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Beware Tax Season Phishing
Cyber criminals are very good at exploiting seasonal events and current affairs to lend legitimacy to their scams. This can include parcel delivery scams around the festive season, or fake donation requests following natural disasters. As we approach the end of the financial year, many businesses and individuals have recently submitted...
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Enhanced Retirement and Voluntary Severance extended
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Risk of Redundancy lifted from Staff in Modern Languages
Dear colleagues, Following last week’s decision to remove the risk of redundancy from staff in Gaelic, the University has now lifted the possibility of compulsory redundancy from remaining staff at risk in Modern Languages. We have taken this decision against the backdrop of a strong set of proposals from staff in Modern...
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Modern Languages & Gaelic update
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to update you that our governing body Court today reaffirmed that we will continue to offer a full range of undergraduate Joint Honours degrees in Modern Languages, Translating & Interpreting, including Gaelic, together with taught and research postgraduate programmes. Those are among the key outcomes following a...
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Smoking on Campus - Polite Reminder
The University would like to remind our community that smoking is not permitted inside buildings or anywhere where smoke may enter buildings (e.g. near entrances, exits, windows, air ventilation intakes etc.) as well as anywhere on a hospital site such as Foresterhill. The main aim of these rules is to protect...
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How EventsAir Transformed Our Events
The project commenced in January 2022 with four key business users and early adopters: CPD & Event Services, PERU, PASE, and the Business School who collaboratively formed the Senior User Group to share best practices. The University launched its first live event on EventsAir in March 2023, celebrating International Women’s Day...
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Modern Languages update and industrial action
Dear colleagues, I am writing to update you on the consultation on Modern Languages - which concluded last Friday - and on a notification of planned industrial action by the Aberdeen campus union UCU. This action has been called due to the possibility of compulsory redundancies of some staff in Modern...
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Workload Engagement Exercise update
Dear colleagues, We know from the 2022 staff survey that workload remains a significant concern for both academic staff and professional services staff across Directorates and Schools. The current financial challenges and consequent reductions in staffing makes more urgent the need to do things differently to reduce the volume of work. I...
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New Dean appointments
Dear colleagues, Further to earlier calls inviting applications for the roles of; Dean for Impact and Engagement; Dean for People, Culture and Environment; and, Dean for Knowledge and Understanding, I am delighted to announce that, following a competitive internal recruitment process, the following appointments have been made, effective from 1 March...
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Cyber Scotland Week - 26th February to 3rd March 2024
This year’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has estimated that there were over 2 million instances of cyber fraud across all UK businesses within the last twelve months, with an additional estimated 49,000 instances of fraud as a result of cybercrime in the same period. Cyber Scotland...