What the Papers Say August 2006
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
Clearing Stories
BBC1 News and BBC News 24 had a report, which was broadcast six times in total, from the Clearing Operation on the morning that A level results came out. The broadcast mentioned the University of Greenwich several times, the Greenwich logo and contact details were seen in the background and on a computer screen, and Professor Margaret Noble was interviewed on the new fee arrangements.
Professor John Humphreys gave interviews to BBC Radio Five Live, Sunrise Radio, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio Solent, Time FM, Durham FM, Choice FM and Invicta Radio about research Greenwich had commissioned on the new tuition fees. Margaret Noble gave an interview to BBC Radio Kent.
On the morning of Clearing Day itself theTimes had a picture of two members of the Clearing centre. The Guardian and Independent also had photos of the Clearing operation in the build up to the day of A level results. The Guardian had a photo of one of the Clearing Officers the following Monday.
Lorri Currie, Deputy Director of Student Affairs, gave advice on student finance and the new tuition fees in Kent on Sunday.
An article in the Times on the new tuition fees regime cited Greenwich as one of the few universities that were not charging the full rate.
According to the Independent a spokesperson for Greenwich cited simplicity and efficiency savings as part of the reason that the university was charging the lower fee. “If a university charges over £2,700 a year, it’s required to give back at least £300 back to the students….we’re saving paperwork costs and a lot of headaches.”
The Sunday Times had a profile on Tauriq Menkhary who had been offered a place through Clearing on the Pharmacy course.
The Guardian had profiles on Pamela Baffour-Djan and Toni Casey who’d been offered places at Greenwich through Clearing.
The West Kent & Sussex Courier and the Sevenoaks Chronicle had a series of articles on Clearing, tuition fees, the new sponsorship scheme available from Gravesend Rugby Club, and four Greenwich student profiles.
The New Shopper had Clearing advice from Beverley Woodhams, Enquiry Unit Manager and a profile on a student who came here through the process.
The Belfast Evening Telegraph online mentioned the lower fees at Greenwich in an article about the new Tuition Fees.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/
story.jsp?story=702681
The Medway Messenger had an article on the experiences of Leonie Millen who came to study Pharmacy though Clearing. KM Extra gave the contact details for the Clearing hotline. A later article said that record numbers had phoned the Clearing hotline.
The BBC Radio Kent website and Greenwich Mercury had Clearing advice from Beverley Woodhams, Enquiry Unit Manager.
Your County website said that the Clearing operation was operating for extended hours.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/newsarchive/
greenwichuniversityclearing160806n3.html
Architecture student James Kay was the focus of a case study of the Clearing feature in the KM Extra in Bexley.
The Gravesend and Dartford & Swanley News Shopper had top tips from Beverley Woodhams, Enquiry Unit Manager, and a case study on Business student James Key who came to Greenwich through Clearing.
Athena Kitching is heading to Greenwich to study Events Management after receiving her results according to Camden New Journal.
Non-Clearing stories
Tessa Blackstone and her granddaughter were the focus of Cultureshock feature in the Guardian. They visited the Royal Ballet’s 75th birthday celebrations and her granddaughters school.
The appointment by Greenwich of Kate Anderson as Trusts & Corporate Officer and Catherine Pettengell as Major Donors Officer appeared on the UK Fundraising website and in the Time Higher Education Supplement.
http://www.fundraising.co.uk/news/7001
According to the Bexleyheath & Welling Times Bexley College are launching the country’s first foundation degree in the Business Management of Hair Salons in conjunction with French Cosmetics L’Oreal and accredited by Greenwich.
The South London Press reported that graduate Lorna Hay, who works for the charity Merlin, which provides health care and medical relief for people caught up in disasters, has been helping survivors in Aceh Province in Indonesia of the Tsunami on Boxing Day 2005.
The award of an honorary degree for Doreen Lawrence appeared in the Guide and Bexleyheath & Welling Times.
The award of an honorary degree for Lord Bruce-Lockhart appeared in the Maidstone Adscene.
The Aspire AimHigher project which includes Greenwich was mentioned in the Times Higher Education Supplement in an article about a Project Manager at Goldsmiths College.
According to the Dartford Messenger, Gravesend Messenger and the Sheerness Times Guardian Alex King, Deputy leader of Kent County Council said that Greenwich is working hard to boost educational achievement in the Thames Gateway.
The Times had a large article on Roger De Haan’s plans to regenerate Folkestone which mentioned a ‘satellite campus of the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church University.’
