Patch management costs spiral to US$19 million: ISS
Greg Meckbach
@itbusinessca
Published: November 13th, 2003
Companies that use several different types of network security devices are often doing the same task several different times, according to an executive at one network security firm.
Christopher Klaus, founder and chief technology officer of Atlanta-based Internet
Security Systems (ISS) Inc., said some organizations use firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion detection or prevention systems and spam filtering tools to examine and analyze packets. Each device opens and analyzes the packet, decides whether to block it or allow it through, re-assembles it, routes the packet and then logs the result.
""It creates a lot of complexity and a lot of repetition,"" Klaus said Thursday at the Canadian launch of the ISS Proventia-M products, held at Toronto's Westin Harbor Castle hotel. ""With all this complexity, we're finding a lot of organizations still aren't protected, even after you put it through the firewall, and put anti-virus in place.""
The Proventia-M, which ISS plans to ship this month, includes firewall, virtual private networking, intrusion detection and anti-virus features. Next year, Klaus said, ISS will add content filtering and anti-spam.
Klaus predicted vendors will release more products that combine several security features in one, because customers will save money in the long term.
One of the major security problems for businesses is the time it takes to install patches on their systems, he said. ISS did a cost analysis and estimated an organization with 1,000 servers could spend nearly US$19 million per year on installing patches.
The estimate was based on four hours per patch, five times per month at US$80 per hour.
""We ran this past Fortune 1,000 (companies) who said it's actually a conservative estimate,"" Klaus said.
He added many network managers do not get a chance to install patches before hackers take advantage of software security vulnerabilities and launch attacks.
That view was echoed by Parveen Jain, president and general manager of Network Associates Inc.'s Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee network security technologies group.
Jain was in Toronto Thursday for the launch of Network Associates Inc.'s end node security road map, held at the TSX Broadcast Conference Centre.
Network Associates' end node security strategy includes software designed to secure clients and servers against attacks. Its first product, Entercept Desktop Edition, is shipping this month and is designed to protect against buffer overflows, worms and other security breaches.
Intrusion detection systems have come under fire in the past because many products simply report breaches and do not always stop attacks.
The McAfee Protection Solutions are designed to prevent malicious code from damaging systems. They are also designed to detect security violations from within the network, such as employees from one department trying to access another department's confidential data.
Jain said network security breaches cost companies tens of billions of dollars a year, and these figures are only derived from firms that actually admit they've been attacked.
The actual damage could be five to 10 times greater, he added.
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Alfred Deller: a voice from the past
On the centenary of the great countertenor's birth, his grandson recalls how he came to know and love his music
Toby Deller
Thu 31 May 2012 05.52 EDT First published on Thu 31 May 2012 05.52 EDT
Renaissance man … Alfred Deller, pictured here in 1973. Photograph: Alamy
Tall and athletically built, debonair and with a thick goatee that he accessorised with a pipe, Alfred Deller cut a distinctive figure. Born a hundred years ago today, he was lauded around the world as the best countertenor of his time, credited with reviving a way of singing that had been dormant for a more than a century. Above all, he was the gent who entertained his young grandchildren at breakfast by chopping bananas on to the table instead of into his muesli, a routine we all found chronically funny.
A decade after his death in 1979, I was at university studying French, getting ready to spend a year abroad. I had an inkling that my surname might attract attention in France. Deller was especially popular there, partly because it was the home of Harmonia Mundi, the record label that had signed him in the late 60s and promoted him heavily.
I had not really listened to my grandfather's singing in those intervening years, and had been too young when he died to recall what his voice sounded like live. But clearly, if people were to start asking questions, I needed to be ready. I picked out Music for a While, a collection of Purcell solos, and his final recording.
Nothing had prepared me for what I heard. Admittedly, the more melancholy and introspective the music, the more I was susceptible to it, and these Purcell songs were certainly that. But the sound! Delicate, clear and ringing at the same time, beautifully floated without being winsome, the emotional impact coming from understatement rather than anything contrived or overdone.
Novelist John Banville summed it up in a piece he wrote for the Observer last year: "I had never heard a countertenor before I discovered a record of Deller's among my girlfriend's collection. I see myself sitting alone on the floor of her living room one sunstruck morning listening to that unearthly voice … feeling my scalp tingle and my palms go damp from the effect of such ease, such purity, such transcendent beauty."
