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Welcome to our weekly in Focus update...... |
Past Issues << | Issue 67: Tuesday 28 August 2007
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During clearing and late summer recruitment, many colleagues and teams come together to make up and provide a full service to applicants, hoping to join us this September.
As well as our colleagues staffing the Clearing Telephone Centre and Enrolment processes, our Education and Community Partnerships (ECP) team has been running our Applicant Information Centres, at Stratford and Docklands campuses.
Maggie McLinden (pictured left with Mo Pamplin), our FE and Schools Partnership Manager, leads on managing the Applicant Information Centres. Maggie says: "This has been a really great time for us because it has brought everyone together
to deliver a drop-in service for prospective students, giving face to face guidance, on their chosen study route. This involves: academic colleagues; enrolment and admissions colleagues; information, advice and guidance colleagues and our Skill Zone, all coming together in one space.
In practice, this means that our processes work smoothly and effectively for our applicants, as well as providing greater information-sharing and co-working opportunities for different teams."
In the first two days of Clearing alone, 300 people visited the Applicant Information Centres, and of these 130 were made direct offers. In total, 500 people have visited the Centres. The wide range of enquirers varies from applicants who have just finished Access programmes, want to start New Beginnings and New Beginnings 2, to international, postgraduate and full-time undergraduate.
Maggie concludes: "We've got a really good feedback loop going in the Applicant Information Centres where our advisors can refer and signpost applicants to other services, such as: international, disability and finance - as well as get direct feedback, straight away, from our academic colleagues to ensure applicants are placed on suitable programmes."
If colleagues outside of the Clearing Telephone Centre receive any calls relating to joining us on a degree programme or short course this September please put them through to 020 8223 3333.
Useful contacts:
For advice on immigration issues contact Email: isa@uel.ac.uk Tel: 020 8223 7611
For Clearing, visit our Clearing Web pages at: www.uel.ac.uk/clearing or by contacting Susie King Tel: 020 8223 6333 Email: s.king@uel.ac.uk
Open Evening information can be found at /www.uel.ac.uk/openday/index.htm
Pre-arrival information for new students can be found at www.uel.ac.uk/applicants
First Week timetable can be found at www.uel.ac.uk/firstweek
Frequent use of our teaching spaces by many users can mean considerable upkeep and maintenance for each of our rooms.
Our Facilities Services have asked
if we could all be, not only, more aware of the cost of keeping the rooms in good condition, but also, more considerate to our colleagues who may be using the rooms, later in the day. The main things to look out for are:
Litter Could all users be urged to place their litter in the bins provided rather than leaving it on the floor, chairs or tables. If you find the teaching room doesn't have a litter bin; please report it to our Facilities Helpdesk on Extension 2000.
Lighting Over time, turning off the lights when you leave the room saves a lot on our electricity bill as well as helping to reduce our carbon footprint.
AV Turning off the computer and data projector; lengthens the life of the equipment and projector bulbs, which are expensive to replace and also saves on electricity.
Windows Closing the windows before you leave, especially in winter cuts down on heat loss helps save on energy costs. Whiteboards Please remember to clean the whiteboards before you leave and to use only markers suitable for whiteboards.
Boxes and materials Please remember to take boxes of booklets and teaching materials with you when you leave.
Photo caption: Our Facilties Helpdesk Team: L-R Carol Vanhoven, Ian Bruce and Kelly Donno.
To report a fault or repair call our Facilities Help Desk team on Ext: 2000. For any other information out our teaching rooms contact the Timetabling Unit on Email: timetabling@uel.ac.uk
Our forthcoming Open Evenings for September recruitment are:
Weds, 29 Aug |
Postgraduate and part-time programmes |
Docklands only
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Weds, 5 Sept |
All programmes |
Stratford and Docklands
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Weds, 12 Sept |
Postgraduate and part-time programmes |
Stratford and Docklands |
For more information see: Open Evening information found at /www.uel.ac.uk/openday/index.htm
If you are planning any events for 2007/08 please get in touch. We can help let staff and students know as well as the local, national and specialist media.
And, if you can think of just the thing to create a thrilling theme for our Public Lecture Series 07/08, that taps not only into the popular zeitgeist, but also, inspires our staff, students and Public Lecture guests and visitors - please email infocus@uel.ac.uk
David Woodhouse has provided a series of links so that we can access information and news from our Academic Board, Governing Body and Corporate Management Team.
Please see the following links:
Academic Board: http://www.uel.ac.uk/qa/committees/acaboard.htm
Board of Governors: http://www.uel.ac.uk/governors/board.htm
Good news from the CMT: http://www.uel.ac.uk/vcg/news/index.htm
To conduct a search of current funding opportunities , including all the major competitions , or to set up email alerts specific to your interests, visit www.researchresearch.com.
If you intend to submit an application for funding please contact Tim Brooks (Acting Research Funding Officer) in the Graduate School. Tim is retaining his other responsibilities within the Graduate School so the more notice you can give, the better!
For a round-up of what's on in London visit: http://kids.visitlondon.com/whatson/august_events.html
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Brush up your IT skills and get an internationally recognised qualification online. Contact Greg Price, Organisational Development Manager on ext 4361 or email g.price@uel.ac.uk
Simply click here for the dates for Staff Development courses August - October 2007
http://www.uel.ac.uk/staff-development/documents/ForthcomingStaffDevelopmentCourses-Sept-Nov2007.doc
Leading Chinese education officials visited us last week to learn more about life at a modern UK university.
Professor Martin Everett (pictured front row red tie and Dr Iain MacRury front row gree tie with the delegation), welcomed the 35 university directors and vice-presidents, who were taking part in a leadership course organised by Oxford University to offer an insight into the British Higher Education system.
Professor Everett said: “UEL is now a global learning community with over 20,000 students from more than 120 countries. We have forged close links with numerous leading universities and colleges worldwide, and, with 2012 on the horizon, we are particularly interested in developing good working relationships with institutions in China.
The Chinese delegates’ visit was co-ordinated by UEL’s London East Research Institute (LERI) as part of a series of events run in partnership with Oxford University. Based at UEL’s Docklands campus, LERI provides a regional network for research and consultancy on issues of urban regeneration.
For the full news release see http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/latest_news/stories/chineseleaders.htm
If you would like items included in In Focus Update please send them to me by Wednesday of the preceding week at infocus@uel.ac.uk
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