What the Papers Say March 2007
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The Times Higher Education Supplement said that Greenwich was recruiting 19 academics across a range of disciplines.
Tessa Blackstone is to be awarded an honorary degree by Queens University, Belfast.
http://www.belfasttoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=3425&ArticleID=2099118
According to the Times Higher Education Supplement quoting Push Guide Greenwich is one of ten English universities that have Irish Societies.
Clickpress.com and CMSwire.com reported that web services company Squiz is hosting a Content Management System seminar at Oxford’s world famous debating society which will include a presentation from Greenwich
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/29072005cp.shtml
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/events/uk-seminar-best-practices-for-web-management-001136.php
Bexley Extra and Bexleyheath & Welling Times said that Greenwich had set low tuition fees for the coming academic year.
According to the Guardian Weekly Tessa Blackstone said that employers wanted ‘bite sized chunks’ of university courses.
Professor John Humphreys and Hua Lu, Reader in Computational Science, were interviewed in an article by the Times Higher Education Supplement about the appointment of researchers on fixed-term contracts. Greenwich is one of the top ten academic employers with the lowest proportion of researchers on fixed-term contracts.
Greenwich graduate Linn Kathenes has been appointed as Outdoor Education & Activities co-ordinator at Caldecott School in Smeeth according to the Kentish Express.
Luton Today reported that David Michael, former chairman of the UK's first Black Police Association, who was awarded an honorary degree by Greenwich is giving a talk in Luton.
Greenwich exhibited at the Careers & Jobs Live event in the ExCel exhibition centre according to Docklands magazine and the Wharf.
http://www.onrec.com/newsstories/15903.asp
The Times Educational Supplement reported on research carried out by training consultant John Pritchard in conjunction with Greenwich found that three quarters of teachers wanted coaching in how to manage their emotions.
A Mothers Day VoxPop in the Dover Express and Folkestone Herald included Physiotherapist technician and Greenwich student Nikita Jewitt.
According to the Luton News Adam Cockfield who is a Karate instructor at Greenwich won his individual events at the Shotokan Shield in Bexleyheath. A team from Greenwich came third at the event.
Think Big, based at Belvedere Business Centre, and Greenwich are planning an e-business conference according to the Bexley News Shopper.
ICKent online said that Reg Hansall (63), a former second row rugby player who played for Thames Polytechnic believed that he may unknowingly have broken his neck in two places while doing so, and only discovered his injuries decades later.
Greenwich
Business
The Woolwich Drama Festival organised by Events Management students was given advance publicity by the Lewisham & Catford News Shopper, the Wharf, Bromley Extra and Bexley Times.
Greenwich launches its International Business in China MBA in September according to an article in the Independent Education supplement about Masters courses ‘that look East’.
Bexleyheath & Welling Times said that the Princess Royal attended the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport workshop held in the Business School.
Utility Week reported that plans for water privatisation in Northern Ireland do not make financial sense for consumers, according to David Hall in the Public Services International Research Unit.
The new Salon Management Foundation Degree was publicised in Greenwich Time and Estetica magazine.
Sue Corby, Reader in Employment Relations, looked at the gender pay gap in an article in Employee Benefits magazine.
According to Incentive & Motivation magazine the Institute of Commercial Management, marketing agency Sense and Greenwich have collaborated to produce an events management training programme.
According to Fish Friers Review, Marketing graduate Mark Petrou, co-owns a chip shop in Chaterris, Cambridgeshire, that has been voted the UK's best chippy at the National Fish & Chip Shop of the Year competition. Mark and his brother were presented with the award by celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott at the event organised by industry body Seafish. http://www.seafish.org/whatsnew/detail.asp?p=ca&id=1450
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Pradeep Bhanot, a Computer Science graduate from Greenwich who is now Director of Product Marketing at Computer Associates Inc provided a guest commentary on some new software on US based SearchWebServices.com
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1249033,00.html
Hertfordshire online mentioned Shaun Donoghue, 45, a former Greenwich lecturer as among those who died in the Paddington rail crash in its reporting of the fine given to Railtrack.
Education & Training
Professor Ian McNay’s monograph Higher Education and the Human Good was mentioned in a front page Times Higher Education Supplement article about the fine balancing act in supporting ill-equipped students while upholding standards. He was also quoted as saying that student numbers have trebled while the cost of processing people through higher education has halved and that cracks were are clearly visible in the system.
According to Safety & Health Practitioner one of their contributors, Kate Beaven-Marks, assistant health & safety manager at the University of East London is currently studying for a EdD at Greenwich.
Professor Ian McNay had a letter published in the Evening Standard appealing for increased resources for universities. He is also critical of increased expectations of staff to be entrepreneurial and increased bureaucracy and many other tasks without necessary support.
Humanities
The Woolwich Drama Festival featuring performances by Humanities students was given advance publicity by the Bexley Extra, Bromley Extra, Lewisham & Catford News Shopper, Bexley News Shopper, Bromley News Shopper, Greenwich & Blackheath News Shopper and Bexley Times.
The Bexley Extra and Bromley Extra had a profile on Head of Drama, Pippa Guard, which also looked at the Woolwich Drama Festival. The Lewisham & Catford News Shopper also reported on the success of the festival.
Carol Kemsley, a Drama and History student from Gillingham, performed a family history monologue at the Woolwich Drama Festival according to the Medway Messenger.
