What The Papers Say March 2009
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
Greenwich
The Independent reported that Tim Gore, Director of the Centre for Indian Business, said that the UK-India Education & Research Initiative (UKIERI) does not support any collaboration aimed at recruiting students.
Professional Security, Facilities Management Excellence and Facilities Management Journal reported that Payne Security had provided a new ID Card system for Greenwich.
Students from Greenwich are encouraging youngsters in South East London to go to university as part of an Access Mentoring Programme scheme funded by three charities and additional government funding according to the Greenwich Mercury. The charities are the Rayne Foundation, William Boreman Foundation and AF Trust Company.
According to the News Shopper the University of Greenwich Big Band performed for the Community Association of New Eltham.
The Romford Recorder reported that Greenwich is among those exhibiting at the Careers & Jobs Live exhibition at ExCeL.
A Ghanaian reality TV show is offering the prize of a scholarship to study Information Communications & Technology (ICT) at Greenwich according to a Ghanaian website. Contestants faced a mixture of Apprenticeand Dragons' Den style tasks.
Business
According to the Herts Advertiser, Docklands and Bexley Times a team of Greenwich students organised a charity six-a-side football competition at the Arsenal FC training ground for the Willow Foundation, a national charity for seriously ill 16 to 40-year-olds. As well as former Gunners Ray Parlour and Bob Wilson, current club heroes Theo Walcott, Manuel Almunia and Tomas Rosicky also made a surprise appearance.
Greenwich Time reported that Greenwich students have organised a 1980s fundraising event including music, fancy dress and raffle for Comic Relief which is being held at the Tiki Lounge in Greenwich.
Anna Marr has been awarded £200,000 for a three year micro-finance research project to help some of the world’s poorest people according to Medway Messenger and Greenwich Mercury.
Businessman and former student Jeremy Allison appealed for help in the Medway Messenger and Kent Messenger (Sittingbourne), with research he is conducting into how small businesses in Kent and Medway are managing during the credit crisis.
Business Administration graduate Samantha Stagg has joined Kimberley Clark Professional as a Marketing Assistant according to Cleaning & Maintenance.
Geoff White reviewed a book called Managing Employee Performance and Reward in Industrial Relations Journal.
Susan Corby reviewed a book called New Labour/Hard Labour? Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry in Industrial Relations Journal.
Tourism lecturer James Kennel appeared on BBC’s Politics Show talking about the resurgence of tourism in the South East.
According to the Birmingham Post a group of 35 Bangladeshi finance professionals, academics and educators studied for the ICAEW IFRS certificate at Greenwich.
Kunal Mehta, Public Relations lecturer, argued that PR degrees are more important than ever in PR Week.
Adam Mussett, Events Management Student, was the first potential suitor to meet Leeds College of Art student Alex Humphreys as part of her Husband Project in which she aims to marry a man within the next three months according to the Times online, Sunday Times and the Marketwatch website.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/jockstrip-world-we-know-it/story.aspx?guid=7D&dist=msr_2
An interview with Emanuele Lobina on the role of the World Bank in promoting market based solutions for the reform of water supply and sanitation services in developing countries appeared on the following websites, Spanish based AND and Periodista Digital, Seguí La Flecha in Argentina, Ecuadoran based El Telégrafo, Aporrea in Venezuela and Nuestra Television in Latin America.
International Marketing graduate George Kealy has been appointed the new General Manager for CP Films (Europe, Middle East, India, Africa & Russia) according to Glassonweb website.
http://www.glassonweb.com/news/utils/print.php?id=9162
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Professor Ed Galea had a major role in a BBC Horizon TV programme with the theme ‘How to survive a disaster’. His contributions were based around how long it takes people to react, people have become complacent about fire and people do trivial things rather than evacuate immediately.
According to the Guardian Tony Mann has paid for two abstract mathematical entities in hyperspace to be named after two Tottenham Hotspur footballers, David Bentley and Jermaine Defoe. Tony explained that he was not a Spurs fan but knew that it would wind up Arsenal fan Professor Du Sautoy from Oxford who is organising the charity auction of the names.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/27/tottenham-hotspur-david-bentley-symmetry
Boxer and Greenwich IT graduate Akaash Bhatia was due to appear on Sky Sports in his latest bout according to the Corby Evening Telegraph.
Humanities & Social Sciences
According to History Today Kate Martin has been awarded the prize for best undergraduate dissertation of the year at the History Today awards ceremony at the Tower of London.
According to Medway News Sarah Dunster, Victoria County History Project Director, was giving a talk to at the Medway Archives & Local Study Centre.
Greenwich Law students were awarded the Spirit of the Shield Gong in the London Universities Mooting Shield according to the Lawyer.com website.
