What the Papers Say February 2006
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
Members of the University of Greenwich Nigerian Society selected Professor Utomi, Professor of entrepreneurship at the Lagos Business School as the pioneer recipient of the association’s Outstanding Career Achievement Award. He attended their AGM and gave the keynote speech according to the Sunday Independent (Nigeria) online.
http://www.independentng.com/sunday/vifeb120602.htm
An article in the Times Higher Education Supplement about Roehampton University mentioned that they had bought their campus from Greenwich
The Lewisham & Greenwich Mercury and Bexley Mercury gave advance publicity to the Postgraduate Fair at the end of March.
The possible Greenwich involvement in the provision of Higher Education in Folkestone appeared in Kent on Sunday.
Avery Hill
Education & Training
PGCE student Fin Kennedy won one of the most coveted theatre writing awards in the country according to the Evening Standard and Times Online.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2055896,00.html
Patrick Ainley writing as convenor of the Student Experience Network at the Society for Research into Higher Education is critical of the rise of Fundamentalism on campuses in his regular column in Guardian online.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/
0,,1719152,00.html
Health & Social Care
An article in Nursing Times by Terry Ferns and Irena Chojnacka examines respiratory assessements in acute care.
Greenwich is among three universities in the process of recruiting students for a Foundation degree according to Nursery World.
Nursing Home News mentioned the new Foundation degree in Nursing Home management in a round up of news in the sector during 2005.
Lynn Baxter reviewed a book called Social Work and Evidence Based Practice in Community Care.
Architecture & Construction
Dr Alan Powers argued for the use of sustainable building materials in the future building programmes in the Women’s Institute Home & Country magazine.
Garden Design graduates Fern Alder and David Grisely have won a competition to create a garden overlooked by the Maginot Line fortifications according to Horticulture Week.
General campus news
Work has now officially started on the new buildings at the campus according to Bexleyheath & Welling Times and the Bexleyheath & Eltham Express.
The Greenwich University Swing Band was performing at New Eltham Library according to the Greenwich Mercury.
Maritime Greenwich
Humanities
Alev Adil, Head of the Department of Creative, Critical and Communication Studies was interviewed on Radio Europe (an English speaking station based in Spain) about the anti-Muslim cartoon controversy. She argued for respect and praised the UK press for their decision not to reprint the Danish cartoons. However she also emphasised freedom of speech is vitally important in a democracy.
Jack Cannon appeared on the Robert Elms lunchtime show on BBC Radio London talking about population changes into and out of the capital.
The latest meeting to discuss the next volume of the Victoria County History was postponed due to illness according to Kent Messenger.
The current Miss Sandwich, Terrie-Lea Cosier, has been offered a place in Criminal Pyschology at Greenwich according to the Dover Express.
Business
Steve Thomas commented on South Africa’s pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) in the Cape Times, the Herald, and on South AfricaFM radio.
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id
=vn20060206023721916C538523#jump
http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n08_07022006.htm
According to a report in Energy in Buldings & Industry Steve Thomas said that it is cheaper to save electricity than run existing nuclear power stations.
Incentive & Motivation magazine discussed the Greenwich degree in Events Management in an article looking at the extent to which motivation is recognised as a topic in the academic world.
Economics graduate Mark Wareing has been promoted to account director – list management at Uni-Marketing according to Direct Marketing International.
Conference & IncentiveTravel discussed the BA in Event Management in an article on staff development in the industry. Jon Hopwood was quoted and graduate Kin van Eeden was profiled.
Kanes Rajah was holding a workshop for would be entrepreneurs at the Medway campus according to the Medway Messenger.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
The New York based Village Voice newspaper had an appeal from Professor Ed Galea for volunteers to help with the 9/11 research project.
http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/powerplays/archives/002424.php
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0607,murphy,72185,5.html
The project was also mentioned in the (London) Times which added that ‘supercomputers could help evacuate the London Underground in an emergency according to the academic co-ordinating part’ of the project. There was also an article about the project in the New Scientist.
Education & Training
In a letter to the Guardian Ian McNay suggests that the claim that from 2006 financial support for students will be the best ever in the history of higher education is untrue, a political 'myth'. He urges a balanced use of evidence from several countries, including Canada and Ireland, to inform the debate on the effect of tuition fee levels on rates of participation.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
The Greenwich Mercury reported on the award to Roger Knight of the Mountbatten Prize by the British Maritime Charitable Foundation for his book, The Pursuit of Victory.
