Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Out of Focus Issue 3



Welcome to out of Focus Update…

| Issue 3: 1st June 2011

| What’s Happening | UEL Roundup | Do The East End Green Thing


News in brief



UEL demonstrates commitment to London Good Living Wage Campaign


The University continues to support the London Good Living Wage Campaign by ensuring that all of its senior managers are not facing financial impecunity. A table on the recent Governors papers indicate an increase in these highly paid postsL figures based on 2010 and whoops here comes another one.







 For the full story see bit.ly/the money bit

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Student Services at Stratford are moving

Student Services are moving from their existing Student Centre to somewhere even further away from the centre of Stratford Campus. Their bespoke offices complete with designer furniture and state of the art computer systems will move to a portacabin at the back end of the campus thus enhancing the student experience no end. A consultant on Toaster Placement was awarded the contract for heating the building


New Element discovered at UEL


University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Becktonite (symbol=Bt), has one neutron, 25 pro vice neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Becktonite  has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Becktonite can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.
Becktonite  has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Becktonite s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Becktonite  is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.
This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. When catalysed with money, Becktonite  becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Becktonite , since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons..



Hopping As One

UEL has sponsored a new piece of artwork displayed on the fence directly outside the Stratford Station entrance and the new Westfield shopping centre. The work is entitled Hopping for Arts sake  by 10CC. Take a look next time you pass through Stratford Station. 







“out of Focus”: next issue of the semester

The next issue for the semester of this online newsheet will be released next Wednesday, 8th  June.  If you would like to submit an item – whether need-to-know information, a news story or scurrilous rumour – then please email your copy and image to tony  no later than Friday 3rd June.




FIFA go for surprise candidate as President

In an unprecendented job swap it was agreed at a hush hush round of meetings that UelConnect Director, Sarah Frame, would exchange her position for a new one at FIFA that would also see Sepp Blatter coming in as pro VC Strategic Planning. An excited UEL spokesperson said that Professor Blatter had displayed exactly the qualities that were needed in enhancing the reputation of Fifa and that UEL was looking forward to him bringing his financial acumen and probity to the University.
For the full story see bit.ly/VCG Post


Thursday, June 02, 2011

Out of Focus Issue 2

 

Welcome to out of Focus Update…

| Issue 2: 25 May 2011

| What’s Happening | UEL Roundup | Do The Camberwick Green Thing |

UEL Award shortlisted for prestigious award

Congratulations to UEL Award Services for their hard work, which has lead to them being shortlisted for the Beano Award for Awarding yourself an Award. The team is one of only one hundred and twelve institutions to be listed in the ‘Outstanding Award  Team’ category.  To find out more, and to see the list in full, visit bit.ly/the_awards



UEL’s unique digital watch project offers priceless opportunity to tell the time 

UEL’s MICKEYMOUSE (Museum Integrated Chronometer Keynote Ergocratic Yearly Monitoring Of Undergraduate Systems Everywhere) project was officially launched last week with a guest speaker, Michael Mouse introducing some of the most influential names in the world of timepieces. The ground-breaking project, the only one of its kind in Europe, creates an integrated mobile facility for the measuring and subsequent examination of rare and unusual University policies. The University has worked closely with Disneyland University in Paris on the project, using scanning technology developed and donated by the University, already successfully employed in USA, South Korea and the Isle of Dogs.  


Hard Cheese Rolling

A superb performance by four UEL Management Team members at the recent Outsourcing Utility Teams  Program University Tournament, (OUTPUT) In a masterful display of Hard Cheese Rolling the programme put forward by the University to outsource its Security staff whilst simultaneously denying them early retirement won the star prize. Judges particularly like the extra touch of putting the letters in the same envelope thus making additional savings on postage.  


The Books Cooked

UEL Director  Andrew Macdonald has, in yet another adventurous career move, branched out in a surprising new direction. Fresh from the knocking out ceremony for the new Stratford Library and the creation of a fabulous lawned pasture at Docklands  Andrew has reacquainted himself with a love of the pastoral life and invested in a farm. For the full story see Http://bit.ly/am


“out of Focus”: next issue of the semester

The next issue of this online newsheet will be released next Wednesday, 1st June.  If you would like to submit an item – whether need-to-know information, a news story or scurrilous rumour – then please email your copy and image to Tony no later than Friday 27 May.


New staff catering unit unveiled at Docklands

Uel announced today that their popular summer activity of hunt the catering outlet resumes yet again this summer. This year not content with outsourcing the edge to a National Pasta Festival  they are catering for hungry staff by closing the Knowledge Dock and upgrading Oscars Bistro. A UEL spokes person Ms M Malone said “Cockles and Mussels would bring in extra spin-offs in staff health benefits. It would also provide links with the Olympic theme as they could wheel their wheelbarrows through corridors broad and narrow”.


UEL shortlisted for prestigious Super Injunction Post

I’m afraid that a super injunction prevents me from congratulating the next Managing Director of the IMF. However the candidate was nominated as a successor to  Dominique Strauss-Kahn as “pledging to keep up the traditions of his predecessor”.  We can, of course await the resultant Twitter campaign that will lead to an announcement in inFocus