What the Papers Say April 2005
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
There was more positive coverage of the university’s decision to charge an undergraduate tuition fee of £2,500 this time in the Sunday Telegraph, Medway Standard, Bromley Express and Kent on Sunday.
“Reinvigorated old buildings…new laboratories at Medway …Greenwich is committed to extending access to higher education…this inclusiveness is reflected in its academic staff too”, were just some of the highlights about Greenwich from the Guardian’s recently published University Guide. “Greenwich came top of a Times Higher Education Supplement university league table for the employment of professors with disabilities, had the highest percentage of professors from ethnic minorities and rated highly too in the number of women professors it employed,” it said.
In the subject tables, Media studies was 15th out of 85 such courses in the country. General Engineering was rated in the top 20 and Biosciences courses were judged to be in the top half of all those offered nationally.
Greenwich Council is appealing for nominations to be included in a book about the great women of Greenwich according to the Bexley Mercury. Among those mentioned as having a Greenwich connection were Tessa Blackstone, Doreen Lawrence and Elizabeth I.
The Moves section in the Guardian said that Greenwich had appointed its first Director of Development & Communications, Philip Chambers.
Speakers from the university and former Greenwich students talked about university life at an information evening about post 16 education options at Bexley Council offices according to the Bexley Extra.
According to the Virginia based Winchester Star, Douglas Tyson-Spooner, a 17 year old American student who has just attended the Future World Leaders Summit in Washington, DC, is looking at studying at the University of Greenwich.
http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/050404/Area_student.asp
The Students’ Union has won an award as part of the NUS Best Bar Scheme according to the Greenwich Mercury.
An article in the Yorkshire Post on pollster Robert Worcester mentioned that he has an honorary degree from Greenwich, as did the Kansas City infozine when discussing a donation that he had made to establish a Professorship at the University of Kansas.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/7191/
The Gulf Times reported that the university was one of 27 UK Higher Education Institutions at the British Council Edukex 2005 at the Sheraton in Qatar.
SEG International, a private education group based in Singapore, is planning to run programmes which can lead to degrees in universities including Greenwich according to the Malaysian Star online.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/24/education/10722786&a
The Greenwich Mercury reported that university choir and big band are giving a concert at the Trafalgar Tavern in May.
Avery Hill
Health & Social Care
Nursing Homes News reported on progress in designing a foundation degree in Health & Social Care Management by Greenwich and the Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA).
The graduation of two midwives, Karen Woolway and Janet Bastard, appeared in theBexley Extra.
Education & Training
The majority of lecturers in further education work part-time and the sector must acknowledge this said a report in Education Guardian online. The article is based
On Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) research project by Jill Jameson at Greenwich working other partner institutions.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/further/opinion/story/0,14037,1432259,00.html
The Croydon Advertiser reported on the graduation of Lillian Nwosu with a PGCE in Secondary Mathematics.
According to the Lewisham & Catford News Shopper, Julia Flynn a Primary Education graduate, was encouraging others to consider a career in education on behalf of Bexley Council.
Greenwich was one of the universities that visited three Bexley schools said the Bexley & Eltham Express.
The graduation of primary teaching student Zoe Meaton appeared in the Bexley Extra, and that of Lucy Kelly, with a PGCE in Secondary Education, in the Darlington & Stockton Times.
The News Shopper focussed on Prabh Mokha, PGCE Maths student, for a ‘Student Snapshot’ which examined what course he was doing, what it involves, why he chose it and other questions.
Architecture & Construction
Greenwich has a strong record in construction according to the Independent. The article explained how a conversion diploma makes it is possible to work in the construction industry if you don’t have a degree in the subject.
Brian Hawtin looked at the options for Spring plants in Kent Life.
Maritime Greenwich
Humanities
Alan Dennington, who is studying for a PhD in Forensic Psychology, was the subject of a My Day feature in the Bromley Times. He also runs a multi-agency programme which targets teenage anti-social behaviour.
The Dartford & Swanley Express reported that John Williams had been appointed as Professor of Literary Studies.
An exhibition by lecturer Mairead McClean in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery appeared in Meridian magazine and the Bexleyheath & Welling Times.
According to the Lincolnshire Echo, a book is available about the struggle by Jonathan Kay, Media & Society graduate, who died of a rare type of leukaemia.
Mike Oliver, Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies, contributed a letter to Disability Now about a debate on the problems of ‘giving a voice to the voiceless’.