Indeed, it was thanks to another revelatory first hearing that Deller's career took off. More or less self-taught, he had learned to sing in church choirs in his native Kent, gravitating naturally to the alto line when his voice broke. In the early years of the second world war he was given a post in Canterbury Cathedral choir, and it was there that, in 1944, composer Michael Tippett heard him for the first time, prompting him to remark that he "felt the centuries roll back".
At the time, Tippett was preoccupied with reviving early English music from Purcell's time and earlier, but was hampered by the lack of a convincing male soloist for the the 17th-century composer's alto parts. The countertenor voice, in the sense defined by Tippett as "a male alto voice of exceptional range and facility", had fallen into decline by the early 19th century, restricted to the choir stalls of English cathedrals and churches and the striped blazers of barbershop groups. Deller solved Tippett's problem at a stroke.
The composer's efforts to bring early music to prominence opened up opportunities for Deller, who found the then predominant romantic repertoire not to his taste. He began picking up solo engagements, and was invited to sing at the inaugural concert for the BBC Third Programme (now Radio 3) in 1946. By 1947, he had moved from Canterbury to St Paul's Cathedral, and by 1950 he had created the Deller Consort, an ensemble he envisaged as a vocal equivalent of a string quartet – a fixed group of singers, rehearsing regularly and devoted to appropriate original repertoire. In 1962, the burgeoning early music movement had gathered enough momentum for Deller to found a festival in east Kent, Stour Music, which celebrates both its own 50th this year, and Deller's centenary with performances by some of today's top countertenors.
As the countertenor voice began to be accepted on the concert platform, so the opportunities in opera began to develop. Today opera is an indispensable part of any successful countertenor's work, but Deller himself was not drawn to it. Benjamin Britten wrote the part of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream for my grandfather, and he sang it at the first production at the Aldeburgh festival in 1960. But he bitterly regretted the critics' negative response to his acting (he felt the production let him down) and that he was subsequently overlooked – against Britten's wishes – for the Covent Garden production that followed.
If Deller felt this slight keenly, it was to the benefit of listeners. It meant he was not distracted from the repertoire that provides the maximum Deller effect: solo songs. He considered Purcell the master at setting words to music but also relished John Dowland, the original miserabilist singer-songwriter whose lute songs carry such titles as In Darkness Let Me Dwell and Flow My Tears.
He brought his refined artistry to British folksong, too – where I usually recommend newcomers to Deller go first. To my mind nobody, not Joan Baez, not even Cliff Richard, can match him in the traditional song The Water Is Wide. And only Nina Simone (singing at a significantly lower pitch, her voice ripe and smoky, his limpid and chilly) runs him close for emotional power in Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair.
Not everything he sang was black and blue. The old bananas-on-the-table schtick may not have been the most subtle comedy, but it was evidence of a keen sense of humour. In the end, though, his voice and the way he used it seems best suited to more reflective music, turning, for instance, the opening statement of François Couperin's first Leçon de ténèbres into the most exquisite arabesque and surely the single most beautifully sung phrase of music ever recorded.
• The Stour festival's tribute to Alfred Deller is on 31 May and 1 June. Alfred Deller: Portrait of a Legend is out now on Harmonia Mundi.


Hosting an international conference to tackle the issue of violence
In: Events and fundraising, East Africa
Railway Children will join charity JUCONI to host Breaking the Cycle, an international conference for anyone working to change the lives of street-connected children, on 17-18 November in Tanzania.
The aim of the conference is to provide a rare and important opportunity to share knowledge and expertise from across the world to help address the abuse of an increasing number of children forced to live and work on the streets. Research by Railway Children finds children whose early relationships are characterised by violence often end up in a negative cycle causing further poverty, exposure to danger and negative life outcomes.
By working together to host the Breaking the Cycle conference, Railway Children and JUCONI can help change the lives of street-connected children across Tanzania and, crucially, far beyond. Sharing vital information about new research and working methods from around the world increases the number of children who can be reached and who benefit from a greater understanding of the issues they face.
Over 25 renowned expert guests will speak and run workshops, giving those attending a new understanding of strategies proven to break the cycle of family violence.
To find out more about the conference, please go to www.breakingcycle.org.
Violence and sexual abuse are everyday threats for children on the streets
A study carried our bt Railway Children found 100% of the children living on the streets in Mwanza, a region in Tanzania, had experience of physical and verbal abuse on the streets. Also, 100% of the girls and 25% of the boys had been sexually abused.
