What The Papers Say August 2009
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
A league table in the Evening Standard of the Student Satisfaction Survey placed Greenwich joint 6th in London equal to King’s College and above the London School of Economics.
According to the Hastings & St.Leonards Observer and Eastbourne Gazette Maurice Rumbold, a member of Greenwich’s employers advisory forum, has been appointed as a non-executive of East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust.
The News Shopper reported that learning assistants from schools across Bromley have completed a Greenwich affiliated visual impairment training course.
According to Isle of Man Examiner the new manager of the Isle of Man Education’s Career Guidance Service, Andrew McKinley, worked for four years as Roman Catholic Chaplain at Greenwich.
Greenwich accredit courses from the European School of Osteopathy according to a feature on Osteopathy according to the Independent.
According to the Guardian website David Chilosi who researches on Aim Higher, the government programme to increase university access, at Greenwich says, “The top universities hardly represent the typical destination of the participants to the programme, and it is our ethical duty not to create expectations that cannot be fulfilled”.
Greenwich graduate Will Clarke is the co-founder of one of the UK’s leading independent film distributors, Optimum Releasing according to Screendaily.com
Clearing
Greenwich Mercury had a large article about Clearing with the title The uni lifeline with photos of student Christine Downes and Head of Recruitment, Bev Woodhams.
Greenwich is gearing up for Clearing according to Kent on Sunday. Bev Woodhams also gave advice in the same piece.
The Wharf reported that Greenwich is holding three open days in the weeks following A-level results. A second article looked at the advice that was available at Greenwich through Clearing.
The article about the Medway Graduation ceremonies in Medway Messenger and Kent Messenger gave the contact details for the Clearing hotline.
Bev Woodhams and Sarah Ragab gave advice about the clearing process and onto degrees in the News Shopper.
Claire Evenden, Senior Finance Adviser, gave advice about student finance in an Independent guide to Clearing.
Sky News broadcast coverage from inside the Clearing Centre. Footage complete with poster boards showing the Greenwich name, website and phone number were clearly visible in several bulletins.
Professor Martin Snowden was interviewed about the Clearing process by BBC Radio Kent and Heart FM (formerly Invicta FM, broadcasting in Kent).
Bev Woodhams gave Clearing advice in several papers the day before Clearing and on the day itself including the Evening Standard, Calling All Students guide in the Metro, A Levels and Beyond supplement in the Daily Telegraph and the Fresher supplement in the Guardian.
According to the Student Guide and Clearing supplement in the Times, Greenwich boasts an impressive campus at the Old Royal Naval College, designed by Christopher Wren.
Times Higher Education reported that Greenwich is laying on late-night phone lines for inquiries, extending this to an all-night opening on A-level results day.
Bev Woodhams gave Clearing advice in Your Medway, Your Thanet, Your Deal, Your Dover, Your Sandwich, Your Shepway and Your Swale.
Stuart Ashenden highlighted opportunities to study at Greenwich in Kent Profile.
Beverley Woodhams, Head of Recruitment gave Clearing advice in Meridian magazine. There was also a photo of Humanities student Christine Downes.
Greenwich Mercury and Bexley Times published the Clearing hotline number in the article about Ike Ezekwugo, a member of Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity, graduating from Greenwich.
Newham Recorder reported that Tasneem Patel is going to be helping ‘wannabe’ students to find a place at university.
Greenwich is one of the partners in the Leadership Academy according to Redhill Life.
Medway Messenger reported that Greenwich is holding three open days in the weeks following A-level results.
Sarah Ragab, Head of Student Finance, offered top tips how to stay out of the red in the Medway Messenger.
Greenwich
Business
The French nuclear industry has been plagued by cost-overruns, equipment failures and reIatively low levels of reliability according to Stephen Thomas, Professor of Energy Policy on Inter Press Service News Agency website. He also argued that the industry gets massive subsidies from the French government.
According to Police Life Scotland a 2009 study at Greenwich found a highly significant increase in life satisfaction among people who attend pre-retirement courses.
Bexley Times, Epping Forest Guardian and Waltham Forest Guardian reported that Ike Ezekwugo, a member of Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity, graduated from Greenwich with a degree in Human Resource Management. He was joined after the ceremony by seven other members of Diversity at the campus.
Events Management graduate Lisa Barton has been appointed as Travel Administration Assistant at Interlace Global Group according to Inpharm.com website.
In AJ Specification Professor Stephen Thomas said that there was very little that architects can do in their design of new nuclear power plants as they are built of a set design.
Anil Sandhu from Leigh Technology Academy is planning to study Human Resources Management at Greenwich according to Dartford & Swanley Times.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Fire Risk Management said that the European Commission is funding a three year research project to examine the impact of cultural and ethnic influences on human behaviour in emergencies. Greenwich is the lead partner in the study.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Senior Lecturer, Chrisoulla Pawlowska, had an article published in Solicitors Journal titled A connection too far – The tendency by some courts to read a fairness requirement in the Lister ‘close connection with employment’ test is going too far’.
The late writer Siobhan Dowd had an MA in Gender & Ethnic according to the Irish Post.
Professor Mark Pawlowski had an article published in Family Law titled Constructive Trusts and improvements to property.
General campus news
Docklands publicised the Eagle Document exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.
