What the Papers Say May 2007
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
Lori Currie, head of student finance at Greenwich, gave advice in the Guardian University Guide. "Try to see the process as an investment in yourself," she says. "Get all the information you can early. Organise a practical budget. Look for part-time work to enhance it. Apply for funding on time and open a bank account. Work hard and pass every year to ensure that you don't have to resit a year."
Student ambassadors from Greenwich have been helping run revision classes for local pupils according to Greenwich Time.
Kent on Sunday had a large article and photo about the new student bursaries funded by the charity Greenwich Hospital.
Business magazine (Gatwick, Surrey & West Sussex) reported that Greenwich with others was part of a South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) contract to develop a Leadership Academy for South East England.
According to Investment Now Start International, who are developers of the London Science & Business Park, has links with Greenwich.
Greenwich is one of the institutions involved in an initial teacher training pilot that aims to ensure children with dyslexia get the support they need in school according to government news distribution service EGovMonitor.
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/10828
Warwickshire Life reported on the Tabeisa project in Ghana to help women working in Ghana’s clothing industry. Greenwich is a co-founder of the project.
The Mayor of Tonbridge & Malling selected being present at the award of an honorary degree to Kelly Holmes by Greenwich as one of highlights of his year of office, according to the Maidstone Extra.
An article in Kent on Sunday about developments in the Creative Quarter at Folkestone said that Greenwich with Canterbury Christ Church are developing the University Centre Folkestone there.
The Folkestone Herald reported on the Open Day at the new University Centre Folkestone.
Greenwich Mercury and Greenwich & Charlton News Shopper publicised Summer Schools at Greenwich. Careers & Lifestyle magazine mentioned the Get Animated course available at the Greenwich Summer School.
According to Eire based Computerscope magazine Greenwich is hosting the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group Annual Conference.
Greenwich students and Greenwich Observatory helped Year 8 puplis from Leigh City Technology College to learn about the stars and planets according to the News Shopper online.
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=1421863
Greenwich
Business
Steve Thomas, Professor of Energy Policy, said that nuclear construction is massively over budget in countries across the world according to ITV.com and Channel 4 news.Com. His report, which was commissioned by Greenpeace, was also reported on by the Guardian, Morning Star, Dundee Evening Telegraph, Tribune and QSWeek.com
http://www.itv.com/news/world_39c8e96a869d495120e723f90015e150.html
In CNBC European Business Steve Thomas questioned which company could make an investment commitment to a nuclear power station due to be completed in 2021 due to the time lag from planning and construction.
The Financial Times, Guardian, allAfrica.com and Reuters Online reported on research by David Hall, Director of the PSIRU, that dispute upbeat findings that private equity groups create jobs at the companies they acquire. He was also interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200705220257.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/200705211126.html
According to US Based Businesswire website Greenwich business graduate William "Bill" Wilkins has joined Minerals Technologies Inc as Vice President, Global Supply Chain & Logistics.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Professor Chris Bailey gave interviews to the following media after the Cutty Sark fire. He and his team had already been making computer models to examine how the ship could be lifted to allow a visitor centre to be built beneath it. BBC News 24, GMTV, Sky News, BBC Radio London, Capital Radio, BBC Radio 4’s Learning Curve and the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Experts from Greenwich were already helping with the restoration according to Kent on Sunday online
The Kentish Saturday Observer said that experts from Greenwich are helping with the restoration of the Cutty Sark.
The Guardian chose mathematics student Noel-Ann Bradshaw as an example of a mature student. The article was prompted by NUS plans to refocus their services more on mature and part-time students.
The Naval Architect had an article recommending a new model for ship evacuation.
Education & Training
Professor Ian McNay had a letter published in the Times Higher Education Supplement about top-up fess. He argued that it was too early to gauge their effect.
Humanities
Charlotte Speechly, Media Culture & Communications graduate has joined Chemist & Druggist as a reporter according to the magazine.
Senior Lecturer, Sarah Greer, asked if gender bias is inherent in the presumption of advancement in an article in the New Law Journal.
General campus news
Coverage of Greenwich Alive, celebrating ten years of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, in the Bexley Mercury, Greenwich Mercury and Lewisham Mercury said that the site was home to the university.
The British Universities Sports Association held their AGM at the campus according to the BUSA website.
Time Out said that the Old Royal Naval College houses the University of Greenwich in their Guide to ‘Village London’.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
According to the Brunei Times online architecture graduate, Yang Mulia Pengiran Khairul Khalil, is to marry into the Brunei Royal Family.
http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=31806
Project Management Postgraduate Amanda Henry was among those featured in an article in the Surveyor on a new project to draw women into the construction industry. She said, “I loved being on site with the team, and gaining first-hand experience with people who actually do the job.’
