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IPDA Fellowship for Professor 

Christine Forde, Professor of Leadership and Learning at the University of Glasgow was awarded a Fellowship of the International Professional Development Association (IPDA) at the IPDA conference last month.

The IPDA is a learned Society where the focus is on the interface between research, policy and practice in the area of professional learning.

Professor Forde was awarded the accolade in recognition of her research in leadership and teacher development; along with her contributions to the development of policy and practice especially in relation to headship preparation and accomplished teaching in Scottish education. 

Magnetics Society Award

Professor Tim Miller has received a Lifetime Contribution to Magnetics Award from the UK Magnetics Society.

Professor Miller was recognised by the society for his work in leading the SPEED Consortium at Glasgow University, which developed groundbreaking software for electric motor design. The design was later purchased by computer software company, CD-adapco.

The award was presented by Dr. Roger Allcock, President of the Society, during a reception at the Ewing Event held on 16 December.

The UK Magnetics Society is a leading international Society representing both industrial and academic interests in all spheres of magnetics. 

Festive pay date

A reminder that December's pay day comes early this year. The University's Senior Management Group approved a decision to bring forward the December pay date by one week. This means that instead of being paid on the 31 December, all staff will be paid on 24 December.

The first edition of Campus eNews in 2015 will be published on Monday 19 January. Our deadline for articles and information on events and services is Thursday 15 January.

Le Monde

‌Campus eNews is indebted to Honorary Research Fellow, John Campbell, who is 'Consul honoraire de France à Glasgow', for alerting the Principal's Office to some intriguing coverage of the UofG in that French newspaper of record - Le Monde. A classic case - perhaps, of “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as others see us!"

In the French organ's arts pages, the University featured in a profile of Glasgow, doubtless inspired by our successes with the Turner Prize. John has kindly offered a tranbslation of the section that focused on the University of Glasgow:

You must visit the Hunterian Art Gallery, which has one of the largest collections of the works of Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald (who was also an artist). Recreated within the gallery are the most emblematic interiors of the couple's home, including the famous high-backed chair.  Adjoining the Gallery is the University of Glasgow, founded in 1451: this is an absolute must, and seems to come out of a nursery tale. The philosopher Adam Smith studied in this castle, and the physicist Henry Faulds (who developed the concept of fingerprinting), as well as numerous Prime Ministers and Nobel prize-winners. In the sunlight, in the middle of the day, with the immaculate lawns, you can go through doors and secret passageways and discover courtyards that seem to want to hide from public view. The husband of J.K. Rowling was a graduate of the University of Glasgow, thus confirming the rumour that, even if no scene of the film was shot here, it must have inspired the author. (Le Monde, 3.12.14)

Common Purpose

Just before this year's Commonwealth Games, the University of Glasgow co-hosted, with the University of Edinburgh, a youth leadership programme called 33Fifty. This was highly successful and its organisers, Common Purpose, have asked Glasgow to host a leadership development programme – the Global Leader Experience - specifically for University of Glasgow students, as part of the Common Purpose “50 Magnet Cities” initiative. Global Leader Experiences are run for university students in Magnet Cities across the world, where large numbers of students – from at least 100 countries – convene to study.

Over four days, students work on a challenge with external partners, which may include corporate agencies, potential employers, politicians and civil servants, and develop the cultural intelligence they will need to become global citizens and leaders.  Common Purpose runs Global Leader Experiences in partnership with one university in each of its fifty identified Magnet Cities. Recent host universities have included Harvard, Oxford, UCL and Wits, Johannesburg.

The programme will run from 17 February to 20 February 2015 on campus. 100 students will be selected from applications, with the aim of securing a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students from a broad range of academic disciplines and nationalities.

Students can apply now apply via the online portal:

www.commonpurpose.org/global-programmes/global-leader-experiences/where/glasgow.

The deadline for applications is 15 January 2015.

Laptops for Rwanda

Recycle your old laptop and help educate Rwandan medical, nursing and allied professionals.

Professor Phil Cotton of the School of Medicine, University of Glasgow has been seconded to Rwanda as Principal of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences: his ambition is to create the highest performing graduates of any University in East Africa.

Laptops will be donated to the college of Medicine and Health Science in the University of Rwanda.

Check that your laptop has none of the following: hardware problems, broken screen, poor power connections, any other disabling problems.

Hand your laptop (and power lead) to the janitors in the Wolfson Medical School building reception desk.

The College of MVLS IT Services team will securely wipe and re-format your hard drive and install open source software, which is free and user-friendly.

glasgow-rwanda-connection@glasgow.ac.uk

Confucius Institute classes

The Institute has announced new language classes for January. Full details of the classes and what to expect from them are on the website:

www.gla.ac.uk/about/confucius/chineselanguagelearning/

Please note that these classes fill up very fast and places are limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Beginners course (3 classes)
Class 1: Tuesdays from 20th January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks)
Class 2: Thursdays from 22nd January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks)
Class 3 Saturdays from 24th January 2015, 10am-12.30pm (8 weeks)
Level 1
Saturdays from 24th January 2015, 10am-12.30pm (8 weeks)Tuesdays from 20th January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks)
Level 2
Tuesdays from20th January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks) Tuesdays from 20th January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks)
Level 3
Thursdays from 22nd January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks) Thursdays from 22nd January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks)
Level 4
Thursdays from 22nd January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks) Thursdays from 22nd January 2015, 6pm – 8.30pm (8 weeks)

All classes are £115 for members of the public, or £100 for university of Glasgow staff and students and OAPs. The Institute accepts cash and cheques, not cards. If you wish to enrol/find out more please see the website for more information.

For any queries please email: Confucius-enquiries@glasgow.ac.uk

‌Did you Know?

Christmas day was just a normal working day in many industries into the 1950’s and 1960’s. This included staff at the University of Glasgow.

Christmas is often seen as new holiday in Scotland, introduced from England and America during the latter half of the twentieth century.

However it had long been celebrated as a holy festival with special church services and the giving and receiving of presents and cards – but you still had to come to work!

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First published: 19 November 2014