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Week
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Staff BriefingA joint initiative by MIS, Corporate Communications and Inprint & Design |
Edition
192 
Next editions of the briefing
- Monday 6 December
- Monday 13 December
- Friday 17 December (last thing in the afternoon) - last briefing of the year!
Please send entries through in plenty of time to guarantee entry to the briefing. Please don't use capital letters for headings or sentences - they only get changed back to sentence case!
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
Metrocard - annual travelcards for staff
Do you regularly travel to work on public transport?
If so, the metrocard scheme allows you to obtain an annual travelcard through the University for either unlimited bus travel throughout West Yorkshire, or a number of railzones (with unlimited bus travel), and the total annual cost of the metrocard is recovered through equal deductions from your salary/wage over the year.
Staff joining the scheme in February pay a pro-rata fee for the metrocard up to the 30th September and can then renew from the 1st October for a full 12 month period.
Applications to be received no later than Wednesday 15th December 2004.
For further information including zone prices, please see http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/estates/environ/metro.html or contact Personnel on ext: 5347 or pop in to D35, Richmond Building.
A zone map is available at: http://www.wymetro.com/NR/rdonlyres/6C36F2BD-0290-45A3-B281-B05D91BB4BE3/0/1000px.jpg (external link, will open in a new browser window)
NSPCC Christmas Quiz
Would like to have a go at the NSPCC Christmas Quiz and subsequently raise funds for the NSPCC?
Entry into the quiz costs £1.00 and the winner will receive £30.00 of high street vouchers. All proceeds go to the NSPCC.
Please contact Caroline Chambers in the Staff Development Unit (F27, Richmond Building) for an quiz sheet. Return the completed quiz sheet to Caroline and a winner will be picked from all of the correct entries received.
All entries to be returned to Caroline Chambers in the Staff Development Unit by 5.00pm on Friday 10th December 2004.
Travel Scholarships
There are a number of travel scholarships available to students this year. Details have been circulated to departments and are also on the web at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/news/private/scholarships.htm
Please pass on to your students as appropriate.
A Big Thank You from our students and SFIS
A big thank you to all those staff who have provided food for students who have not yet received any funding from the Student Loan Company, and those who just have no money left. As you all know, we appeal each year, throughout the year, for food but this time we have had a bumper crop. Individual staff and two of our chaplains, have ensured that no one went away from SFIShungry.
The students, both home and international have been really overcome with the generosity of staff. One in particular, whose children have just joined her after 3 years staying at home in a very difficult political position, was in tears.
Your tin or packet can not only feed someone who is worried about money, and their family, but it also shows someone cares.
There are many stories, some very sad - they would all like to thank you.
But, we are now thinking of the vacation, many students stay in Bradford as they cannot go home, they have no other home or they have a lot of work to catch up on.
When you are doing your monster shop for the holiday, please remember to add another tin, packet of pasta, rice or whatever you can spare for the many students who will have little to eat this vacation.
Many thanks from Rosemary and all at SFIS
This week at Theatre in the
Mill
Monday
29 November, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Tech workshop - sound
Come along and learn about the technical side of sound for theatre. All welcome - hands-on.
Coming soon . . .
Disco Inferno
Will you Survive the Jive and Stay Alive?
1978. Disco Rules the dance floors, and in the newly opened Ocean's Tower, the skies. Doug Guillermin has designed the newest and most sophisticated building in San Francisco. It may well secure his name in history. But has the contractor cut corners and have Doug's original plans been followed? Downtown in San Francisco, has Nam vet and Fire Chief Allen Irwin picked the wrong day to quit smoking?
You are invited to celebrate the opening of Ocean's Tower in its funky Disco on the top floor. Burn up the dance floor to the best beats of the 70s and become part of a funk filled homage to the disaster movies of that decade.
This will be one blazing night you won't forget.
Turn up in 70s threads (obligatory for entry!) and enjoy the best D.I.S.C.O in town.
December 9th, 10th and 11th at Theatre in the Mill and look out for details of the special DISCO offer in conjucntion with the Students' Union on Thursday 9th.
Email: theatre@bradford.ac.uk or ring ext: 3200 to reserve tickets.
