What The Papers Say August 2008
(Individual campus news follows below)
Medway News reported that BBC Olympic commentator Stuart Storey had been awarded an honorary degree by Greenwich.
According to the Gravesend Reporter, Bexley Times and Dartford Times, Greenwich is offering a host of free courses for 13 to 19 year olds.
Stuart Etherington, Chief executive of NCVO, has been appointed chair of court at Greenwich according to Medway Messenger, Charity Times, KM Extra and Third Sector.
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/Channels/Governance/login/839682/
Architectural Technologists Datafile reported that Keith Clarke, Chief Executive of Atkins, has received an honorary degree from Greenwich.
Greenwich is charging £2,900 for tuition fees in 2009/10 according to Times Higher Education.
Medway Messenger and Medway News reported that Keith Clarke, Chief Executive of Atkins and BBC Olympic commentator Stuart Storey have been awarded honorary degrees by Greenwich. There was also information about the degree ceremonies and procession down Rochester High Street.
According to West End Extra, Yanick Muzuyi from Quinton Kynaston School who is originally from the Congo is coming to Greenwich after receiving his A-level results.
On the Australian Visa Bureau and Employment4students websites Dr Margaret Noble said that many students take a year out to broaden their horizons and experiences while others use it for financial reasons.
Serving Ghurka soldiers and their families completed a course to help them get into the world of business, according to the Folkestone Herald and Dover Express.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Wills said that the University of Greenwich will be one of the sites of the London Olympics, according to Voice of America News online.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-20-voa40.cfm
Emma George from Orpington College, who was the subject of the Student Profile in the News Shopper, is planning to study Primary Teaching at Greenwich.
According to the Kent & Sussex Courier, Maxim PR, the agency that works for Greenwich and others, has been shortlisted for an award by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Greenwich is among those who are supporting VirtualGym TV according to the Medway News and Medway Adscene.
Clearing
The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, London Paper, News Shopper, Medway Messenger, Your Medway, Wharf, Dover Express, Your Canterbury, Your Ashford, Your Maidstone, Your Dover, Your Shepway, Your Swale, Your Thanet, and Kent on Sunday included advice from Beverley Woodhams, Head of Central Recruitment, on how to approach Clearing. Beverley was also interviewed on Invicta FM and KMFM (Medway) radio.
Dr Margaret Noble was interviewed about Clearing by Independent Radio News (the main provider of news to commercial stations across the UK including London), Hope FM (Hampshire and Dorset), Mercia FM (Essex) and City Talk (Liverpool).
Dr Liz Bacon was interviewed on Sky News Radio (the second biggest provider of news to commercial stations including TalkSport and LBC), Sunrise Radio (national Asian station) and Rock Radio (Scotland, North-East and Manchester).
Dr John Newbery was interviewed for South London Radio, Severn Sound Radio (Gloucestershire) and StarFM (Cambridgeshire).
He also appeared on Meridian TV (ITV regional news programme for Kent & Sussex) about the Clearing process.
The Guardian used a large photo of the Greenwich operation in an article about Clearing.
The Evening Standard, Financial Times, Eastern Daily Press, Grimsby Telegraph, MSN Money, Press Association, Channel 4 News, GAAP, News Shopper, Medway Messenger and BeatthatQuote.com reported that a YouGov poll for Greenwich had found that potential students do not know enough about grants available and overestimate how much they are likely to have to pay back.
Law student Neelima Begum was an example of a student who used the Clearing process in the Times.
An article in the Daily Express focussing on K College said that courses were accredited by Greenwich.
Kent on Sunday, Kentish Saturday Observer and News Shopper gave details of Clearing, Open Days and the new BSc in Forensic Science and Criminology.
Times Higher Education reported on the extended opening hours of the Clearing operation which opened at 10pm the night before A-level results came out.
Claire Evenden advised students not to be swayed by freebies and gimmicks in an article about student finance in the Independent. Claire also drew attention to the financial help available to students in the London Paper and Kent on Sunday.
Jonathan Chandler, Head of Accommodation Services, gave advice on finding accommodation at university in a Clearing article in the Independent.
Guardian Online reported that Greenwich had extended opening hours for the Clearing helpline.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/aug/14/alevels.schools2
Public Relations student Katie Wilkinson is the star of a web video aimed at dispelling some of the myths surrounding the cost of going to university according to the Medway Messenger, Bexley Mercury, KM Extra and Greenwich Mercury. Katie was also interviewed by BBC Radio Kent about the film.
