STUDENT REPS

Hi All,

I need to have a Student Representative for each of the main degree pathways. A student Rep is a bit like a Union shop-steward who brings any problems and gripes (of their fellow students) to the attention of the university via Staff-Student Liaison Meetings. Reps can also report nice things and heap praise on staff - although that is rare! Any issues raised MUST then be discussed and minuted by the EGS Degree Network Committee meetings (and hence people like Head of School and the Dean) - so there is real accountability. 

If you would like to be considered for the position of course Rep, please email me to let me know. If more than one person is interested, we can have a mini-election on Wednesday to decide.

I already have a rep for Countryside Management (Jonathan Leyland - jon.Leyland@btinternet.com), so I need a Rep for EMSD, SA and EMB please.

If you are interested, please drop me an email before 11am on Wednesday this week (m.cresswell@mmu.ac.uk).

Thanks
Mark

Message from Mike Wood

Hi All

A quick update on Exercise 2 for Wednesday’s seminar.
There are some useful documents on the following webpage: http://www2.accaglobal.com/af/reporting

However, it looks like links to individual corporate sustainability reports may have been removed from the ACCA website. I suggest you just search on Google for CSRs for a few companies (e.g. the Co-Operative, Shell etc…many companies have these reports) and use these as the evidence base for your arguments.

See you on Wednesday

Best wishes
Mike

SPSS Statistics Software

Hi All,

I contacted the university IT people for clarification about access to SPSS software. This is what they said:

We’ve literally burned off the copies of SPSS 19 today so they should be able to get a copy from the library either late Friday or first thing on Monday.

Please get back in touch with us if you have any further queries.


Thank you
Mark-W
IT Services Helpline
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/itservices/
It.helpline@mmu.ac.uk

ATTENTION: EG7515 message from Mike Wood

Hi All

It was a pleasure to meet you all yesterday.

I realise that many of you are unable to access the Moodle site at present, so hopefully you’ll be reading this blog! To help you prepare for next weeks seminar and to allow you to follow up on yesterday’s lecture content, here are the files that you will (soon!) be able to access via Moodle:

• Hooper and Gibbs
• Palmer et al
• Lecture 1 slides
• Reader - Section 1
• Reader - Section 2
• Seminar Exercises (in case you lose your hard copy)

7515_section1_11-12.pdf
7515_section2_11-12.pdf
EG7515 Lecture 1.ppt
Hooper and Gibbs 1995.pdf
Palmer et al (1997).pdf
Seminar Exercises for EG7515 Sections 1 and 2.docx



I look forward to seeing you all next week.
Best wishes

Mike

ATTENTION: EMSD Students who had applied for ECC

Hi All,

If you had originally applied for the ECC degree - but had to switch to EMSD you will already be aware that we are running a special version of EMSD just for you.

Instead of attending the 4 - 6pm EG7516 lecture (Business & Sustainability) which you are NOT registered for, you must instead attend your briefing session for the Specialist Independent Study option (based around the ECC curriculum). This will take place in E402 (the coffee room) after the coffee break.

See you there!
Mark

NEW MSc Students: how to complete enrolment

Hi All,

Some of you were unable to get your student ID/Library cards this morning - many apologies..this was because of a lack of staff and a technical glitch. There are two ways to resolve this:

1) Attend an alternative session (assuming you have already enrolled online). Turn up again on FRIDAY 16th (This week) between 11am and 4:30pm....or turn up next week on WEDNESDAY 21st between 9am and 4:30pm

2) If you are part-time/distance learner, you can apply for your student ID/Library card by post. Please do this by contacting the SIP help on the following email: sipnorth@mmu.ac.uk

If you have been unable to enrol online, please contact the SIP on the above email address for more help.


Thanks
Mark