30 June 2006

NEWS

Graduation ceremonies at Bath Abbey next week
Theatre director Sir Peter Hall and former Vodaphone head Sir Christopher Gent are to receive honorary doctorates from the University next week. There will be ten ceremonies from 4-6 July at which 2,500 undergraduates and postgraduate students, the most ever graduating from the University, will receive their degree awards.

Helping teachers educate pupils in engineering
A forum to help teachers to educate their pupils in engineering and inform them of career opportunities will be held on campus on Wednesday 5 July.

University sports facilities win national design award
The Sports Training Village has been awarded a commendation at this year's national Structural Steel Design Awards. The awards commemorate innovative and effective design using steel.

University signs up to groundbreaking energy-saving initiative
The aim of the energy efficiency scheme is to cut energy consumption for participating members by at least 10 per cent over the next three years. It could save an estimated £4.7m and significant amounts of CO2 between now and 2012.

Free training for small-business owners
People running small businesses in the Bath and Swindon areas are invited to free workshops run by the University of Bath in Swindon's Business Hub. The workshops will be held on Tuesday 4 July in Bath and Tuesday 11 July in Swindon, from 9am to 4pm.

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INFORMATION

Sign up now for autumn language classes
The Foreign Languages Centre specialises in teaching languages to a wide spectrum of student and adult learners. This programme is open to all with no formal entry requirements. Autumn classes start on 2 October 2006 and take place at lunchtimes and in the evening.

RCUK announcement: Improved access to research outputs
The Research Councils recognise that the area of access to research outputs is highly complex and on which there are a broad range of opinions. Individual research councils will be producing specific guidance to the research communities they fund on access to outputs in each field of research. This guidance will be published by Research Councils as soon as it is available.

Clarion Deaf Alerter System on campus
The University campus has a deaf alerter system, this system is installed for staff, students and visitors who are deaf, or who have impaired hearing. It alerts these individuals with a vibrating pager in the event of a fire alarm being activated. A text message is sent to the pager stating which building is generating a fire alarm on campus.

Nine good reasons to work at this University
The latest issue of Insider (the staff magazine) is now available online; it outlines nine reasons why the University of Bath is good for staff as well as students.

Marketing & Communications new-look website
The Department of Marketing & Communications has redesigned its webpages to fit the new graphical template being introduced gradually across the University's website.

E-Migration Fund 2006/07
Bids are invited.

Jobs
Vacant posts: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs

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TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

• IT training courses
• Effective Appraisal - Clerical, admin & academic related - 5 July
• Emergency Life Support - 10 July
• Sharing Practice: Problem Based Learning - 10 July
• Effective Meetings - 13 July

IN THE MEDIA

• The national journal, London Review of Books, printed the transcript of the Gerald Walters Memorial Lecture entitled What happened to the Labour Party that was delivered by Lord W.G. Runciman last month.

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WHAT'S ON NEXT WEEK www.bath.ac.uk/whats-on

Monday 3
15:15 PM  Race Equality seminar: Islam

Tuesday 4
19:30 PM  BRLSI talk: Consciousness - An evolutionary approach

Wednesday 5
10:00 AM  Teachers Engineering Education Conference

Thursday 6
13:00 PM  BRLSI talk: Treasures of Bath

ARTS www.bath.ac.uk/icia

DanceSCAPES  Exhibition Opening | 17 July | 5.30-7.30pm | ICIA Art Space 1
A unique photography exhibition specially commissioned by Dance South West and Arts Council England South West and is shown as part of the Big Dance 2006, a national celebration of dance across the UK between 15 & 23 July 2006. Leading photographer, Kevin Clifford, was invited to combine the beauty of the West Country with the imagination and talent of the region's most creative dance artists. ICIA at the University of Bath is the only venue in the South West to exhibit the full series of photographs in both its galleries, Art Space 1 & 2, running  weekdays 10am-5pm from 17 July to 13 October.

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SPORT www.teambath.com/news

Ivor's 90th birthday
Staff & students are invited to help football coach Ivor Powell – one of the great characters of British football – to celebrate his 90th birthday on Wednesday (5 July). A surprise birthday party will take place in the boardroom at the Sports Training Village, with tea and cake served between 1pm and 2pm. Anyone who would like to attend the party can contact Lisa Ashcroft in advance on L.D.Ashcroft@bath.ac.uk

Anyone for tennis? - Summer coaching camps
Young people aged five to 16 will soon have an opportunity to develop their skills or just have fun on court at TeamBath's summer tennis camps at the University of Bath from Monday 17 July until Friday 1 September, with sessions tailored to skill levels.

Student Janne selected to swim for Germany
University of Bath psychology student Janne Schaefer has been selected to represent Germany at next month's European Swimming Championships.

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