Street-connected children need therapeutic and family-based support
Pete Kent, East Africa Regional Director at Railway Children, said: "Children and families affected by violence are often isolated and are unlikely to ever benefit from mainstream programmes and instead need a more intensive therapeutic and family-based response.
"Sustainable livelihoods are also critical in lifting families out of poverty and preventing young people from being pushed back on to the streets. This is why we also provide families with training, mentoring and business support. Over the last three years, our DFID-funded project in Mwanza has helped to ensure that more than 80% of children that we take home actually stay there. For them, we've been able to break the cycle.
"Despite these advances and the reduction our work has begun to see in young children sleeping on Mwanza's streets the numbers overall remain alarmingly high, particularly for young girls forced in to commercial sex work at night. This is a huge concern, but the best way we can help is to get better at sharing solutions that put children first and are proven to break the cycle of family violence."
Railway Children Africa's services supporting children in Tanzania continue to benefit from UK support through the Department For International Development Aid Match programme, specifically for services in Mwanza.
Pete Kent said: "We also welcome the Tanzanian government's efforts in creating support services and protection for the most vulnerable children. The country's status as a pathfinder country in the Global Partnership to end Violence Against Children, shows the political will to truly change the situation for its vulnerable children."
Our latest survey in Mwanza shows:
An estimated 1940 children live and / or work on the streets in Mwanza, an increase of 25% since last year.
In just 12 months, the number of female sex workers has increased by 229%, with those aged between 11-14 seeing the biggest increase.
418 of the girls are female sex workers, 218 of these are aged under 18.
There has been a 40% reduction in full-time 0-14 year olds on the streets over 3 years - our main target population.


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Some in-person service resumes at city hall and Victoriaville
Counters will now be open during the regular hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.
THUNDER BAY – Thunder Bay City Hall and the Victoriaville Civic Centre will reopen to the public for select, in-person services starting on Monday, Dec. 6. These buildings have had limited in-person service since March 24, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We learned a great deal as a result of the pandemic. Customer service demands and the nature of service delivery have changed," said City Manager Norm Gale. "Our goal is to maximize effort, reduce cost, and meet demand and customer needs."
Counters will now be open during the regular hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday, with some exceptions where appointments will be required to access specific City services. City Hall lobby hours will also be extended during significant cold weather events.
The following areas will be open in City Hall:
• The Office of the City Clerk, lobby and main floor washrooms
• Provincial Land Tax service counter
The following areas will be open in the Victoriaville Civic Centre:
• All service counters, with the exception of Cashiers, Supply Management, and Community Services
Appointments will still be required to access the following city services:
• Community Services
• PRO Kids
• Financial Services
• Human Resources
• Revenue (Tax and Water Billing)
• Supply Management
With the success of digital services being offered to the public throughout the pandemic, the City will trial the continued, primary delivery of certain city services digitally, with in-person services available on an appointment basis.
The health and safety of residents and City staff remain key priorities in all reopening plans. Restrictions and capacity limits, in accordance with provincial and public health guidelines will be in place, including mandatory masks, physical distancing, protective barriers and increased sanitization and cleaning protocols.
For a detailed list of city services, electronic services, information, and a list of phone numbers to make appointment bookings, visit the city's online directory at: www.thunderbay.ca/AtoZ


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DID YOU KNOW THAT … the assisted negotiation is extended to labour disputes and the Fornero procedure has been repealed?
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On 25 November 2021, the Chamber of Deputies definitively approved the bill that provides for a delegation to the Government for the civil procedure efficiency and the discipline revision of the alternative methods for dispute resolution and a series of urgent measures for procedure optimisation in the personal and family rights and enforcement fields. As far as we are concerned, the main changes affect the extension of assisted negotiation for labour disputes to lawyers and the unification of procedures for challenging dismissals, and repealing the Fornero special procedure. The civil procedure reform allows disputes referred to in Article 409 of the Code of Civil Procedure to resort to an assisted negotiation. This is without prejudice to the provisions of Article 412-ter of the Code of Civil Procedure and without this constituting a condition for proceeding with an action. This is provided that each party has a lawyer or by respective labour consultants if this is wished. The protected stability regime provided for in Article 2113, paragraph 4 of the Civil Code is assured in the relevant agreement. In addition, the procedures for challenging dismissals, which currently differ according to the worker's employment date, are unified in the single ordinary labour procedure (Articles 409 et seq. of the Code of Civil Procedure).
