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BriefingPlease keep entries concise with, if necessary, a link to further details on the web. Please check entries for accuracy and timeliness before sending. Deadline for entries is (generally) 12 noon each Friday.
Please keep items concise, 150 words or less with a link to further information online if you have it.
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk with the title "For the briefing" in the email subject.
Please take five minutes to familiarise yourself with our latest information on Swine Flu.
Our key messages:
Contact: Graham Seed, e-mail: G.Seed@bradford.ac.uk or tel: 3737
New Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES) convened on 15 July for the final meeting of the HE pay negotiations for 2009-10.
At that meeting the employers made an improved and final pay offer of a 0.5% increase to all points on the single pay spine from 1st August 2009. This followed a previous offer of 0.4% tabled on 19th May.
In addition to the pay offer UCEA re-iterated its offer to work with all HE trade unions on a range of issues through three joint working groups. These will cover:
With the exception of Unite, the trade unions have not yet responded to the offer. Unite advised UCEA that they wished to register a 'failure to agree' and that the offer would now be presented to their executive committee which meets during the week commencing Monday 20th July.
The other trade unions have advised UCEA that they will now go back to their various executive bodies with the offer. Since each union has its own consultation process and timetable it is likely that this process could run through until the end of August with the effect that any uplift in pay may not occur until September at the earliest (back-dated to 1st August 2009).
I will write to colleagues with the outcome of the trade unions' consultation processes as and when they become known to us.
John Hawksworth
Head of Personnel
20 July 2009
You are invited to attend a Presentation on Tuesday 4 August, John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre at 12noon on the findings of the Image and Perception Research 2009.
To assess the impact of recent changes, gauge our status amongst current prospects and inform future developments, the University commissioned Opinion Panel to conduct research – a review of existing research, a quantitative phase and a follow-up qualitative phase - with potential undergraduate and postgraduate students (both home and international), parents, education influencers such as teachers and careers advisors, international influencers such as international agents and local employers.
A presentation by Opinion Panel on Image and Perception 2009 will include findings from the quantitative and qualitative phase of the study. The presentation will begin at 12noon for 45minutes, there will be 15minutes allocated for questions after this. The final half hour (1pm - 1.30pm) will be dedicated to findings from the Employer Group.
Given the wide reach of the survey, we would strongly advise that you view the full findings to prepare any questions for discussion.
Contact: Safina Tai: s.tai1@bradford.ac.ukPlease excuse us while we close a few roads temporarily. We're creating a safer and more secure campus.
Take five minutes to familiarise yourself with our online map pdf of improvements (PDF) to make our campus safer, more secure and with an improved traffic flow management system.
Works affecting access:
20 July: Double-yellow lines
Longside Lane, Richmond Road, Tumbling Hill Street.20 - 22 July: Road closed (Longside Lane upper)
Entry / exit barriers22 - 24 July: Road closed (Longside Lane lower)
Entry / exit barriers. Diversion in place.27 July - September: One lane closed (Tumbling Hill Street)
Entry / exit barriers. Closed on one side of the road. Diversion in place.Mid-August: Longside car park opens
Mid-August: Kirkstone car park opens
September: Barriers in operation
September: Richmond Road entrance closed
September: Carlton Street access restricted
September: Norcroft Brow access restricted
Contact: Estates helpdesk on ext: 3001
You can now ascend the climbing wall - see the picture - work-out using the state-of-the art gym equipment (including TVs) or go for a swim at the newly opened Unique sports centre, launched 16 July.
It's the final week of Get fit from your desk. So, by now you should be confidently challenging your neighbours to a quick once round the block. If not, then make sure you check out the full 'get fit from your desk' advice and make a start.
This week:
Visit the Unique website for more details or become part of the community and join Unique on Facebook.
As a member of staff you'll only have to pay £20 per month to use the facilities. That's £240 as a lump sum.
Contact: Unique on ext: 4870 or e-mail unique@bradford.ac.uk
I am preparing the University's response to a consultation on national policy for archives by the National Archives. If anyone would like to contribute, please let me know your views and I will send draft response.
All welcome, and I'd particularly like to encourage colleagues who use archives for academic research or leisure interests to have your say whether through this official route or individually.
Thank you!
Alison Cullingford. Special Collections Librarian.
a.cullingford@bradford.ac.uk
The new Year Planner for 2009/2010 is now available on line at to view or download.
In line with the principles of Ecoversity, we will not be printing or distributing this item this year.
If you require a printed version please print the PDF on your own printer.
