Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. As some of you enjoy your August salary increase from this august institution, we wave goodbye this week to Katie Grieve and her excellent intern, Miriam George.  You can see the impact of Katie’s work on our ISG EDI Hub ISG Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. As the final weekend of Festivals is upon us,  that’s a wrap for the summer internships class of ’25. We are waving goodbye and thank you to our Digital Safety Intern Aysha, our Graphic Design Intern Yaqi and our Digital Skills Trainer Aretha, all from DSDT. […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. I hope you are enjoying oasis/red arrows/tattoo/bookfest/heatwave/ wildfires/fringe etc I was chuffed to bits to hear the presentations from all you interns  this week, and I will enjoy even more reading your blog posts. Thank you for reminding me why we do this Summer Snapshots: […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Last week we waved goodbye to Keith Matheson from DLAM, but the platforms he built are going strong. In the month of July there were over 800 enrolments to courses on our new Short Courses Platform, an increase of 5% compared to June. Active users to […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. This week we wave goodbye to two Titans of LTW: Aileen Robertson and Wesley Kerr. The place simply will not be the same without them. Wesley waves goodbye after 34 years at the University. He started back in 1991 as an IT Officer in the school […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Thank you to everyone who baked and ate, we had 25 bakes and 10 raffle prizes. Check out the LTW Colleague Hub to find out how much we raised and if you are a winner Drum roll, please….. The Bake Sale results are in!! If you […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. It has been so hot in Argyle House this week, you may want to supplement your warming hoodie with a ‘Digital Skills Cooling Fan’, ask one of the Digital Skills, Training and Design Team to get you one ( in your choice of favourite colours) from […]

Dear All, Thank you for you work this week. It was great to have such a large turn out at the LTW All-staff meeting on Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who made it a success. I was sorry to miss the meeting and I know you spoke about career progression and the importance of lifelong […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Some of you may have withdrawn your labour today and if you prefer not to cross a picket line you should be ok in accessing Argyle House although you may see protests at Kings Buildings (Nucleus) , Main Library and at the Central campus  (EFI and McEwan […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. We wave goodbye and thank you to colleagues finishing up in the Website and Communications teams: Charlie Myszkowski (MyEd), Catherine Munn (UX), Connor MacDougall and Adrian Cordero Rodriguez (Web Development). We couldn’t have done it without you. We wave hello to the new super computer: Edinburgh […]