What the Papers Say October 2006
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The Independent had a photo and article on the award of an honorary degree to Kelly Holmes. The story also appeared in the Daily Star, and on British Satellite News (a free television news and features service which provides coverage of worldwide topical events and stories from a British perspective.)
http://www.bsn.org.uk/view_all.php?id=12280
The Indian based Statesman, Bangalore edition of the Hindu, the Kolkata edition of the Hindustan Times, the Economic Times in Mumbai, Economic Times in Kolkata and Telegraph India online reported on the agreement with Training and Advanced Studies in Management And Communication ltd (TASMAC) to provide MSc degrees in computing, computer systems & networking and enterprise software engineering Greenwich in India.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061026/asp/calcutta/
story_6918182.asp
http://www.thestatesman.org/page.arcview.php?
clid=30&id=162960&usrsess=1
Kevin Behn, Deputy Personnel Manager said in People Management that age and length of service needs to be replaced with a more qualitative assessment of the value and depth of previous experience.
The Haslemere Messenger reported that Greenwich and others validated degree programmes at the Higher Education Centre at Guildford College.
The write-up about Greenwich on Guardian online is available at,
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/universityguide/
profile/story/0,,486085,00.html
The Evening Standard and Online Recruitment.com reported that Greenwich was one of the exhibitors at the Evening Standard Metro Careers & Jobs Live fair at Earls Court.
http://www.onrec.com/newsstories/13936.asp
The participation of Greenwich in the DTI organised Science for Security Trade Mission to Boston and Washington DC was publicised by the Government News Network.
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?ReleaseID=237643&
NewsAreaID=259&NavigatedFromSearch=True
The Independent now included a description of each UK university, including Greenwich, taken from the Push Guide to Universities.
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Health & Social Care
The Nursing Standard reported on the launch of the new Primary Care assistant practitioner foundation degree.
According to the East Kent Mercury Greenwich is looking for eight to ten people from Eythorne for research into health inequalities.
Architecture & Construction
According to Pattaya Today website Gavin Prefect, Design & Construction graduate, is the Managing Director of estate agents Paradise City Property in Pattaya, Thailand.
http://www.pattayatoday.net/index.php?action=
show&type=news&id=1913
Urban regeneration company 1st East and the University of Greenwich ‘School of Urbanism’ gave Lowestoft students the opportunity to have their say on how the town may grow in the future according to the Lowestoft Journal.
Education & Training
An article on the front page of the Times Education Supplement examined research from the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education & Training of which Geoff Stanton, Visiting Research Fellow, was the co-author. The report concluded that the lowest socio-economic groups are most likely to continue studying post-16 where there is a system of FE and sixth form colleges. It was also the subject of the Editors comment. The story also featured in the Morning Star.
The report is available at: http://tinyurl.com/ycyvob
In the Guardian letter column Patrick Ainley was critical of city technology courses and ‘the corruption endemic to this new mixed economy in the new market-state.’
Maritime Greenwich
Humanities
Sharon Norris looked at the composition of the Man Booker Prize judging panel in an article in the Times Higher Education Supplement arguing that they were not representative of ‘ordinary’.
Craig Morris, lecturer and programme leader was the winner of the First Impressions competition in the Times Higher Education Supplement by identifying Sugar Street by Naguib Mafouz from it’s opening line.
The New Statesman listed the History, Philosophy & Politics degree at Greenwich among the political science degrees available.
Business
According to the Dartford Messenger Rosemarie Warren, a student from North West Kent College, won a £150 prize from Greenwich as the highest achiever among students from four Kent colleges as part of her HND in business studies.
Mortgage Finance Gazette had a large article by John Smullen from the Business School and Fiancial Services advisers Capco on research they had done on why house prices behave as they do and why investors invest in them. They conclude that housing appears to be the least risky investment.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Professor Ed Galea explained the likelihood of plane crashes and passenger survival in the Radio Times, BBC Focus, Sun, andBrazilian based Correio Braziliense newspaper.
He also gave a series of radio and TV interviews to the BBC World Service, Radio 4 Today programme, Radio 5 Live, BBC Wales, BBC World TV, LBC Nick Ferrari show, BBC World Service News Hour, BBC World Service World Update, British Forces Radio, BBC Northern Ireland, BBC NEWS 24, ABC (Australia) Radio, BBC World Service TV Brazil, BBC Southern Counties radio, Austrian Broadcasting Commission, FM3, programme Reality Check, Dublin Radio, South African Radio, American ABC TV for their news commentary programme Nightline and Colombian based Caracol Radio.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1755125.htm
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006460113,00.html
The murder of Final Year Maths with Business student, Stevens Nyembo-Ya-Muteba was reported on by the Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror online, Evening Standard, Sunday Times, New Nation, Hackney Gazette and Life Style Extra online.
