What do we talk about when we meet?

If there is one thing NABBS members can do, it’s talk! Looking at agendas from past meetings one can see the wide range of topics discussed and in many ways these reflect the changes that have occurred in Universities over the past thirty years, as the following examples illustrate.

• Sheffield 1983
  • Education Cuts
  • Biotechnology
  • Computer survey
  • Trainee Technicians (an extinct species now)
• Heriot-Watt 1985
  • Biochemistry in the 90’s
  • YTS at Heriot Watt - an update
  • New legislation - does it affect us?
• Birmingham 1989
  • Living with COSHH
  • Budgetary Control
  • Budget centres
  • Restructuring of MLSO grades
  • Staff appraisal
• Nottingham 1990
  • COSHH - the first year
  • COSHH - the NABBS approach
  • Training - the London Approach
  • Purchasing consortia - are they worth it?
  • Centralised purchasing
• Sussex 1999
  • Purchasing pitfalls
  • Energy Management
  • SAP review
  • National website for Superintendents
• Birmingham 2000
  • Laboratory design forum