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Melissa Highton

Melissa Highton

Assistant Principal and Director of Learning, Teaching and Web

Category: Friday message

Melissa’s Friday messages to all-LTW staff

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Term has officially finished and the degree show has opened across the road. ECA Graduate Show 2025 opens on Friday Another day working in a film set, you may have spotted Argyle House streaming in Dept Q on Netflix Dept. Q: Cast, Release Date, Photos, Plot […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Various data stewards enquiries are ongoing to investigate the MTD completion stats. If you wish to appeal your result, see Kevin Brogan. Well done to  Andrew, Nikki and Lauren in the EuroVision Sweepstake. If you like  a bit of gamification in the workplace, you’ll be pleased […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. The new short courses catalogue has gone live for its very soft launch and we have taken a payment already from a genuine member of the public! Well done, All. Home | Short Courses – University of Edinburgh Having helped us finish the Learn Ultra and […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. It has been lovely weather to celebrate Beltane and May Day morning.  I trust you danced through the night and washed your face in the dew. As April ended we waved goodbye to two of our project management team: Jackson Corey-Duff and Kirsty Waddell  and to […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Please do take a look at our new LTW Colleague Hub SharePoint — your go-to space for staying connected and in-the-know about what’s happening across the directorate. Whether it’s LTW news, upcoming events, or team highlights, everything you need is now in one place. It’s an […]

Dear All, Thank you for all your work this week. A warm welcome to Jordan Ferguson who has joined us from UWS as our new Service Manager for Media Hopper Replay Lecture Recording. Congratulations to Charlie Chu and Fiona Buckland on passing  ITIL exams this week. Thank you to Julie in the graphic design team […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Some of you may have noticed a University network outage last Saturday or came  back on Monday to a lot of emails from monitoring systems saying our services had all been down.  Luckily it was a short outage but given every one our mailing lists  and […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. It was lovely to see so many of you at the ISG-All Staff meeting. Thank you for asking questions in the chat. As Gavin mentioned, I do now have a view of the budget and FTE we have been set for next year. Please do […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. I hope you enjoyed celebrations for Newcastle, Holi and St Patrick. Congratulations to the Web team who have won the UCISA Sustainability Award! Well done, All.  More chunks of glass for the trophy cabinet https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stratosfilalithis_award-ucisa-sustainability-activity-7308454886495432704-CusL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEcKs8B0sjwDFwVM5qMc-JgbweCVL4SJkc And for our next award, the Space Courses designed by EDE […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work again this week. It seems like the ISG and Library buildings mostly survived the storm. The Library have launched an exhibition in the ground floor public space called ‘Rooting’. I suspect they did not test that name on anyone from Australia, or perhaps they did, and it is […]

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