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Tuesday 17 January 2017

08:00
Fire Safety Awareness Training for Embedded Departments at Addenbrooke's Hospital CANCELLED 08:00 - 09:00 Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre

Fire Safety Awareness training provided by the NHS for all embedded tenants.

Please note: This event will close for bookings one week before the event.

08:30
IT Community: Breakfast Networking Meeting Finished 08:30 - 10:00 Room 009, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE

An IT Community breakfast networking meeting, to discuss and communicate key UIS service or project updates. The meetings will also provide an opportunity for members of the IT Community to network with other IT professionals from across the Collegiate University.

09:30
AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting 2016-17 new (13 of 30) Finished 09:30 - 16:30 Greenwich House, Heidelberg Room


The AAT Level 3, Diploma in Accounting, introduces to students to more complex financial processes and accounting tasks, the principles of VAT, professional ethics and develops their spreadsheet skills.

In addition to applying for a provisional place here, please complete and return an application form. You will find the briefing packs and forms on our website
http://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training-and-development/professional-qualification/aat/university-programme
AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting 2016-17 (10 of 24) Finished 09:30 - 16:30 First Intuition

AAT Level 4, Professional Diploma in accounting.

The dates below are assuming that we have a bespoke day release group. If this is not possible, then the dates will be different.

Once you have registered here please complete and return the application form at the back of the briefing pack, this pack can be found on our website http://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training-and-development/professional-qualification/aat/university-programme

Data Protection and FOI: An Introduction Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room


The rights and responsibilities outlined in the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts increasingly impact upon the University’s academic and administrative work. This course explores the key concepts in the Data Protection Act 1998 and illustrates how the ‘data protection principles’ affect various day-to-day working scenarios. It introduces the fundamental aspects of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and details the ways in which the University handles responses to individual requests under both Acts. Finally, it outlines various records management and information security measures that can aid compliance with the legislation and lead to a more efficient working environment.

Visio 2016: Organisational, Gantt and Flowcharts Finished 09:30 - 13:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1

This course is designed for users new to the software who need to create various types of chart including Organisational charts, Gantt charts and Flow charts. The skills and knowledge acquired in this course are sufficient to be able to use and operate the software at an efficient level and covers from beginners to intermediate skills. It is fast paced.

Excel 2016: Introduction Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site

Microsoft Excel is the chosen spreadsheet package as it is a popular choice, both on Apple Mac and PC. This is an instructor-led course for absolute beginners. There is a self-paced Excel Beginners course for those who prefer to learn at their own pace.

Adobe Photoshop CC: Introduction (Level 1) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 2, New Museums Site

Adobe Photoshop CC is the latest version of the favourite image manipulation and editing tool of the professional graphics industry and photographers. It enables digital and scanned-in photographs, pictures and graphics files to be edited and offers a dazzling array of drawing, special effects and filtering tools. Knowing where to start with such a comprehensive and feature-filled package can be daunting. This presentation aims to equip new users with the basics, using live demonstrations throughout.

Amicus Volunteers - PILOT new Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Great Ouse Meeting Room, Suite 1, CUDAR office

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Volunteers course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

10:00
Graduate Safety Course Finished 10:00 - 13:00 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 3

Please visit our Graduate Safety Course website for full details of this event, including timings, venues and maps.

11:15

This workshop is intended for non-native speakers from the Department of Engineering who would like to improve their English grammar.

  • NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.
11:30
JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese new Finished 11:30 - 11:50 John Trim Centre

A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.

11:50
JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese new Finished 11:50 - 12:10 John Trim Centre

A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.

12:00
Engineering - Open Access and Symplectic update for Administrators new Finished 12:00 - 12:30 Institute for Manufacturing, Seminar Room 1

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12:10
JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese new Finished 12:10 - 12:30 John Trim Centre

A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.