Business
Concern over the threat of jobs being transferred overseas may be exaggerated according to research led by Bruce Cronin according to Kent Business andKent on Sunday.
The British Female Inventors exhibition which was sponsored by the Business School and held in the Painted Hall, appeared in Overseas Trade.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Multimedia student Sam Davidson was one of those people supporting Michael Jackson at his trial by cheering him as he enters court every day according to the Daily Nexus, the online student newspaper of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/news/2005/9332.html
An article in the Chichester Observer said that the mother of Jimmi Lawrence, who was awarded a posthumous PhD by Greenwich, is running the London Marathon in his memory.
The official naming of the William Burnside lecture theatre was publicised in advance by the GreenwichMercury,Bexleyheath & Welling Times and Greenwich & Charlton News Shopper.
Education & Training
Patrick Ainley had an opinion piece in the Guardian which said that employers should take some responsibility for the skills shortage as most have abolished apprenticeships.
General campus news
The exhibition by Jules de Goede in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery appeared in Meridian magazine in the March edition, as did that of lecturer Mairead McClean in the April one.
The Tourism Society is holding its annual conference at the campus in June according to the Caterer & Licensee.
A speech about how the legislature had suffered during military rule by Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomione at the Nigerian Students’ Society Awards ceremony was reported on by All Africa.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504220193.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504220081.html
Medway
Medway School of Engineering
The start of construction of the laboratories for the Wolfson Centre appeared on Engineeringtalk online.
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/uer/uer107.html
Professor Alan Reed also gave an interview to KMFM (local commercial radio station in Medway).
South East Business said that Greenwich scientists are playing a key role in a £28 million programme with the European Space Agency to develop the metals of the future.
Former member of staff Professor Yong Yan has been appointed Guanbiao Chair Professor at Zhejiang University according to Qiu Shi News online.
www.zju.edu.cn/zdxw/jd/read.php?recid=11245
School of Science
A broken flask and minor chemical leak during an experiment made the headlines in the Medway Messenger, Medway News, Medway Standard, Bexleyheath & Welling Times, Saturday Observer (new local free newspaper in Kent from the publishers of Kent on Sunday)andon the Kent news section of BBC online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4420091.stm
Professor John Nicholson gave interviews to BBC South East TV, BBC Radio Kent and KMFM (a commercial radio station in Medway).
The Evening Standard focussed on Russell Moffatt, Environmental Health graduate who now works for Islington Council, in a feature on Environmental Health as career.
Harold Goodwin from the Centre for Responsible Tourism said that there is a real danger of money from tourists bypassing poor communities and staying in the hands of trans national companies according to the New York Times online.
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/travel/10community.html
The US based EETimes, an online electronics newpaper, said that Kodak and electroluminescent display specialist Pelikon are working with Greenwich and other universities on a UK government project to improve the performance and versatility of blue and green light emitting phosphors.
http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160702261
Electronic News online, which is also based in the US, also featured the Greenwich collaboration with Kodak and Pelikon.
http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/index.asp?layout=siteInfo&doc_id=22861
An article in the Cambridge Evening News said that students from Greenwich had helped with a project to develop an illuminated cane to improve the safety of visually impaired people.
Geography student Matt Chin helped schoolchildren from Fair View Junior School in Gillingham learn about urban planning with a specially adapted version of the computer game, Sim City.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4469189.stm
General campus news
According to Kenton Sunday ‘the two main academic schools at Medway received a boost’ in the Guardian League tables. General Engineering was rated in the top 20 and biosciences in the top half of all those offered nationally.
http://www.kentonsunday.co.uk/editions/2005_04_24/pdfs/rop/nf_017_rop.pdf
The Guardian had an article on the new Principal of Mid Kent College who will lead the move to its new campus in Gillingham next to the University of Greenwich at Medway.
According to Business 550 magazine SEEDA has sold its former Grade II listed Naval Canteen to the University of Greenwich and University of Kent.
Canterbury Christ Church University College is working with Greenwich and a number of partners to develop facilities and education provision in Medway according to its directors report mentioned in Medway Messenger.
The Nelson lectures, being held at the campus in April, October and November, were mentioned in the Medway News, Greenwich & Charlton News Shopper, Maritime Messenger, community newspaper for St. Mary’s Island, Chatham Maritime and on the Yourcounty.co.uk website. The Medway Messenger publicised the first lecture three times.
The KM Extra publicised the forthcoming open days at the campus.
Kings Hill Institute
Kent Life mentioned the institute in an article about Kings Hill.
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