What the Papers Say January 2006
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The Education Guardian Online said that Greenwich was confident that applications were comparable to last year.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,
1683230,00.html
An opinion piece about the privatisation of the National Health Service by Daniel Finkelstein on Times Online referred to Tessa Blackstone and William Plowden’s history of the Central Policy Review Staff.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,21129-1979680,00.html
Batley Today reported on the award of an MBE to Jane Conlon, Chief Executive of the TABEISA project (Technical and Business Education Initiative in South Africa) which is a joint project between Greenwich, Coventry and four South African higher education institutions.
According to Health & Beauty Salon Greenwich offer a foundation degree in Salon Management.
Dover & Deal Extra said that students from Russia and China could be heading to Dover thanks to an initiative involving Greenwich and South Kent College to develop an international maritime department.
Avery Hill
Health & Social Care
The success of blind student Ruth Vallis, who lives and works in Canada, completed an MSc in Continuing Professional Development (Health) appeared on the Global News Hour TV (Canada) programme.
Terry Ferns contributed to a debate in the Nursing Times about whether nurses should be allowed to diagnose patients illnesses, arguing that they should not do so.
Children Now reported that By the Bridge, an independent childcare agency, last year launched a therapeutic foster caring course accredited by Greenwich.
Slimmer, Healthier & Fitter chose Cathy Nganje as one of six ladies who lost over 30 stones in weight between them. According to Cathy: “Keeping the weight off has also given me the motivation to register myself on a degree course in health at Greenwich in September.”
Jennifer Morant, Diploma in Learning Disability Nursing student, was the subject of a student profile in the News Shopper.
Courses run by the London College of Clinical Hypnosis are accredited by Greenwich according to the Daily Express.
Architecture & Construction
Shinichiro Ito, MA in Landscape Architecture, has joined Newcastle landscape architecture practice named Colour-udl, according to the n-e-life website.
http://www.n-e-life.com/foryou/article2.php?id=78212
Building Services Journal said that the Society of Public Health Engineers had developed a public health degree in partnership with the Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering and Greenwich.
Education & Training
Patrick Ainley argued that it was impossible and counter-productive to ‘tidy up’ Further Education in a Guardian comment column. He also said that employers expect the state to pay for most of their training needs and not fund it themselves.
General campus news
Work has now officially started on the new buildings at the campus according to Greenwich Time (Council newspaper).
Maritime Greenwich
Humanities
The graduation of Sarah Hughes with a first class BA in Media, Culture & Communications appeared in the Epping ForestGuardian, Wanstead & Woodford Guardian and Walthamstow Guardian.
Kent Messenger said that there was an open evening at the Local Studies Centre for those wishing to help Dr Andrew Hann with the Victoria County History Project.
Business
Chris Rock had an article in Overseas Trade about the importance of companies correctly pricing their products internationally.
According to the South African based MiningMx website, Steve Thomas said that South Africa’s pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) has escalated as the time frame for the project keeps slipping. He also said that now was the time to be talking about whether to continue the project or not.
http://www.miningmx.com/wts/841764.htm
According to the BusinessDay website Steve said that the money being spent on the escalating cost of the project could be better used to develop other sources of energy.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/economy.aspx?
ID=BD4A143322
He was also quoted on the Business Report and the Herald (South Africa) website.
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&
fArticleId=3080684
http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n02_30012006.htm
The Gender Pay report led by Sue Corby appeared in SurreyBusiness News.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
A letter by Keith Rennolls in the Times Higher Education Supplement argued that scientists from non-climate scientific disciplines can contribute to the fight against global warming.
