Copyright SWWHEP 2010 Chris Rees - SWWHEP Web Editor http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/latestnews/ Welcome. This is the official RSS news feed for the South West Wales Higher Education Partnership. Subscribe to keep up to date with all of the latest developments and milestones achieved by the project. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:12:00 GMT Charlotte Dix, former Marketing and Employability Coordinator for the SWWHEP Virtual Careers project was recently featured in the Agcas Pheonix monthly magazine. AGCAS is the professional association for higher education (HE) careers practitioners, using the expertise and resources of its membership for the collective benefit of its members, HE careers services, their clients and customers, and the sector overall. http://tinyurl.com/y96nxoc Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:47:00 GMT The Pnet powered Student Vacancy Database was set up in September 2009 in both SMU and TUCC as part of the SWWHEP Careers Initiative. It has increasingly attracted a substantial amount of attention from students who are viewing the database on a weekly basis. http://tinyurl.com/y8tlo8u Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:49:00 GMT It is common for many staff at each of the 3 partner Universities to prepare for and undertake their Appraisal (normally with their Manager or designated Appraiser) at this time of year and for the months leading up to April/May. Read More on the SWWHEP website... http://tinyurl.com/yhvt7dn Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:51:00 GMT The largest element of the Virtual Academic Library project – RFID issue, return and stock control – has now been live in all six libraries of the SWWHEP partnership since the beginning of this academic year. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/libraryservices Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:52:00 GMT Three Virtual Academic Library presentations at conferences took place during 2009. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/libraryservices Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:54:00 GMT The Dragon Innovation Partnership and the West Wales Chamber of Commerce this week held an event to help companies and organisations boost their business by linking them up with universities to work together on specific tactical or strategic projects. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/dragoninnovationpartnership/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:40:00 GMT Blackboard have now formally announced that their Blackboard Teaching and Learning conference will be held at Swansea University in April next year this. This is the FIRST of their new style conferences which replace the Blackboard World Europe events. Read more... http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/e-learning Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:42:00 GMT Blackboard announced at the recent Wales User Group meeting that from early 2010 they will be including support for Welsh across all three products in the Academic Suite and will continue to develop the Welsh language pack with no additional license costs to clients. Over the past few years we have been able to use a language pack developed by Bangor University but this only translated part of the system and was limited always by the version of Blackboard that they were using. Blackboard will continue working with Bangor on the development but will be picking up all of the costs which we had previously thought would need to have been met by participating institutions. Read more on the SWWHEP website. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/e-learning Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:45:00 BST The SWWHEP Sustainability project are pleased to announce their Green Guide is now available online. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/sustainability/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:47:00 GMT Be sure to take 5 minutes to read the newest Update brochure in both English and Welsh. This covers September 2009 through to August 2010. Please refer to your Intranet site or the Staff Development project section of the SWWHEP website for a digital copy. Hard copies are also available. For more details regarding Update or obtaining a hard copy version, please contact Mark Thomas (please refer to ‘Key contacts’ in the left hand menu). http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/staffdevelopment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:49:00 GMT SMU have begun the journey towards working at the IIP standard and to formally gain recognition. This is a national quality standard supporting organisations who develop and train their people in working towards organisational objectives. This will commence by an initial meeting later in the month, with the Human Resource Adviser (allocated by the Welsh Assembly government) followed by a formal benchmarking exercise to consider where current activity lies in relation to the IIP standard. From this a formal Action Plan will be drawn up and a steering group will oversee its implementation. For more information on IIP at SMU, please contact Mark Thomas (‘Key contacts’ section in the left hand menu). http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/staffdevelopment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:13:00 BST Be sure to take 5 minutes to check out the opportunities available in the new SWWHEP Update Brochure for the coming Academic year.... http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/staffdevelopment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:27:00 BST The Dragon Innovation Partnership launch their section on the SWWHEP website. Visit the partnership's web pages to keep up to date with all of events and milestones being achieved. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/dragoninnovationpartnership/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:50:00 GMT The Dragon Innovation Partnership and the West Wales Chamber of Commerce are holding an event to help companies and organisations boost their business by linking them up with universities to work together on specific tactical or strategic projects. Visit our pages on the Swansea University website for further information or contact Ali Parker on a.c.parker@swansea.ac.uk or 01792 602630. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/dragoninnovationpartnership/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:14:00 BST One week. Hundreds of businesses. A world of opportunities. With no less than seven successful years behind it, the 2009 event returns to celebrate the diversity and energy of businesses in South East Wales as the only week-long business event of its kind, entirely tailored to support SMEs. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/dragoninnovationpartnership Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:12:00 BST Having previously run a programme of appraisal Training, SMU’s HR department is now currently running a schedule of refresher appraisal Training sessions for all staff. Find out more... http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/staffdevelopment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:23:00 GMT Staff and students are celebrating after receiving confirmation that Trinity College can change its name to Trinity University College. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/latestnews/latestnews/headline,31382,en.php Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:42:00 BST Did you know that you should be recording any such participation in your individual training record? Each partner institution has a different approach to capturing and processing this information. Why not enquire with your Staff Development Contact (see contacts section via the left hand menu) or your Faculty contact as to what your unit/institutional procedure is and how you get details of any Training completed recorded on your record? ... http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/staffdevelopment Tue, 19 May 2009 10:49:00 BST Ever wondered if all your hard work to recycle is worth the effort? Well, thanks to information being provided by our waste contractor, Veolia Environmental, we can now keep you updated on how much your University recycles and sends to landfill. Read more... http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/sustainability/latestnews/headline,33488,en. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:14:00 BST In April, Trinity University College Carmarthen received a formal letter and report from the Welsh Assembly Government confirming that they have been successful in their most recent formal IiP assessment and as such, continue to ‘be’ a recognised IiP organisation. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/staffdevelopment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:43:00 BST Eleri Page (HR Assistant) is a new additional Staff Development contact at Trinity University College Carmarthen supporting Heather Jones (HR officer). Your Institutional Staff Development contacts should be asked to book Training places at other partner institutions and help you resolve queries relating to these bookings (remember also to follow your institutional procedure initially in identifying and authorising any training). For more details on Institutional SD contacts please select ‘contacts’ from the above left hand menu. http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/staffdevelopment Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:43:00 BST One of the principal jobs of any centre of excellence is the dissemination of good practice. As already stated the knowledge base will be expanded to provide the web delivery of information, but in advance of this the team have developed an eLearning Roadshow which was launched at the “Excellence in Teaching and Learning” conference held at Swansea early in June 2009. The conference was attended by academic staff from all three universities and the exhibition, which was available throughout the day, featured : http://www.swwhep.ac.uk/en/projects/e-learning