BILL APPROVED CONCERNING NEW CIVIL LAWSUITS
Collective dismissal: irrelevant initiation of multiple "Fornero procedures"
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The Italian Budget Law 2023 (Italian Law No 197/2022) was published in the Official Journal (Gazzetta Ufficiale) on 29 December 2022 and comes into force on 1 January 2023 and introduces the following important initiatives in the employment law field. Agile working: as of 1 January 2023, the categories of workers with the right to ....
Certification of gender equality: the Italian Ministry of Labour establishes the criteria and procedures for granting tax exemption
With the press release of 28 November, the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy publicised the ministerial decree of 20 October 2022 which defines the criteria and procedures for granting the tax exemption for private employers who obtain the certification of gender equality introduced into our legal system by Italian Law No 162/2021. This ....


Nathan Fillion Proves He's King of the Castle and Comic-Con
As Nathan Fillion took to the stage at Comic-Con for the Castle panel on Sunday amid deafening cheers, he brought along a shopping bag full of goodies for a few lucky fans. Throughout the course of the ...
Rob Moynihan July 25, 2011, 7:45 a.m. PT
As Nathan Fillion took to the stage at Comic-Con for the Castle panel on Sunday amid deafening cheers, he brought along a shopping bag full of goodies for a few lucky fans. Throughout the course of the Q&A session, those audience members asking questions were presented with a signed copy of TV Guide Magazine from the whole cast, as well as a trinket from Fillion, including Green Lantern merchandise. "Use these for the power of good... or awesome," said Fillion.
A lucky fan was also brought up to the stage by moderator and TV Guide Magazine Senior Editor William Keck to fill in for missing panelist Stana Katic and reenact dialogue from the show's introduction. "They're eating it up," whispered Fillion to the blushing girl. "I'd be happy to let you spank me," Fillion added. "Was that out loud?"
His cast members were even joining in on the fun, as Molly Quinn took to the stage dressed as Fillion's Firefly character Captain Mal Reynolds. "Oh my God, I just noticed what Molly's wearing," said Fillion a few minutes into the panel. "I have a gun just like that that I can't find." "When I was having dinner with your mom, she gave me something of yours I always wanted," replied Quinn. "I found your cat, too."
Hijinks aside, the panel — also consisting of cast members Jon Huertas, Tamala Jones and Seamus Dever — revealed several upcoming storylines for the new season, including a superhero-themed episode and Beckett's fate after last season's cliffhanger. "The outcome," teased Jones, "is going to be more epic than the season finale."
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The legal rights of mentally ill patients involuntarily admitted to psychiatric facilities across the province are being denied according to an investigative report issued by the BC Ombudsperson today.
Ombudsperson Jay Chalke released Special Report No. 42, Committed to Change: Protecting the Rights of Involuntary Patients under the Mental Health Act. The report makes 20 findings highlighting the lack of compliance with the legal documentation required on involuntary admission to designated psychiatric facilities in the province. The report finds legally required admission documents were missing, late or improperly completed including forms outlining reasons for detention, consent and description of treatment, notification of a patient's rights and notification to relatives. In some cases facilities used standard rubber stamps to generally authorize treatment for individual patients instead of describing the specific treatment proposed for that patient. In other cases, physicians failed to explain why a person met the criteria for involuntary admission yet the patient was nonetheless admitted. Some forms lacked the necessary signatures or dates.
"Involuntary detention and treatment is the most intrusive form of mental health care available," said Chalke. "This is a failure to comply with the Mental Health Act, the law that allows people who are gravely ill - our friends, daughters, sons, parents and grandparents – to receive timely treatment while protecting their legal rights," he said adding involuntary admissions are often a necessary last resort for mentally ill people who are at risk of harming themselves or others. "The state, when it uses such an extraordinary power, has a critically important duty to follow the law. This includes properly completing documentation of what is happening to an individual and why. To not do so is not only unacceptable, it is contrary to law." said Chalke.
