Staff News

On Thursday 6 October, the South Cloisters on the Bloomsbury campus will be taken over by more than 40 different charities and volunteering organisations, as part of the Volunteering Fair.

This week, the spotlight is on Dr Richard Mole, Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology, School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Information Systems Training offers free IT training to UCL staff covering many desktop applications such as Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and more. 

Learn more about USS, the changes being implemented with effect from 1 October 2011 and other topical pension issues by attending a presentation provided on-site at UCL by colleagues from USS.

With the introduction of the new UCL Remote Access VPN service, you can now access the UCL network from any internet connected computer as if you were on campus.

The promotion procedures for academic staff, research staff and teaching fellows have now been revised and are available on the HR website. The closing date for senior promotion applications is 5pm on Friday 18 November 2011.

Participants are needed for a research survey beginning on 25 September on the Bloomsbury campus which will form part of a larger national wellbeing survey.

This week the spotlight is on Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.

After more than 2 years of discussion and negotiation with staff and Trade Unions as well as a statutory consultation exercise of all current and potential scheme members late last year, the changes to USS in their final form are to be implemented with effect from 1 October 2011.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England, on behalf of the other higher education funding bodies, published the Assessment framework and guidance on submissions document on 14 July 2011. The guidance is the rulebook for all UK HEIs in making submissions to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. Submissions are to be made by the deadline in late November 2013; the assessment phase takes place during 2014.