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Past Issues << | Issue 80: Tuesday 27 November 2007 |
Paul Harrington (pictured left with Paul Kernaghan of IT Servcies), our Charter Mark assessor, visits us this week (Thursday 29 November); to make sure that we are maintaining the high standards of customer service which earned us the Charter Mark award, in November 2006.
Paul will be meeting many colleagues throughout the day and Secretary and Registrar, Alan Ingle, will be showing Paul some new facilities that have become available, since he last visited.
These include the new student residences in the Student Village, our Docklands Student Services Helpdesk and he'll also get to see the Empower awards presentation at their conference this Thursday.
Other stops might include the Public Lecture World Aids Day: Leadership in HIV prevention 12.15pm - 1.15pm, Room EB.G.11 and HIV prevention information and fundraising fair, in the Atrium.
As part of his visit Paul will be reviewing the small number of areas for improvement noted on his last visit. If Paul is satisfied with the progress we have made in these areas he will no longer need to visit us on an annual basis.
For more information on Charter Mark please visit: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/chartermark/
John Smith's bookshops have extended their ‘Free Books’ scheme until the end of December 2007 - plus - the Apple Mac’s have landed! The shops are taking orders for Apple Mac Notebooks and Toshiba Laptops.
As well as books and stationery, all students are able to buy the laptops and UEL Progress Bursary students are able to use their bursary funds to purchase their computers.
John Smith's are currently running a Business promotion on a range of business skills' titles incorporating subjects from presentation skills to understanding accounts.
John Smith's greatly values the support our staff have given in letting our students know about the services and offers available.
For more information contact Jonathan Verity on Email: jonathan.verity@johnsmith.co.uk
THIS WEDNESDAY An Evening with the Attorney General – Baroness Scotland QC, Wednesday 28 November 2007 5pm Main Lecture Theatre, Duncan House, High Street, Stratford, London, E15 2JB
THIS THURSDAY World Aids Day: Leadership in HIV prevention
Thursday 29 November 2007 12.15pm - 1.15pm, Room EB.G.11, Ground Floor East Building, University of East London Docklands Campus University Way London E16 2RD
By Dr Frances Haste, Public Health Consultant, Directorate of Public Health, Newham Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Professor Corinne Squire, Co-director of our Centre for Narrative Research and author of a recently published book, studying the lives of 37 people affected by HIV in South Africa.
AN HIV prevention information and fundraising fair will availble in the Docklands Atrium throughout the day.
If you would like to register for one of our Public Lectures, please contact Franc Gooding 020 8223 2884 or email: f.gooding@uel.ac.uk
For full listings check:
Events webpages: http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/events/index.htm
Public Lectures webpages: http://www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries/
UEL EXTRA AT THE BARKING LEARNING CENTRE
Two open events with free taster courses
Tuesday 27 November 2pm - 5pm
Thursday 29 November 3pm - 7pm
For more information and details of the tasters on offer, see http://www.uel.ac.uk/blc/tasters.htm
Schools of Health and Bioscience and Architecture and the Visual Arts
Tuesday 27 November - 11am
Business School
Friday 30 November - 2pm
Honoraries to come, include: actress, Tamzin Outhwaite; architect, David Adjaye, former Chair of Governors, Dr Marie Stewart and George Iacobescu CBE, CEO of Canary Wharf Group
Pictured: Actress Tamzin Outhwaite
For more details about our graduation ceremonies, visit: http://www.uel.ac.uk/graduation
On Tuesday 4 December, a one day Txttools conference will take place at our Docklands campus, focused on the use of simple technology to improve the way further and higher education institutions communicate with students and staff.
This will be a marvellous opportunity to network with colleagues throughout the sector - delegates from a range of education institutions and further education colleges are also attending - and the best thing is it's FREE (including lunch!).
Txttools is a company that designs online applications enabling SMS text messages to be sent and received securely from a desktop computer to any number of mobile phones instantly and in a way that is proven to save both money and time.
For further details, or to register for a FREE place, contact Mandy Estridge on Tel:020 8223 6256 or Email: M.A.Estridge@uel.ac.uk visit www.txttools.co.uk/edutxtConference.jsp
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!
