December 2010 - University of Worcester

newsOne campus, many sitesA reminder to colleagues based at St Johns thatrooms may be booked at City for meetings whenthey are not in use for teaching.There are well equipped, large seminar rooms inCharles Hastings as well as a 24 seat meeting roomin Mulberry House. (The room in Mulberry Houseis not accessible for someone in a wheelchair).Bookings may be made through Timetabling, andit is a great way of enabling colleagues who mightotherwise not have a natural reason to visit City,to see the facilities and activity going on.Colleagues who are moving between St Johns and Cityhave the use of hot desking facilities at St Johns in BB222and HB1001 as well as the wireless network across thecampus. At City, staff have access to the wireless network,which extends across the site including the café.arena race nightoff TO A GALLOPINGSTARTRACE GOERS ENJOYED A DASHING EVENING AT THEUNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER’S FIRST RACE NIGHT.The prize-filled event wasorganised to raise money for thenew university and communityWorcester Arena. Almost 120guests and staff attended whoall contributed to the greatatmosphere and the impressivesum of £3,905 raised for the Arena.The official event sponsor,Worcester Racecourse, and theEnjoying a flutter at Race Nightrace sponsors, provided somefantastic prizes. The University was also fortunate to receive some great gifts donatedto the raffle by local businesses, sports clubs and theatres.The night was such a success that it will now become an annual event.Meeting and seminar rooms available at City CampusBeth Heaney, Alumni and Development officer, and event organiser, said: “I would liketo thank the sponsors and everyone who attended for making it such a fun night. I wouldalso like to give special thanks to the University’s President of the College of FellowsJohn Yelland OBE for acting as chief bookmaker and Alumni Association member MuffMurfin who donated his time as the compere for the evening and did a great job of gettingeveryone geed up.”Partner College HonoursThe Education and Training team who teach our Foundation Degree in Learning Support at Hereford College of Technology have recently beenawarded ‘Highly Commended’ honours in the LSIS 2010 STAR awards in the Workforce Development category. For more information contactChristine Robertson at HCT (email: RobertsonC@hct.ac.uk)Struggling to find the perfect gift this Christmas?Buying a commemorative brick or stone in the Worcester Arena Wall canmake a perfect present for a friend or loved one, and it’s a gift that youcan guarantee won’t be thrown to the back of the wardrobe along withthe musical tie and unwanted smellies.With Buy a Brick you can leave a permanentmessage to celebrate the success of 2010, lookto the future for 2011 or pay a lasting tributeto a loved one. Better still, the money from thegift contributes to building the new Universityand community Worcester Arena.To buy a Christmas brick all you need to do is fill in the form available fromthe finance office and return it to the finance office. They will give you theattached Buy a Brick Christmas card for you to send to your recipient witha gift envelope.For further information please contact Beth Heaneyb.heaney@worc.ac.uk (ext. 2273).newsandviews@worc.ac.uk / DECEMBER 2010 / 13