The report's findings were based on an investigation that reviewed admission records of every involuntary admission in the province that took place in June 2017. A detailed analysis of mandatory admission forms found that across the province, all of the required forms were was completed in only 28% of involuntary patient admissions. Vancouver Coastal Health, Northern Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority had the lowest overall compliance rates. Additional findings include:
A number of directors of designated facilities admitted and detained people involuntarily without adequate information and reasons to demonstrate how the patient met the criteria for admission
There was no consent for treatment form in 24% of patient admissions across all health authorities. There was a wide variation among hospitals in the issuance of the consent to treatment form with a low of 9% compliance at the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia
A number of directors of facilities acted contrary to section 8 of the Mental Health Act in permitting the psychiatric treatment of involuntarily detained patients in circumstances where the patient objected to treatment and no Consent for Treatment form was completed
There was no rights advice form for more than half of the involuntary patients. This form advises the patient of their legal rights including how to get legal advice and challenge their detention
The Ministry of Health and the health authorities acted unreasonably in failing to adequately monitor, audit and address designated facilities' compliance with the involuntary admission procedures under the Mental Health Act
The report highlights several personal cases including a story of a woman who was held in a seclusion room without hospital staff telling her she had been involuntarily admitted. She was not told the reason for her involuntary detention nor was she notified of her rights during her detention. When she requested a copy of her file after she was discharged, she found no form notifying her of her legal rights. "Going through experiences like this is stressful enough," said Chalke. "This lack of compliance with legal requirements naturally raises many questions for patients and their families. Without documentary evidence, reasons for detention and treatment as well as awareness of how to question decisions can be extremely unclear. Public confidence in the system at large is also put into doubt."
The report makes 24 recommendations, all of which have been accepted in principle by government and health authorities and focus on three key areas:
Increasing oversight and accountability by conducting regular compliance audits, setting 100 percent compliance targets and increasing public reporting about involuntary admissions
Training staff and physicians regarding the necessity of form completion and the codification of standards for compliance with the Mental Health Act
Third and most importantly, the Ministry of Attorney General has committed in principle to develop an independent rights advisor service that would work in designated facilities in the province and provide advice to patients about the circumstances of their detention and their options if they disagree with the detention or a related decision.
"Implementing these recommendations will make a significant impact by ensuring that someone who is involuntarily detained receives the best mental health treatment in a manner that is respectful of their human rights," said Chalke. "While the findings in this report are troubling, the commitment by government and the health authorities to the recommendations made is cause for optimism. These changes will help ensure those who are involuntarily detained in B.C. are afforded the same rights that all Canadians expect."
The Ombudsperson will monitor implementation by the provincial government and the health authorities of the recommendations in this report and will report publicly on progress.
View the full report: https://bcombudsperson.ca/documents/committed-change-protecting-rights-involuntary-patients-under-mental-health-act


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The Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Sabancı University, Güler Sabancı has been granted an Honorary PhD by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has announced the decision to grant Güler Sabancı with Honorary PhD due to her social contribution and success.
The Honorary PhD title will be awarded to Güler Sabancı by Prof. Timothy Tong, the President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, at a ceremony in Hong Kong in the next October.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is regarded a global leader within the context of industry-university collaboration. The university has also a prominent place in the fields of applied research, innovation, and technology.
Prof. Chung K. Law, from Princeton University, TAL Group President Prof. Harry Lee, Prof. Xie Heping from Sichuan University and designer Kan Tai-Keung are among the privileged individuals who have been awarded honorary PhD by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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Immigration System Must Work for Best Interests of Americans
Published on June 16th, 2015
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America's immigration laws were originally enacted to protect innocent lives and the jobs of American workers by preventing the entry and continued presence of aliens engaged in crime, espionage and terrorism and aliens who would provide unfair competition for American workers.
Today the administration seems focused on how to enable immigration policies to provide for the needs of aliens, not on the well-being and concerns of American citizens.
Congressman Lou Barletta
In December 2014, Congressman Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) questioned Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about amnesty, the 9/11 Commission report and the potential unfair cost benefits of hiring illegal aliens over American workers. Barletta noted, in part, "When it comes to illegal immigration, the conversation is always about the illegal immigrant and not about the (American) people that it will affect … and it's not fair."
Incredibly, Johnson responded that most restaurants in Washington, D.C., employed "undocumented workers" and that he wanted to get all of those undocumented workers "on the books" by giving them work authorization. This outrageous "solution" does not deter illegal immigration, but encourages it.
Unlike Barletta, too many of our "representatives" today do not represent American workers and their families, but the super wealthy, the special interest groups and industries that fill their campaign coffers.
I began my career with the former INS in 1971. While that agency had its problems, the leaders and personnel understood that the best way to combat illegal immigration was to create deterrence through enforcement, by arresting and seeking the deportation of illegal aliens.