14:00
Introduction to R (1 of 2) Finished 14:00 - 18:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site

This module introduces the use of R, a programming language originally developed for statistical data analysis. In this course, we will use R through R Studio, a user-friendly interface for R. Students will learn ways of reading spreadsheet data into R, the notion of data type, how to manipulate data in major data types, draw basic graphs, summarise data with descriptive statistics, and perform basic inferential statistics (e.g., t-test). This module is intended primarily for students who have no prior experience in programming. This course covers how to perform data analysis with R but does not introduce analytical techniques.

Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (Self-paced) (1 of 2) Finished 14:00 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site

The course is designed to take someone from having no knowledge of the Unix command line to being able to navigate around directories, and doing simple file manipulation. Then some of the more basic commands, will be introduced, including information on how to get more help from the system itself. Finally accessing remote computers by ssh and the most basic of shell scripts will be introduced.

Moodle: Feedback from the Course Members CANCELLED 14:00 - 15:30 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 2

Moodle as the Virtual Learning Environment will be supporting teaching and learning at the University.

This is an advanced course for those who administer courses in Moodle and would like to use the Feedback activity to survey their course members.

Introduction to Stata (Series 2) (1 of 2) Finished 14:00 - 18:00 Titan Teaching Room 2, New Museums Site

The course will provide students with an introduction to the popular and powerful statistics package Stata, a program commonly used in both social and natural sciences.

15:00
JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese new Finished 15:00 - 15:20 John Trim Centre

A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.

15:20
JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese new Finished 15:20 - 15:40 John Trim Centre

A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.

15:30
JTC:Trinity College Language Bursary Appointment new Finished 15:30 - 16:00 John Trim Centre

This appointment forms part of the application process for a Trinity Language Bursary. The purpose of the bursaries is to enable students to take an intensive immersion course abroad of between 4 and 8 weeks in duration, in a language useful for their future careers.

Applicants are invited to come in for a 25 minute appointment to discuss their choice of language school and course, in light of their language interests and motivations for learning. This meeting offers the opportunity to ask questions relating to intensive language study abroad and to confer with the Language Adviser about bursary plans.

Before making an appointment, please obtain brochures, take the trouble to explore the Web and study the information critically in the light of the points made in the sheet entitled ‘Choosing a Short Language Course’ as detailed on the Trinity College Website.

15:40
JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese new Finished 15:40 - 16:00 John Trim Centre

A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.

16:00
JTC:Trinity College Language Bursary Appointment new Finished 16:00 - 16:30 John Trim Centre

This appointment forms part of the application process for a Trinity Language Bursary. The purpose of the bursaries is to enable students to take an intensive immersion course abroad of between 4 and 8 weeks in duration, in a language useful for their future careers.

Applicants are invited to come in for a 25 minute appointment to discuss their choice of language school and course, in light of their language interests and motivations for learning. This meeting offers the opportunity to ask questions relating to intensive language study abroad and to confer with the Language Adviser about bursary plans.

Before making an appointment, please obtain brochures, take the trouble to explore the Web and study the information critically in the light of the points made in the sheet entitled ‘Choosing a Short Language Course’ as detailed on the Trinity College Website.

16:30
JTC:Trinity College Language Bursary Appointment new Finished 16:30 - 17:00 John Trim Centre

This appointment forms part of the application process for a Trinity Language Bursary. The purpose of the bursaries is to enable students to take an intensive immersion course abroad of between 4 and 8 weeks in duration, in a language useful for their future careers.

Applicants are invited to come in for a 25 minute appointment to discuss their choice of language school and course, in light of their language interests and motivations for learning. This meeting offers the opportunity to ask questions relating to intensive language study abroad and to confer with the Language Adviser about bursary plans.

Before making an appointment, please obtain brochures, take the trouble to explore the Web and study the information critically in the light of the points made in the sheet entitled ‘Choosing a Short Language Course’ as detailed on the Trinity College Website.

18:00
JTC: Speaking practice for learners of French Finished 18:00 - 18:20 John Trim Centre

A chance to practice French conversation/pronunciation with a volunteer native speaker.

18:20
JTC: Speaking practice for learners of French Finished 18:20 - 18:40 John Trim Centre

A chance to practice French conversation/pronunciation with a volunteer native speaker.