Steve Wallis focussed on how certain students can achieve exemption in Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) examinations in his regular column in the IMIS Journal.
Avery Hill
Health & Social Care
According to the Bristol Evening Post and Life Style Extra website Pam Maras, Head of Psychology & Counselling has worked with Borders book store on research which found that 57 per cent of people believe that they can tell a strangers personality by what they are reading.
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=YW2128220Q&
news_headline=books_can_reveal_your_personality
A new degree in Professional Practice in Heath & Social Care – Children’s Palliative Care has been developed by Greenwich and Demelza Hospice Care according to YourCounty website.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/newsarchive/demelzahouse030806n2.html
According to Positive Health magazine Greenwich have credit-rated the Nutritional Therapy Programme of the BCNH (UK College of Nutrition & Health).
An article in the East Kent Gazette about the opening of a new training suite at Demelza House by Dame Kelly Holmes said that the facilities would be used by students from Greenwich.
RCN magazine had an article on the RCN Sexual Health Skills course which is accredited by Greenwich.
People who become deaf in adult life are five times as likely to suffer from depression as the general population according to a report in All Together Now.
Architecture & Construction
Richard Hayward had a letter published in the Guardian about Anna Minton’s article on problems in town centres. He argued that it is vital that there is contact between all sectors in society.
Greenwich Mercury and South East Business had an article on Bonny Umeadi, who has just finished his PhD. He won the Emerald Fund Prize for a tiny device that could help the oil and gas industries.
The Medway Messenger and the News Shopper reported on the success of Greenwich graduates at Hampton Court Flower Show.
The Maldon & Burnham Standard and the Colchester Evening Gazette reported on award of the REID architectural student awards for design to two Diploma in Architecture students, Elizabeth Jacobs and Paula Robertson.
Cayman Net News online chose Barry Jones, Estate Management graduate, who works for the Lands and Survey Department for their Career of the Week.
http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/
articles/000050/005079.htm
The Bricks & Mortar section of the Daily Telegraph mentioned the Brooking Architectural Museum Trust in response to a readers letter about their Victorian windows.
Richard Tilley, Programme Leader at Hadlow, was incorrectly described by the Whitstable Times as the Director of Landscape Management department at Greenwich. He very kindly gave Public Relations advance warning that this cutting may come through.
Building Services Journal referred to the work that Greenwich were doing with the Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineers and the Society for Public Health Education to develop an undergraduate degree.
The award of an EHRB certificate of registration to Amanda Amafor appeared inEnvironmental Health News.
Education & Training
The wedding of two Greenwich graduates, Rachel Galley and James Lupton, was marked by a celebratory arch of rulers according to the Southend Evening Echo and Southend Standard.
According to the Plymouth Evening Herald Rachel Grace who is hoping to study Youth & Community Sports was one of three pupils from a local school who took their teacher on holiday to thank her for help during their A levels.
Sarah Brine is fulfilling a childhood dream to become a primary teacher after gaining a place at Greenwich according to the Dartford Times.
Emily Kent hopes to become a Primary School Teacher after securing a place at Greenwich according to the Dartford Messenger.
General campus news
According to the US based Delmarva Now website, which provides news for the eastern shore of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, a boys soccer team called the River Soccer club are staying at the campus before taking part in the Loch Lomond Soccer Festival.
Maritime Greenwich
Humanities
Natasha Bedingfield was one of six celebrities profiled in an article in the Times about how to deal with exam failure and success. She said that her exam results allowed her to get into Greenwich to study Pyschology.
Around 100 or so local history enthusiasts attended the exhibition and meeting about progress that had been made on the People and work in the lower Medway Valley (1750 – 1900) project held at the Medway campus.
Media student Jemma Moet was one of those who appeared in an article about those visiting a Cyber Café in the Daily Mirror online.
Former member of staff Jean Brown (62) urged other mature students to follow her example by completing a degree in the Dartford Messenger.
Jason Chester is planning to study English Literature at Greenwich after receiving his results according to the Dartford Messenger.
Business
An article in the Daily Star about the success of pupils from the Peckham Academy in one of London’s most deprived areas featured Kieran Naulty who will study business at Greenwich.
According to NZ based Scoop Independent News website BATS Theatre in Welligton announced their Front of House Manager and Marketing "guru" Steph Walker is leaving to pursue her Masters in Arts Management at Greenwich. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0608/S00237.htm
Max Tookey, Organisational Behaviour lecturer, in the Daily Express suggests in a self-help column that tourists should maintain good habits they picked up abroad such as new sports.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
An appeal by Professor Ed Galea for survivors of the attack on the Twin Towers to come forward to help with research which will help skyscraper safety design, appeared on the US based Architectural Record website.
