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Next editions of the briefing
- Monday 4 October
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- Monday 18 October
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Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
Open Day this Saturday
The University will be holding its next main Open Day of 2004 this Saturday, 2 October from 9.30am until 3.30pm.
Visitors to the University will have the opportunity to tour the campus, look at facilities, visit one or two individual academic departments, and have one-to-one conversations with Admissions Tutors.
There is also the chance to find out about general student issues such as accommodation and finance, and attend specialist seminars including a seminars for mature students.
Full details, including the programme for the day, are available from the Open Day site.
Please let us know of any other events that may be taking place at the University on Saturday - email: Kevin Spencer at k.spencer1@bradford.ac.uk
Car Parking Charges
As agreed by Council the charge for car parking permits is set to rise from 1 October 2004. The new rates are below.
- Staff Car Park Permit Charges 2004 - 05 (word document)
ESP Skills Development Programme
for students
To be aware of and pass on to your students:
Is your CV in need of a boost? Do you need something extra to make you stand out from the crowd?
ESP is a brand new skills development programme designed specifically for students at Bradford. This unique programme will enable you to enhance and develop your skills at your own pace. The scheme is flexible and runs between september and June.
In return for getting involved you will be awarded with a University Certificate recognising the skills you have developed.
The scheme is FREE and open to all students registered at the University. For more details please contact Becka Currant e-mail r.currant@brad.ac.uk or Tel ext 4998 or check out the website: http://www.careers.brad.ac.uk/student/esp.php
Learning Support Seminars and Events from TQEG
Annual Monitoring of Taught Provision: Why and How? on 29 September at 1300 - 1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Jon Owen of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
Becoming an Online Tutor - a ten week online course beginning 4 October - Led by Carol Higgison of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
JISC Plagiarism Detection Service on 6 October at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Carol Higgison of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
New University Awards for Excellent Teaching and the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme on 13 October at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Widening Participation on 20 October at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Nadira Mirza of the School of Lifelong Education and Development.
Developing and Approving Programmes and Units on 27 October at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Amanda Huggon of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
Details of the above events and online booking can be found via: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_courselist.pl
Please contact Christine Rayment or Beverley Lyons on 5138 or email tqe.sec@bradford.ac.uk if you have further enquiries.
Web/Blackboard workshops
Web/Blackboard workshops will be held weekly on Wednesdays between 11 am and 3 pm in the new staff IT training room, F29 Richmond Building, commencing 6/13 October 2004.
Although these are intended to run as 'drop-in' workshops, we ask that you let us know you are coming by filling in the online booking form by 9 am on the day of the workshop, and using the 'Special Requirements' section to give an approximate time and brief details of the assistance you need so that we can ensure appropriate help is on hand (Dreamweaver users welcome).
For booking forms see:
Web workshops - http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=595
Blackboard workshops - http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=648
Blackboard - Important information for staff
Some of the administrative procedures for Blackboard are changing. A new Blackboard module will be created for every occurrence of every module every semester. This means new versions of your modules will show up in your list in Blackboard.
Full details are at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/news/articles/bb.php
Staff IT Programme for Academic
Year 2004-5
The Staff IT Training Programme for this Academic Year starts in October in our new training room - F29 Richmond Building. Some items to note:
Support for Blackboard and Web Authoring will now be offered every Wednesday between 11am - 3pm. You need to book a time slot to attend these. This is in addition to the SAINT and Office support already offered at this time.
All Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) training courses will be geared towards Office 2003. All staff are encouraged to upgrade to this new version. A series of 'What's new in 2003?' courses are being offered.
Once you have upgraded to Office 2003 you will be able to use Microsoft Outlook 2003 as your e-mailer. This will gradually replace ExecMail and Eudora. Courses are being offered in 'Moving to Outlook 2003'.
A programme of Advanced Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access courses are being offered over the year. These courses will cover the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) advanced syllabus, and plans are for the University to become an Advanced ECDL Testing Centre.
For full details of these and other training news visit: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/lss/training/news-staff.php
Upcoming Staff IT Training Courses
The following IT courses are taking place in F29 Richmond Building in the next three weeks, for staff upgrading to Microsoft Office 2003.
- Thursday 7 October 9:30-12:30 - What's new in Word 2003?
- Friday 8 October 9:30-12:30 - Word 2003 Mail Merge Essentials
- Monday 11 October 9:30-12:30 - What's new in PowerPoint 2003?
- Tuesday 12 October 9:30-12:30 - What's new in Excel 2003?
- Thursday 14 October 13:30 - 16:30 - Moving to Outlook 2003
For full details and on-line booking, visit: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/ or e-mail training@bradford.ac.uk
Are you up for the 24-Hour
Show Challenge?
Bradford University Theatre Group (BUTG) will, once again, be holding a 24 Hour Show this year - starting on Friday 8th October at Theatre in the Mill.