Wednesday November 14 to Monday 3 December
Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AE
www.guildhall-art-gallery.org.uk
The exhibition ‘Freedom Roads’ features contemporary photographic portraits of people of African origin whose work contributes to the continuing struggle for human rights in many different fields.
At the end of the year in which the bi-centenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was commemorated this exhibition engages with the past and just some of its legacy.
Current issues and new challenges are explored in the words and images of: Toyin Agbetu, BEAT group students, El Crisis, Jessica & Eric Huntley, Cyril Husbands, Nelson Mandela, Kimani Nehusi, Colin Prescod, Shirley Thompson and Rudolph Walker.
Photographer: Elliott Gosling
Pictured: Dr Kimani Nehusi, School of Education
Friday 7 December, 6-10pm, West building, 3rd floor.
Christmas buffet and drinks provided.
FREE to staff.
Our Development and Alumni Office would like our staff to come along to the Alumni Network Christmas Party; giving you and our past students a chance to catch up in convivial surroundings.
Our alumni are always keen to meet up with their former lecturers, and you can find out about the many successes they have gone on to achieve.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Martin Everett will open the evening and welcome staff and students to the gathering. You will also get the opportunity to meet our Development and Alumni team (Head of Development and Alumni, Fariba Salehi-Kellaway and Development and Alumni Officer, Emma Cale) who will be able to show you the very valuable work alumni carry out in supporting their university.
If you have any information or news from your School which you would like to let our graduates know about - from postgraduate programmes, to work experience opportunities, or if you would like to make a presentation about the work of your School and your alumni, please let us know.
This year's party follows on from the success of our first ever last year which was attended by over a hundred of our alumni. We hope to see as many of our staff as possible attend this year.
Please RSVP to Emma Cale Emai: e.cale@uel.ac.uk or TEl: 020 8223 2222
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:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/staff-development/documents/ForthcomingStaffDevelopmentCoursesOct-NOv07.doc
To register for a range of FREE business support workshops from Business Planning to Protecting Your Ideas and E-Business Planning this Autumn get in touch with Sujata Vaishnav Tel: 020 8 223 7286/3301, Email: s.vaishnav@uel.ac.uk
To find out more about the wide range of E-Learning applications available to us in our everyday work, visit:
UEL Plus info: http://www.uel.ac.uk/uelplus/index.htm
SDEL staff development: http://www.uel.ac.uk/sdel/staff_development/index.htm
E-Learning Resources: http://www.uel.ac.uk/sdel/e_learning/resources.htm
Health and Bioscience, Principal Lecturer, Richard Lindsay spent two weeks in Japan in October, helping to run an international workshop of wetland scientists and conservation practitioners, giving advice about a series of major wetland restoration projects in Japan, and discussing other restoration projects elsewhere in the world.
For part of the time, the scientists were based at the northern tip of Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido, which is separated from the Russian island of Sakhalin, to the north, by only a relatively narrow strait.
The group was looking at a major new initiative to take agricultural land out of production and return it to wetland.
Richard was the keynote speaker at a large public symposium and he was subsequently featured on Japanese national television (NHK). The group then travelled to the southern-central part of the main island, Honshu, where the City of Toyooka is engaged in one of the largest restoration projects in Japan; to restore wetlands for the Asiatic white stork, which has been adopted as the symbol of the city.
The group saw, and advised on, the way in which restoration programmes are involving local farmers, who increasingly manage their rice paddies in stork-friendly ways.
Richard was quoted widely in the national Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. The delegation's Japanese hosts were very happy with the outcomes of the various individual seminars , and are now keen to visit a numbr of restoration sites in Europe, including The Great Fen Project in Cambridgeshire, which Richard described as part of his keynote speech.
The workshop also led to the identification of several possible collaborative research initiatives, which Richard is following up.
Pictured: Group photo of the international workshop in a local temple in Wakkanai: “Biodiversity and Sustainable Development – Ecological and Scio-Economic Challenges for the Conservation and Restoration of wetlands in Japan and Europe", held in Wakkanai, Hokkaido and Toyooka, Honshu, in October 2007. Richard Lindsay is front row, second from right in blue-striped shirt.
For more information contact Richard Lindsay on Email: R.Lindsay@uel.ac.uk
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