Forthcoming Music Events
Thursday 9th December at 7.30pm
BUSOM with bells on
Tasmin Little Music Centre
£2 / £1.50 (Tickets on the door)
A performance by BUSOM (Bradford University Society of Operettas and Musicals) members of popular operetta and musical classics.
Sunday 12 December at 3.30pm
The Christmas Sing
Great Horton Methodist Church
Free
A concert of modern and traditional Christmas music, featuring the University Singers with wind and brass. Coffee and Mince pie included!
Window Cleaning Notification
On week commencing 6th December, Williamsons window cleaners will be coming in to clean the windows from inside on all of Richmond Building (Carlton and Richmond wings and the Link block)
It would be helpful if you can ensure there is clear access to the windows and the window ledges are clear of papers etc.
If there is any problem with this please contact Simon Duarri on 4850 or email s.duarri@bradford.ac.uk
British or Muslim?
Why and for whom is this a question?
An evening lecture by Dilwar Hussain, Resident Fellow, Islamic Foundation, Leicester.
Tuesday 7 December 2004
Futher information can be found from SLED's website
New 20 Credit Module - Diversity
in Health Care
An opportunity to gain greater understanding of the implications of working in and providing a service, that meets the needs of a diverse population.
Dates: 14th, 15th and16th February and 3rd and 4th March 2005
Notification of Works in Horton/Chesham Car Parking Area
Please note that the parking spaces abutting the North-East and South-West sides of the Horton D Barn (7 in total) will not be available on Wednesday 1st December 2004 due to necessary exploratory excavation works.
This does not affect the named reserved spaces to the North-West side.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
For further information please contact Mr Andrew Hague on extension 5020.
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
New Staff Induction - Provides information on various central services and a brief overview of the structure of the University and who to speak to get more information on specific areas of interest to you. Also to allow an opportunity for you to meet some service providers and other new staff. Monday, 6 December 2004, 11.45 - 15.00
Introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA101) - This 2-day course provides a powerful way for us to begin to understand what makes us 'tick' and to why we relate to others as we do - Why are we as we are? Why do we do what we do? Attendance on these two days will entitle participants to receive an official 101 Certificate issued by the Institute of Transactional Analysis. Tuesday 7 & Wednesday 8 December 2004, 09.15 - 16.45
Time Management - offers time management techniques and frameworks for discussion and action planning. Time Management is a way of looking after yourself, reducing stress, and feeling you are back in control of what you need to do, and what it's important to do. Monday 20 December 2004, 09.15 - 16.30.
Adult Learners' Week
(21 - 27 May 2005)
Adult Learners' Week, which takes place every year in May, is the key national campaign to highlight the successes and excellence of adult learners and the organisations that support them.
2005 award nomination forms for Adult Learners are now available at the NIACE Website www.alw.org.uk (external link, will open in a new window).
You need to print off the completed application and send it direct to NIACE by post.
The closing date for applications is Friday 21 January 2005.
If you are entering any of your students for these awards or are planning any events for this week then please let Kevin Spencer in Corporate Communications know as he is the University's co-ordinator for Adult Learners Week.
Ext: 3034 or email: k.spencer1@bradford.ac.uk
Learning Support Seminars and Events from TQEG
Engaging with Young People on 1 December at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Nadira Mirza and Sophia Khan of the School of Lifelong Education and Development.
Assessing Key Skills on 8 December at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Training for Invigilators on 15 December at 1300-1500 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Jon Owen of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
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.
Children in Need thanks
Staff in Social Sciences and Humanities would like to say many thanks to all the generous donations we received for our 'Pyjamas at Work' day for Children In Need.
We managed to raise £311.68 and had lots of fun doing so!
Your support was greatly appreciated.
Cares at Christmas 
The aim of the project is to deliver 30 food hampers and toys to the Wesley Housing Project for single parent families that are being supported by them.
If you have any food, toys, tins, 'buy one get one free' items and you don't need them please, please, please can you drop them off at the UCAN office in the Communal Building or Students' Union reception by Friday 10th December 2004.
Many thanks
Asif Khan UCAN Volunteer Co-Ordinator
Children's Christmas Party
The Christmas Party for children (up to about 14 years of age) will be held in the Communal Building on Saturday 4th December 2004 from 14.30 to 17.30. Children and grandchildren of all staff and students of the University will be welcome.
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.
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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