The Autonomics Research Group headed by Richard Anthony is part of a 2.9 million euro project to develop cars of the future according to The Engineer and Engineering Talk.
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/uer/uer114.html
http://www.e4engineering.com/Articles/296543/
On20road20intelligence.htm
Education & Training
An opinion piece in the Times Higher Education Supplement by Professor Ian McNay titled ‘We sacrifice our souls on the altar of employability’ looked at the potential drawbacks if university values are allowed to wither. He argued that ‘quality assurance processes have, paradoxically, constrained quality by discouraging diverse approaches to learning.” Although the report is measured and talks of risk, tendencies and concerns the reporting of it was more dramatic. The front page story had the headline ‘Academia has sold out, 72% believe’ and described the report as “explosive new research”. The story also appeared in the Society supplement of the Times.
The articles are based is a monograph called Higher Education and the Human Good edited by Professor McNay and Jennifer Bone, former pro vice-chancellor of the University of West England.
http://olc.gre.ac.uk/ET/VPPISurvey.nsf
Thelma Taylor, Julie Lindsay, Mike Dawson and Barbara Levick are celebrating after completing an MA in Education according to the Medway Messenger and the Medway News.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
Professor Sarah Palmer, Director of the GMI, reviewed a book on shipping containers called The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the
Economy Bigger in the Times Higher Education Supplement.
General campus news
RSVP magazine lists the university as one of six locations in Maritime Greenwich which is available for events booking.
Pablo Imani is showing his work at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery according to the Greenwich Mercury.
The Lewisham News Shopper and the Bexley & Eltham Express gave advance publicity to the campus Open Day in the middle of the month.
Docklands News said that the university is one of six Greenwich venues which have made investments to make them more attractive as business meeting and conference centres.
Medway
School of Engineering
Kent Business said that studying for a degree in engineering at the campus is a good career choice.
Senior academics from a Chinese university visited the Wolfson Centre according to Professional Engineering and Kent Profile.
South East Business reported that school were linking up with Cummins Power Generation to provide engineering courses to their employees.
In his regular column in Kent Profile Professor Alan Reed explained the efforts that were being made locally to address the local ‘education gap’ raised by the Council for the Protection of Rural England.
The Chemical Engineer said that the joint Greenwich and Surrey Quality in particulate based manufacturing project was on the shortlist for The Chemistry Innovation KTN Ward for Innovation in Applied Catalysis and Colloid Science at the Institute of Chemistry Gala Awards (IChemE) 2006. According to Materials Handling World online the Wolfson Centre was highly commended at the awards.
http://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/bsp/10130/ews.asp?
DBID=103-281-013-067&ipgae=1&id=3968
School of Science
Building Talk online, Kentish Saturday Observer and Kent on Sunday reported that Carbon8 Systems, the first major spin-out company from the University of Greenwich, scooped the prestigious Green Chemical Technology Award.http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/usi/usi102.html
Engineering Talk mentioned both the success of Carbon8 and the particulate based manufacturing project.
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/uer/uer115.html
Biomedical Scientist reported that Lauren Baker was the winner of the Institute of Biomedical Science President’s Prize at Greenwich.
Former member of staff Dr Alasdair Bruce was the subject of a front cover and full page article in Kent on Sunday. The captions read ‘The Rock Doc – Kent’s geological expert with an eye on the past and a burning desire to share his knowledge’ and ‘Rocking all over the natural world.’
School of Pharmacy
The Medway Standard reported on Alison Coll’s trip to a major pharmaceutical conference in Australia.
General campus news
The Medway Messenger had a photo and caption about the Freshers’ Fair.
The Open Day at the campus last month was well attended according to the Medway Standard.
Jonathan Chandler, Accommodation Services Manager, explained the advice that was available to students living outside hall of residences about the dangers of fire and carbon monoxide poisoning in the Medway Standard.
Paul Clark MP was giving the first Pembroke lecture of this series about his career and the future of Medway and north Kent according to the Medway Standard.
Potential students can find out about the campus at an Open day on Saturday October 21 according to the Dartford Messenger, Medway Messenger and Medway Standard.
Kent Life had a two page article on the Universities at Medway including a large section and photos on Greenwich.
Medway Matters (Council magazine) reported on the Kent & Medway Lifelong Learning Network led by Greenwich.
South East Business reported that the restoration and refurbishment of the Drill Hall Library had received an architectural award from Medway Council.
Medway Messenger carried a report on the campus Open Day on October 21 including a photograph of the event.
Kent on Sunday and the Kentish Saturday Observer said that an agreement had been signed giving the public access to the Drill Hall Library.
The new Pilkington Building was correctly described as being jointly run by the University of Greenwich and University of Kent by the Medway Messenger.
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.