distance assistance @ UNE

Anyone coming to Armidale for Residential Schools?- I’ve got the campus map in the blogroll and some Armidale info down the left hand side of this page

Just a reminder that you must access your UNE email address for all University correspondence.
If you use another email address you need to go to the UNE webmail and set up a redirect so that you don’t miss anything.
For further information go here https://mail.une.edu.au/
or the IT pages here http://www.une.edu.au/it-services/

This Saturday, 16 August 2008, ITD will be performing upgrades on key infrastructure leading to a full systems shutdown between 05:30am and 11:00am. As a result of this ALL internet and network based university services will be unavailable during this period. 

This upgrade is the first of many scheduled outages that will take place once every quarter. These times allow ITD team members to perform numerous improvements to University systems leading to better performing and more secure services. 

To reiterate, ALL web based and network services, including access to external web sites, will be unavailable 

Time – 5:30am to 11:00amDate – Saturday 16 August 2008 

Should you require any further information or wish to provide feedback in anyway please contact the service desk team on 02 6773 5000 or via servicedesk@une.edu.au.  

We thank you for your co-operation and apologise for any inconvenience caused.  

The ITD Team 

Are you aged between 18-35 with a new business idea? or in your first year of business? Are you a permanent resident of NSW?

Enter the Young BizStar competition run by NSW Department of State and Regional Development for your chance to win 1 of 3 business support packages valued at over $6000 each

Competition closes Friday 22nd August 2008 - for further information and application forms

 go to www.bizstar.business.nsw.gov.au

Hi Everyone
The Library has just launched a new newspaper database called Newsbank
unlike Factiva this all Australian includes some smaller regional papers
Also Special Reports if you want to follow the Olympics, the US Presidential Campaign, Natural Disasters or World Travel to name a few.

Check it out at: http://infoweb.newsbank.com, or search for Newsbank in the Library catalogue
http://www.une.edu.au/library/

Today we have been notified by the publishers of the Good Universities Guide that, for 2009, UNE has been awarded five stars in the following categories:

Overall Graduate Satisfaction
Teaching Quality
Indigenous Participation
Access by Equity Groups
Entry Flexibility

As some of you may already know UNE has been a signatory to the Talloires Declaration for environmental sustainability since 2005. Signing the Declaration means that UNE explicitly agrees to promote environmental education, ecological sustainability and adoption of “green” principles at this university.

To promote environmental sustainability through engaging undergraduate and postgraduate students in the quest for a more sustainable UNE , all students are invited to put forward ideas for what it means for UNE to be environmentally sustainable. 

Competition details:  

• The Talloires Environmental Sustainability Student Competition is open to all UNE students, undergraduates and postgraduates as individuals or in groups, with a limit of one entry per student/group.
• Entries must be no more than a single A4 page and contain your idea of what it means for UNE to be environmentally sustainable.
• First place will receive $1,000, second place $500 and third place $250.
• In addition, the Best College entry from a group residing at a residential college will receive $250.
• Entries should be submitted in either Word doc or Adobe pdf format and sent as email attachments to the Chair of the UNE Talloires Committee, Robyn Bartel rbartel@une.edu.au
• Please make sure you include your name(s), student number(s), college name if applicable and contact details with your submission.
• Entries close 5pm on 26 August 2008.  No late entries will be accepted.
• Entries will be assessed by an expert judging panel whose decision will be final and the winners will be announced on Open Day, September 5.

Let me know if I can help you in any way….there’s lots of support available via the University web pages but it’s not always easy to find the right information when you need it. Let me point the way!!

Hello and welcome to the new students who are commencing studies with us next Monday.  I hope you find the experience  a positive and fruitful one.

Please spend some time checking out the University home page www.une.edu.au

and the links I have provided through the Blogroll.

The best way to make a University enquiry is through our ASK UNE service (again click on the icon on the UNE homepage or the link in my blogroll)

And of course you can send me a message if you’d like to make an enquiry or just say hi

Cheers, Meredith 

Julia Gillard was on campus today to officially open the Rural Medical School, the Oorala Aboriginal Centre and the Learning Commons. Here she is with our Vice Chancellor Alan Pettigrew.