I’ve just come back from two weeks of lovely camping with my lovely family. Things I enjoyed: playing with my kids being with my wife cooking mussels that we’d picked not being at work not wearing a watch forgetting what day it was growing a beard not having any technology with me toasting marshmallows at [...]
Snappy title, eh? Last night Jane was commenting on Google+ how much she liked Google+ when I noticed that I could see her full home address on her profile. Which, clearly was a bit worrying. But after a bit of digging around Jane figured out that it was because I was viewing the mobile site and Google was taking [...]
I blogged a few weeks ago about the progress on our front pages revamp for www.le.ac.uk/careers and I’m pleased to say that we’ve now completed the main structural changes. Matt and I have been working on it off and on for a few weeks (Matt mostly on, me mostly off) with help from Vic and #Stephaniewhosnotontwitter. We’ve [...]
Having not had chance to post anything for more than 3 weeks now this is partly a post just to get me back into the habit… In a meeting a few months back I recalled a particular section of the University of Leicester’s previous Learning and Teaching Strategy (2006-2009). In the section on ‘Aims of [...]
I’m struggling to find time to think about our staff pages, which are desperately in need of a revamp. I’m hoping that putting up a quick blog post will help me gather my thoughts and perhaps gain some inspiration from helpful commenters… I’ve had a quick look at: Durham’s, Lancaster’s, Manchester’s and Warwick’s (some of you will know why [...]
Richard put a copy of PwC’s employability guide on my desk earlier in the week, it’s titled Being the one with their foot in the door. I was interested in it because I’m trying to think about how to identify employability in the curriculum and wondering whether competencies will help. In the introduction to the guide the Chairman of PwC [...]
I attended our Heads of Departments meeting on Wednesday, which is a meeting of all heads of academic departments (the clue’s in the name), plus the Registrar and various other senior managers, chaired by the VC. My colleague Richard Wilcock and I were presenting some ideas from a conversation we’d had with Geology about what they are doing to [...]
Back in July last year I blogged about our new front page for Student Development. At the time Alan made this comment… I understand the problem, but it’s a bit busy for my liking – too much text to scan, too many distractions. [...] If it were me, I’d go for less, but allow people to [...]
We have a team day every year, I’ve blogged about it in the past and in particular these are some of the things I think they should achieve. This is what we are doing this year. Which is going to be fun, a good team building activity and helpful to the local community :) I’ll [...]
Further to the change of name thing I think we’re going to go for I’m sure you’ll all sleep more soundly in your beds knowing that. Thanks for the comments to the original post, especially from Vic and Zara. Now all I need to do is think about how and where to roll out the [...]
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