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

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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.  

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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.  

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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

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“out of Focus”: next issue of the semester

The next issue of this online newsheet will be released next Wednesday, 1^st 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.

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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”.

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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

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