What The Papers Say January 2008
(Individual campus news follows below)
Tessa Blackstone had an article published in the Hindu, one of India’s leading national dailies with a circulation of 1.27 million and a readership of 3 million, about higher education links between India and the United Kingdom.
The Pakistan based Nation, Jang and Pakistan Daily Times reported that Greenwich has entered into partnership with Bahria College.
BBC Online, Kent TV (Kent County Council TV News website), Your Kent TV and Times Higher Education reported on the launch of the University Centre Folkestone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7182802.stm
http://www.kenttv.com/programmes.php?PID=673&Title=University+Centre
+Folkestone+officially+opens
http://www.yourkenttv.co.uk/community/Search_Results.aspx?regions=
&category=&keywords=ucf
The Daily Telegraph highlighted a visit by local GCSE students to the university in an article about measures taken by Greenwich Council to improve their results.
KM Extra mentioned the Prime Minister’s speech at Greenwich in articles about a visit by a Howard School pupil to Downing Street.
Labour Research also mentioned the Prime Minister’s speech at Greenwich.
Yours magazine featured Pauline Brody who set out to gain a degree at the age of 50. Pauline graduated from Greenwich in 1995.
The Education Guardian and Call Centrehelper.com reported on the foundation degree in contact-centre management to be taught at Folkestone in conjunction with Saga.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/notebook/story/0,,2240667,00.html
http://www.callcentrehelper.com/new-university-degree-in-contact-
centre-management-6359.html
An obituary in the Independent for Stephen Frowen, Anglo-German economist, said that he lectured at Thames Polytechnic from 1962-66.
TheLondonPaper gave advanced publicity to Open Days at all the campuses on February 16 and at Medway on January 19.
According to the News Shopper, merger talks are taking place between Bexley College and North West Kent College. Both provide degree courses in conjunction with Greenwich.
The Folkestone Herald and the Kentish Express had a large article on the official opening of the University Centre Folkestone which is a joint Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church initiative.
According to Hansard Parliamentary Report, Greenwich was 10th in a league table of the 50 universities with the highest number of non-EU enrolments for the academic year 2005/6. Manchester had the highest number and Kent the lowest. The Greenwich figure was 3,235.
Greenwich
Business
Stephen Thomas was interviewed by BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight and BBC Radio Wales about plans to build new nuclear reactors in this country. He also appeared on BBC 2’s Working Lunch programme. He also had a letter published in the Financial Times which was given the heading, ‘No amount of juggling can nullify nuclear investment risk’.
According to the US based Red Pepper website Stephen Thomas said that gas privatisation in the UK had not been as successful at driving down prices as has been argued.
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/article932.html
According to the Inter Press Service News Agency online, Emanuele Lobina said as part of the debate on new EU legislation on competition that experience shows that water management can be run more efficiently when publicly owned, rather than when it is privatised.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40700
According to the Workers Liberty website a study of “private equity” published in November 2006 by a Greenwich researcher quoted officials as saying these deals “make companies more vulnerable to swings in the economy” and that “the default of a large private-equity-backed company is increasingly inevitable”.
http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/01/25/private-profit-social-losses
Marketing graduate, Mike Butler has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer at HomeAway Inc, the world’s largest network of vacation rental websites according to US Based CentreDaily.Com website.
http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/371262.html
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Professor Ed Galea was interviewed on Sky News about the crash landing of a British Airways aircraft at Heathrow airport.
Professor Ed Galea was also interviewed by Radio 4’s File on Four about the fire at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Education
Ann Hopkins has graduated with a Certificate of Education according to the Cornishman.
Humanities & Social Sciences
The US based E-Flux website said that Su Golding, Chair of Philosophy in Visual Arts & Communications Technology, was due to take part in seminar at the Serpentine Gallery at the end of the month.
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/5013
According to the North Devon Journal Rebecca Sharp graduated from Greenwich with a First Class degree in Politics and Media Studies.
General campus news
The Greenwich Start-Up Business Awards will be held in the Council Room at the campus according to Meridian magazine.
An article in the Torquay Herald Express about Devonport House Conference Centre said that it ‘is situated on the prestigious World Heritage site at Greenwich, alongside the University of Greenwich and the National Maritime Museum’.
