What the Papers Say April 2007
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The Independent published an obituary of former Deputy Vice-Chancellor John McWilliam with the heading ‘Surveyor who oversaw the University of Greenwich’s adoption of the Old Royal Naval College as its campus’. The story also appeared in the Sevenoaks Chronicle.
http://www.ameinfo.com/116423.html
According to the Times Higher Education Supplement Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art, intended to call for major changes in HE at the Higher Education Funding Council for England conference. Tessa Blackstone argued that higher education was a major success and ‘that too many initiatives and changes were unlikely to lead to big improvements.’
Children who participate in musical activities tend to have higher aspirations for the future according to research by a teenage clarinettist, Eleanor Denny. She presented her findings at a conference at Greenwich according to the Music Teacher.
According to the Times Higher Education Supplement research at Greenwich into those who attended widening participation days suggested that 72 per cent intended to go onto study at university.
An article in the Sunday Times about graduates that move back home and students that live at home had a reference to a Greenwich graduate.
The Times reported that the Reverend Christopher Blake is now part-time chaplain at Greenwich.
The Medway Messenger and the Medway News reported on the new student bursaries funded by the charity Greenwich Hospital.
Angela Berners-Wilson, the first woman to be ordained and former chaplain at Thames Polytechnic, who is now Chaplain at the University of Bath chose her favourite records in the Bath Chronicle.
Football magazine, FourFourTwo, listed former Charlton FC manager Alan Curbishley as receiving an honorary degree from Greenwich in an article about those given to those involved in football.
Greenwich
Business
Logistics & Transport Focus said that the Princess Royal attended the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport workshop held in the Business School.
Dr Sven Kuenzal and Ewa Krolikowska shared the results of their recent survey on why company executives remain loyal to their auditors in Accountancy Age. Good personal relations and knowledge sharing seem to be the most important factors.
The Greater Woolwich People (Community Newspaper) reported on the Woolwich Drama Festival.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Information technology students from Greenwich travelled to the BT London Telecom Tower earlier this month for a Dragons’ Den challenge according to the Thamesmead & Erith Chronicle.
Education & Training
Professor Ian McNay pointed out in the Times Higher Education Supplement that the government participation rate target in higher education is almost 50% if you include those aged 31-60, those in private Higher education and those studying overseas.
Humanities
June Balshaw was interviewed on Radio 4’s Tracing Your Roots programme. She explained her discovery that her own grandmother had been involved with first one, and then a second bigamist.
Pippa Guard, lecturer in Drama & English, appeared on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour talking about some of the female roles in Shakespeare’s plays.
Carol Kemsley, a Drama and History student from Gillingham, performed a family history monologue at the Woolwich Drama Festival according to the KM Extra.
The Greater Woolwich People (Community Newspaper) reported on the Woolwich Drama Festival.
Sarah Sharp, Creative Industries student, was the focus of the Student Snapshot in the Lewisham & Catford News Shopper.
The seminar at the campus on the Quakers and Abolition was publicised by Limited Edition (North Kent).
General campus news
The Greenwich Mercury said that Greenwich was recruiting 14 academics to work within the Borough of Greenwich across a range of disciplines.
The Lewisham & Catford News Shopper, Greenwich Time and Docklands magazine publicised the latest exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, John Goto’s New World Circus.
Greenwich Council hosted a reception to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade according to the Greenwich Mercury.
In the Guide magazine Peter Kent looked at the Dreadnought Library & Learning Centre and the history of the building.
According to the Easier.com in an article about the 10th anniversary of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage site the ‘fine buildings’ of the Old Royal Naval College are home to the University of Greenwich.
http://www.easier.com/view/Travel/Attractions_and_Events/article-110900.html
External Environment mentioned that Greenwich was one of the tenants of the Old Royal Naval College in an article about a new resin bonded surface at the site.