General campus news
The Dog Days exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery appeared in the GreenwichMercury, Greenwich Time and the East Anglian Daily Times.
The use of the lavatory next to Public Relations in Queen Anne Court by two film crews to get the best view of the archaeological dig revealing remains of Henry VII’s chapel in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College was highlighted by the Independent.
Student ambassadors helped with the Greenwich Achievement Project which aims help local pupils with their GCSE’s according to Greenwich Time.
An article in the News Shopper on the plans for Greenwich market mentioned that Greenwich were the main tenant of the Old Royal Naval College.
The Times publicised the Second Site exhibition by four Roma/Gypsy/Traveller artists.
Medway
School of Engineering
Dr Alec Coutroubis argued in Shipping International Monthly Review that the UK is approaching maritime education in a much more serious way. He focussed in particular on a new Foundation Degree in Marine Engineering.
Student Ade Adefuye has been newly promoted as a Lance Corporal in the TA according to the Medway Standard.
Quarry Management said that the Wolfson centre were having a two day course in the storage and discharge of powders & bulk solids.
The sponsorship of a new Professor of Civil Engineering by Design Engineer Atkins was reported in the New Civil Engineer.
A new rig to assist with the design and testing of concrete ground slabs is being constructed at Greenwich according to Medway Messenger, Medway News and Building Talk online.
www.buildingtalk.com/news/usi/usi100.html
School of Science
According to Wanderlust magazine a World Bank estimates that as little as 10% of tourist expenditure worldwide actually ends up in the country of destination, but a study by Greenwich showed that the figure for ‘overlanding’ operations was as high as 56%. Overlanding is a land trip typically in a large vehicle which takes tourists through several countries.
Medway Waste Forum are looking at plans for a £50 million plant which converts waste to energy to be built by Skipaway on the Medway City Estate reported the Medway Messenger. The remaining ash would also be converted into aggregate with the help of experts in soil remediation from the campus.
Natural Resources Institute
The part-time packaging course run by Richard Fuchs was publicised in Packaging News, Bromley & Beckenham Times and the Greenwich & Charlton News Shopper, Gravesend News Shopper, Dartford & Swanley News Shopper .
General campus news
The official opening of the new Drill Hall Library was the focus of a double page spread in the Medway Messenger. The article which had five photos was titled ‘Transformation of Drill Hall is a turn-up for books.’ The Medway Standard had a full page article with three photos and the heading ‘Students read all about it.’ The story was also covered by BBC Radio Kent, KMFM radio and BBC South East TV. The Medway Extra had a half page article with two photos and the Medway Adscene contained an article of similar size.
It was publicised in advance by the Medway Messenger and the Medway Standard.
Students went to the campus to learn about public service careers according to the Medway Messenger and Medway Standard. The Aimhigher event was intended to interest young people in Entering higher education.
Medway Messenger reported that the Medway 2nd XI football team had narrowly failed to win the Southern England student sports Division 2 league title and promotion to Division 1.
Kent Profile focussed on the Universities at Medway this month and contained photos of the new Drill Hall Library. In his regular column Professor Alan Reed stressed the potential importance of higher education to Medway.
The Medway News and Kent Business said that the campus plays host every month to the Kent Inventors Club in a profile on silent wind turbine inventor Matthew Leuthi. Another article in the Medway News on Alexander Bushell who invented a portable microsurgery system also mentioned the campus.
Professor Alan Reed welcomed the visit by Mervyn King the Governor of the Bank of England in Kent Business.
According to Kent Director the prize for the winners of the Kent Innovation Challenge is rent free space at one of three enterprise hubs including the one on the Medway campus. Greenwich was also listed as a sponsor by the Medway Messenger, Kent Messenger (Malling) and Kent Messenger (Weald).
The Medway News reported on a science project at Trinity School Rochester with funding from the Royal Society that Greenwich were involved in.
Kanes Rajah from the Business School was holding a workshop for would be entrepreneurs at the Medway campus according to the Medway Messenger.
The Independent corrected a previous report that the Royal Naval College was in Dulwich mentioning that the former now houses the University of Greenwich.
Kings Hill
According to Safety & Health Practitioner Kings Hill hosted an Occupational Health & safety Advisory Service meeting about the route to registration.
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.
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.