What The Papers Say October 2009
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The award of Nobel Prize for Physics to Charles Kao – ‘Graduate of Woolwich Polytechnic wins Nobel Prize’ and ‘Woolwich Poly to Nobel Prize via information superhighway’ were headlines in the Times and Times On Line. ‘He studied at Woolwich Poly ……now he’s won a Nobel Prize’ Daily Mail, ‘Greenwich Poly lad wins a Nobel Prize’ in London Lite and ‘Nobel Prize for former Woolwich man’ in Greenwich Time (Greenwich Council newspaper) The Daily Telegraph also had a photo of the sign outside the Students’ Union Cooper building.
The story also appeared in the Guardian, Independent, London Evening Standard, Birmingham Mail, Yorkshire Post, Bexley Times, Medway Messenger, Greenwich Mercury, Dundee Evening Post & Telegraph, Earth Times, Electronics Weekly, Engineering & Technology, Wharf, First Post, together with the following websites; BBC.co.uk, PA News Wire, News Shopper, WorldNews, Silobreaker.com, Journal Listed.com, News On Feeds.com, WOTnews.com, Physics World.com and others.
Greenwich works in partnership with Advisors in Mental Health Services according to Professional Social Work.
Greenwich has appointed Heneghan Peng as architects for its new School of Architecture & Construction and Library according to the RIBA Journal, Meridian, Guide and Masthead (monthly newsletter of South East London Chamber of Commerce).
According to the Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire Evening Post, Birmingham Post, BusinessDesk website, Insider Daily (North West Business), Facilities Management Journal, and Northside, support services company Resource have been awarded a contract for cleaning, janitorial and portering services.
Indian based website CIOL (Cybermedia India Online Limited) the Toonz Academy can enrol for Greenwich Games & Entertainment Technologies degree.
Indian based websites Pagalguy.com and Webnewswire.com reported that Apeejay Svran International College had introduced an MBA in conjunction in Greenwich. The programme is promoted by the UK –India Education & Research Initiative (UKIERI).
According to Criminal Law & Justice Weekly Frances Crook, Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, was a governor at Greenwich for six years.
Walsall Advertiser reported that Greenwich second year student and aspiring middle distance athlete Ejiro Okoro and others from the On Camp with Kelly [Holmes] initiative attended a cooking masterclass with celebrity chef Ainsley Harriot.
Greenwich graduate Jackie D’Arcy is giving advice on career development and successful job applications in the South Belfast News.
John Wallace, Administrative Secretary, had a letter published in Chartered Secretary about archiving that publication.
According to the Greenwich Mercury Greenwich has invested in a fleet of electric vehicles for use at all three campuses.
Malaysian based New Straits Times website reported that Greenwich is twinned with SEGI University College in Kuala Lumpur.
Falmouth Packet reported that degree courses at Truro and Penwith College are validated by Greenwich.
Greenwich
Business
According to the Daily Telegraph Business Administration student, Leon Elias, is a member of the Ellis United five a side football team that won the Twilight Football Competition and dream trip to represent their country against Italy.
The Daily Telegraph and Bristol Evening Post reported Professor Stephen Thomas as saying that energy bills will have to rise to pay for nuclear energy.
Bristol Evening Post reported that Professor Stephen Thomas spoke to residents of Shepperdine near Bristol who are fighting plans to build a new nuclear power station about the questionable economics of nuclear power generation.
According to the Daily Mail Greenwich and Bexley College run a Foundation Degree in Salon Management in conjunction with L’Oreal.
Masters graduate Anthony Cox produced a report on security for desktops, laptops and mobile Services according to Reuters.
Chicago Tribune reported that Privatization is used as a way of laundering taxation so that it does not appear as taxation according to a Greenwich study.
Greenwich Time and Greenwich News Shopper publicised the Women in Business Forum which will be held at the campus next month.
According to New Zealand based Scoop website an advisory document by Lobina and Hall from Greenwich, which gives a very detailed analysis of the economic, social, and environmental cost to the UK taxpayer of the privatisation of water was raised in the New Zealand parliament.
Peter Graham, Senior Lecturer in human resources and organisational behaviour was one of the judges for the Times Consultant of the Year competition according to the Times.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
According to Trading Markets.com Robert Brown who is studying for a PhD in Ship Evacuation Simulation has been awarded a scholarship by Engineers Canada, with Manulife Financial and TD Insurance Meloche Monnex.
Greenwich Mercury reported that Professor Ed Galea said it was imperative that local councils carry out risk assessments on all their high rise properties and if appropriate put in measures to make them safe.
Greenwich picked up the outstanding research team award for its work in using computational mechanics to help restore the Cutty Sark in the Times Higher Education Awards according to the Greenwich Mercury and Medway News.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Sarah Greer had an article published in the Legal Executive Journal with the heading A clear direction – The Law Lords have ended the uncertainty over proprietary estoppels.
Bromley Times publicised the performance by Greenwich students of the Steven Berkoff play, East.
Times Higher Education publicised the launch of Greenwich’s Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences.
A new book looking at the industrial history of the Medway valley has been launched according to the Medway Messenger and KM Extra. The project was led by Dr Andrew Hann at Greenwich.
Lady Judy Buckley, MA graduate, has written a book titled For the Good of This Town; Jurats of Maidstone 1549 to 1660 according to Kent Messenger.
The Wharf reported on the launch of the Institute of Converging Arts with an international symposium entitled Of Clouds And Clocks: When Art Met the Web Sciences.
General campus news
Private Eye mentioned the ‘Royal Naval Hospital (now Greenwich University)’ in an article about the hosting of the Olympic Games in Greenwich Park.
Greenwich Mercury publicised the University of Greenwich Big Band concert at the campus.
