CAMPUS MATTERS
October 2016 The newsletter for Campus Services
An up-date from Sue Lloyd The new academic year is already well underway. Our teams greeted nearly 3,000 students as they moved into their new halls of residence a few weeks ago and this year’s start of session was “the best ever”, according to Head of Premises, Jonathan Main. Congratulations to everyone involved for all your hard work.
on our achievement in 2015. You’ll find further information on our new Hospitality Assured Champions on page 5.
If you’ve read the latest Principal’s ezine, you will be aware that the College is running its second staff engagement survey. Lessons have been learned from the 2014 survey and a number of improvements have Last week saw the opening of the been made this year, e.g. there newly renovated Boilerhouse are fewer questions and an Café, following the closure of improved data set. Café Jules in July. You can read The survey will open on 31st about the opening in more detail October and I’d encourage you all on page 4 but I would like to take to complete it as you will have the this opportunity to encourage opportunity to give your views you to go and grab a coffee with and at the same time, we can colleagues in this fantastic new provide a good response rate space. from all Campus Services teams. This term also sees a return visit from our Hospitality Assured assessors who will be conducting interviews with individuals across the department on 2nd and 3rd November. Our target this year is to be rewarded with a score of 77%, which is an increase of 1.1%
In this issue…. 1* award in Food Made Good Sustainability Rating
A day in the life of a Housekeeper Take a look behind the scenes with the housekeeping team in our interview with Janet Parkes.