What the Papers Say April 2006
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The Evening Standard, BBC online website, Yorkshire Evening Post, Lewisham & Catford News Shopper, Daily Times (Pakistan), Oman Daily, Peninsula online (Qatar’s leading English daily), Ananova website, ePolitix, EGov monitor and Further Education News online reported that Prime Minister Tony Blair highlighted the example of Greenwich at the launch of new plans to attract international students to study in the UK. The Prime Minister said that Greenwich, led by his former minister for Higher Education Tessa Blackstone, had more than 3,000 international students from more than 100 countries.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006
5C19%5Cstory_19-4-2006_pg4_8
http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200604/6621187d-5420
-495b-9269-8663f54b0fce.htm
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/5644
http://www.fenews.co.uk/newsview.asp?n=1395
The Times Higher Education Supplement had a large colour photo on the front cover of Psychology student Meenal Mohan. The article inside said that she and other students who addressed the second part of the launch held at the Maritime Greenwich campus ‘delivered a paean’ to Greenwich. Nayem Hassan a PhD student from the Natural Resources Institute said that he felt part of the family at Greenwich. Meenal, Nayem and Jianan Xu from Greenwich Community College were interviewed by British Satellite News and local radio station Time FM.
Meenal also appeared on the Daily News & Analysis (India) website and was interviewed by BBC Asia for their Morning Programme hosted by Gagan Grewal.
Tessa Blackstone, two other students and Meenal were also interviewed by TF1 (The French television equivalent of BBC1).
There was an article on Nayem Hassan in the Medway Messenger saying that he had received a warm welcome at the Medway campus.
There were several inaccurate reports in the media that Greenwich, as part of the pilot scheme being run by the Universities at Medway partnership, was running two year degrees. In fact this scheme is looking at awarding credits to people at work that could be used towards a degree which was correctly reported in the Guardian and Independent.
Coventry Evening Telegraph reported that a music student from Nuneaton has won a place at Doreen Bird College and will now study for a degree validated by Greenwich.
According to the Gulf Times website and AME Info (A United Arab Emirates website providing Middle East business news) Greenwich is among the universities and further education colleges exhibiting at the British Council’s annual education fair in Qatar.
www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu no=79757&version=1&template id=36&parent_id=16
http://www.ameinfo.com/82715.html
According to the Medway Messenger, Medway Standard and Your County website Greenwich is launching a major recruitment drive, advertising 16 academic posts across seven departments.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/business/busnewsarchive/140406b1.html
The reappointment of former Professor of Geosciences Peter Doyle as a member of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee was reported on by Wired-Gov and the Government News Network websites.
http://www.wired-gov.net/WGArticle.aspx?WCI=htmArticleView&
WCU=ARTCL_PKEY%3D38717
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=197988&NewsAreaID=2
Nicholas Jenkins, the university’s Music Director, has been chosen to work alongside a famous French conductor reported the Bexleyheath & Welling Times.
Avery Hill
Health & Social Care
The Nursing Standard reported on research at Greenwich about stereotypical media coverage that portrays nurses as sexy and kinky contributing to blame for an increase in assaults on them.
According to Nursing Times, Healthcare Equipment & Supplies and Medical Laboratory World Greenwich is running an online course in conjunction with the Royal College of Nursing and the Sexual Health Group to tackle sexual health problems in the UK.
http://www.hesmagazine.com/story.asp?sectionCode=196&
storyCode=2035651
http://www.mlwmagazine.com/story.asp?sectionCode=201&
storyCode=2035699
A report in the Times Education Supplement about racist abuse in the playground at primary schools included comment by educationalist Pam Maras that she would expect more incidents among secondary pupils than among primary ones.
Architecture & Construction
The Surveyor said that the Institute of Highways Incorporated Engineers were talking to the university’s Urban Renaissance Institute on the ‘Cope for a home zones’ conference in November.
According to Show House Linden Homes South East have recruited Quantity Surveying graduate David Evans as Technical and Commercial Director.
MMC (Modern Methods of Construction) mentioned Simon Palmer of Construction company the Palmer Partnership as being the driving force between the Zethus advanced housing project at Greenwich.
Lecturer Brian Hawtin chose the tulip as his plant of the month in his regular column in Surrey Life.
Find a Property website said that stamp duty has had a major impact on the cost of moving house according to research by Greenwich for Woolwich Building Society.
http://www.findaproperty.com/story.aspx?storyid=8998
According to the Medway Messenger a time capsule buried for more than a century in Gillingham Park had been found during its restoration. School of Architecture & Construction lecturer Helen Brown is the landscape architect for the project and Greenwich students provided designs for it.
Education & Training
Patrick Ainley argued that students are paying more for less education in a letter in the Daily Telegraph.
The News Shopper reported that Primary Education lecturer Martin Crisp was running in the London Marathon in aid of Downs Syndrome.
In the Times Higher Education Supplement letter column Patrick Ainley was critical of a proposal by Kenneth Minogue to privatise universities
Inflating grades for university marks is not new according to a letter by Ian McNay in the Times Higher Education Supplement, adding that he believed creativity was being stifled by the current system.
