? I promise you your score will not be the lowest as I normally get this honour.
What we plan to do for this years Easter Social Event is go ten-pin bowling at the Hollywood Bowl (Bradford city centre near the bus station).
Date Thursday 1st April
Time for 1st game 18:30pm
For those of you that need liquid limbering up we shall be meeting up in the Hollywood Bowl bar between 17:30 and 18:30.
In between the two games we will be served with a basket meal.
Meal Choices - all served with fries and onion rings:
- Chicken goujons
- Spicy bean burger
- Beer battered cod goujons
- Hot & kickin' chicken burger
- Cheese & bacon burger
Cost to members is £7.00 and non-members £11.45.
I will require the full amount by 19th March.
Please email s.m.schmassmann@bradford.ac.uk with your booking stating:
- How many places you require and how many of these are members.
- Meal choice.
Shortly after emailing your booking please put in the post a cheque for the full amount made out to the OSA.
Send to Susan Schmassmann, MIS. Or alternatively call in person with the cheque to room E62, Richmond Building.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - final year project - volunteers wanted
We are nine pharmacy students, researching chronic fatigue syndrome for our final year dissertation project. We are looking into how fatigue can affect depression, memory, cognitive function and the level of fatigue in the general population.
Please see our full message at http://www.brad.ac.uk/news/fatigue.html
Calling all departments who wish to participate in the LCGI (City and
Guilds Qualification) for students who go out on placement
We are currently working on the re-accreditation documentation for the LCGI qualification, for the whole of the University of Bradford. So far, there are just Mechanical Engineering and The School of Management who wish to be included.
If you wish to become an approved department/course and would like to know more, have a chat with Connie Heyes, Mechanical Engineering (ext: 4240, C.E.Heyes@bradford.ac.uk) or Les Chadwick, School of Management (ext: 4334, L.Chadwick@bradford.ac.uk)
Arts on Campus
Gallery II
Strange Powers: Bog Bodies
and Bog Lands
Open 10am - 4pm weekdays, 11am - 3pm weekends
http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/gallery/bog.php
Theatre in the Mill
5 & 6 March at 7.30pm
Bradford University Theatre Group present Christie in Love by Howard
Brenton
Tickets £4.50/£3.00
Following their runaway success with the 'By the Rules' season of new writing BUTG re-open the Theatre in the Mill with some of the most shocking new writing of the 70's. Howard Brenton's 'Christie in Love' is a play about the nature of evil and the demonisation of criminals.
As a constable digs John Reginald Christies garden for evidence of his grisly crimes an Inspector quizzes Christie on his motives.
Howard Brenton is no stranger to Bradford having had a number of his plays premiered either at the University or in the case of Scott of the Antarctic at the ice rink, for the Bradford Festival!
At turns sly, funny and shocking 'Christie in Love' is a provocative, political piece that has as much relevance now as when first produced.
Box Office 01274 233200
Email theatre@bradford.ac.uk
Tasmin Little Music Centre
Wednesday 3 March at 12.15pm
Tromboni Bomboni - Barrie Webb Trombone and Didjeridu
Richmond Building Foyer Coffee Bar, University of Bradford
One of the worlds greatest avant-garde trombonists performs a selection of the worlds finest trombone music including the ground-breaking and theatrical Sequenza V by the famous Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003).
Free but donations welcome
Learning Support Seminars from the TQEG
Excellence Plus Strand
- "International Students - (Work Permits)" on 5 March 2004
- "Effective Personal Tutoring" on 10 March 2004
- "Helping Students to Cope with Job Placement Interviews, Using Multimedia" on 12 March 2004
- "Supporting Reflective Learning" on 17 March 2004
- "Supporting Personal Development Planning" on 19 March 2004
Further information can be obtained via: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/LSSeminars03-04/excellenceplus.htm
Learning Technology Strand
- "Video Conference Seminar" on 16 March 2004
Further information and programme can be obtained via: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/LSSeminars03-4/videoconference.htm
To book a place e-mail tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk or phone ext 3286.
Staff Development Opportunities
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
Facilitation Skills - a 1-day course to provide an opportunity for some practice and feedback of facilitation skills. These skills can be used for: leading groups; running meetings and helping people learn. The course will also look at team/group interaction. 26 February 2004, 09.00 - 16.45. For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=439
New Staff Development Event
UCAN Project - Introduction to Staff Volunteering - a 1 hour session for staff wishing to gain increased awareness of the work of the UCAN Project and an insight into the voluntary and personal/professional development opportunities available to University staff via the UCAN Project. Thursday, 18 March 2004, 12.00 - 13.00. For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=655
Colin Bell Commemorative lecture
Tuesday 30th March 2004, 6pm
for 6.30pm
Great Hall, Richmond Building
Memorial lecture by Sir Howard Newby 'Doing Widening Participation: Social Inequality and Access to Higher Education?'
For further details, and to let us know that you are coming along, please see: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/bell-lecture.htm
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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