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Week
ending Friday 11 June
2004 |
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Next editions of the briefing
- Monday 14 June 2004 (morning)
- Monday 21 June (afternoon)
Please send entries through in plenty of time to guarantee entry to the briefing.
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
Sir Howard Newby's speech - Colin Bell Memorial Lecture
The 2004 Colin Bell Memorial
Lecture
Doing widening participation: social inequality and access to higher education
Sir Howard Newby, Chief Executive, HEFCE 30 March 2004, University of Bradford
The text of this speech can now be found on HEFCE's website at: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/events/speech/ (external link, will open in a new window)
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
Scheduled computer and telephony downtime
Saturday 26th June
Essential Electrical work is to be carried out in the computer room at the University on Saturday 26th June 04, between 08:00 hours and 18:00 hours.
A dedicated power supply will be installed for the new equipment which is required to provide a faster connection to JANET and the internet, via the Yorkshire and Humber Metropolitan Academic Network (YHMAN).
The work means that there will NO computer access from anywhere on campus to the internet, email, Blackboard, SAINT, user files on G and H drives, student cluster PCs, dial-in service, Library or UNIX systems. Individual staff PCs will work if started up in 'workstation' mode but you must ensure that any files you need are stored on your C drive before the closedown.
Central services will start to be closed down from 17.00 on Friday 25th June and will not be restarted until Sunday morning. Telephone renewals of Library materials will not be available until Monday morning. Essential maintenance to the telephone system has also been scheduled for Saturday 26th June. This means that there will be no phone system operational from 08.00 until mid afternoon on that day.
We apologise for any inconvenience these essential upgrades may cause.
Sara Eyre
Head of IT Customer Services, Learning Support Services
Ext: 3335
Staff IT Training Needs
Would you like us to take into account your individual IT training needs when putting together our training programme for the next academic year?
If so, this helps us get a more complete picture in addition to the Departmental training needs we get via the Staff Development Sub-Committee.
To get a printed copy of the survey, contact us by e-mailing training@braford.ac.uk or by telephoning extension 5356
Alternatively you can complete the form on the web at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/training/tests/trainingneeds.tp3
This survey will take about 3 minutes to complete, and we would like returns by Friday 11 June.
Staff Development Unit Training Programme 2004/5
In late-June the Staff Development Unit will be deciding what goes into their training programme for September 2004 - July 2005.
We have been in touch with School Staff Development Coordinators to find out what Schools/Planning Units would like us to do during 2004/5, but we'd also be interested in the following from individuals:
- further individual requests for new or existing events
- requests for events to be run on certain days/times of the week (particularly for part-time staff)
- requests for events to run at particular times of the year
We cannot guarantee that we will meet every request for an event or be able to arrange the dates to everyone's satisfaction, but we can assure you we will take all suggestions into consideration and do our best to meet people's needs. The final programme will be published in late August to all staff.
Please let us have any comments by Friday 18 June 2004 by either e-mailing staffdev@bradford.ac.uk, calling us on ext. 3096 or sending us a note in the internal mail.
Staff Development Events
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
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
Excellence through Diversity - a 5 hour customised diversity workshop to develop specific skills in managing the challenges raised by workplace diversity and recognising the importance of inclusion-based practices. This course is specifically for staff who have already attending an 'Introduction to Managing Diversity' Course. Wednesday 30 June 2004, 09.15 - 14.00. For more information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=438
Clearing Helpline Training - A 3.5 hour session to prepare those staff who deal with telephone enquiries from potential students during the period immediately after A-level results are circulated, and to ensure that potential students and their parents get the highest possible quality of service from the University, during the time admissions staff know as "Clearing". Suitable for those staffing the Central Helpline or School Base Rooms. Wednesday 30 June 2004 either 09.00 - 12.30 or 13.00 - 16.30. There are also two sessions on both 9 and 21 July 2004. For more information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=544
Disability Issues - a 1-day course to raise awareness of the issues for staff recruiting on behalf of the University or for staff who wish to understand the implications of Disability issues on their work. This course (in addition to the 2-day Recruitment & Selection training course) is mandatory for staff who wish to recruit and select on behalf of the University, but is also very relevant to staff who wish to understand further implications for students and students. Friday 2 July 2004, 09.00 - 16.30. For more information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=423
Widening Participation Forum - 17th June
JB Priestley Library room 01.58 4.00PM - 5.00PM
All staff and students are invited to this new, university Widening Participation Forum.
