What The Papers Say June 2008
(Individual campus news follows below)
Tim Gore, who will join Greenwich in September as Director of the Centre for Indian Business, was the example of someone studying for a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) in the Independent.
In the Times Good University Guide, Greenwich was rated third highest for numbers of students from ethnic minorities and one of only two universities that is charging less than the maximum allowed for tuition fees.
Kent on Sunday reported on the appointment of Tim Gore as Director of the Centre for Indian Business.
According to the Tenby Observer, Welsh artist and Greenwich graduate (2005), Jacqueline Lewis, is exhibiting in Tenby this month.
Marking National Volunteer Week, Kent on Sunday and Medway Messenger reported on the volunteering that Greenwich students and staff have undertaken.
Three West Thames College students will be attending the National Youth Theatre workshop at Greenwich in August according to Hounslow & Isleworth Informer.
Greenwich Time had a large article about a fun day held by the Avery Hill Day Nursery to raise funds for an area where children can learn about trees, plants, insects and the weather.
The Bahamian-based Freeport News reported that Greenwich was one of the universities that had offered places to graduates of the Lucaya International School.
The Greenwich Mercury reported that Greenwich was, along with others, contributing to the creation of an all-weather synthetic pitch at the Well Hall sports ground in Eltham.
The Folkestone Herald, Dover Express and Romney Marsh Herald reported that the University Centre Folkestone was running free business courses under the Step Up to Business Scheme.
Greenwich
Business
South African based Independent, Star, Mail & Guardian, I-Africa and Dispatch Online reported that Professor Steve Thomas had appeared on the country’s M-Net's television programme, Carte Blanche, arguing that there were serious problems with SA's pebble-bed nuclear project.
www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn20080609104856817C150464
http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=214032
Water experts including Emanuele Lobina from Greenwich are worried about the effect the EU's 'Lisbon Treaty' could have on the sector if it comes into force. They say it will promote competition to an extent where private companies will effectively be given a greater role in the water sector, according to Euractiv.com.
http://www.euractiv.com/en/environment/eu-water-privatisation-schemes-failing/article-173287
Business and Marketing graduate Sarah Lane has set up a craft hobby shop in Dereham, according to the Dereham & Fakenham Times.
Extroverts ‘have a lower threshold of boredom’ according to Max Tookey, Senior Lecturer in Organisational behaviour’ in an article about work boredom in the Guardian.
The Centre for Indian Business has appointed Mukul Kasliwal as Chairman, according to Eastern Eye and the Wharf.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Research by Professor Ed Galea’s Fire Safety Research Group for the Civil Aviation Authority shows that the seats with the best survival rate are in the emergency exit row and the row in front or behind it, according to the Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Irish Independent, Wolverhampton Express & Star, Belfast Telegraph, Glasgow Daily Record and Daily Mail, Tiscali News, ThaiIndian, Hindustan Times, the Hindu, Indian based Economic Times and Financial Express, South African based Times, Adelaide Advertiser, Perth Now, and The Australian, Breaking Travel News websites and US based Cheers and Fox News websites,German based website Short News.com and Business Tourism publication Mice News.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4214998.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/26/theairlineindustry.travelnews
http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/hartley/2008/06/26/research-finds-the-safest-seat-on-an-airplane/
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23929473-23349,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23928588-5013357,00.html
Professor Tony Mann has been announced as one of the Higher Education Academy’s National Teaching Fellows, according to Times Higher Education.
Professor Ed Galea and a team of international colleagues have won a grant of two million Euros from the European Union for research into why people from different countries behave differently in a crisis, according to Times Higher Education.
According to the Manchester Evening News and Birmingham Post, a Greenwich student was among the winners in the sixth annual Microsoft Imagine Cup. Ben Nunney from Greenwich and Dominic Green from Manchester winning project was for a suite of computer-based educational games called ‘EnviroMatch’, aimed at introducing school children to environmental issues.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1053367_eco_game_could_net_big_prize
Tony Mann reviewed a new book called Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the back of a Cocktail Napkin in Times Higher Education.
According to Digital Podcast .com, Computer Science graduate Peter Hodge has been appointed CEO of Virsona Inc. Florida-based Peter has worked with and for some of the biggest names in the technology industry.
Education & Training
Professor Ian McNay had a letter published in the Evening Standard writing that, contrary to some assertions, UK universities provide a good standard of education although there is much room for improvement.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Greenwich students received careers advice from Canary Wharf professionals including Jeremy Marshall from Credit Suisse at a special employability event according to Dockands.
Law student Nooreen Issany has been named Law Student of the Year by the National Mentoring Consortium, according to the BBC London website, Medway Messenger, Medway Extra, and the Peninsula.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/print/london/content/articles/2008/06/09/greenwich_law_prize_feature.shtml
‘What constitutes detriment for the purpose of supporting a common intention constructive trust?’, asks Professor Mark Pawlowski in Solicitors Journal.