Education & Training
Ian McNay, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education & Management, explained in the Times Higher Education Supplement what universities should do if the ‘metrics’ system of university funding comes in after 2008.
General campus news
Time Out, Greenwich Mercury, Meridianmagazine, Bromley & Beckenham Times and the News Shopper had an article on the latest exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery with a Bollywood theme called Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy.
According to the Daily Star Twiggy and other models filmed a new Marks & Spencer advert at ‘the University of Greenwich at the Old Royal Naval College’.
According to Greenwich Time the Stephen Lawrence Gallery has relocated to Queen Anne Court.
Medway
School of Engineering
The appointment of Professor Chun Qing Li as Atkins Professor of Civil Engineering appeared in the Medway Messenger (twice in the same edition), Kentish Gazette (Canterbury), Faversham News, Kentish Express (Ashford), Herne Bay Gazette and on the Your County website.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/businessnews/
civilengineeringappointment220806b3.html
According to the Medway Messenger, KM Extra and Powder & Bulk website senior academics from Tianjin University of Technology in China visited the Wolfson Centre.
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/uer/uer111.html
European Design Engineer and European Process Engineer magazine reported that Greenwich had developed a non-contact sensor which improves the safety of using heavy duty diamond cutting tools. It was developed in conjunction with Sensor Technology Ltd.
According to Engineering Talk online Lean Design was the focus of a Breakfast business meeting held at the Medway campus.
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/uer/uer112.html
Work by the Wolfson Centre on techniques to preserve particle quality in manufacturing processes, has seen them short-listed in the Innovation and Catalysis and Colloid Science category of the Institution of Chemical Engineers’ 2006 Awards reported the Medway News andMedway Adscene.
Quarry Management gave advance publicity to a pneumatic conveying of bulk solids course.
The appointment of Colin Wilson as Academic Registrar for the school appeared in South East Business.
School of Science
Medway Messenger, Maidstone Adscene and KM Extra said that Geology student Jacqueline Gold had become National student ladies archery champion.
Geology student Kelly Hayes who has been researching in Iceland this summer appealed for support to do a Masters degree at the University of Iceland in the Medway Messenger and Medway Extra.
The Natural Products Insider referred to research at the campus on omega-3 and omega-6 EFAs being important for immune system development and response.
http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/articles/681feat02.html
The Irish Times cited the International Centre for Responsible Tourism website as useful in an article on ecotourism.
According to Concrete magazine Colin Hills was part of the Cement & Concrete Group committee of the Ceramics and Building Materials Division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
Natural Resources Institute
A study by Gabriella Gibson and Ian Russell of the University of Sussex on the mating buzz that the female mosquito produce appeared in the Medway Messenger andMedway Standard.
General campus news
The Medway Messenger, Medway Standard and the Medway News gave advance publicity to the campus Open Day on August 19.
An article in the Medway Messenger about prize awards ceremony for the students of Mid Kent College said that many were planning to study at the University of Greenwich.
The plaque rededication ceremony at the Drill Hall Library was given advance publicity by the Medway Messenger, Medway Standard and Kent on Sunday. The event was also mentioned in the Medway Memories section of the Medway News and the Community News: Memories page in the Medway Messenger.
Professor Alan Reed focused on Clearing, student finance and Foundation degrees in his regular Kent Profile column.
According to Kent Profile Greenwich is actively involved with the new Kent Science Resource Centre.
The appointment of Ray Wynne as Director of the Medway Enterprise Hub was reported on by South East Farmer.
The Kent Ambassadors made a visit to the campus according to the Medway Messenger and Medway News.
The Medway Messenger said that Humi-Tech services had supplied humidifying equipment to the campus.
An article in the Medway Messenger about Judith Armitt, Chief Executive of Medway Council taking up a new post to lead the Thames Gateway regeneration project mentioned the Universities at Medway Project and Greenwich’s involvement.
The three bursaries provided by Gravesend Rugby Club for students based at the campus appeared in the Gravesend Messenger, Dartford Messenger and Kent on Sunday.
See also the Clearing coverage at the start of this report.
Kings Hill
Kent Profile website publicised the launch of the Kent & Medway Lifelong Learning network at Kings Hill.
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 or the Scotsman 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.