A profile of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in the Independent said that Greenwich share the Old Royal Naval College site with them and validate some of their degrees.
An article in Asian Trader about Greenwich Post Office, which is the current holder of the Asian Trader Post Office Excellence Award, said that their diverse custom, ‘includes many student customers from Greenwich University, who buy a lot of stationery’.
According to the Student Guide and Clearing supplement in the Times, Greenwich boasts an impressive campus at the Old Royal Naval College, designed by Christopher Wren.
In the Greenwich Mercury, Sarah Crofts from the Dreadnought Library appealed if anyone had a copy of the photo taken by Deptford Photographer Thankfull Sturdee of the body of Martial Bourdin who blew himself up in Greenwich Park in 1894.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
BBC Gardeners’ World presenter, Toby Buckland, studied landscape management at Greenwich according to the Western Mail, Fareham & Gosport News, Corby Evening Telegraph, Waterlooville News, Northern Echo, Yorkshire Evening Post, Sunderland Echo, Hartlepool Mail, Northants Evening Telegraph, Wigan Evening Post, Blackpool Gazette, Lancashire Evening Post, Northampton Chronicle & Echo, Portsmouth News, Bolton News, and the Eastern Daily Press.
Safety & Health Practitioner had a profile on Richard Labrador, Director of Safety Services Ltd and a MSc graduate in Occupational Safety & Health.
According to Gardens Illustrated Lady Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Greenwich graduate and Garden designer, received a Doctor of Design at Greenwich.
Investment Now highlighted the links between the school and Year 9 students in Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth who worked with 1st East looking at regeneration ideas for the local area.
Education & Training
Greenwich graduate Jeremy Allison who battled against multiple sclerosis is returning to Greenwich for a post-graduate course in education according to Your Medway, Your Swale, Your Sandwich, Your Shepway, Your Deal, and Your Dover.
Janet Fairbrother (nee Adams) is trying to arrange a re-union with students who attended Avery Hill College from 1956-8 according to Runcorn Weekly News.
Health & Social Care
According to Times Higher Education Dr Josh Davis gave festival patrons the opportunity to experience science entertainment when he visited the Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire.
Zoe Woodard from Minster College will be studying nursing at the Medway campus according to the East Kent Gazette, Sheerness Times and Sheppey Gazette.
Medway
School of Engineering
Your Medway, Your Swale, Medway Messenger and Kent Messenger reported that Terry Smith, a member of Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity, graduated from Greenwich with a Masters degree in Information & Communications Technology at Rochester Cathedral.
Kent Business reported that Greenwich has an industry-funded chair of Manufacturing Engineering in a fact file about manufacturing.
Dr Amir Alani has began work as the first Rochester Bridge Warden’s Professor according to the Medway Messenger.
School of Science
Hexham Courant reported that William Lee, Greenwich graduate and Football Development co-ordinator for Charlton Athletic Football got married in Westgate-on-Sea in Kent .
Kent Online and Medway Messenger reported that the school had appointed nine specialist science research staff.
According to Kent Messenger Geoff Wiles 65 who ran a cycle shop in Medway is now studying Sports Science. His story was also featured in the Kent & Sussex Courier and on the ThisisKent website.
Natural Resources Institute
Fruit Grower and Horticulture Week reported that during a visit to East Malling Research by Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for DEFRA, he was shown how NRI and EMR had cracked the sex pheromone code of the European Tarnished Plant bug and safeguard strawberry plants.
Ghanaweb website said that NRI had submitted their final report on the establishment of a Communities Exchange.
Nigerian based Guardian website reported that NRI was working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the cultivation and processing of Cassava in Nigeria.
Medway Messenger publicised the Pembroke lecture by Professor Alan Cork titled, In the Farmer’s Shadow: Bio-Rational Pest Management for international development.
The spin-out company from the university has raised more than £650,000 in new investment according to Kent on Sunday. Professor Ray Coker from NRI came up with the Toximet T System which enables food producers to perform quality tests without the expense of using a laboratory.
Medway School of Pharmacy
The BBC website reported that ‘Topping the overall satisfaction [in the National Student Satisfaction Survey] table was Medway School of Pharmacy, on 97 per cent, The school scored 97 per cent in the NSSS according to the Daily Mail. According to Times Higher Education ‘Medway School of Pharmacy came top, with 97 per cent of its students satisfied with their education overall’. Medway Messenger reported that ‘The Medway School of Pharmacy, a joint venture between the University of Kent at Medway and the University of Greenwich at Medway, has topped the National Student Survey in 2009’. According to Kent on Saturday the school received ‘an almost perfect score of 97 per cent’. Pharmaceutical Journal reported that students ‘said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their education – the highest performance overall for any higher education institution’.
General campus news
The first consultations on the Medway End of Life Care Strategy took place at the campus according to Kent Messenger and KM Extra.
Greenwich is among the sponsors of the Swale Business Awards according to the East Kent Gazette.
The first consultations about the Medway End of Life Care Strategy took place at the campus according to.
Students from Greenwich are among those who will benefit from the E-skills internship according to the Kent on Saturday.
Greenwich is committed to widening participation but has no plans to reduce entry standards according Kent on Saturday.
The campus hosted a Rotary lecture on polio according to the Medway Messenger.
Further information
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