What the Papers Say January 2005
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The rise in the number of female managers at the university was highlighted in a feature titled ‘Breaking the glass ceiling’ in the Independent. It included comments from Tessa Blackstone, Liz Bacon, Jane Longmore, and Clare Mackie. Also mentioned were Linda Cording, Christine Rose and Sue Adams. The article explained that at least some of the female emphasis could be attributed to the subject mix at the university. It also added that there is now a record number of female heads of institutions, 16.
A ‘Postgraduate Lives’ feature in the Independent focussed on Andrew Gould who is studying for an MA in Critical Studies, New Media and the Practising Arts. He is examining the arguments for and against boxing.
Supply Management looked at the efficiency savings in procurement expected for universities over the next three years. The targets are achievable according to Director of Procurement, Vincent John who is Chairman of Proc-HE.
The Salisbury Journal reported on the university’s collaboration with Salisbury College during coverage of its graduation ceremony.
Pete Kerridge from Student Affairs wrote about the introduction of e-mail counselling at the university in an article in the AUCC journal (Association for University and College Counselling).
The Times Higher Education Supplement published a letter by Wendy Cealey Harrison from the Learning & Quality Office criticising media coverage following the death of French thinker, Derrida.
A careers day at St George’s School in Broadstairs was attended by the university according to the Isle of Thanet KM Extra.
An awards ceremony at Greenwich Community College attended by Tessa Blackstone was reported on by the Bexleyheath & Welling News Shopper.
According to the Bath Chronicle Revd Angela Berners-Wilson, former chaplain at Thames Polytechnic and the first woman to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England, is to be licensed as the chaplain at the University of Bath.
Tessa Blackstone’s award of an honorary degree from University Roma Tre in Italy was covered in the Eltham News Shopper.
Christine Rose, Director of Student Affairs, explained the support available to students in the Times Higher Education Supplement.
A profile about Jools Holland in the Dundee Weekly News mentioned his award of an honorary degree by the university.
Avery Hill
Health & Social Care
Studying over the internet can be a flexible way to learn but it is important to choose a course wisely says lecturer Kerri Knight in the Nursing Times.
Professor Derek Gardiner, a Visiting Professor in the School of Health & Social Care, had an article in Care & Health magazine about the importance of councils’ self assessments in judging the quality of social care.
The Abergavenny Chronicle reported that Midwifery student Kate Mundell completed the New York Marathon in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
According to Practice Management the Royal College of Nursing has launched a sexual health distance learning course for practice nurses which is accredited by the university.
Liz Meerabeau contributed a letter to the Nursing Standard about the Royal College of Nursing vision for education.
Terry Ferns argued in the Nursing Times that the public health paper had gone too far.
Lynn Baxter reviewed a book called ‘Children Living with Domestic Violence’ in Community Care.
Education & Training
Patrick Ainley had two letters published in successive weeks in the Guardian. The first dealt with possible dangers of the increase in fees in Higher Education and the second about how this practice may spread to Further Education.
The Cornishman said that students from Penwith College were awarded Certificates in Education from the university.
Saifur Rahman, a former gang leader turned youth worker is planning to start a degree in Youth & Community Studies according to the Evening Standard.
Architecture & Construction
Horticulture Week reported on the world’s first distance learning course in garden history which is being run by Tom Turner.
Courtney Miller Bellairs who teaches drawing and painting to university architecture students wrote in Artists & Illustrators magazine about a new readily portable set of artists’ materials.
The Budapest Sun in Hungary said that Mike Edwards, a Greenwich graduate in Estate Management, had been appointed Associate and Head of Central European Valuation at Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker.
The Local Government Chronicle ran a feature on Estates Management graduate Fiona Dumal who is Estates Services Manager at Colchester Borough Council.
An article on Eleni Golfinou, Civil Engineering graduate, explaining her background, job and hopes of the future, appeared in Target magazine.
The forthcoming arrival in the school of Chris Alexander, Professor at the University at Berkeley in California, was mentioned by Building magazine.
The setting up of the UK’s first Urban Renaissance Institute by Richard Hayward was mentioned in the Financial Times in an article about the Thames Gateway.
The award of a postgraduate diploma in Architecture to Paul Kings appeared in the Lowestoft Journey.
Contract Journal discussed the planned construction academy in the Thames Gateway.
