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of the briefing 
- Friday 30 April (very late afternoon - for the week commencing Monday 3 May)
- Tuesday 11 May (morning)
Please send entries through in plenty of time to guarantee entry to the briefing of your choice.
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.
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
Many thanks
Claire
(Briefing editor!)
Staff Satisfaction Survey 2004
"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 Monday 10 May 2004.
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/
Meeting of the Assembly
Please be advised that the next meeting of the Assembly will be held on Tuesday 27 April at 1pm in the Great Hall.
The Agenda for the meeting and minutes of the previous meeting will be available at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/assembly/
All welcome
Profile 2004
The University's Profile 2004, which provides useful and informative facts and figures about the University, its students and staff, is now available.
The profile is available online at www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/market-research or to request a copy please email course-enquiries@bradford.ac.uk.
Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching is being redeveloped to bring it into line with the changed nature of the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme.
A new website will be provided when the CADT is re-launched later this year.
Meanwhile there will be one last round under the existing procedures.
For this final session of the existing scheme, the deadline for nominations is 14th May.
The deadline for supporting statements is Monday 31st May. If you would like to be considered for the Award, follow the link above for further details.
Civic and Community Education Programme
The Temples at Karnak and Luxor, by Barry Marsden, will be held on Friday 30 April from 10.30-12 noon, in John Stanley Bell lecture theatre (D floor Richmond Building).
£3 payable on the door.
For further information please contact the Short Course Unit: tel: ext 3213/6; email: scu@bradford.ac.uk; website: www.bradford.ac.uk/sled/
Web Authoring Courses - April/May
Effective Web Site Design
- 27 and 28 April 2004
http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?eve
nt_id=711
Web Workshop - 29 April
2004
http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?eve
nt_id=693
Weave your own Web -
6 May 2004
http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?eve
nt_id=712
FrontPage 2000 Introduction
- 13 May 2004
http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?eve
nt_id=713
Designing Effective Web
Navigation - 18 May 2004
http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?eve
nt_id=714
Web Accessible Tables
- 26 May 2004
http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?eve
nt_id=715
Web Workshop - 27 May
2004
http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?eve
nt_id=694
For other Web Authoring courses offered in June, please see http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk
Business Travel Services
As part of our tender process, can we invite staff who either book and/or use Business Travel Services to complete and return the attached questionnaire.
The Travel Work Group will then use this information as an aide to specifying our service requirements and in the evaluation of potential suppliers.
BTS
Questionnaire (Word document, will open in a new browser window)
Ian Stow
Contracts Officer
Accommodation & Catering Services Halls Wardens
£1150 per annum plus free
accommodation
One year fixed term appointment
If you like working in a busy environment that brings you into day to day contact with people and challenges, then this job could be for you.
The primary role of the Halls Warden is to facilitate students in settling into their studies and living within the community of halls.
If you are interested in applying for this position please send a CV and a covering letter explaining why you feel you are suitable for the role to:
Andrew Abbey
Director of Accommodation and Catering
University of Bradford
West Yorkshire BD7 1DP Closing date: Friday 21st May 2004
Sale of off-campus properties
The University will shortly be disposing of properties on Claremont, Ashgrove, and Pemberton Drive under the terms of its strategic estates plan.
An agent will be appointed in the near future to market the properties, and members of staff are invited to declare any interest that they may have in purchasing any property by e-mail to s.a.jenkins@bradford.ac.uk.
Names will be passed to the agent once appointed, who will ensure that details of the properties are forwarded promptly to individuals.
We urge those who may have already spoken to Estates & Facilities on an informal basis to re-affirm their interest by e-mail. Please put "Off-Campus Properties" in the subject field of your email.
Learning Support Seminars from the TQEG
Excellence Plus Strand
- "Learning Outcomes" on 5 May 2004
- "Student Success" on 10 May 2004
- "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
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" on 28 April 2004
- "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
Learning Technology Strand
- Video Conference Seminar on 11 May 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.
Cancelled Seminar
"Training for Invigilators" which was to have run on 7 May 2004 is now cancelled.
Islam and Democracy: what's the problem?
Speaker: Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi Senior Research Fellow and Co-ordinator of the project on Democracy in the Muslim World at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London.
His publications include 'Turabi's Revolution: Islam and Power in Sudan' and 'Who Needs an Islamic State'.
Sponsored by Programme for a Peaceful City and the School of Lifelong Education and Development at the University of Bradford.
Thursday 13 May 2004 in the John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre, Richmond Building, University of Bradford 6.30 pm until 8.00 pm (Refreshments available from 6.15 pm)
For further details please contact: Phil Lewis, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, telephone (01274) 234199, email P.Lewis@bradford.ac.uk
Staff Development Events
Overview of the Leglislation - a 1-day course for managers to raise awareness of the implications of employment legislation on the manager's role. Eversheds (the University's law firm) will be providing an overview of Employment Law, Equality & Diversity and Data Protection through a combination of presentations and interactive sessions. Monday 10 May 2004, 09.15 - 16.30.
- For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=424
Creative Writing - 2 x 45 minute sessions (staff are encouraged to attend both sessions) for any staff for releasing “writer“s magic“ in you and freeing up your creative, imaginative potential to improve the fluency and impact of your writing; and help to overcome blocking, writing apprehension and other writing process problems. Friday 14 and 28 May 2004, 13.05 - 13.50.
- For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=421
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
Work Placement
Visit - can you help?
In week commencing Tuesday, 4 May, I am organising a work experience placement visit for six pupils from Grange Technology College. The first week will be a programme of activities drawn up around the group's interest areas. In the second week I am hoping to provide each one of them with a 4-day placement elsewhere in the University.
Do you do anything really interesting that you would like to show or talk to others about for say anything from an hour to a half-day session?
Are you able to offer a 4-day standard work placement in your area for the second week of their visit - Tuesday, 11 May - Friday, 14 May?
If you are able to offer anything, or wish to talk to me before committing yourself, please get in touch. My contact details are: ext: 5304 email: l.j.broadley@bradford.ac.uk
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 12noon 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.
PING
Claire McNamee
Photographs at Gallery II, Chesham Building
McNamee is known worldwide for her black and white photographs of poets, playwrights and novelists. Simon Beaufoy, Willy Russell, Fay Weldon, Ian McMillan and John Hegley are just a few of her subjects.
Opening on Friday, 16 April, 2004, this new exhibition of colour photography - called PING - is startlingly different but equally evocative.
McNamee said: "My photography is about capturing moments. Some of these are as fluid as a fleeting thought or intimate as private dialogues can be." Born in London in 1953, McNamee is now based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. The photographs in PING have a sometimes dream-like quality as sunlight flickers through shutters or neon streetlights swirl.
McNamee adds: "Events like these often happen momentarily, disappearing in the blink of an eye. These mood pictures express a quirkiness that is often present in concentrated experiences."
The exhibition is open weekdays 11am until 3pm between Friday, 16 April and Friday, 14 May, 2004.
FREE admission
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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