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Staff Attendance at December Award Ceremonies
Information for staff who wish to attend the award ceremonies on Wednesday 1 December 2004 is available via the Student Registry web site. If you wish to participate in the academic procession or apply for a guest ticket in the auditorium please complete the Staff Reply Form available on line at http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/student-registry/Degreeceremonies2004/staff.htm
If you should have any query with regard to the arrangements please contact Claire Cuvier ext 3057 or C.M.Cuvier@bradford.ac.uk
Please note - the closing date for applications is Wednesday 10 November 2004.
Investors in People Internal Review
Autumn 2004
Internal Review is the name of the process we are using for our continued assessment against the national Investors in People standard. The University wishes to retain recognition and will be undergoing a continuation assessment during the Autumn of 2004. This will involve people from within the University who have been trained as internal reviewers. They will be interviewing a representative sample of University staff in each of the University's Schools and planning units. In addition, an external assessor will be interviewing senior management. The whole process will be co-ordinated by the Staff Development Unit.
Information about Investors in People can be obtained via the Staff Development website http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/staffdev/IiP/ .
Interviews will last up to 30 minutes and cover topics such as
- Training and development
- Management support
- University, School or departmental objectives
- Appraisal outcomes
- Induction (if you're new to your job)
Each School and admin dept will be organising its own interviews at some point between now and the end of November.
Lecture Room Services (LRS) - are moving
With effect from Monday 1st November 2004, Lecture Room Services (LRS) loan equipment (laptops, LCD projectors and cameras etc), previously issued from the office at F24C/D Richmond Building, will now be provided from its new location in Room C80 (Ancillary Services office), link corridor (ground floor), Richmond Building.
Also, the responsibility of providing keys to access Audio Visual cabinets/equipment in General Teaching Areas (GTA) will be transferred from Reception/Security, Main Foyer, Richmond Building to LRS at the new location in C80.
The above services will be provided between the hours of 08:00 to 16:30, Monday to Friday. However, should keys be required to access equipment or portable equipment need to be returned outside of these hours/days, they will be issued/received by Reception/Security.
This change in operations is in direct response to requests made by teaching staff regarding the present system, and should make the issue and receipt of these items more user-friendly by avoiding the need to queue at Main Reception during the busiest times of the day.
The present system used for the booking of equipment etc. will remain unchanged. The telephone extension numbers for LRS also remain the same.
The main items affected by this change will be loan equipment Slide Projector keys, video and microphone keys, Fixed PC lectern keys for lecture theatres which have this facility and keys for John Stanley Bell Theatre.
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you wish to discuss these arrangements.
Simon Duarri
Ancillary Services Manager
Email: S.Duarri@bradford.ac.uk
Telephone: (01274) 234850
Black History Month
October is Black History month, and the Students' Union and the Afro-Caribbean Society will be celebrating on Wednesday 27th October, with a whole day of events, open to all.
Between 2pm and 6pm in Colours, in the Communal Building there will be a variety of African and Caribbean dishes to sample as well as entertainment from dancers, singers, comedians and an African and an Caribbean fashion show.
At 6pm, there will be a film screening of 'Cry Freedom' about the life and work of Steve Biko (room to be confirmed). There will then be a party in Escape from 9pm, with the best in Ragga, RnB and African Rhymes.
Email: ubu-communications@bradford.ac.uk for any further information
Also see: http://www.100greatblackbritons.com/ (external site, will open in a new browser window)
This week at Theatre in the
Mill
Monday
25th October, 7.30 - 9.30pm
Workshop - Directing for the Stage. Free - all welcome. No experience
necessary.
Thursday
28th October, 7pm
Auditions for rehearsed reading of Oxygen
Theatre in the Mill. All welcome. No previous needed. Relatively light commitment. Further details about Oxygen are available from the Mill's website.
Friday 29 and Saturday 30 October at 7.30pm
Living Pretty by Ray Brown / Normal Productions
Life is good and life is hell and it the same life. Sometime you choose how you see it, sometime there is no choice . . .'
Some people stay with you forever. Alfred Williams was like that. A dedicated truant ('me school was up a tree'), Alfred was a wise man who maintained an admirable air of dignity and wicked sense of humour throughout a long, eventful life.
You'll leave the theatre feeling good, and you'll never forget Living Pretty. Everal A. Walsh plays eighteen characters in this seriously funny new biographical play which takes the audience from Jamaica to England and is peppered with laughter and tears. Pauline Tomlin sings.
Tickets £6.50/£4.00 concessions.
Box Office ext: 3200
Email: theatre@bradford.ac.uk
Learning Support Seminars and Events from TQEG
Developing and Approving Programmes and Units on 27 October at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Amanda Huggon of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
The Role of CART Members on 1 November at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Amanda Huggon of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
Progress Files1: University Framework on 15 November at 1300-1400 in Room 1.7, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Does Work in Widening Participation Really Raise Aspirations? on 17 November at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Caroline Hart and Nadira Mirza of the School of Lifelong Learning and Development
Learning Outcomes and Assessment Practices on 24 November at 1300-1400 in Room 1.7, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Chris Alder of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Details of the above events and online booking can be found via: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_courselist.pl
Please contact Christine Rayment or Beverley Lyons on 5138 or email tqe.sec@bradford.ac.uk if you have further enquiries.
British or Muslim?
Why and for whom is this a question?
Tuesday 7 December 2004
Speaker: Dilwar Hussain, Resident Fellow, Islamic Foundation, Leicester.
Futher information can be found at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/conted/civic-community/#pmlect
Christmas Lunch 2004
Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th
December
Monday 13th - Friday 17th December
Lunch Bookings at 12noon
£8.00 (Inclusive of VAT)
All bookings to be made through
the catering office on ext: 4901.