The campus hosted a lecture by the Greenwich Decorative and Fine Arts Society called The real English Patient: The Egypt of the Sands and its mapping, according to Meridian.
Cult art collective OMSK is staging an exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery and elsewhere around the campus, according to the News Shopper.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
According to the Daily Telegraph Landscape Architecture graduate, Lady Arabella Lennox-Boyd is designing the Daily Telegraph Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
An article by lecturer Marko Jobst in Architects’ Journal about Leicester Square looked at its current use and future plans for the location.
Readers of the News Shopper were reminded of the achievement by Lauren Algeo who won last year’s competition by Cog Design to recognise student creativity.
The Wrexham Evening Leader, Denbighshire Free Press and Liverpool Daily Post publicised free heritage courses aimed at protecting historic buildings organised by rural development agency Cadwyn Clwyd and run by Charles Brooking.
According to Your County website Soldiers from the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) are to study for University of Greenwich qualifications, thanks to a new training agreement. The School of Engineering and the School of Architecture & Construction will be taking part in the project.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/localnews/armytraining300108n4.html
Education & Training
Wendy Abbs, who is studying for a teaching certificate at Greenwich and worked for 15 years in the Prime Ministers Office, was awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours list according to the Greenwich Mercury.
According to the lead article in the Times Higher Education, Patrick Ainley, Professor of Training & Education, is worried about the state of Britain's higher education sector and would like to re-examine its core purpose. He sees a clear tripartite division between the large research-based universities in the Russell Group, the smaller research-led institutions that make up the 1994 Group and the teaching-led universities of Million+, which are largely competence-based and committed to widening access, while struggling with inadequate resources to do so.
Medway
School of Engineering
The Medway Messenger publicised Mike Bradley’s inaugural lecture.
The Medway Messenger, Medway Standard, Your County website and KM Extra reported that Professor Mike Bradley had been awarded a fellowship by the Materials Handling Engineering Association.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/kentbusinessnews/industryaward020108b2.html
According to Your County website Soldiers from the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) are to study for University of Greenwich qualifications, thanks to a new training agreement. The School of Engineering and the School of Architecture & Construction will be taking part in the project.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/localnews/armytraining300108n4.html
School of Science
According to the Guardian in an article about the Greenwich Spires publication produced by Universities UK, Professor Colin Hills is trying to make the leap from theory into reality with his Carbon8 system, a method for turning construction waste and carbon dioxide into small pellets that can be re-used as building aggregate.
The Lewisham Mercury reported that Greenwich Science graduate (2002), Yana Johnson, has been entered for the Supporting Diversity category in the Lewisham Business Awards. Yana is a previous winner of the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners Award and the British Female Innovator and Inventor Award. She is also Women’s Empowerment Ambassador for the Make Your Mark campaign.
Dr Paula Carey explained how Carbon8’s innovative new carbon capture technology works on the vnunet website.
Natural Resources Institute
Sensors & Instrumentation reported that new technology based on fluorescing compounds from Ray Coker’s spin out company Toximet could improve food hygiene and reduce some of the vast sums lost in the feed and livestock industries and other food production industries.
General campus news
The Drill Hall Library and Pilkington Building were joint winners of the Building Renovation category at the Kent Design Awards according to Kent Business.
According to the Medway Messenger, Medway Standard and the Medway Extra the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Nick Bowler, is hosting a charity quiz night at the campus.
The Medway Standard, Medway Messenger, KM Extra and Your Medway gave advance publicity to the Medway Boat Race.
The Medway Messenger, YourCounty website and Medway News publicised the campus open day.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/localnews/universityofgreenwich170208n1.html
According to Cleaning & Maintenance and Cleaning & Hygiene Today. the Medway campus won the award for the best cleaned educational establishment at the Kimberley-Clark Professional and CSSA Golden Service Awards.
Free rent for a year at the Enterprise Hub at Greenwich was one of the prizes listed for the Kent Innovation Challenge by Kent on Sunday.
Kent Online and Medway Messenger reported that the campus was hosting a public meeting about the World Heritage bid for Chatham Historic Dockyard.
Medway Messenger had a large article and aerial photo of the campus in their series of articles about developments in Medway.
Further information
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http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/rss.htm
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