Under the "Employer Sanctions" provisions of the immigration laws, added in 1986, employers who knowingly hire aliens may be fined or even criminally prosecuted, but only if ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) takes the appropriate action.
It would have been unthinkable then for the commissioner of the INS or the Attorney General to state that the goal of the INS was to provide documentation for the undocumented. Had they made such an assertion, they likely would have been relieved of their job quickly – not unlike the head of the TSA who was forced out of his job when it was determined that weapons were smuggled past security personnel at various airports by internal investigators (Red Teams).
The swift reaction to the failures of the TSA stands in stark contrast with the lack of consequences when it was determined that, prior to participating in terror attacks, many foreign-born terrorists, such as the Russian-born Tsarnaev brothers and native Pakistani Faisal Shahzad (the "Times Square Bomber"), had committed immigration fraud.
Shahzad first entered the United States at age 20 with a student visa and naturalized less than one year before setting off the bomb he planted in his SUV that he parked in Times Square. In an exchange between the judge and Shahzad at sentencing, Shahzad said, "We do not accept your democracy or your freedom because we already have Sharia law and freedom." According to the Associated Press trial coverage, the judge then asked Shahzad if he'd sworn allegiance to the U.S. when he became a citizen. Shahzad responded, "I did swear, but I did not mean it," to which the judge replied, "So you took a false oath."
These are just two examples of failures in our immigration processes. The examples and underlying threats in the administration, management and direction of our immigration system are numerous.
As I've said many times, our immigration laws are America's first and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals. However, the true purpose of our borders and our immigration laws appears to be beyond the grasp of most politicians of both parties, including those who aspire to become our nation's next President.
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The Estates design guide is intended to lay out design criteria for all those involved in building design, refurbishment and maintenance…
Estate > Environmental sustainability
Pay rates and arrangements for hourly paid teaching staff (including PGR tutors)
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/staff-pay-and-benefits-pay-rates-arrangements/pay-rates-and-arrangements-for-hourly-paid-teaching-staff-including-pgr-tutors.pdf
Information on employees who are paid hourly rates for teaching.…
Use of captured content – Guidance for staff
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/academic-policies-learning-and-teaching-lecture-capture-policy/lecture-capture-staff-guidance.pdf
This guidance supports the Policy on the Use of Captured Content and is for use by University staff.…
Academic policies > Learning and teaching > Lecture capture policy
Overtime policy
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/staff-pay-and-benefits-pay-rates-arrangements/overtime-policy.pdf
Provide guidance to managers and employees on the operation of overtime.…
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/staff-employee-relations-retirement/salary-sacrifice.pdf
Guidance on Salary Sacrifice for employees in the USS and S&LAS Pension Schemes.…
Retirement policy (fixed retirement age)
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/staff-employee-relations-retirement/retirement-policy.pdf
This policy sets out the basis for the University's decision to have a fixed retirement age for all employees.…
Fixed term contracts – briefing paper for the principal investigators and line managers
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/staff-employee-relations-redundancy/ftc-guidance-briefing-paper-for-the-pi.pdf
High level overview of the procedure for line managers and PI's to follow when a fixed term contract expires.…
Take-home exams: Guidance for staff
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/academic-policies-assessment-examination-and-award-take-home-exams-and-assessment-deadlines/take-home-exams-guidance-for-staff.pdf
This document provides guidance for staff in organising Take-home exams.…
Academic policies > Assessment, examination and award > Take home exams and assessment deadlines
Personal relationships at work
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/staff-employee-relations-conduct-management/personal-relationships-at-work-policy.pdf
Provides guidance on managing personal relationships between members of the University community and University students…
Caring fund
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/staff-annual-leave-and-other-absence-family-friendly-leave/caring-fund-procedure.pdf
Offers information and guidance on how to apply for financial assistance to cover childcare or other caring expenses associated with attending pre-approved work-related events.…
Stress policy
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/staff-health-and-well-being-mental-health/stress-policy.pdf
Outlines the approach to the prevention and management of occupational stress throughout the University.…
Staff > Health and well-being > Mental health
University cyber incident and data breach management procedure
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/information-governance-and-management-information-security/university-cyber-incident-and-data-breach-management-procedure.pdf
Protocol for managing suspected data/personal data breach…
Information governance and management > Information security
Access to information during periods of staff absence
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/information-governance-and-management-information-security/access-to-information-during-periods-of-absence.pdf
This Policy defines the circumstances under which access to information held in email and files can be made during periods of absence, for business continuity purposes.…