Staff Briefing

High Quality printing facilities - Inprint + Design

Inprint and Design have a new service providing high-quality, large-format printing and lamination/encapsulation facilities for poster creation, up to A0 size on matt and silk materials.

These facilities are particularly relevant for poster creation for research (conferences etc), admissions activities and publicity.

Inprint and Design can accept a variety of file formats from both Mac and PC including QuarkXpress, Adobe Pagemaker, Freehand & Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Word 2000, Powerpoint 2000 and Publisher 2000.

Staff and students currently in the process of creating posters are encouraged to try out these new facilities for themselves.

Inprint and Design are more than happy to speak to staff and students about any particular requirements they may have and are ready to advise regarding file formatting, file delivery and output.

pdf of poster (will open in a new window)

Inprint + Design
Tel: ext: 5759 or ext: 5301
Email:

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Learning Support Services (LSS) Bulletin

The Web version of the April LSS Bulletin is now available.

Please note particularly that the unprecedented demand for the Dial-up Service has forced a review of the use of this service, and staff and off-campus students are now urged to use a public Internet Service Provider (ISP).

This issue also outlines the steps you can take to deal with junk mail.

For full details see http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/news/bulletin/2003-04/

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£50 Prize - Volunteers needed for research

£50 Prize - Volunteers needed for research into effects of cigarette smoke

Researchers at the University of Bradford (Hamid Behroozi, Prof Mike Ashmore, Prof Val Randall) are trying to establish whether there are different levels of metal ions in the hair and blood of people exposed to cigarette smoke.

They need volunteers who either:

• (i) smoke
• (ii) are regularly exposed to other people's smoke or
• (iii) have almost no exposure to cigarette smoke

Volunteers will be asked to donate small samples of hair and blood, and to complete a short questionnaire.

If you willing to help us with this study please e-mail Hamid Behroozi (a.h.behroozi@bradford.ac.uk) and indicate into which of the above categories you fall.

Everybody will be entered into a raffle with a prize of £50 for the winner.

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Effective Web Site Design

9.30 - 12.30 Thursday & Friday
15 & 16 May 2003 1.7 J B Priestley Building

• Course details: http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/training/courses/details/web-design.php
• Booking form: http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/training/courses/programme.php#webdes

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Student Registry Statistics

University of Bradford Statistcs for academic year 2002/3 (as at 1 December 2002) are now available in PDF format at the following address:

http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/student-registry/statistics/index.htm

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Crockery/Cutlery Amnesty

Please can catering be informed of any of their crockery/equipment that belongs to them. We will collect from any location.

Replacing this equipment is a drain on resources and can influence future pricing policy.

Please mail any information to:- d.nuttall@bradford.ac.uk

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Guidelines for Schools and Course Continuation Review Teams

In respect of Student Participation in the Course Continuation Review Process At the meeting of the 2nd April 2003 the Senate approved the amendment of section 8 of the Quality Assurance Handbook with regard to inclusion of student participation within the Course Continuation Review process.

Guidance for Schools and Course Continuation Review Teams in respect of student participation in the Course Continuation Review process is available at QAH8_1_student_participation.doc

Guidance for Student Representatives taking part in the Course Continuation Review process is available at QAH8_1_students.doc and will form part of the University Student Handbook from the 2003/04 academic session

The revised Guidelines for Course Continuation Review are available at http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/acsec/QA_Hbk/QAH8_1.html

If you require further information or guidance please contact Amanda Huggon in the Academic Standards and Support Unit at a.j.huggon@bradford.ac.uk

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Award Ceremonies July 2003

Information for all staff who wish to attend the ceremonies in July is now available via the Student Registry web site.

The deadline for receipt of applications is Friday 13 June.

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IBM Visit

IBM are visiting the University on the 22nd May at 2.30pm in room C7 to present their Scholar's Programme details of which can be found at: - http://www-3.ibm.com/software/info/university/

"The resources and benefits from IBM Scholars Program delivers a wide breadth of IBM software, hardware and technologies. In addition, you can take advantage of the associated learning materials and curriculum, discounts on books and events, technical support, community resources and more! " [quoted from the web site]

All academic, research and support staff are invited.

For more information contact Dr Paul C Rhodes, p.c.rhodes@bradford.ac.uk.

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TQEG Seminars

Assessment Regulations and Training for Chairpersons of Boards of Examiners Update - 12 May - Specialist Strand

Work-Based and Work Related Learning Workshop - 21 May - Excellence Plus Strand

Rescheduled Event:

Designing Programme Specifications has been rescheduled from 19 May 2003 to 11 June 2003

• Further information can be obtained via: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/LSSeminars02-03/
• To book a place e-mail tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk or phone ext 3286.

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Staff Development Unit courses

Recruitment and Selection

Mandatory 2 day event for all staff involved in recruiting and selecting staff for the University: Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 May, 08.45 - 17.00. The July 2003 course has been cancelled, so if you want to be trained this year, this is your last opportunity.

For information and booking: www.brad.ac.uk/admin/staffdev/programmes/core/recsel.html

Managing Sickness Absence

A ½ day to provide advice on how to manage the whole process of absence; including identifying attendance issues, when to involve Occupational Health and how conduct a return to work interview: Thursday 15 May, 09.00 - 13.00.

For information and booking: www.brad.ac.uk/admin/staffdev/programmes/core/sickabs.html

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