Staff Briefing

Festive Season message to all staff

See: www.brad.ac.uk/news/vc-message.htm

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Corporate Strategy Consultation
Have Your Say!

A reminder to visit: http://www.brad.ac.uk/corporateplan/

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Race Equality Policy

The Stephen Lawrence inquiry report, a watershed in race relations, led to the introduction of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 (RRAA) - the biggest change in race relations law for 25 years. The RRAA introduced new duties in relation to race equality on public sector bodies, including universities. The purpose of this legislation is to promote the race equality agenda and to impose a positive duty on public sector employers:

• to eliminate unlawful racial discrimination;
• to promote equal opportunities;
• to encourage good race relations.

Over the next few months there will be clarification about what we will have to do to demonstrate we are meeting the requirements of the RRAA, in the meantime the University's Race Equality Policy and Action Plan, approved by HEFCE on behalf of the Government and Commission for Racial Equality, can be found at www.brad.ac.uk/equality/REpolicy.php.

I would urge you to start thinking about what this means to each of you in respect of the job that you do. For those in management positions, you may need to refer to sections of the full documentation for clarification of some of the actions set out in the Plan. The full document is available at www.brad.ac.uk/equality/REpolicy.php.

The reason I am writing to you today is to bring to your attention the fact that we now have a Race Equality Policy and Action Plan and that this is of utmost importance to the University, not only in the way we think about the race implications in all our normal day-to-day activities and the way we behave, but also how we can show we are making progress.

Professor Chris Taylor
Vice-Chancellor & Principal

Learning Support Seminars from the TQEG

Learning Technology Strand

• "Using Virtual Learning Environment" a half-day workshop on 17 December 2003
• "Bullets, links and simple tables for Blackboard" a half-day workshop on 18 December 2003
• "Developing Computer Assisted Assessment" a half-day workshop on 19 December 2003
• "Implementing CAA in QuestionMark" a half-day workshop on 19 December 2003

"Coping with Diversity" on 12 January 2003 - Excellence Plus Strand

"Pedagogy SIG and the Learning Content SIG" on 13 January 2004 - Video Conference Series

"Key Skills and Course Review" on 16 January 2004 Excellence Plus Strand

"Assessment Centres and Psychometrics" on 19 January 2004 - Excellence Plus Strand

"Fair Admissions" on 21 January 2004 - Excellence Plus Strand

"Annual Monitoring of Taught Provision - Why and How?" on 23 January 2004 - Quality Assurance and Enhancement Strand

To book a place e-mail tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk or phone ext 3286.

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Select 3 at Gallery II

Last chance to buy - exhibition runs until Thursday 18 December.

10% off all stock for the remainder of the exhibition

A major two-venue exhibition of individual crafts by new graduates and established makers in a wide range of materials including textiles, ceramics, glass, wood and jewellery.

Perfect for Christmas presents! Hurry - stock is flying off the shelves!

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Adult Learners’ Week – Award Nominations

A reminder to all staff that the closing date for nominations for Individual, Senior Learner and Group Awards is the 9th January 2004.

As well as being good publicity for the University and the course, there are National prizes of between £200 - £500 and Regional prizes of £100 available.

Nomination forms are available from the NIACE website www.niace.org.uk/alw/competitions

Kevin Spencer - Marketing Officer (Campaigns)
Corporate Communications University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford, BD7 1DP Tel: 01274 (23)
Ext: 3034
E-mail: k.spencer1@bradford.ac.uk

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Ordering Stationery Online

Guilbert Niceday is rolling out Version II for ordering stationery online.

A note went out to those contacts we have details of.

If you order stationery but have not been contacted about this, please advise Louisa Tejeda by email to l.tejeda@brad.ac.uk

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Learning Support Services (LSS) Bulletin

The latest edition is available at http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/news/bulletin/

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New Accommodation Brochure

The new Accommodation Brochures for 2004/2005 are now available.

If anyone requires a supply, can you please contact Tony Drake, Head Porter stating the amount required and delivery address.

You can contact Tony on ext 6126 or by e mail a.drake1@Bradford.ac.uk

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Staff Development Opportunities

The 2003/4 Training Programme is a joint programme with Bradford College. It includes other staff development providers' courses from around the University, such as the Computer Centre (IT training) and Teaching Quality Enhancement (Teaching & Learning seminars). All events can be viewed and booked on-line.

Take me to the Staff Development Training Events site

Places available on the following events

Basic Time Management - a 1-day course offering time management techniques and frameworks for discussion and action planning. 18 December 2003, 09.15 - 16.30. For more information and booking go to: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=513

Budgeting Basics - a 3 hour session to help staff better understand the budgeting cycle and how to set and monitor a budget. 6 January 2004, 09.30 - 12.30. For more information and booking go to: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=406

Introduction to Consultancy - a 3 hour session for academic staff to enhance their skills in managing external contracts and what you need to do to win and maintain consultancy contracts. 7 January 2004, 10.00 - 13.00. For more information and booking go to: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=417

SpringBoard Women's Development reunion - a 3 hour session for previous Springboard Women´s Development course participants to discuss the progress you have made, or discover what progress other participants have made, or to gain advice from the tutor or from your Springboard colleagues on where to go next. 8 January 2004, 13.30 - 16.30. For more information and booking, go to: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=507

Research Supervision Workshop - 2 day course for Academic & Contract Research Staff new to Research Supervision presented by a wide range of Academics around the University. It is a time-efficient route for to get up to date with the latest information on research supervision through a mixture of workshops, discussion and case studies. Thursday 8 from 08.45 to Friday 9 January 2004 at 17.30. For more information and booking go to: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=503

Managing Poor Performance - a 1 day course for those staff responsible for managing others, to provide techniques for managing good performance and setting targets for improving poor performance, dealing with unacceptable behaviour (including how to use Disciplinary Procedures). 13 January 2004, 09.15 - 16.45. For more information and booking go to: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=491

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Christmas Cheer - from SFIS

There are many students staying in Bradford for the holiday as they have nowhere else to go. Our stock of food for students with no money is almost gone. If you could spare some tins or any other non perishable food, coffee, tea etc it would be most welcome. Some of these students also have children.

If you want to share some seasonal good will please either bring food to Student Financial and Information Services or email us at sfis@bradford.ac.uk and we will collect it from you.

SFIS will be open until lunchtime on Christmas Eve and from the 5th January.

Any students worried about money or any other issue can be directed to us as usual.

Happy holidays from Rosemary and all at SFIS

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Activities for students over the Christmas holidays

Please be aware of the notice at http://www.brad.ac.uk/news/activities.htm and bring this to the attention of any students you know who will be around Bradford over the holidays.

Thanks

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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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