Garden Design Journal had a picture of the joint Greenwich and Hadlow College exhibit called ‘Tantalus and the frustration of attraction’ at the International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire in France.
London Property News mentioned the annual research into the cost of moving conducted by the university for the Woolwich Building Society.
Tom Turner featured in a Derby Evening Telegraph article about the local Arboretum designed by John Loudon. Tom visited it in 1982 and been critical of the local council for not maintaining it. He was later given a partial copy of a 1835 edition of ‘Encyclopaedia of Gardening’ by a local man and has now donated it for exhibition in Derby.
General campus news
The University of Greenwich Taekwondo Club is seeking recruits according to the Bromley News Shopper.
Maritime Greenwich
Humanities
Lindsi Cole who is working on a written history of Barkingside appealed for help from long term residents in the Ilford Recorder.
Mark Pawlowski asked what remedies are available to a landowner whose neighbour has carried out building works in breach of restrictive covenants in New Law Journal.
Business
Meridian magazine reported that Greenwich, Bexley & Lewisham Chamber of Commerce is working with the university to set up a student chamber.
According to the Dartford Messenger, Paul Barber, Third Year Business Studies student, received an award from the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators following an essay competition.
Precision Marketing said that Economics graduate Mark Wareing had been promoted to Senior Accounts Manager at Uni-Marketing.
The Independent on Sunday had a profile of Greenwich in its A-Z of MBAs available from Business Schools.
Robert Holden was quoted in Landscape Review as saying that pay for newly qualified graduates was a ‘chronic issue in motivation’.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
A light hearted formula produced by Tony Mann about how and when shoppers lose enthusiasm for buying Christmas presents received extraordinary coverage in the media. The story appeared in national newspapers including the Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, and Daily Star. Tony also appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live, CNN, Sky News and BBC Radio Ulster. Internationally the story appeared in the Frankfurter Rundschau, Kolner Stadt-Anzieger, and the Delaware Times in Pennsylvania. In this country it was covered by many local newspapers such as the Evening Standard, Edinburgh Evening News, the Scotsman, Manchester Evening News and Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
A full list and some of the headlines used are available at
http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/papers/Christmas_formula.doc
According to Flight International Professor Ed Galea told a conference in Lisbon that aerospace lags behind the maritime and construction industries in its acceptance of the use of computer models for certifying safety.
The Naval Architect reported on ship evacuation trials that were conducted and that they were being incorporated into the Smartfire and MaritimeExodus software being developed by the university’s Fire Safety Engineering Group.
The computerised modelling project of the Cutty Sark led by Chris Bailey from Computing & Mathematical Sciences appeared in the Maritime Journal and Engineering.
There was a profile of Computer Science student, Chris Coleman, in the Greenwich & Charlton News Shopper.
Keith Rennolls contributed to the debate in the Times Higher Education Supplement about the interpretation of scientific data in the case of a Russian schoolgirl who allegedly uses X-ray vision to diagnose medical problems.
Tony Valsamidis reviewed a book called ‘Talking with Computers’ in the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
The Observer listed Greenwich as one of the universities offering Maritime Studies, forming part of a surge of activity in the subject, in a book review of a publication called ‘Command of the Ocean’.
General campus news
In the Greenwich Mercury there was a full page article including large photograph publicising the Freeze Frame exhibition being held in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.
Nick Raynsford, MP for Greenwich & Woolwich and Minister of State for Local Government & the Regions, called for planners to look to the Old Royal College for inspiration when considering possible future uses for Woolwich barracks. He added in the Greenwich Mercury that the Old Royal Naval College buildings, “were a fine example of an important local site being rejuvenated… [and that they were] now being used by the University of Greenwich and Trinity College of Music.”
The university’s involvement with other organisations in the marketing of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage site was mentioned by the Guide magazine.
An article in Greenwich Mercury about a new book by photographer Nicholas Sack mentioned his solo exhibition at the university in 2003.
Housing Association magazine publicised the use of concrete panels during the construction of the new Rachel McMillan Student Village.
Building, FMX – Facilities Management Excellence and Professional Security magazine publicised the award of a contract to supply new locks at the Cutty Sark Halls of Residence.
The former Royal Naval College is now part of the University of Greenwich and the inspiring architecture is hard to ignore according to the Eastern Daily Press.
Medway
Medway School of Engineering
The planned relocation of the Wolfson Centre to Medway was reported by Plant & Works Engineering, Medway Adscene and Kent Director.
