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Personal and Professional Development modules at the School of Lifelong Education and Development

The School of Lifelong Education and Development will be offering a range of accredited Personal & Professional Development modules, starting January, that will be of interest to staff. The modules on offer in the second semester include: Introduction to Counselling, Ethics, Change & Personal Development, Public Relations & Media Management, Humanistic Psychology in Practice, Advanced Transactional Analysis, Lifelong Learning, Human Resources Management (training & development, Effective Team-work, Bereavement Counselling, Transcultural Counselling, Psychology of Personal & Professional Development, Mentoring Skills & Application, Introduction to Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, Assertiveness and Career Planning & Development.

Details available from the Reception Desk for Lifelong Education &Development at C64, tel. 3210.

Funds available to students 2001/2002, from Student Information Service

There are many different funds that are available to students throughout the academic year. These include Student Loans, Hardship Funds, Bursaries and others.

Full details can be found here (pdf file) or contact Student Information Services on 6505

Excellence Plus Learning Support Seminar Series

• The new system for developing and approving programmes and units - 24 October 2001 - (Quality Assurance and Enhancement strand of the Learning Support Seminar series)
• Ways in which we work with individual students to help them develop their personal skills and personal promotion - 29 October 2001 (Key skills strand of learning support seminar series)

All sessions will take place in 01.58 J B Priestley Building, from 12.45pm - 2.00pm. Further information can be obtained from www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/programmes/excellence_plus.pdf (pdf file). To book a place e.mail tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk or phone ext 3286.

Cotton on to our staff offer!

Get TWO tickets for In the Solitude of Cotton Fields for only £8.00 at Theatre in the Mill. Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th October 7.30pm. Runs for 1hr15mins

Direct from its well-reviewed run at London's Aldwych Tube Station Theatre, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields comes to Theatre in the Mill. In life, you don't get what you're worth, you get what you negotiate. Two strangers meet, in at a place they shouldn't at this dangerous time of night. The first speaks unexpectedly: Tell me what you want and I'll get you it. The other replies: tell me what you've got and I'll tell you whether I want it. The negotiations begin and the two men fight it out in a dazzling psychological endgame.

"...immediate and absorbing" The Times Sept 2001

Call 01274 233200 to reserve your offer, quoting "cotton fields". Not in conjunction with any other offer.

October editions of News and Views needed

Do you have spare copies of the October edition of News and Views (the one with Mars on the front) lying around your office? Corporate Communications have none left!

Please send any spare copies back to Room 19, Richmond Building. Many thanks.

Teaching Quality Enhancement Group 'Excellence Plus' Learning Support Seminar Series 2001/2002
Progress Files for HE - IT Demonstration of 'Internet PAR' By Paul Drummond & Simon Cotterill From the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Wednesday 21 November 2001 from 2.00 pm onwards (Refreshments available in the foyer from 1.30 onwards) John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre, D Floor, Richmond Building

The development of a progress file for higher education stemmed from the recommendation of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education for HEIs to develop:

• a transcript recording student achievement which should follow a common format devised by institutions collectively through their representative bodies; and
• a means by which students can monitor, build and reflect upon their personal development.

The University, through its Excellence Plus Strategy, is committed to ensuring that students will be provided with opportunities for Personal Development Planning (PDP) at each stage of their programme. The PDP process involves self-reflection, the creation of personal records, planning and monitoring progress towards the achievement of personal objectives which is best achieved through the adoption throughout the University of a Personal Development File. A Learning Support Seminar Series has been devised through the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group to support the implementation of the Excellence Plus Strategy and to help ensure that staff are kept informed of the latest developments.

With this in mind, an additional half day seminar session has been planned for Wednesday 21 November from 2.00 pm onwards to provide an opportunity for staff to attend a demonstration by the University of Newcastle of its on-line support structure and self-study package 'Internet PAR' (Personal Academic Record) which has been developed to help students manage their learning and develop their skills. The IT package has been developed to support student reflection on learning. The use of IT should also enable students to prepare better for one-to-one tutorials and thus increase the value of the staff contact time which is available to them.

If you are interested in attending this event please complete the tear off slip in the first instance and return to The Teaching Quality Enhancement Group by Thursday 1 November 2001. A more detailed programme for the event will be circulated to participants nearer the time.

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I am interested in attending the IT Internet PAR demonstration on Wednesday 21 November 2001

Name: ........................................................................................................

Dept: .........................................................................................................

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