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Next editions of the briefing
- Monday 13 December
- Friday 17 December (last thing in the afternoon) - last briefing of the year!
Please send entries through in plenty of time to guarantee entry to the briefing. Please don't use capital letters for headings or sentences - they only get changed back to sentence case!
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
This week at Theatre in the
Mill
December
9th, 10th and 11th, 7.30pm
Disco Inferno
Will you Survive the Jive and Stay Alive?
1978. Disco Rules the dance floors, and in the newly opened Ocean's Tower, the skies. Doug Guillermin has designed the newest and most sophisticated building in San Francisco. It may well secure his name in history. But has the contractor cut corners and have Doug's original plans been followed? Downtown in San Francisco, has Nam vet and Fire Chief Allen Irwin picked the wrong day to quit smoking?
You are invited to celebrate the opening of Ocean's Tower in its funky Disco on the top floor. Burn up the dance floor to the best beats of the 70s and become part of a funk filled homage to the disaster movies of that decade.
This will be one blazing night you won't forget.
Turn up in 70s threads (obligatory for entry!) and enjoy the best D.I.S.C.O in town.
December 9th, 10th and 11th at Theatre in the Mill and look out for details of the special DISCO offer in conjucntion with the Students' Union on Thursday 9th.
Email: theatre@bradford.ac.uk or ring ext: 3200 to reserve tickets.
Forthcoming Music Events
Thursday 9th December at 7.30pm
BUSOM with bells on
Tasmin Little Music Centre
£2 / £1.50 (Tickets on the door)
A performance by BUSOM (Bradford University Society of Operettas and Musicals) members of popular operetta and musical classics.
Sunday 12 December at 3.30pm
The Christmas Sing
Great Horton Methodist Church
Free
A concert of modern and traditional Christmas music, featuring the University Singers with wind and brass. Coffee and Mince pie included!
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
Introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA101) - This 2-day course provides a powerful way for us to begin to understand what makes us 'tick' and to why we relate to others as we do - Why are we as we are? Why do we do what we do? Attendance on these two days will entitle participants to receive an official 101 Certificate issued by the Institute of Transactional Analysis. Tuesday 7 & Wednesday 8 December 2004, 09.15 - 16.45
Time Management - offers time management techniques and frameworks for discussion and action planning. Time Management is a way of looking after yourself, reducing stress, and feeling you are back in control of what you need to do, and what it's important to do. Monday 20 December 2004, 09.15 - 16.30.
Standard Unit Evaluation Questionnaires
The Optical Mark Reader (OMR) paper forms for collecting student feedback via Standard Unit Evaluation Questionnaires for sampled units taught in Semester One 2004/2005 will be printed week commencing 6 December 2004.
Staff in Academic Standards and Support Unit will distribute the OMR forms to all Schools via your departmental contact person for wider dissemination.
The name of your departmental contact person can be found at http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/acsec/assu/questionnaire_contacts.htm
Should you need the OMR forms as a matter of urgency and/or before Wednesday 8 December please contact the Academic Standards and Support Unit and we will arrange to deliver the OMR forms to you directly.
Learning Support Seminars and Events from TQEG
Assessing Key Skills on 8 December at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Training for Invigilators on 15 December at 1300-1500 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Jon Owen of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
Why use the VLE (Blackboard)? on 5 January at 0930-1230 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Carol Higgison and Ken Panko of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Practical Assessment - Strategies, Marking Schemes, etc on 5 January at 1330-1630 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Chris Alder and Ken Panko of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Practical Approaches to Student Motivation and Behaviour on 6 January at 0930-1230 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Chris Alder and Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Making E-Learning accessible: Can We? Will We? Do We Have To? on 6 January at 1330-1630 in Room 1.7, JBP Library Building - Presented by Carol Higgison of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Frequent Formative Assessment - A Computer Based Approach on 7 January at 1130-1230 in Room 1.7, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Chris Alder and Ken Panko of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Writing High-Quality MCQs on 7 January at 1330-1630 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Carol Higgison and Ken Panko of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Assessing Group Work on 12 January at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Chris Alder of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Dealing with Diverse Groups on 19 January at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Udi Archibong of the School of Health Care Studies.