The event is for charity, the Bradford Soup Run, and in true 24 Hour Show tradition, the chosen show is being kept a secret.
Anyone wishing to participate is invited to come along to Theatre in the Mill on Friday 8th October from 7.00pm, where the title of the show will be announced.
Following 24 hours of frantic auditions, line-learning, acting, singing, dancing, fund-raising, poster designing, set-building, lighting, sound design and costume-making, the cast and crew will unveil a show to remember.
For further details contact the show's production team at: helby9t8@hotmail.com
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
Voice Projection - a 3 hour session to introduce (non-strenuous) exercises to help make your voice work for you more effectively and covers the basic components of voice production: posture; breathing; shaping and projecting sound. Tuesday 5 October 2004, 09.00 - 12.00.
Recruitment and Selection - mandatory 2 day event for all staff involved in recruiting and selecting staff for the University: Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 October 2004, 08.45 - 16.30. 7
Health Emergency Helpline - a 1 day event to train and brief Health Emergency Helpline volunteers for the possibility of an Emergency Helpline. The training will enable you to learn more about meningitis and other emergency situations, to network with colleagues and further develop your telephone communication skills. Tuesday 19 October 2004, 10.30 - 16.30.
Appraisee Training - a 1-day course for any staff who have not yet attending the training. All staff are expected to be appraised on an annual basis, usually be their manager. This course helps the appraisee understand what the purpose of appraisal is, what they can expect during an appraisal interview and how they can get the most out of it. Wednesday 20 October 2004, 09.15 - 16.45.
Places available on the following Knowledge Transfer events:
Consultancy - an introduction - This introductory session includes input on the role and context of consultancy for academic staff including: financial management; rules and regulations; professional indemnity insurance and other practical support. Thursday 7 October 2004, 12.00 - 14.00.
Commercialisation of Research - Come and learn about the main types of intellectual property, how to protect it and what are the ways it might be commercialised. Monday 18 October 2004, 12.00 - 14.00.
Eye Clinic - information for staff
Forster Building, Listerhills Science Park
A reminder to all staff the Eye Clinic is open to both staff, students and general public. Appointments are available morning and afternoon Monday to Friday offering 25% discount off spectacles. We also have a contact lens clinic.
To book your appointment please contact 234649 and speak to Sharon or Sue.
Listen Up! Festival of Orchestras
2004
Come and Play . . . Mahler's Symphony No. 5
Louise Latham - leader
Mark Haydn Robinson - conductor
Sunday 3rd October 10.00am
- 5.00pm
The Great Hall, University of Bradford
Adults: £6.50, students: £3, Tasmin Little Music Centre Members: £1
This is a great work and the famous adagietto was used in Visconti's 'Death in Venice'. It has not been performed in Bradford for a very, very long time and, all though there is no formal concert, we are intending to try and run the whole work in the afternoon.
Further information and application forms contact Claire Fuller 07734 277450 clairelf80@hotmail.com
Presented by Tasmin Little Music Centre, University of Bradford 01274 233191 music@bradford.ac.uk.
Listen Up! website (BBC site)
Junk Email
In response to numerous complaints about the quantity of junk mail that is being delivered to University email accounts, Learning Support has taken the following actions:
1. All email accounts now have had a folder called 'junkmail'. Some of you had created your own previously but, for those who had not, this has been done for you. All messages which are assessed as being junk will be placed in that folder and deleted automatically after 28 days.
2. The tool used to assess whether messages are junk or not, Spam Assassin, will now judge mail to be junk if it scores higher than 6. Until now a score of 8 has been required. This will increase the number of messages being sent to your junkmail folder.
What do you need to do?
Probably nothing but it is possible, although unlikely, that some messages that are perfectly valid will be judged as being junk mail. PLEASE check your junkmail folder over the next few weeks to ensure that valid messages are not being filed incorrectly. If they are, please advise the sender that their message looks like spam; they should be able to restructure the message to avoid this. Also please pass the email address of the sender to ICTservicedesk@bradford.ac.uk who can arrange for future messages from that address to be processed as valid messages.
If you do NOT want your spam email filtered automatically into a junkmail folder, please simply delete the junkmail folder; all the rubbish will be delivered to your Inbox as normal!
The University mail service is currently receiving over 13 million email messages a week, of which only 750,000 have valid Bradford addresses and do not contain viruses, so we are already discarding vast quantities of messages.
We hope the steps outlined above will further decrease the quantity of unwanted email you have to process.
If you have any queries or comments regarding this please contact s.j.eyre@bradford.ac.uk.
Exhibition at Gallery II 
Andrew Dodds New Paintings
Friday 17th September Friday 29th October 2004
Monday Friday 11am 5pm, late night opening on Thursday til 7pm.
Gallery II, Chesham Building.
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/gallery
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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