Ed Galea outlined some safety measures that would help prevent tragedies during the stone throwing ritual of the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in the New Scientist. He argued for less people, more space or alteration of the terrain underfoot.
www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8583
According to the ExpressIndia website Dr Mayur Patel said that women should be employed as firefighters a two-day international seminar on fire control equipment and disaster management held at Gandhi Labour Institute in Ahmedabad.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=166402
Education & Training
Ian McNay criticised the emphasis of government funding on research excellence rather than widening participation in a letter to the Guardian.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
The award of a £200,000 grant by the Leverhulme Trust to Roger Knight for research into the provision of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars was reported by the Western Morning News (Plymouth), the Plymouth Evening Herald and the Bromley Express, Bromley & Beckenham Times, Portsmouth News, Plymouth Sunday Independent, Greenwich Mercury and News Shopper.
www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/lewgreennews/
display.var.669560.0.200_000_cash_for_food_project.php
Peter Kent’s regular column in the Guide magazine mentioned participation by GMI in the Sea Britain events.
Lloyd’s List reviewed Roger Knights book on Nelson saying that it has qualities that mark it out from the rest.
General campus news
According to Greenwich Time (The Council newspaper) over 100 Greenwich pupils have signed up for the Passport programme which helps pupils apply to university and is run in conjunction with Aim Higher.
The Seeing the Light exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery was publicised in the Bexley & Welling Times.
Lord Baker is giving the annual Friends of Greenwich lecture at the campus according to the News Shopper.
The Dog Days exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery appeared in Time Out.
Medway
School of Engineering
The establishment of a partnership between the school and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IEE) appeared in Engineering Technology, Medway Messenger and Kent on Sunday.
The new Information Technology Management for Business degree backed by employers appeared on the infoconomy website.
http://www.infoconomy.com/pages/news-and-gossip/
group112424.adp
Quarry Management publicised two courses being run by the Wolfson Centre.
The sponsorship of a new Professor of Civil Engineering by Design Engineer Atkins was reported in the Medway Messenger and on the Russian based Construction & Maintenance News website.
http://home.nestor.minsk.by/build/news/2006/01/
2606.html
School of Science
According to International Travel & Tourism News Harold Goodwin from the Centre for Responsible Tourism said that responsible tourism is increasingly being adopted by the tourism industry.
Charlotte Johnston, MSc in Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development (Distance Learning), is a volunteer with the North Andaman Tsunami Relief organisation in Thailand reported the Newbury Weekly News.
The Medway Messenger, Gravesend Messenger and Medway Standard reported on plans for a £50 million plant which converts waste to energy to be built by Skipaway on the Medway City Estate. The remaining ash would also be converted into aggregate with the help of experts in soil remediation from the campus.
Medway School of Pharmacy
The computer controlled patient or Sim Man appeared on the i-uk website (a website led my Foreign & Commonwealth Office in conjunction with the UK Trade & Investment, Visit Britain and the British Council)
Natural Resources Institute
According to the Deccan Herald (Bangalore,India) John Colvin inaugurated a workshop on the sustainable management of tomato curl virus and whitefly in tomato.
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan162006/
citytoday.asp
The two-part radio series Rats!, made in conjunction with the Ratzooman project
led by Steve Belmain from the Natural Resources Institute, was broadcast for the second time on the BBC World Service.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/45999
The part-time packaging course run by Richard Fuchs was publicised in the Medway Messenger and yourCounty website.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/business/busnewsarchive/
230106b1.html
General campus news
The launch of the first of four innovation hubs at the campus appeared in Kent Business.
Matthew Luethi from Kent Inventors club organised by Business Link Kent and hosted by the University of Greenwich at Medway gained a bronze award at the British Invention Show for his new type of wind powered generator according to the Medway Messenger andMedway Extra. The event was also publicised in the Sittingbourne KM Extra, Sittingbourne Adscene Faversham News, East Kent Gazette and the Tenterden Express.
The appointment of Paul Filmer as chaplain to the campus appeared in the Medway Standard, Medway Messenger and the Faversham News.
The bid to establish a new medical school which is supported by a consortium including Greenwich appeared in Business 550 magazine.
According to the yourCounty website the prize for the winners of the Kent Innovation Challenge receive rent free space at one of three enterprise hubs including the one on the Medway campus.
www.yourcounty.co.uk/business/busnewsarchive/
18106b2.html
Medway Council announced plans for a new innovation centre in partnership with BAE Systems, Greenwich and other partners according to Kent Business.
Further information
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University of Greenwich press releases are now available via Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
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.