The aims are to:
- Widen the real participation of staff and students within the arena of widening participation
- Share best/good practice/strategies in widening participation
- Keep abreast of University and Government developments
- To work across School boundaries in addressing widening participation issues
- Encourage communication and debate in the field of widening participation
The first meeting will focus on the achievements during 2002-03 as reported in the University's own publication 'Achieving Student Diversity'. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss the activities described in this report.
All attendees will be asked to contribute suggestions to the future frequency and content of the forum's meetings.
To book, please email Rebecca Heaf r.s.m.heaf@bradford.ac.uk, ext: 5363.
If you have not already received a copy of 'Achieving Student Diversity', or wish to receive further copies, please email Anne Weston a.c.weston@bradford.ac.uk, ext 3211.
Down a Rainbow
Jeremy Nicholls & Theatre in the Mill present
Down a Rainbow
17 and 18 June at 9pm
Atrium, JB Priestley Library
Tickets £6.50, concessions £4.00
The second of Theatre in the Mill's special commissions, this time in partnership with the J.B. Priestley Library, Dr. Christine Finn and film-maker Jeremy Nicholls.
In 1954 Priestley and his wife Jacquetta Hawkes visited the American South West with a set purpose, to explore man as a social animal. Whilst Priestley explored the male dominated, stainless steel-clad Texas of the oil-boom, Hawkes reflected upon the arts, crafts and immemorial rites of the Pueblo and Navaho Indians. From this journey emerged a remarkable book 'Journey Down a Rainbow'.
Fellow in Theatre, Iain Bloomfield, Dr Christine Finn and film-maker Jeremy Nicholls (Frantic Assembly, Oily Cart) create a piece for film and actors that reflects upon this magnificent book and aims to contribute to the reassessment of the work of Jacquetta Hawkes, prior to the publication of her biography by Christine Finn.
Box Office 01274 233200
Email theatre@bradford.ac.uk
Free Lunchtime Concert at the Yorkshire Craft Centre
Tasmin Little Music, University of Bradford Centre presents Free Lunchtime Concerts at the Yorkshire Craft Centre
Contemporary
Connexions
New
music by composers with a Yorkshire Connection
Wednesday 16th June, 12.30pm
Robin Michael
solo cello
Programme
- B.A. Zimmerman - Sonata (1960)
- Colin Matthews - Palinodes
- Christopher Fox - Generic Piece no.3
- Ian Dickson - Mirade Fuerte (Society for the Promotion of New Music Piece)
- Britten - 3rd Suite for solo cello (op.87)
Wednesday 30th June, 12.30pm
Rowland Sutherland, flautist
Programme
- Eugene Bozza - Image
- Peter Maxwell Davies - Nocturne (alto flute)
- Kazuo Fukushima - Requiem
- Henry Cowell - The Universal Flute
- Elliott Carter - Scrivo in Vento
- Sadie Harrison - 3 Expositions
- Joe Cutler - Songs of the Kioti
- Rowland Sutherland - New Work
- Dai Fujikura - Ophelia (alto flute)
Wednesday 21st July, 12.30pm
Darragh Morgan, violin
Programme
- Bill Campbell - Flight Home
- Bryn Harrison - Cassiopeia
- Christopher Fox - How Time Passes
- James Saunders - 511 Possible Mosaics
- John Cage - 8 Whiskus
- Joe Cutler - (re)Gaia
- Yannis Kyriakides - Snake Music (UK Premiere)
Bradford Gallery Yorkshire
Craft Centre
Carlton Street
Bradford BD7 1AY
Enquiries - Mark Robinson
01274 233191, e-mail music@bradford.ac.uk
Yorkshire Craft Centre - 01274 433334
Contemporary Connexions gratefully acknowledges support from the Holst Foundation
UBU Beach Party and FND
This week, UBU will be bringing over 40 tonnes of sand onto the Amphitheatre to create West Yorkshire's first ever beach party!
On Thursday 10th we are hosting two community events:
in the morning the Lord Mayor will be opening the event and welcoming over 50 local schoolchildren to the beach as part of the Bradford Linking Schools Project
in the afternoon, Be Active Leisure will be running a series of fitness classes (all volunteers welcome) to promote their healthy living campaign.
Friday is the All-Day FND Beach Party, featuring magicians, jacuzzis, comedians, live music, a giant BBQ hosted by Neighbours TV star Joe Scully, limbo competitions, volleyball, market stalls and much, much more. It starts at 11am and culminates in the last FND of the year at 10pm.
For more info please contact UBU on ext. 3300, or email s.cartin@bradford.ac.uk.
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
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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