Assuring the Quality and Standards of the Off-Site Provision on 24 January at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Allison Campbell of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
Supporting Reflective Learning on 26 January at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
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.
Research and Knowledge Transfer Support - staff relocation
Research & Knowledge Transfer Support, within the Graduate School will be closed on Friday 10th December due to relocation of staff.
The Department will be open again on Monday 13th December. Staff locations will then be as follows:
- The office of Ian Rowe (Director) remains as C55
- The office of Josephine Lambert (PA to the Director) remains as C50A
- Business Support (Malcolm Purdie & Team) - Room C58
- Enterprise and Commercialisation Support (Andrew Duley and Team) - Room C57
- Research Support (Patricia Skeet & Team) - Room C56
- Senior Executive (Neil Johnson) - Room C57
- Medilink Team - Room C57
Any enquiries related to the above should be made to Josephine Lambert on ext. 3223.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Seminar
Rachel Cooper, formerly of Bradford University now at Lancaster University, will address the question of how medical treatment may affect people's sense of identity.
Her talk, 'Medical Treatment and People's Identity', is on Wednesday 8 December at 4pm in N24 (Richmond).
Full schedule is at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/ihs/seminar/royal_institute/
Computer Security - news from
Learning Support Services
Computer security is increasingly important and can cover a wide range of subjects. LSS have a new area of their Web site dedicated to this giving simple ways for you to protect yourself when you are online, such as choosing a good password, anti-virus advice, firewalls and online fraud.
See http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/it-services/security/.
We have also produced a new
document "Installing and Using Anti-Virus and Firewall Software on
Your Computer" (Acrobat) - see http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/documentation/anti-virus-&-firewall/anti-virus-&-firewall-software.pdf
Notification of Works: Main
Campus, JBP Library
For your information, the following works are to be carried out at the JBP Library.
On Thursday 9th December a mobile crane will be on site to remove materials from the JBPL roof. It will be located on the driveway adjacent to the Communal building. The crane will arrive on site at approximately 07.30 and will be here all day.
Also a number of large skips will be positioned on the adjacent Kirkstone Hall car park from the same time.
Spaces along the bottom side of the car park will be cordoned off the night before. The crane will also be in this location on Friday 10th December. However there will be no skips on site and the car park spaces will be available.
Please note that there will be no access to the lower end of the drive, the library loading bay, under the library and to the passage between the Communal and Library buildings for the whole day. A section of the upper level of the Communal building concourse will also be cordoned off.
It is anticipated that the works will commence on Thursday 9th December and will be completed in one day after that date. We apologise for any inconvenience caused during these improvement works.
Should you have any queries regarding the work, please direct them to Mr Alan Harrison, Building Maintenance Officer on extension 3423. Charge code P9901-55600-0126.
Christmas decorations - donations
wanted by the SU!
Hi there could you put a line in staff briefing asking for any donations of christmas decorations to be donated to help decorate the students union. Any donations could be dropped off at Union reception or if people e-mail ubu-ents@bradford.ac.uk we can get them picked up within the University.
2004-05 Senior Staff Salary
Review for Professors and ALC Grade 6 Staff
Details of this year’s Discretionary Pay Exercise for Senior University Office Holders, Professorial, ALC Grade 6 staff and staff on the Senior Management Scale will be circulated to Deans of Schools/Heads of Planning Units shortly.
Deans of Schools and Heads of Planning Units will be asked to ensure that all relevant staff are made aware of the details of the exercise.
Relevant staff should visit the personnel web pages: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/personnel (under the Pay, Grading and Remuneration section) for the full details of the exercise and all associated documentation.
The Eye Clinic, Listerhills Science Park
The Eye Clinic is open to staff, students and general public.
We are open Monday to Friday offering morning and afternoon appointments.
We have a large range of frames available with 25% discount off all frames and lenses!!
To make an appointment plese contact reception on ext: 4649.