Contact: j.holgate@bradford.ac.uk
In between graduation ceremonies (on 16 July), Imran Khan, Chancellor, commended staff and the University on its support for Namal University in Pakistan and spoke about what the occasion means to him.
Contact: Stefan by phone on ext: 6510 or email: internalcomms@bradford.ac.uk
Do you, your friends or family have children in Year 6 or 7?
If so, we are running a free three-day Enterprise Summer School here at the University from Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 August 2009.
Each day commences at 9.30am and concludes at 3pm and children must be able to attend for all three days.
The event is organised by the Children's University in conjunction with YE Bradford, Young Enterprise and Bradford Kickstart. The summer school will provide an excellent opportunity for children to take part in exciting, interactive workshops, find out more about University life and make new friends.
Contact: sophia.khan@childrensuniversity.co.uk, tel ext: 4621 or carla.weatherill@childrensuniversity.co.uk.
Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
On the one hand, it is important that we maintain up to date services, and on the other hand, to take account of business priorities around teaching, assessment and clearing.
The key services affected are as follows:
Finally, there will be preparation activity for the launch of 'BRAD finder' the new Library Management System (launch date July 28)
Graham Hill
Director IT Services
The University’s new Equality Impact Assessment Officer, Rob Rhodes, has now commenced in post. Based in the Equality Unit, his role will be to facilitate and support the University’s equality impact assessment work and to drive forward our achievements.
Projects planned for the one-year duration of the role include consulting on and rewriting the existing equality impact assessments guidance, and delivering clearer, more understandable and more accessible briefings on equality impact assessments to schools and directorates.
Rob will offer ongoing one-to-one support to staff who are required to conduct equality impact assessments, including offering pre-assessment advice, working closely with staff whilst they complete equality impact assessments, reviewing completed equality impact assessments within a reasonable timescale, helping staff to identify sources of data, and any other support needed.
Please contact Rob for more information: r.rhodes1@bradford.ac.uk or phone ext: 3101.
Advisers are on duty from 10 - 4pm every weekday and continue to offer flexible appointments, by arrangement, to help with all aspects of Academic, Maths and Interpersonal Skills.
We are open in the run up to supplementary assessments.
From August 2009 we will be offering support with English Language. So if grammar trips you up or spelling gets you down make an appointment with an Adviser.
Contact us on ext: 6849 or learner-development@bradford.ac.uk.
For development opportunities see: http://www.brad.ac.uk/dev-prog/index.php?section=diary
Want a nationally recognised IT qualification or to take your ECDL qualification a step further?
Then sign up for the ITQ programme starting in September 2009. By working with an assessor and attending a series of workshops and structured training programmes you will have opportunities to demonstrate your IT competence.
Our core programmes at levels 2 and 3 include units covering IT maintenance and security, email, effective use of the internet, and word processing together with optional units of your choice.
Contact: C.A.Hooson@Bradford.ac.uk
For your information, the main staircase in Richmond building is to be redecorated.
It is anticipated that the works will commence on Monday 27th July and be completed by 16th August. The works will be phased:
The work will be completed in the above phases and each phase should take one week. Wet paint and warning signs will be posted.
Whilst work is carried out on a particular section access to that section will be restricted. Please assist by using alternative stairs or the lift.
In the event of an emergency incident access will be available to the whole staircase.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused during these improvement works.
Should you have any queries regarding the works, please direct them to Alan Harrison, Building Maintenance Officer on extension 3423.
Visit the School of Management web page dedicated to updating you on the latest works on campus for Heaton Mount.
This week's update:
Contact: Val Hutchings by phone on ext: 5672 or email v.hutchings@bradford.ac.uk
Bradford University is an institutional member of the Association for Learning Technology and all staff are eligible to receive its fortnightly e-Digest and quarterly newsletter.
The e-Digest contains information about technology enhanced learning:
Jointly with the E-Learning Network, ALT will be running the third of three free 90 minute lunchtime webinars, "Video on a Shoestring", on 15 October with James Clay of Gloucestershire College and Rob Hubbard of LearningAge Solutions.
Booking deadline 09/10/2009. For a full descriptions of the webinar, and to book, go to http://tinyurl.com/cfzydr.
[taken from the] ALT Digest, a fortnightly publication from the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) http://www.alt.ac.uk/
Contact: C.Higgison@Bradford.ac.uk, TQEG.
Current vacancies at the University can be found at the Personnel website.
The weekly bulletin can also be found as a pdf from the same page.
Would you like to receive the weekly vacancy bulletin? Contact Personnel: ext: 5347, email: personnel@bradford.ac.uk