IS&T has just completed the first phase of a two phase restructure as part of a transformation programme to modernise the way we provide services to the University. Two new senior posts have been created: Leon Etherington was appointed on 18 November to the new post of Strategy and Projects Delivery Director, and a new …
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A blog post from Hassun El Zafar, Education Officer, Student’s Union Education is evolving. The mechanisms in which we perceive and conduct our teaching and learning are undergoing fast transitions and transformations. It is without doubt that technology, its applications and society’s reliance on it have played a major role in revolutionising our education systems …
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As in previous years, to provide the best possible first impression for students and to facilitate smooth processing for staff around the start of the academic year, IS&T will be protecting University IT services by restricting the amount of change allowed to IT systems, infrastructure and equipment. If you are involved in a project or …
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Howard Whiteley will be joining IS&T on 11 May at its new Chief Information Officer. Until the end of May, Leon Etherington will continue as Interim Director of IS&T and Emma Jeffrey will remain as  Head of Corporate Systems. Howard has led major initiatives at Northumbria and Leeds Universities and, most recently, at the University of …
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We’re introducing a ‘select and release’ system to manage staff print jobs.  This means that, when staff collect their printing, they will log in and select which jobs they would like before printing them out.  The new system will improve confidentiality and reduce waste. Why are we doing this? At the end of each day, …
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IS&T are making an upgrade to the Enterprise Vault (the University’s email storage archive) to offer faster and easier archive access and better control and manageability. While we do this, you won’t be able to access your archived emails between 7am and 9am on Tuesday 3 March and again between 7am and 9am on Tuesday …
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The University has a set of IT Regulations which, as a member of staff, you have a responsibility to follow. Some are legal obligations, some protect you and other people and some are to safeguard the reputation of the University. You should make sure that you are aware of the main points of the regulations …
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On 3 and 4 January, the University’s IT services were tested to assess how we could continue to run the University’s business during an unexpected incident which affected our IT systems, servers or data centres.What was the outcome? Under test conditions, we have shown our critical services can be moved from one datacentre to the …
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