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This week Next edition of the briefing Donations please - for students Staff Development Events LSS Bulletin Extra Happy Happy at Theatre in the Mill - 2 for 1 ticket offer Watercoolers Post Entry Training Scheme - possible changes to the process in 2004/5 Threepenny Opera Gallery II - Sense of Space Civic and Community Education Programme Learning Support Seminars from the TQEG Jobs at the University and College

Next edition of the briefing

• Monday 7 June 2004

Please send entries through in plenty of time to guarantee entry to the briefing.

Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk

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Donations please - for students

Over the summer a lot of students will need food. Student Financial and Information Services (SFIS) would be pleased to receive any non-perishable foodstuffs that you have, i.e. tinned food, packaged food. Please drop off items at SFIS Reception, Communal Building.

The Students' Union would welcome any clothing or items used in the home to sell in the recycle store.

Thanks

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Staff Development Events

New Event from the Staff Development Unit

Supporting HE Students With Asperger's Syndrome - a 1-day course for staff across all academic areas who are likely to have direct contact with HE students, particularly those who provide support, guidance and information such as tutors, personal tutors, notetakers and accommodation staff. The aim is to provide an overview of Asperger's Syndrome and an opportunity to discuss its effects in HE and devise support strategies. Monday 5 July 2004, 09.15 - 16.45. For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=777

Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:

New Staff Induction - a 3 hour session for Staff who are new to the University of Bradford to provide information on various central services and a brief overview of the structure of the University and who to speak to get more information on specific areas of interest to you. Also to allow an opportunity for you to meet some service providers and other new staff. Monday 7 June 2004, 11.45 - 14.45. For more information and booking go to: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=484

Introduction to Managing Diversity - a 1-day course for any staff to raise awareness of issues relating to equality and diversity and explore some of the key issues and challenges of learning to value ethnic and cultural diversity. Tuesday 8 June 2004, 09.00 - 17.00. For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=457

Managing (Poor Performance) - a 1-day course for staff who manage other staff to provide techniques for managing good perfomance and setting targets for improving poor performance, dealing with unacceptable behaviour, including how to use Disciplinary Procedures. Thursday 10 June 2004, 09.15 - 16.45. For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=492

Get That Interview! - a 2-hour session for staff who are interested in improving their applications for jobs internally within manual, clerical and technician grades to help them understand the process of getting shortlisted for internal jobs and how to improve their skills in this area. Thursday 24 June 2004, 12.00 - 14.00. For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=660

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LSS Bulletin

The electronic version of the May edition is available at http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/news/bulletin/2004-05/index.php.

Limited paper copies will be circulated shortly.

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This week at Theatre in the Mill - ticket offers for staff

Extra Happy Happy - 2 for 1 ticket offer for staff

4 June at 7.30pm

Big Wow's first full-length comic masterpiece of irreverent rudeness and casual mayhem. Taking apart the world of the modern travelling experience with huge abandon, Extra Happy Happy is a magnificent collision of the satirical and the very silly.

2 for 1 tickets for staff when you present a copy of this briefing at the box office.

Box Office

Tel: 01274 23 3200 | Email: theatre@bradford.ac.uk

Part of Northern Exposure - 15 May 2004 to 12 June 2004
A festival of new writers and new work at Theatre in the Mill and the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. Staff and their family and friends are invited to the newly refurbished Theatre in the Mill to see new works from around the UK.

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Watercoolers

We need to update our records on the number and location of watercoolers in use across the University.

Therefore could you please let me know of any machine which is located near to you. I only need to know the School Name, Department Name, Building, Room No or Area in which this machine is located.

Once we have collated this information, it is our intention to carry out a site survey to establish whether or not we can install point of use watercoolers into these areas, as opposed to the current free standing machines.

Your co-operation would be appreciated.

Please respond via e-mail to i.p.stow@bradford.ac.uk

Thanks

Ian Stow
Purchasing Services

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Post Entry Training Scheme - possible changes to the process in 2004/5

This is a central Scheme managed by the University's Staff Development Administrator which financially supports applications from staff to attend external courses leading to a qualification up to and including first-degree level.

For more information go to: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/staffdev/PET or contact Helen (see below).

The Scheme has been under review during 2003/4 as part of the intention to give Planning Units/Administrative Departments more opportunity to oversee their staff's training and development needs and make more informed decisions on how to allocate Staff Development budgets fairly amongst all their staff. Recommendations to Planning Units/Administrative Departments to devolve the decision making for applications during 2004/5 and the budgets during 2005/6 have been considered by the Staff Development & Training Sub-Committee and are currently being considered by Personnel Committee, so a final decision has not be taken yet.

I'm writing to staff now before the final decision has been made to let you know that the usual deadline (18 June) will be extended and the person to send E1 applications to may change. However, the policy for decisions will still apply.

I will be sending further information out to all staff when a final decision has been made (later in June). Assuming the proposals are approved, the information will explain the new process. The only exception to this is applications for the internal European Computer Driving Licence course, which will still need to be sent to the Staff Development Unit on form E1c by Friday 18 June. The form and further information is available on the PET website or from the Staff Development Unit.

Please contact Helen if you have any queries or request at: staffdev@bradford.ac.uk or on ext. 3096.

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Threepenny Opera

8, 9 and 10 June, 7.30pm at Theatre in the Mill

Theatre in the Mill and Tasmin Little Music Centre present a joint production of The Threepenny Opera (1928) by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

Tickets £4.50, concessions £3.00 and £1 for Music Society Members

Fusing jazz with classical elements, the Weill/Brecht combination captures the satirical reference to 1920's German life, evoking the atmosphere of that period by its jazzy and brilliant scoring. The Threepenny Opera contains the 'hit' number Mack the Knife, recently re-vamped by Robbie Williams.

Box Office 01274 233200
Email theatre@bradford.ac.uk

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Gallery II - Sense of Space

EIMC Degree Show

1 - 11 June, open 11am - 3pm weekdays

This exhibition marks the culmination of work by University of Bradford students on the Final Year module Imaging Innovations. Twenty students and two tutors in the Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications have all participated in a year long programme of activities. This is very much a group show. As such it reflects the overall philosophy of the course and has students working in close partnership with tutors and each other to produce work specifically intended for public exhibition. The work is personally challenging and is the ultimate expression of students' (as well as tutors') creative thinking.

Much of the work stems from the detailed consideration of real urban and public spaces. It is also an investigation into the material and social nature of creativity and innovation in visual communication and design.

This exhibition is being run in conjunction with the EIMC Final Year Show taking place at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.

Tel 01274 235 495
Email gallery@bradford.ac.uk
Web: www.bradford.ac.uk/gallery

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Civic and Community Education Programme

The Art and Science of Excellence: An Introduction to NLP
Tutor, Kevin Downsworth
Saturday 12 June from 10 am - 4.30 pm, in Mezz 1, The Graduate School.

Georgian Life in Town and Country: A Study Visit to Ripon and Studley Royal
Tutors, Paul Jennings & George Sheeran
Saturday 19 June.

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/

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Learning Support Seminars from the TQEG

Excellence Plus Strand

• Widening Participation on 2 June 2004
• Everybody Works but Careers Need Planning on 7 June 2004
• Teaching Quality Information on 18 June 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: "eLearning Strategies - Knowledge Management Strategies - do we need them?"
  Presented by Helen Hayes, Vice-Principal for Knowledge Management and Librarian to the University of Edinburgh on 15 June 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.

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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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