Edward Willard, who is studying for a PhD Philosophy at Greenwich, reviewed a book on Badiou, Balibar and Ranciere in Metapsychology.
English student, Iqbal Hussain, was the subject of the What’s on your iPod feature in the East London Advertiser.
General campus news
The Picture of Health consultation which scrutinised plans to reorganise healthcare across south-east London held a feedback event at the campus, according to the Bexley Times and News Shopper.
Greenwich and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply hosted an academic forum at the campus, according to Supply Management.
A photo caption in Greenwich Mercury referred to ‘performers outside the University of Greenwich.’
The campus is hosting the annual conference of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group according to PR-CANADA.Net, and US based PR Web, PR USA and E-MediaWire.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
AJ (Architects Journal) listed the five finalists for the 3DReid's annual Student Prize, which rewards 'the best of the best' from the UK's schools of architecture including Laurence Becker from Greenwich. Previous victors include Paula Robertson from Greenwich, a joint winner in 2006 who went on to join the practice.
Alan Powers, Professor of Architecture and Cultural History, reviewed a book titled Architect and Engineer: A study in sibling rivalry in Times Higher Education.
The Newshopper profiled architecture as a career giving the A-level results required for entry by Greenwich.
Alan Powers appealed for help with a monograph about Aldington Craig + Collinge in AJ (Architects Journal).
Tom Turner reviewed Gardens: An essay on the Human condition by Robert Pogue Harrison in Times Higher Education.
Health & Social Care
Singer Natasha Bedingfield studied psychology at Greenwich, according to an interview with US-based website Phillyburbs, in the hopes that it would make her a better songwriter.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/81-06102008-1547023.html
According to Disability Now, psychology graduate Rebekah Craig, is studying for a doctorate in clinical psychology at University College London.
Medway
School of Engineering
The Medway Standard reported that Professor Alan Reed has been presented with the Bulk Solids Handling Award by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
According to Building Talk, Greenwich staff and students will again be taking part in the Constructionarium with support from Byrne Bros and Atkins at the National Construction College in October.
In the Manufacturer Dr Alec Coutroubis argued that fuel costs for shipping will slow down world trade.
School of Science
The monthly Greenwich feature in Kent Profile focussed on sustainability with an article by Dr Tim Acott, Centre for Sustainability Manager, and the first annual conference of the Kent and Medway Lifelong Learning Network.
In the Medway Standard Jacqueline Gould, who studied geology, appealed for sponsors to help her accomplish her dream of competing in archery in the 2012 Olympics.
Natural Resources Institute
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has backed an NRI initiative to support cassava producers in Africa with a $13.1 million grant according to Kent Profile, Nigerian based Punch, Nigerian Compass, and the Newsletter of the International Society For Plant Pathology.
http://www.isppweb.org/nljun08.asp
BBC South East Today (Regional ITV News), Kentish Saturday Observer, Kent on Sunday, Only Kent website reported that the fruit of the African Baobab tree could be the next nutritious food to appear on UK supermarket shelves with a report carried out by the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), part of the University of Greenwich at Medway, predicting it could provide a lifeline to millions of farming families.
http://www.onlykent.com/20080602/kent-scientists-predict-african-fruit-export-could-transform-lives/
According to ModernGhana.com website, NRI is conducting studies into the possibility of establishing a commodities exchange for soft or agriculture commodities.
http://www.modernghana.com/print/171303/1/boost-for-cocoa-production.html
The BBC, Daily India website, Daily Telegraph and Indian based Smash Hits, Top News and News Track India websites, Malaysia Sun and US based Cheers website reported Dr John Orchard’s comments about the new project to reveal the DNA code of chocolate. He said that it was essential to develop hardier varieties of cocoa. “The cocoa crop is particularly vulnerable to disease. Sixty percent of the Brazilian harvest was wiped out by a disease called witches recently and this kind of impact is not uncommon."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7474278.stm
General campus news
Medway Messenger reported that Professor Alan Reed said that Medway now has an embarrassment of university riches. “We are already two years ahead of target, with 5,000 students. Now the region has to address how to meet the challenges that come with that.”
The Kent and Medway Lifelong Learning Network met at the campus to report on progress according to South East Business, Kent on Sunday and Kentish Saturday Observer.
Medway Messenger explained that Medway would shortly have four universities including Greenwich and one college of further education.
Medway Messenger reported that the launch of the Medway regeneration ambassador scheme was held at the campus.
Purple Bar hosted a concert by two heavy metal acts according to the Sheppey Gazette, East Kent Gazette and Faversham Times.
Kings Hill
Kent on Sunday reported that Kings Hill Conference Centre has increased the number of rooms available at the centre.
Kent Business referred to the conference centre in an article about the facilities at Kings Hill.
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