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Week
ending Friday 6 December
2002 |
Staff BriefingA joint initiative by MIS, Corporate Communications and Inprint & Design |
Gallery II re-opening
The University's very own art gallery will be re-opening this week.
Gallery II, based in the Chesham Building opposite the new coffee bar, will be showing a new exhibition entitled 'From the Collection' - an exhibition of Works from the University's own permanent collection. The Gallery will be open term-time, weekdays between 11am and 3pm. Entrance is free.
This exhibition will run from 4th December to 31st January 2003, closed between Friday 20th December and Monday 13th January 2003.
Marketing and Recruitment News
The second edition of Marketing and Recruitment News is now available. It's designed to keep you up-to-date with any news and developments in Marketing and Corporate Communications.
If you would like to be added to the mailing list please email marketing@bradford.ac.uk.
News from Catering
The staff refectory is closed this week then from the 9th December the staff refectory is open for Christmas Lunches only. For bookings please phone ext: 4901. Christmas menu pdf.
Congratulations to the winner of the `Coca Cola DVD player` Competition:- M.C. Kellegher. Please contact the catering management on ext: 4900 to collect your prize.
New Disability Office opening hours
As from 6th December 2002, the Disability Office will be closed for staff and student appointments and queries every Friday until further notice. All the phones will be diverted to the answer phone and you may leave a message which will be dealt with the following Monday.
Please note:
- Facilities for students and staff who need to rest will still be available
- Students with tutor appointments on Fridays will still be able to gain access
- Jobsheets for note takers will still be received.
In the event of a genuine emergency which cannot wait until the following Monday, staff can be reached on 235980, ext: 5980.
Annual Staff Review 2002/2003 (Academic Related, Clerical & Technical staff)
Details of this years' Annual Staff Review exercise have been circulated to Deans of Schools/Heads of Planning Units/Heads of Departments. All Deans/HoPUs and HoDs have been asked to ensure that all their staff are made aware of the details of the exercise.
See www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel for the full details.
Secret Santa - Urgent Request for Gifts
This year the University of Bradford Union has accepted an invitation to be involved in a 'Secret Santa' project. The project aims to collect gifts for the local community and give them to people who may not receive presents at this time of year. We are appealing to staff and students of the University to donate gifts and hand them in to the Students' Union (Communal Building). Alternatively, you can ring ext 3278 or ext 3284 and we will collect. These will then be wrapped and distributed to our chosen community groups.
The kinds of things we would like are:
- Food Items (please make sure they have a valid sell by date on) which will be made into hampers for the elderly and housebound.
- Children's Toys (new or second-hand but clean and in good condition) for children of varying ages.
- Goody Bags for 16 to 25 year-olds who are either care leavers or estranged from their families; to include toiletries, perfumes, chocolates and books.
- Plus gift wrap, to wrap the items up in.
Our community groups are: Bradford Foyer - Residential Accommodation for young homeless people (16-25 yrs of age), Odsal Community Centre - Elderly and Housebound, and Sutton Community Association - Mother & Toddler Group. Thank you for the responses that we have received to date, however, we are still very short of our original target.
For further information contact: Deborah Cawley, Sports & Societies Administrator, University of Bradford Union, ext: 3284, email: d.l.cawley@bradford.ac.uk or Caroline Chambers, UCAN Volunteer Co-ordinator, University of Bradford Union, ext: 3278, email: c.chambers1@bradford.ac.uk
Monthly pay date for December
Staff who are paid monthly will be paid on the 20th December.
Consultation on Top-up for Honours
At its meeting on 5th October 2002, the Academic Policy Committee discussed an issue which has arisen regarding Ordinary students who wish to top-up for honours.
It was agreed that a consultation exercise should be undertaken to ascertain the most appropriate way forward. A consultation document which sets out the issue and asks for your views is available on the Web in pdf format at www.brad.ac.uk/admin/acsec/assu/TopupOrdHonsConsultation.pdf
The closing date for responses is Monday 13th January 2003.
Further information is available from Alison Carass in ASSU, on ext: 3897 or email: a.j.carass@bradford.ac.uk.
Children's Christmas Party 2002
The Christmas Party for children (up to about 14 years of age) will be held in the Communal Building on Saturday 7th December 2002 from 14.30 to 17.30.
Children and grandchildren of all staff and students of the University will be welcome. Due to the generous sponsorship of the University catering suppliers the cost has been kept to £3.50 per child. Children should be taken to main reception in the communal building preferably between 14.15 and 14.30, and thence to the main dance area. The younger (less than 8) and older children will then have separate activities in the first instance.
For the full details and a reply slip please click here.
Electrical Power Shutdown
Saturday 14th December 2002
To enable essential maintenance works to be carried out within the Communal Building M.V Electrical Switchroom, it will be necessary to shut down the electrical supplies to substantial parts of the Main University Campus on Saturday 14th December 2002.
For the full details see: www.brad.ac.uk/news/shutdown.htm.
Research Supervision Workshop
2-day workshop for academics and contract research staff on 9 - 10 January 2003.
For more information see: www.brad.ac.uk/research/pgcourses/rschsuper.php or phone ext: 3102.
Learning Support Seminar Series from TQEG
Assessing Key Skills on 4th December - Excellence Plus Strand
Further information can be obtained via: www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/LSSProgramme02.pdf
To book a place e-mail tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk or phone ext 3286.
News from Student Financial and Information Services - Christmas vacation
As usual we will take applications for Hardship Funding from home students (with a full student loan) during the Christmas holiday if they are in need of financial assistance. We will also post cheques to them if they give us permission to do so. They can email sfis@bradford.ac.uk, or telephone ext: 6500 for a form. We always accept emergency applications even during vacations.
Please remember that if your students have difficulties of any sort, of a non-academic nature, we are here to help. If you are not sure of the areas we cover please visit our web site (www.bradford.ac.uk/sfis), or pop into the department for a chat - top floor, Communal Building.
You would be most welcome.
Electronic Journals and Linking: an Introduction
Electronic journals and associated linking features, particularly the new SFX technology, now available to members of the University, are a powerful and convenient resource for teaching and learning. An opportunity to find out more is being held in the JB Priestley Library and is open to all staff and students of the University.
The session will cover how to access the journals, their various authentication methods, saving the information and a look at SFX, the newly introduced method of linking from databases to electronic journals and other resources.
- The session will be held in Room 1.7 in the JB Priestley Library at 1.05pm on Tuesday 10th December and will last approximately 45 minutes. No need to book, just turn up.
Contact Martin Wilkinson, JB Priestley Library, email: m.wilkinson@bradford.ac.uk for further information.
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