In the New Law Journal Mark Pawlowski considered the court’s power to relieve an unlawful killer from forfeiture of a victim’s estate.
Law graduate Julia Perks has joined the property team at Essex based solicitors, Thompson Smith & Puxon, according to the East Anglian Daily Times online.
General campus news
The Albanian Mail, Lewisham & Catford News Shopper, Bexley News Shopper and Bromley News Shopper publicised the latest exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery. The main feature of the Communication In Between exhibition is a series of ceramic heads and paintings by Albanian artist Genc Mulliqi.
According to Holiday & Leisure magazine, ‘Among the outstanding urban ‘villages’ set south of the River Thames are ….Greenwich, whose park rises up from Sir Christopher Wren’s gracious riverside Naval Hospital, now Greenwich University.’
The campus is hosting the Responsible Tourism Conference according to Travel Weekly.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
Student Lauren Algeo was the runner up in Cog Designs Recognition Awards scheme in which design students were asked to design postcards, according to Design Week.
http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/134365/Recognition+Award+winners.html
The Surrey Herald & Staines News and Staines & Egham News said that Charles Brooking was to be the guest of the Sunbury & Shepperton Local History Society.
Alan Powers, Reader in Architecture & cultural History, reviewed The English House:1000 Years of Domestic Architecture in the RIBA journal.
Health & Social Care
The launch of the new course with Canterbury Christ Church University to train speech and language therapists was reported on by Homecare.
General campus news
The Lewisham & Catford News Shopper reported on the Harry Potter Fun Day organised by the Access & Widening Participation Unit for pupils from Bexleyheath School.
Greenwich Time publicised the Big Band concert being held at the campus.
Medway
School of Engineering
The inaugural lecture by Professor Chun-Qing Li, the Atkins Professor of Civil Engineering, was publicised by Concrete and Kent Business.
According to Kent on Sunday and Medway Standard Engineering courses at the school have won endorsement from the Institute of Engineering & Technology.
Kent Business had an almost full page article on the rapid prototyping service that is available at the university. The story also appeared in the Medway News and Machinery News.
The Medway Messenger and Medway News reported on the installation of a new concrete testing rig at the campus.
Plumbing & Heating Engineering reported that good progress was being made on the Public Health Engineering degree.
The Medway Messenger reported on the record undergraduate applications to the campus.
School of Science
South East Business reported on the award of the Green Technology Award at the Kent Business Awards to Carbon8 Systems, a spin-out company from Greenwich.
The School hosted a workshop to discuss the need to develop new solutions for cleaning up contaminated land according to the South East Business, Southern Business Times and Kent Director.
The Pharmaceutical Journal reported that Greenwich offer a Medicines Management Foundation Degree.
Biomedical Science magazine listed Greenwich as among those who offer degrees in Biomedical Sciences.
Medway School of Pharmacy
Professor Claire Mackie has been appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Kent at Medway according to the Medway Messenger.
General campus news
The Medway Messenger reported on the agreement between Greenwich and Medway Council to work together to make Medway a centre of excellence in Health & Social Care.
The Medway News, Medway Adscene and the Medway Messenger said that Greenwich had been given £3 million extra funding by the Higher Education Funding Council of England for investing in research, protecting science subjects and for additional student numbers.
Kent on Sunday, Medway Messenger and Canterbury Adscene reported that a student newspaper, Pulp, had been launched at the campus.
The Medway News and Medway Messenger said that Greenwich had set low tuition fees for the coming academic year.
The Medway Messenger, KM Extra, Medway Matters (Council newsletter), Kentish Gazette, Medway News and Medway Standard publicised plans for a boat race between crews from Greenwich and the University of Kent on the River Medway, organised by the Universities at Medway Students’ Association. The story also appeared on BBC News online and the Amateur Rowing Assocation website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6426141.stm
http://www.ara-rowing.org/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=1,394,1136,1143
The Medway Messenger (twice), KM Extra, Kentish Saturday Observer and Kent on Sunday publicised the launch of the Kent and Medway Lifelong Learning Network at the campus.
The Medway Standard and Medway Messenger said that National Volunteering Week had been held at the campus.
The Medway Messenger said that Optimum Fitness a business based at the Medway Enterprise Hub, was staging a Health Fair in conjunction with Strood Leisure Centre.
Medway News reported on the launch of the Medway Innovation Centre at Rochester Airport in which Greenwich is a partner.
The Medway Messenger said that Greenwich have advertised a number of new lecturing post at the campus.
Medway Standard said that the campus hosted an awards ceremony promoting healthy lifestyles for twelve local schools.
Kent Director reported that the Universities at Medway campus had received a commendation from the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The Medway Messenger and Medway Standard reported on the increase of five per cent in the number of home undergraduate students applying to study at the campus.
According to the KM Extra a new concrete testing rig has been installed at the campus.
Carol Kemsley, a Drama and History student from Gillingham, performed a family history monologue at the Woolwich Drama Festival according to the Medway Messenger.
The Medway Messenger corrected their error that the Pride of Medway awards were sponsored by the University of Greenwich at Medway. In fact the University of Kent at Medway sponsored them.
Further information
More details on many of these stories and others can be seen on the PR website at:
University of Greenwich press releases are now available via Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/rss.htm
Access to online newspapers such as the New York Times or the Scotsman may require a brief registration process.
Some websites only have stories online for a limited period before they are removed or replaced.
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.