The Brick & Mortar supplement in the Times about Deptford mentioned the Greenwich student population.
An article in the Hong Kong Standard about the Woolwich Arsenal housing development said that Greenwich and Goldsmiths were nearby. Another article in the same publication said that the university is just a stone’s throw away from Greenwich Creekside.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
An architect from Greenwich has offered to design a new boathouse for disabled sailors at Rotherhithe according to Southwark News.
According to Graduate Recruitment Bureau website Vipin Dhunnoo, who has graduated in architecture was rewarded for his mentoring at Bexley Business Academy, Eltham Hill and Blackfen Schools with a national Aim Higher award.
Professor Alan Powers has chosen eight buildings for an exhibition in Bexhill on Sea to celebrate the 175th anniversary of RIBA according to Building Design.
Education & Training
Patrick Ainley had a letter published in Times Higher Education championing the usefulness of knowledge.
According to Times Higher Education Gwynne Wilson-Brown, behaviour consultant and teacher trainer at Greenwich, said that those that disrupted class were usually boys with no positive role-models but it would be wrong to attribute their behaviour solely to coming from lone-parent families.
Stoke-On-Trent Sentinel reported that Simon Line, the manager of Hednesford football club is a Greenwich graduate.
The Jewish Tribune reported that 20 trainee student teachers are studying at the London School of Jewish Studies with support from Greenwich.
Health & Social Care
The Social Care supplement of the Guardian profiled Greenwich social work graduate Maureen Ogbolu who is a social worker for Essex County Council.
Midwifery student Keely Howard has moved into a new apartment in Eltham according to First Time Buyer.
PhD student, Gemma Mansi, has appealed to young dads on Sheppey to help with her research according to the Sheerness Times Guardian.
Medway
School of Engineering
Professor Mike Bradley is giving the first talk titled The Science of Powder for the newly formed Café Scientifique according to the Medway Messenger, News Shopper, BBC Radio Kent, Kent Online, Kentevent.co.uk, Heart FM and KentTV websites.
Eureka reported that researcher Karol Ariza-Zafra argued that the addition of an upwards facing cone inside a hopper could significantly reduce the tendency for solids to including steel, cement, food, and plastic to separate.
An Information Technology Management for Business degree student praised the course in a letter to Computing.
Engineer Live reported that the Wolfson Centres Pneumatic Conveying Test rig has been rebuilt.
School of Science
Nutrition expert Dr Tatiana Christides will explore the link between obesity and diabetes in a public lecture according to Medway Messenger, Kentish Express, Herne Bay Gazette, Dover Mercury, East Kent Mercury and the News Shopper, Heart FM, Kent Event and KentTV websites.
Professor Babur Chowdry, Dr Bruce Alexander and Dr Samia Jabeen were the authors of an article titled Raman spectroscopy in pharmaceutical analysis.
Kent Director reported that the school had appointed nine specialist science research staff.
Three MSc Environmental Conservation students are going to Australia to take part in an exciting project using Charles Darwin’s science according to the Times of India and the Indian based Western Times.
Kent Director reported thata pioneering academic partnership led to nine biotechnology students from Egypt spending three weeks in the school.
According to the Chester Leader Greenwich Sports Science student, Paul Lorraine, play football for AFC Wimbledon.
Natural Resources Institute
In the university’s regular Kent Profile column Professor David Hall explained some of the work that NRI are carrying out to protect UK crops against pests such as the apple leaf midge, raspberry midge and blackcurrant leaf midge.
The Naturalchoices.co.uk website reported on a study by NRI found that there is growing evidence that the Fairtrade scheme has a positive effect on producers.
According to Nepalese based website Republica and Himalayan News Service
Dr Richard Fuchs said that there is no correlation between the WFP food and diarrhoea deaths.
Medway School of Pharmacy
MPharm student Samantha Hayman won third prize in an essay writing contest run by the Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association according to Kent Messenger and KM Extra.
General campus news
Medway Messenger and Navy News reported that the University of Greenwich commemorated the aerial bombing of the Drill Hall in 1917. At the ceremony member of staff Neil Saunders read his poem, The Clock Just Froze.
Medway Messenger and Your Medway reported that Greenwich and other universities and colleges in Kent are launching a joint travel initiative a car sharing website called 5SHARE.
KM Extra reported that Greenwich students were among the students settling into the new University of Kent hall of residences.
Medway Messenger, Medway News and Kent News website reported on the find of a 80 year old sailor’s hat and food tins during renovation work at the campus.
Nine new research jobs at university reported the Medway Messenger. The posts in the School of Science, School of Engineering and NRI include researchers in breast cancer detection methods, bone tissue reconstruction, improving crop disease resistance and better mobile phone performance.
Student numbers at the Universities at Medway campus are expected to grow by 50 per cent in the next few years to 15,000 according to the Medway Messenger.
Medway Messenger reported that Shahid Malik MP, Thames Gateway Minister, visited the Universities at Medway campus
Times Higher Education, Medway Messenger and the Dover Express reported that Greenwich have teamed up local organisations in Kent and Medway to boost local businesses through the Business Innovation Group.
Greenwich students are among those informing Broadstairs students about university life according to Your Thanet.
The Mayor of Medway attended the Greenwich degree ceremonies according to the Medway Messenger.
Medway Children’s Trust is launching a series of Parent Carer Forums at the campus according to Medway Messenger.
Medway Messenger publicised Prue Waller’s film on Chatham Dockyard which will be the next ‘Pembroke lecture’ next month.
Kings Hill
University Centre Folkestone
Kent on Saturday publicised the University Centre Folkestone in an article about Further Education in Kent.
Frontrunner XT matting has been installed at the entrance to UCF according to Building for Education, Contract Floors, FM World and Further Education Today.
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