Electronics Weekly said that part of a new instrument to test the properties of lead-free solder joints at the National Phsyical Laboratory had been designed by the university
The graduation of the first Masters in Industrial Practice students sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation appeared in Viewpoint magazine.
The planned arrival of new concrete testing equipment at the campus was in the Medway Messenger and Kent Online.
The Diss Express had an article about a prize winning Civil Engineering student is now studying Structural Engineering at Greenwich.
According to Warehouse & Logistics News the university test all key parts for LINPAC Storage Systems who produce packaging and storage systems for industry.
Medway School of Pharmacy
New laboratories in the new Medway School of Pharmacy were highlighted by the European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer and CHP Packer.
Pharmacy magazine mentioned the new school in an article about recruitment.
The Times Higher Education Supplement mentioned the new Medway School of Pharmacy in an article about the subject’s growth as a university subject.
School of Science
John Mitchell and Martin Snowden had an article published in Pharmaceutical Technology Europe about reducing the size of powders to improve the dosage of drugs.
World Highways, Electronics and Euroslot magazine explained that the university is working with colleagues from the University of Cambridge to develop nanophosphors for displays and lighting.
John Newbery contributed a letter to Dance Today questioning the wisdom of self diagnosis and treatment of a potentially cancerous condition, the symptoms of which are prostrate problems.
According to Bexley Extra the university’s water vole breeding programme had helped Tilfen win a Environment National Gold Award for its Thamesmead development.
Natural Resources Institute
“Lured to a sticky end” was the headline in Organic Gardening reporting on an environmental achievement award given by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers to Professor David Hall and his team for his work combating the Apple Leaf Midge. The story also appeared in Kent on Sunday.
The Financial Express in India said that Dr Abid Qaiyum Sulehrie, a senior researcher at the Islamabad based Sustainable Development Policy Institute and PhD in Food Security from NRI, cautioned against unwarranted agricultural reforms in India.
Chris Haines replied to a question about pantry moths in a culinary Q & A section in the Guardian.
General campus news
The University of Greenwich at Medway was hosting the regional finals of a Lego sponsored robotic making competition for 10-16 years olds according to Kent on Sunday.
The naming of new science laboratories at Rainham Mark Grammar School after the university and the Wolfson Foundation who had made donations towards them was reported on by the Medway Messenger. The headteacher said: ”These brand new laboratories provide a 21st century learning environment for our girls and boys, helping them to discover science in stimulating ways.”
The Federation of Small Businesses held a media seminar at the campus according to the Medway Standard.
Public Sector & Local Government, Medway Messenger, Kent on Sunday and Medway News, Greenwich & Charlton News Shopper, Landscape Review highlighted the Universities at Medway project.
In his regular feature in Kent Profile, Professor Alan Reed wrote about the efforts of education institutions to address skills shortages and boost the regional economy. He explained that one local initiative is the Kent New Technology Institute, a branch of which has opened at the campus.
Professor Alan Reed gave his opinion on the skills gap in Kent on Sunday.
The Financial Times highlighted the university during an article on the Thames Gateway and the importance of education to the project.
The success of the campus football team was mentioned in the sports pages of the Medway Messenger.
The addition of Mid Kent College to the Medway Progression Compact, which includes the university, appeared in the Medway Messenger.
In ArtsIndustry there was a profile of the new Chief Executive of the South East Economic Development Agency (SEEDA) which mentions how a partnership with the university aims to “transform the economic prospects of the Medway towns”.
According to the Medway Messenger all the pupils at St Mary’s Island Church of England School were given a copy of a new book about the Chatham Maritime project by SEEDA, which includes mentions of the university.
A trading standards pack aimed at students living away from home for the first time was issued to students at the campus according to the Medway News.
Kent Business had an article on the new branch of the Kent New Technology Institute at the university.
Local MP Paul Clark explained that Gillingham Borough Council was offered the Pembroke building for a £1 in the 1980s, but turned it down, in a Thames Gateway special in Medway Messenger.
Kings Hill Institute
The graduation ceremony for 170 teachers who received the National Professional Qualification for Headship appeared in the Gravesend Messenger.
Ministry of Defence resettlement courses run at Kings Hill were mentioned in a profile on Len Osborn in the Frome & Somerset Standard.
Further information
More details on many of these stories and others can be seen on the PR website at:
www.gre.ac.uk/pr