According to the Waltham Forest Guardian and the Epping, Ongar and District Guardian ‘This stunning building was designed by Christopher Wren, it dominates the Greenwich waterfront and is an outstanding example of 17th century baroque architecture. The site is also home to the University of Greenwich…’
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
According to County magazine K College and Greenwich graduate Nicky Lewis is a now a Chartered Surveyor running his own surveying practice and is a Estimating Manager responsible for a team of seven, pricing works in excess of £170 million a year
Ed Frith’s ‘house for an architect, a dancer and their children’ in Hackney was the focus of a full page article in Architects Journal.
Alan Powers, Reader in Architecture & Cultural History, reviewed a book called The Architecture of Aftermath in the Times Higher Educational Supplement.
Education & Training
Professor Patrick Ainley said that a plan to raise the school-leaving age is unlikely to have the effect of widening access in the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Health & Social Care
Singer and former Psychology student Natasha Bedingfield mentioned her time at Greenwich in a long interview to the Glasgow Herald.
Pam Maras, Professor in Social & Educational Psychology and President of the British Psychology Society, contributed a President’s column on the Psychologist.org.uk website.
Terry Ferns, Senior Lecturer, had a paper published in the Nursing Standard about factors that influence aggressive behaviour in acute care settings.
General campus news
The Guide magazine had an article and photos on the recent Big Band concert.
Medway
School of Engineering
An article in the Structural Engineer by Brian Fitzgerald, Director of HR Development at Atkins, mentioned new Atkins chair at Greenwich.
According to South East Business a new concrete testing rig has been installed at the campus.
Richard Farnish from the Wolfson Centre had an article published in Process Engineering about the science and techniques behind problem-free handling of bulk particulates.
School of Science
Kent Business publicised this years Kent Environment Business of the Year citing the previous winner Greenwich’s Carbon8 System as an example to follow.
Greenwich is updating its laboratories at Medway according to the Medway Messenger and Medway News.
Two of the AFC Wimbledon football players, Paul Lorraine and Antony Howard, are Sport Science graduates according to Icsouthlondon website.
The US based NorwichBulletin website profiled Physical Therapist Alex Williams who has been named as Day Kimball Hospital’s 2006 Employee of the Year. Alex graduated from Greenwich in Sports Science and Medicine in 1997.
Medway Messenger and Medway Extra said that prospective students will be able to learn about DNA and forensic skills at a campus open day at the end of month.
According to the Kentish Saturday Observer Greenwich is supporting with others a Foundation Degree for those wanting to become laboratory scientists or bio-manufacturing technologists, based at Kent Science Park.
Natural Resources Institute
The Swazi Observer reported on Dr Steve Belmain’s research project to develop an ecologically based rodent management for the Southern African region.
http://www.observer.org.sz/main.php?id=33727§ion=main
According to Eureka online Ray Coker, Emeritus Professor of Food Safety has developed a simple and low cost method for detecting small amounts of unwanted chemical substances.
http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/9442/Glow-in-the-dark-reveals-hazards.aspx
Medway School of Pharmacy
The universities of Greenwich and Kent are seeking a new head of the School of Pharmacy according to the Pharmaceutical Journal.
General campus news
The Medway News said that Greenwich have advertised a number of new lecturing posts at the campus.
Professor Alan Reed focussed on the practical and life skills being taught to students, work experience and volunteering in his regular Kent Profile column.
Building Engineer and Building in Education reported that the Universities at Medway campus had received a commendation from the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The KM Extra publicised the latest Pembroke Lecture by Air Commodore Bill Croydon on the history of aviation in Kent.
The Medway Messenger and Medway News reported on the new student bursaries funded by the charity Greenwich Hospital.
An article in the Medway Messenger on the new Vice-Chancellor at the University of Kent, Professor Julia Goodfellow, said that she was ‘the second female in county to hold the top job. Tessa Blackstone is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich…’
The rearranged opening of the Pilkington building by HE Minister Bill Rammell was given advance publicity by the Medway Messenger and Medway News.
Contract Journal reported the tendering of new student accommodation for 141 rooms at the campus.
The sculpture by local artist Paula Groves that will be used as the trophy for the Medway Boat Race made the headlines in the Medway Messenger.
Further information
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http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/rss.htm
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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.