What the Papers Say July 2005
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The education supplement of the Guardian profiled Tessa Blackstone in a positive piece
highlighting the beauty of the Maritime Greenwich campus and the diversity of the student body.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1526015,00.html
The Times Higher Education Supplement reported on an AIDS awareness project in South Africa which forms part of the EU funded Tabeisa project run by Greenwich and Coventry universities. Professor John Humphreys explained the background to the project.
According to the Guardian, former lecturer Simon Davis was one of the authors of the London School of Economics report which was critical of the introduction of ID cards.
The Times Higher Education Supplement focussed on the opportunities presented to universities by the successful 2012 London bid. It reported that the Maritime Greenwich campus is partially within the Olympic River zone to be used for the Equestrian and Modern Pentathlon events. It is also planned to use student halls of residences. Sports science are to work with the planned London Olympic Institute (see also the Business School section of this round up).
Business 550 magazine reported on the award of the Customer First quality assurance stamp for Small and Medium sized enterprises.
The appointment of Marc Hume as Director of Enterprise appeared in the Medway Messenger.
Printing World said that Greenwich has named seven suppliers that will be providing printing services for the next three years.
Volunteer students designed and built a sensory garden for residents at the Westcombe Park Elderly Care Home according to Caring UK.
The Medway Messenger said that the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Medway attended a degree ceremony at the Maritime Greenwich campus.
The award of an honorary degree to the Chairman of Charlton Athletic Football Club, Richard Murray, appeared on the club’s website
http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?nid=22409
The award of an honorary degree to Richard Murray also appeared in the Greenwich Mercury.
An article in Greenwich Mercury about the late Sir Edward Heath mentioned his honorary degree from Greenwich.
Co-operation between Greenwich and the Modern Sciences & Arts University in Cairo was highlighted in Business Today Egypt online.
http://www.businesstodayegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=4964
The appointment of Steve Wallis as Director of Recruitment & Admissions was reported by Kent Profile.
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Health & Social Care
The cross-channel health project led by Myriam Brunswic appeared in Kent Profile.
Architecture & Construction
According to the Kent & Sussex Courier, a top fashion designer, Wayne Hemingway of Red or Dead, praised the work of Landscape Architecture and Garden Design Students when he formally opened an exhibition of their work.
The Times Higher Education Supplement included a review Tom Turner’s book Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000BC – 2000AD. Thereview had the interestingheadline: “Green Spaces for Randy Tsarinas and a lovelorn Princess”.
Graduate Nick Bailey is one of the gardening experts who contribute to the magazine Garden Answers.
The appointment of Louise Thomas as the first director of the new Urban Renaissance Institute appeared in Kent on Sunday and Medway News.
Lecturer Brian Hawtin reviewed the Chelsea Flower Show in the July edition of Surrey Life. In the August edition he focussed on tall perennials that can be used at the back of the garden border.
Building Design, KM Extra and theYour County websitesaid that Landscape Architecture students helped design renovation and refurbishment work in Gillingham Park.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/news/archive/210705n2.html
Education & Training
Teacher training subjects in subjects where there is a shortage of staff are receiving extra cash support from the government according to Chris Philpott in the News Shopper.
The new Music in Education PGCE also appeared in the News Shopper.
Maritime Greenwich
Humanities
The Northampton Chronicle said that pop star Natasha Bedingfield had been a Psychology student at Greenwich.
Business
The Times Higher Education Supplement reported that Debi Hayes said that the Olympic games offered opportunities for work based student learning opportunities and those studying for events management degrees (see also General University News).
The Business Standard online (India) said that since Kunal Wadhwani completed Masters in International Business at Greenwich his family’s company Suresh Exports now exports 15,000 metric tonnes of chilli, which is around 13 per cent of the total from India.
According to Lloyd’s List, Matt Housden said that research suggested ferries were often perceived as offering poor value, bewildering tariffs and ambiguous special offers.
A pilot project to gather reliable data about the museum and gallery sector, led by Stuart Davies, was publicised by the Museums Journal.
Uche Nworah, who is studying for a Masters degree at Greenwich, had an article on global poverty on the Global Politician website.
http://globalpolitician.com/articleshow.asp?ID=999&cid=8&sid=59
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Professor Ed Galea criticised a new report by the National Institute of Standards & Technology, an arm of the US Commerce Department, on the 9/11 New York atrocity.
He said that the methodology of the report was suspect and complained about the lack of access to existing data.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,, SB112119780822783597,00.html?mod=todays_free_feature
Professor Galea also urged London Underground to consider adopting the Exodus computer evacuation modelling software software to help reduce the number of fatalities from any future attack on the tube network according to Professional Engineering.
Education & Training
Mike Fairley, a graduate of Garnett College of Education, told readers of the East Kent Gazette about his apprenticeship at WJ Parrett printers.
According to the Colchester Evening Gazette, trainee teachers from the Colchester School Centre Initial Teacher Training consortium were awarded a postgraduate certificate by Greenwich.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
Professor Roger Knight had an article in the Medway Messenger on Nelson’s Medway connections.
General campus news
The Greenwich Society held its annual meeting at the campus according to the News Shopper.
Medway
Medway School of Engineering
The new IT Management for Business degree was mentioned in an article in Independent about how the technology management sector which is now buoyant again and is looking for female recruits.
School of Science
An obituary in the Independent for Letty Norwood who betrayed nuclear secrets to the Soviets, contained a reference to Greenwich. Her husband Hilary was a popular teacher and in 1993 one of his pupils, by now a Professor of Chemistry at Greenwich, named a new laboratory the ‘Norwood Laboratory’.
The Medway Messenger and Kent on Sunday reported that Arron Jennings, a Masters degree student in the Centre for Sports & Exercise Science, was competing in the World Tae Kwon Do Championships in Australia.
Natural Resources Institute
Keith Tomlins ‘Improving Street Vendor Livelihoods and health of consumer in Ghana’ project appeared in a BBC World TV programme called Hands on the Earth. The report was broadcast seven times.
According to all.Africa.com the newly founded Cameroon based Yaounde Initiative Foundation (YIF) will be supported by the university’s Natural Resources Institute. YIF has the goal of improving the health and well being of communities in Africa through the control of mosquitoes and blackflies that transmit diseases such as malaria and river blindness to humans.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506291019.html
Steve Belmain is helping combat diseases carried by rats in Africa according to the Medway Messenger and the KM Extra. A photo in the paper showed him weighing rats in Limpopo, South Africa.
General campus news
The Medway Messenger had a large colour photo taken in the Wardroom during the campus Open Day.
Kent on Sunday said that the campus could be used to provide support for the London 2012 Olympics.
According to the Medway Messenger, Chris Hespe from Kent County Council’s Sports Development said: “Any team heading for the University of Greenwich campus benefits from the facilities at Priestfield and other top local sports sites.”
In Kent on Sunday, Professor Alan Reed discussed local Higher Education developments including the Raising Aspirations Day, Royal Pharmaceutical Society approval for the School of Pharmacy and the Cross-Channel Health project.
The Medway News and Your County website highlighted the building work taking place as part of the Universities at Medway Initiative.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/business/busnewsarchive/ 170705b1.html
Professor Alan Reed focussed on the opportunities available through Clearing In his regular column in Kent Profile.
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