Events, courses, etc.

Careers Service

Gordon Chesterman, Director of the Careers Service, will be giving a forty-minute presentation on how the University’s priorities, and especially the work of the Careers Service, might be changing to meet the ‘post-Browne’ challenges surrounding ‘employability skills’, student expectations, and the graduate labour market.

It will be held in Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 at 2.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 15 December. To book please contact Maggie Hart (email mh292@careers.cam.ac.uk).

Equality and Diversity

A training event, entitled The Equality Act 2010: implications for managers and staff, will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on 8 December, in the Meade Room, University Centre, Granta Place.

This is an opportunity to learn about the new Equality Act 2010 and its effect on higher education institutions. The Act covers all the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic disadvantage.

Bookings at: http://www.training.cam.ac.uk/equality/event/49265.

Announcement of a lecture

The following lecture will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. The thirteenth annual E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 2 December, in Rooms G-R06/7, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, entitled The early Irish law text Senchas Már and the question of its date, by Professor Liam Breatnach, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. It will be followed by a reception in the Social Space, English Faculty Building. All welcome.