Free Lunchtime concert
Wednesday 27 October 12.15pm, Richmond Foyer
Tasmin Little Music Centre presents
Kingston String Quartet
A Manchester-based string quartet with a serious reputation in the North West. Led by Louise Latham, a regular freelance player with the Halle Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Camerata and Northern Chamber Orchestra, the Kingston Quartet are bringing a programme of popular classics along with music by Haydn and Dvorak.
For further info contact: 01274 233 191 or email music@braford.ac.uk
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
Basic Meditation Techniques - 2 x 1 hour lunchtime sessions for learning techniques to calm the mind and return you refreshed and alert for the afternoon´s challenges. 2 & 9 November 2004, 12.30 - 13.30, Dennis Bellamy Halls Training Suite.
Assertiveness and Dealing with Difficult People - a one-day course for any staff to provide strategies and techniques for identifying behaviour types and communicating effectively, particularly those people we find difficult. Wednesday 17 November 2004, 09.00 - 16.45.
Legislation Overview - a one day course for managers to raise awareness of the implications of employment legislation on their role as manager. Friday 19 November 2004, 09.15 - 16.30.
Places available on the following Knowledge Transfer events:
Introduction to Change - a lunchtime session to explore what is meant by change and how it affects organisations and individuals. Thursday 28 October 2004, 12.00 -14.00.
Enterprise - a 1-hour session for teaching staff to discuss how they might work across the university to embed teaching in creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in the curriculum. Tuesday 9 November 2004, 12.00 - 13.00.
Learning in Groups Weekend - a Friday evening to Sunday afternoon with undergraduate students. To help staff learn more about how to organise student learning in groups. It's also good for your own team development skills and lots of fun. Friday 26 to Sunday 28 November 2004, Friday at 6pm to Sunday at 4pm.
RoamNet coverage update
Over recent weeks there has been an increase in RoamNet coverage. RoamNet is the wired and wireless network run by LSS to which students and staff can connect their own computers.
Full details are on the RoamNet page http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/it-services/support/roamnet.php which details all areas covered on a building by building basis.
There's also an faq on this page which answers most questions asked about this service.
Royal Institute of Philosophy
Lectures
Professor Anthony O'Hear, formerly Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bradford, will give a lecture, as part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures at the University of Bradford, on the 'Idea of a University'.
27 October, 4pm in N24 Richmond Building.
Contract for the Provision of Temporary Staff
Purchasing Services will shortly be tendering the above contract.
If you would like to be part of the Universitys' tender evaluation team, then please contact:
Ian Stow
Purchasing Services
Ext: 3063
Email i.p.stow@bradford.ac.uk
Result of the election of one member to represent the non-academic staff
on the University Council
The results are as follows:
Ms Claire Gibbons (MCC) 80
Mr Tanveer Shahid (Finance) 15
Claire Gibbons is therefore
elected to serve on Council for a further three years to 31 July 2007
Environmental And Poverty Short Seminar Series
Climate Change 'Down Under': Catch 22 for Pacific Island Countries.
Dr. Frances McGuire, (former) Greenpeace Austrailia Campaigner.
Tuesday 26th October, 5.00pm -6.30pm. John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre.
All welcome.
Dementia Care Mapping International Conference
Hanover International Hotel, Warrington, 10 and 11 November
Organised by the Bradford Dementia Group (School of Health Studies)
The Conference will showcase work on DCM from the UK and other parts of the world. Includes an introductory workshop for those not trained in DCM.
Fee: £295 not including accommodation
Further info and booking: Short Course Unit, extension 3216/3213, email scu@bradford.ac.uk
2 for 1 ticket offer from Bradford Theatres
Arthur Miller's The Price
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
Monday 8 - Saturday 13 November
2 TICKETS FOR THE PRICE OF 1
Offer applies to Monday Friday performances only (evenings 7.30pm, Wed mat 2pm)
"Delightfully funny, thrillingly
dramatic, an absolute spell-binder"
The Daily Telegraph
Warren Mitchell and Larry Lamb revive their critically acclaimed performances in Arthur Miller's deeply moving comedy. The production was the hit of last year's West End Autumn season and won Warren Mitchell an Olivier Award.
Solomon, a 90-year-old furniture dealer, finds himself in the middle of an uneasy reunion between two estranged brothers who are haunted by memories of the American Depression. Against the backdrop of a defining moment in American history, a family play out their own personal dramas as long repressed dreams, desires and resentments bubble to the surface.
The Price is a majestic and epic piece of theatre from the world's greatest living playwright.
Ticket Information
Normal ticket price up to £18.50. This offer is available to University of Bradford staff only and is strictly subject to availability. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, and does not apply to tickets already booked.
Conditions apply.
CALL 01274 432000 QUOTING 'ARTHUR MILLER OFFER'
Careers Opportunities Day - Wednesday 3rd November 
Career Development Services are holding a Careers Opportunities Day on Wednesday 3rd November. The event will be held in the Great and Small Halls and will run from 10am to 3pm. A range of local and national employers and organisations have booked their stands at the event which will be open to all students and graduates.
In addition to employer information stands there will be a number of short workshops on offer covering topics like 'How to put together a CV', 'Law for non Law Graduates', 'Self employment', Working Abroad' and lots more.
CV quick checks will be on offer throughout the day.
We are hoping for a really good turn-out from students so please encourage anyone that you think might be interested to come along.
For further information please contact Ann Berry a.berry@bradford.ac.uk or Shirley Marsland s.marsland@bradford.ac.uk
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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