General campus news
Students from Greenwich were among those invited to a presentation about the Royal Navy at Beths Grammar School in Bexley according to the Bexley News Shopper.
Maritime Greenwich
Humanities
According to the Bridgewater Mercury Business and Law student Robert Jeffery is ran
in the London Marathon this year.
Business
Public Agenda (Ghana) website quoted a paper released by the Public Services International Research Unit about new legislation in Holland preventing private companies from providing drinking water. A Dutch company was now involved in proposed water privatisation in Ghana.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/public_agenda/article.php?ID=5102
Bexley Extra reported that a charity bowling evening organised in Bexleyheath by Events Management students raised £704 for the Ellenor Hospice.
An article in Museums journal on recruitment in the Museum sector mentioned the Greenwich MA in Museum Management.
Training journal reported that Matt Housden was the joint winner of the Institute of Direct Marketing Educator of the Year 2006.
Top advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi held a workshop with Business students and visitors from the French Communications school, SciencesCom reported the Bexleyheath & Welling Times.
Conference News reported on the Event Idol evening held by the Events Management students and hosted by programme leader Jon Hopwood. The aim of the evening was to give events Management students a chance to impress by coming up with ideas for a commercially viable proposal for an event, speaker and venue.
Conference & Incentive Travel said that Greenwich launched the Greenwich Centre of excellence for Events to provide vocational and academic management courses.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Scientists from Greenwich led by Chris Bailey have joined those at Dundee’s University of Abertay and specialists screen and coatings manufacturers in a £600,000 project to develop screens that can be read in bright sunlight according to the Scotsman, Aberdeen Press & Journal, Electronics Weekly and Innovations Report (Germany).
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/energie_elektrotechnik/
bericht-58010.html
http://business.scotsman.com/technology.cfm?id=588802006
Education & Training
Peter Smith who recently completed a Post Graduate certificate in Education has received a long service award from the NHS after 23 years service according to the Kent Messenger.
Inflating grades for university marks is not new according to a letter by Ian McNay in the Times Higher Education Supplement, adding that he believed creativity was being stifled by the current system.
General campus news
Greenwich Mercury, the Black Britain website and Untold London website devoted a full page including two large photos to publicising the Look Both Ways exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.
http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/lifestyle/details.aspx?i=5&c=Art
The Daily Telegraph reported that the latest Pepsi Max advert in the build up to the World Cup was shot at the campus.
An article in the Docklands News on the Trafalgar Tavern said that the pub had regulars from among students and staff at Greenwich.
According to the Bexleyheath & Welling Times pupils from Greenwich schools took part in a Speak Out Speak Up competition at the campus.
Medway
School of Engineering
A new rig to assist with the design and testing of concrete ground slabs is being constructed at Greenwich, reported Builder & Engineer.
Quarry Management gave advance publicity to a course on the Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids to be held at the Wolfson Centre.
School of Science
Developers and contractors working on brownfield sites were invited to attend a breakfast meeting at the campus to meet commercial companies and Greenwich experts specialising in techniques to remediate land in line with new EU regulations, announced the Medway Messenger and the Bromley & Beckenham Times.
Professor Steve Leharne is advising the Mexican government on techniques for cleaner water supplies reported Kent Profile.
Sports training and rehabilitation sessions are now available to members of the public at the Centre for Sports and Exercise Sciences said the Medway Messenger.
Natural Resources Institute
See coverage of PHD student Nayem Hassan’s participation in the Prime Ministers initiative to recruit more overseas students to UK universities, at the beginning of the General university news section.
General campus news
Kent on Sunday, Medway News, Medway Messenger, the Times Higher Education Supplement and Your County website reported on the appointment of Stuart Ashenden as Director of Academic Planning.
There was a large article and colour photo about student volunteers from the campus painting an education room at Capstone Country Park with a colourful mural in the Medway Messenger. The same story also appeared in Kenton Sunday.
Professor Alan Reed’s regular feature in Kent Profile focussed on the Sports Science Department.
Building listed the Medway Renaissance Partnership which includes Greenwich as one of the organisations acting as delivery vehicles for regeneration.
An article in Investment Now on Canterbury Christ Church referred to the collaboration with Greenwich. The same publication highlighted Kent and Medway as an ideal location for business mentioning the presence of the University of Greenwich.
Kent Director reported on the opening of the Drill Hall Library by David Miliband MP, Communities & Local Government Minister.
According to the Medway Messenger a time capsule buried more than a century in Gillingham Park had been found during its restoration. School of Architecture & Construction lecturer Helen Brown is the landscape architect for the project and Greenwich students provided designs for it.
Jasun Filtration has won a contract to supply filters for teaching rooms and fume laboratories at the campus according to Facilities Management Journal.
Medway News reported that Greenwich had helped Trinity School in Rochester with their project to learn more about wind.
Further information
More details on many of these stories and others can be seen on the PR website at:
University of Greenwich press releases are now available via Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/rss.htm
Access to online newspapers such as the New York Times may require a brief registration process.
Some websites only have stories online for a limited period before they are removed or replaced.
The text of some of the articles contained may be accessed by university staff and students via the university intranet using the Information & Library Services Lexis Nexis electronic database.