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Purchasing Training, from Helen Crabtree, Staff Development

Four 1/2 day sessions covering purchasing awareness on 9 & 24 October 2001.

Tutors: Cambourne Procurement Services. It is not necessary to attend all session; you can select which ones you are interested in.

• Successful Specifying: 9 October - 9.30am to 12.45pm
• Supplier Sourcing: 9 October - 1.45pm to 4.40pm
• A Practical Tendering Exercise: 24 October - 9.30am to 12.45pm
• European Union Procurement Regulations 24 October - 1.45pm to 4.40pm

If you would like further information have a look at www.brad.ac.uk/admin/staffdev/programmes/core/purchasing.htm, e-mail us at: staffdev@bradford.ac.uk or call us on ext. 3102.

You can also book online at www.brad.ac.uk/admin/staffdev/programmes/booking.html

Research Postgraduate Induction, from Helen Crabtree, Staff Development

10 - 12 October 2001

This Postgraduate Induction Course is for the whole University. For students new to the University, the programme starts at 1.30pm on Wednesday 10 October with an introductory session dealing with general University-related issues. At 8.45am on Thursday 11 October all students will join the course for more specific information.

A number of application forms and further information about this event have been forwarded to departmental secretaries for distribution to Research Student Supervisors. If you do not receive any copies of the form and wish to request some for your students, please e-mail me at: staffdev@bradford.ac.uk or call me on ext. 3096.

Further information about the course can also be found on the web at: www.brad.ac.uk/research/pgcourses/pginduct.html or in the Short Courses for Research Booklet 2001/2 (available from the Staff Development Unit).

Part-time Courses, from the School for Lifelong Education and Development.

Thinking of a change? Want to learn a foreign language? Are there skills you need to learn for work? The School for Lifelong Education and Development has many part-time courses that range from helping you with computers to community work. We also have courses in creative writing, film, art and local history.

These courses are free to members of the University staff and start from Monday 24 September onwards.

Come to our office in the Richmond Building foyer to talk to us about starting or call us on ext 3210. All the courses are listed on our website at www.brad.ac.uk/admin/conted/cfa/

New Finance website, from the Finance web team

We are currently redeveloping the Finance and Purchasing websites to make them far more user friendly, in the hope that staff will be able to find the information that they need quickly and easily. To do this we need your help. We want to know what you use the Finance and Purchasing sites for, or what you would like to use the sites for?

Tell us what information you usually get from Finance and Purchasing and we will do our best to make sure that this is the information you can find easily.

Please send your suggestions and comments to content-manager@bradford.ac.uk or ring ext 6529. We aim to have the site redesigned by the middle of October so hurry! Many thanks.

Some changes have been made to the University's procedures for the approval of new courses and units, and changes to existing courses and units. These changes take effect in the 2001/02 session.

A handbook which explains the new procedures is available at www.brad.ac.uk/admin/acsec/QA_Hbk/QAH3_1.html. The new procedures require the preparation of a Programme Specification and supporting annexes for all new courses from the 2001/02 session. Advice on how to take these procedures into account is available from the Academic Standards and Support Unit.

Contact details are provided at www.brad.ac.uk/admin/acsec/index.html. Advice on the budgetary aspects of proposals is available from Planning. Contact details can be found at www.brad.ac.uk/admin/planning/.

A Learning Support Seminar will be provided to explain the new system on Wednesday 24 October 2001, from 12.45pm - 2.00pm in the JB Priestley Building, Level 01. See the pdf file at www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/Excellence_plus.pdf for a copy of the schedule and booking form.

Lynn McVey, Head of the Academic Standards and Support Unit, ext: 3107.

Insight Plus, from Becka Currant, Careers Adviser, Careers Advisory Service

Insight Plus is a new and exciting project that the University of Bradford is taking part in.

Insight Plus aims to:

• Establish a national award for undergraduate key skills development
• Provide a framework for the accreditation of different types of experience

We need to recruit 50 students for pilot project.This is an excellent opportunity for students to get a free certificate endorsing their development through a range of different activities e.g. student development events, being a student tutor, being involved in clubs and societies. There is a website for the project at www.insightplus.co.uk. For further details about the project click here (pdf file)

I need your help in recruiting students! For further information, please contact Becka Currant, Careers Adviser on ext 4998 or e-mail r.currant@bradford.ac.uk

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