Architecture student Lauren Algeo has won an award for her design to celebrate Recognition Day according to the Lewisham News Shopper.
Education & Training
Patrick Ainley had a letter published in The Guardian about the abortive cost of Connexions youth support services.
He also had another letter published on blogs and ‘bloogs’ in which he took the opportunity to promote his new book, Education Make you Fick, Innit?
Health & Social Care
Nearly half of student nurses in the south east of England have been verbally abused according to research by Professor Liz Meerabeau and Terry Ferns as reported by Channel 4 News website, Walsall West Midlands Express & Star, Wolverhampton Express & Star, Healthcarerepublic.com, Staff Nurse.com, Belfast Telegraph, Reading Evening Post, Liverpool Daily Post, Worcester Evening News, Manchester Evening News, Nursing Standard, Nursing Times, and Onmedica.net.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/student+nurses+suffer+verbal+abuse/485687
http://www.healthcarerepublic.com/news/NURSE/654405/50-student-nurses-verbally-abused/
http://www.staffnurse.com/nursing-news-articles/misery-of-student-nurse-placements-2425.html
http://www.onmedica.net/content.asp?c=40210&t=1
According to the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail online singer Natasha Bedingfield was a former psychology student at Greenwich. The story also appeared in the Observer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/05/03/bmnat103.xml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/you/article.html?in_article_id=451155&in_page_id=1908
Bexleyheath & Welling Times reported that Angela Bromley has completed a PhD in Midwifery.
According to the Kidderminster Shuttle a therapeutic counselling graduate is launching a counselling group at Wyre Forest Clinic.
Greenwich is sharing health lessons with students and staff from the University of Washington at Seattle according the News Shopper.
The Speech and language therapy course featured twice in the Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Specifically about thestart of the new postgraduate course and an innovative way of training students to work with people with aphasia, which is a loss of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language.
Medway
School of Engineering
A giant engineering consultancy (Atkins) is investing in civil engineering according to Kent Business. The article looked at the concrete testing facility and appointment of Professor Chun Qing Li as Atkins Professor of Civil Engineering.
The Medway Messenger and Medway Standard gave advance publicity to the School of Engineering Open Day on May 19.
The Medway Messenger also reported on the Engineering Open Day after the event.
The KM Extra and Medway Messenger gave advance publicity to the Smallpiece Trust event for teenagers to design a racing car.
The Medway Messenger and Medway Standard reported on the appointment of Malcolm Butler as Principal Engineering Systems lecturer.
School of Science
Spin out company Carbon8 were the winners of the 2007 Kent Innovation Challenge according to the Medway Messenger.
According to Kent Business, East Kent Gazette, Faversham Times and Kent Director Greenwich is supporting, with others, a Foundation Degree for those wanting to become laboratory scientists or bio-manufacturing technologists, based at Kent Science Park.
Samantha Booth, a postgraduate biochemistry student has been helping pupils from Northfleet School for Girls and Northfleet Technology College prepare for their GCSE exams in out of hours club according to Medway Messenger and Kentish Saturday Observer.
The Medway News, KM Extra, and Medway Messenger had large articles and photos on the Salter’s Science Festival hosted by the School of Science.
Natural Resources Institute
Professor John Morton, a specialist on the impact of climate change on farmers in developing countries, is a lead author for the United Nations IPCC report on climate change, according to the Medway Messenger, KM Extra, Greenwich & Blackheath News Shopper and Greenwich Mercury.
Eureka magazine reported on a simple and potentially low cost method for detecting small amounts of unwanted chemical substances developed by Ray Coker, Emeritus Professor of Food Safety.
Medway School of Pharmacy
Chemist & Druggist reported that Alison Coll had been named as British Pharmaceutical Association Student of the Year.
General campus news
BBC South East and Meridian reported from the first Medway Boat Race. The Medway Messenger also had a full page article with photos reporting the results.
Kent Director 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 Medway Messenger, Medway News, Lewisham News Shopper and Kent Director reported on the Boat Race trophies that had been unveiled for the event.
Medway Messenger and KM Extra reported on the opening of the new Pilkington building by Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further Education and Higher Education.
Kent Director said that Clare Mackie has been appointed a Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Kent at Medway.
Medway Standard reported on the new student bursaries funded by the charity Greenwich Hospital.
Kent Director reported that a student newspaper, Pulp, had been launched at the campus.
Kent on Sunday and Kentish Saturday Observer said the campus is hosting higher education taster days in July and September.
KM Extra publicised a conference called Naval Connections which will be held on the campus in September. The event will provide information on how to research ancestors that were in the Royal Navy or worked at Chatham Dockyard.
Medway Messenger reported on the Summer Play Scheme at the campus.
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.
http://www.greenwich.ac.uk/lib/products/az.html