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=137188&d=477&h=479&f=478
General campus news
The Observer and News Shopper publicised the Being British exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.
Docklands reported that the Reverend Jeremy Frost had been appointed chaplain for the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at the Old Royal Naval College.
According to the Daily Express Greenwich host revision classes run by Excel in Science.
Docklands reported that the Greenwich Decorative and Fine Arts Society hold their monthly meetings at the campus.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
Matthew Wills, Design & Construction Management graduate, has been promoted to Vice President at the Singapore Office for construction risk managers Hill International according to Globe News Wire.
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=160563
Building Design reported that Professor Alan Powers, chair of the Twentieth Century Society, was among those backing the call for listing of Robin Hood Gardens in Tower Hamlets.
The new presenter of "Gardeners' World" Toby Buckland studied Landscape Management at Greenwich according to the Daily Telegraph.
Robert Holden, Head of Landscape & Garden Design, gave advice in a "So you want to work in Garden Design" feature in the Guardian.
Former lecturer, Nick Bannister, is Education Officer at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health according to Environmental Health Practitioner.
Architects Journal reported on a lecture by Sibylle Heil on the buildings that inspired author JG Ballard.
Education & Training
Dionne Butcher, PGCE Secondary Science student appeared on GMTV with presenter Lorraine Kelly.
According to the Wharf Greenwich is offering a five day course called Preparing to teach in the lifelong learning sector.
Education Executive Secondary reported that Hugh Christie Technology College staff was studying for a new MA Education in conjunction with Greenwich.
Health & Social Care
Angela Leeve, Pre-School leader at Ready Steady Go! Nursery in Bromley is studying at Greenwich according to Nursery World.
Dr Jane Reeves, Research Lead in the Department of Family Care & Mental Health, reviewed a book called Young People’s Transitions from Care to Adulthood, International research & practice in Community Care.
Denise Tiran, midwife and honorary lecturer at Greenwich, gave advice on a healthy pregnancy in Junior.
Dr Jane Reeves also reviewed a book called Young Carers, Parents and their Families: key principles of practice in Community Care.
Harry Chummun had an article published in the British Journal of Nursing titled Understanding changes in cardiovascular pathophysiology.
General campus News
Sports Minister Andy Burnham visited the Sparrows Farm training ground of Charlton Athletic which is next to the campus according to Greenwich Mercury.
Medway
School of Science
The school co-hosted a workshop focusing on cleaning up contaminated land in the South East of England according to Medway Messenger.
According to the University of Ulster website Professor John Nicholson gave the university’s latest Science & society lecture with the title Molecules & Murder.
http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2009/4263.html
The Medway Messenger gave advance publicity to the Poisons: Chemistry and Criminals lecture by Professor John Nicholson.
Natural Resources Institute
Alan Cork’s team at NRI has scooped an International Award of Recognition for its work in controlling pests on aubergine according to Medway Messenger and Freshinfo website.
Dr A.R.W.Smith, Retired Reader in Microbial Biochemistry, criticised the lack of funding on bee research in the UK in a letter to the Times.
According to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation website and Ghananian Times NRI has been conducting a World Bank funded feasibility study into establishing a commodity exchange for cocoa.
General campus news
South East Business reported on some of the services available to business and industry at the campus.
The next Pembroke Lecture at the campus will be about the prison hulks on the River Medway according to the East Kent Mercury, Kent Messenger (Tunbridge Wells & Weald), Kent Messenger (Maidstone), Whitstable Gazette, Kentish Express (Tenterden), Kentish Express (Ashford), Tenterden Kentish Gazette (Canterbury), Kentish Express (Folkestone), Dover Mercury, Herne Bay Gazette, Sheerness Times Guardian, Faversham News, East Kent Mercury and Medway News.
Medway Messenger, Faversham News, Dartford Messenger, Kent Messenger, and Kent Messenger (Sittingbourne) had an article and photo from the Campus Open Day the previous month.
Greenwich students are working with pupils from Chapter School in Strood and Thomas Aveling School in Rochester to encourage them to consider going to university according to the Medway Messenger.
Medway Messenger and Kent Messenger publicised an Open Day to be held at the campus in the middle of the month.
The campus was one of the locations for football comedy film The Shouting Men according to Kent on Sunday, Kentish Saturday Observer and Your Medway.
The Pilkington Library and Drill Hall Library received commendations in the Civic Trust awards according to the Medway Messenger.
Greenwich is among the clients of the Leapfrog nursery according to the Medway Messenger.
Gravesend Rowing Club hosted rowers from Greenwich according to the Gravesend Reporter and Gravesham News Shopper.
Further information
More details on many of these stories and others can be seen on the PR website at: www.gre.ac.uk/pr
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http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/rss.htm
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