News and useful resources from SFIS
Useful article
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/overseasstudents/story/0,12743,1362095,00.html (external link to the Guardian, will open in a new browser window)
This article may be of interest to Admissions Tuitors. It concerns the difficulties International students may be facing when they apply for a visa to study in the UK.
Unwanted Christmas Presents
If you have unwanted Christmas Presents - i.e. soap, shower gel, shampoo and conditioner etc, SFIS will be very pleased to take them off your hands! :)
We can find a new home for them. Of course, we still would like any non-perishable foods too. Give SFIS a call on ext: 6500 if you have anything we can collect.
We would also like to say a big thank you from the staff in SFIS and the Students we have been able to help, to the faith organizations and staff who have contributed to our store.
The students we have helped have been so grateful, it is great to see them leave with a big smile on their face and a bag of food.
SME Knowledge Network - Evening Forum
Motivation
Thursday, 9th December
5.30 - 7.15pm
Not only will this be of interest to colleagues with line management responsibilities but also a good opportunity to network with a wide variety of external organisations who attend these events.
Venue - School of Management, Heaton Mount reception.
Includes networking buffet. Coffee and mince pies available from 4.45pm onwards.
People wishing to book can do so online at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/smenetwork/book.php
Research Bulletin - latest edition
The 3rd December issue of the Research Bulletin is now available on the web in word format and can be accessed at http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/rsil/Newsletter/newsletterfp.htm
Included in this issue:
- Research Support Unit - move of offices on 10th December 2004
- EU Sixth Framework Programme - Fourth Call for Proposals for the Information Society Technologies
- Association of Medical Research Charities - Revised Position Statement on Funding for Research in Universities
- November issue of Food Standards Agency Newsletter
- Arts and Humanities Research Board - New Funding to support Doctoral Training
- Leverhulme Trust - Early Career Fellowships
- British Council - UK/Netherlands Partnership Programme in Science - funding for collaborative research and workshops
- King Faisal International Prize in Mathematics
Thank you from UNICEF
To the Students and Staff of Bradford University
Thank you for your card purchases totalling £549.90, which will help our work with children throughout the world.
Please accept this letter by way of receipt and pass on our sincere thanks to all who contributed to this wonderful amount.
UNICEF works with children and their communities to fight poverty, in whatever way is most appropriate. The money raised could help to provide clean water to children in communities that previously had to walk miles to the nearest water hole. It could help to rebuild a school or provide materials for children to receive the education they are entitled to or provide basic medical supplies or vaccines to protect children from disease.
However it is spent, the money you raised it will be used efficiently and effectively, bringing real hope to children in need. It is only with the help of our supporters that we are able to go on improving children's lives around the world.
On behalf of these children, and all of us at UNICEF, thank you so much for your gift.
Adult Learners' Week 
(21 - 27 May 2005)
Adult Learners' Week, which takes place every year in May, is the key national campaign to highlight the successes and excellence of adult learners and the organisations that support them.
2005 award nomination forms for Adult Learners are now available at the NIACE Website www.alw.org.uk (external link, will open in a new window).
You need to print off the completed application and send it direct to NIACE by post.
The closing date for applications is Friday 21 January 2005.
If you are entering any of your students for these awards or are planning any events for this week then please let Kevin Spencer in Corporate Communications know as he is the University's co-ordinator for Adult Learners Week.
Ext: 3034 or email: k.spencer1@bradford.ac.uk
Cares at Christmas
The aim of the project is to deliver 30 food hampers and toys to the Wesley Housing Project for single parent families that are being supported by them.
If you have any food, toys, tins, 'buy one get one free' items and you don't need them please, please, please can you drop them off at the UCAN office in the Communal Building or Students' Union reception by Friday 10th December 2004.
Many thanks
Asif Khan UCAN Volunteer Co-Ordinator
Christmas Lunch 2004
Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th
December
Monday 13th - Friday 17th December
Lunch Bookings at 12noon
£8.00 (Inclusive of VAT)
All bookings to be made through
the catering office on ext: 4901.
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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