The web video itself appeared on the Sun, Student 123, Clearing Vacancies, Cool FM, Hallam FM, Metro Radio, Key 103, Radio City (Liverpool), Viking FM, West Sound, North Sound, Radio Borders, Forth One, Cool FM, Hallam FM, Metro Radio, South West Sound, Tay FM, TFM Radio, Rock FM, CFM Radio, Hero, Yahoo, Tiscali, and MSN websites.
http://www.coolfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=22753
http://www.hallamfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20898
http://www.metroradio.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20898
http://www.key103.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20898
http://www.radiocity.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20898
http://www.vikingfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20898
http://www.westsound.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20898
http://www.northsound1.com/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=21308
http://www.radioborders.com/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=21124
http://www.forthone.com/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20807
http://www.southwestsound.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=23224
http://www.tayfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=21130
http://www.tfmradio.com/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20933
http://www.westsound.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=22237
http://www.rockfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=840057
http://www.cfmradio.com/Article.asp?id=840057&spid=20974
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/article1549105.ece
http://www.student123.com/?q=node/862
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/studying/get_the_facts_on_finance.cfm
http://uk.video.yahoo.com/network/100621102
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/broadband/vhub/index.html?bb=1&channel=&id=6638
http://www.clearingvacancies.co.uk/
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-GB&vid=648640b1-b863-453f-b7d0-eea6f283c232
The experience of Psychology student Josie Cakebread during Clearing was profiled on the HERO website.
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/studying/archives/2008/clearing_case_studies_Aug.cfm
Students from Greenwich starred in a series of new web videos on the university admissions service (UCAS) website to encourage others to take up opportunities in higher education.
According to the Medway Adscene, Greenwich is holding a university open day at all the campuses in the middle of September.
Greenwich
Business
On the Yahoo News, AFP, Pakistan based Daily Times, Garavi Gujarat Net websites James Kennell from the Business School, which hosted a conference on the Games this year, said London would struggle to learn direct lessons even from other Western Olympic cities like Athens and Sydney.
The Wharf reported that Events Management student Caleen Campbell is organising a music event in support of Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID).
"London definitely could take lessons from how the [Beijing] Games were run," says James Kennell, senior lecturer in Tourism and Urban Renewal, according to US based website Business Week. He added that investments made in the run up to London 2012 will add more than $3 billion to the country's gross domestic product over the next four years.
Tanzanian based website Daily News reported that the Institute of Information Technology was offering a degree course in Business Studies in conjunction with Greenwich.
http://dailynews.habarileo.co.tz/business/index.php?id=6838
In Prospect magazine Stephen Thomas said that E.ON’s estimate of the operating costs of a new nuclear reactor is £80 to generate a kW of electricity for an hour — a measurement known as a kilowatt hour (kWh). The current wholesale electricity price, which is causing ministers such headaches, is about £40/kWh.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Dr Mohammad Dastbaz has joined the University of East London as Dean of the School of Computing & Technology, according to the Newham Recorder.
Computing graduate Hadrian Sammut has been appointed new Associate Director at KPMG Malta, according to the Malta based Independent website.
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=73199
Flight Global and Flight International reported that Professor Ed Galea insisted that computer simulation technology could make evacuation certification of aircraft an infinitely safer and more efficient process.
Education & Training
Professor Ian McNay had a letter published in the Guardian about applications to Oxbridge from students with an underprivileged background.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Terry Cannon was critical in Times Higher Education of a growing practice that allows academics submitting papers to peer-reviewed journals to name individuals they would prefer not to be used as reviewers.
A letter to the Southwark News from 89-year-old Sidney Fagan, who studied a MA in History a few years ago at Greenwich, listed an impressive number of degrees that he has secured since then which have transformed his life.
The Labour Party has chosen recent Politics & Law graduate Chris Lloyd as their prospective candidate for Brecon & Radnorshire in the next General Election, according to Mid Wales Journal.
General campus news
According to the Boxwish website the University of Greenwich was one of the locations for the film Death Defying Acts about Harry Houdini.
http://boxwish.com/blog/view/200-cinema-release-inspirations-including-the-mummy-3
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
Landscape Management graduate Toby Buckland has been chosen as the main presenter of Gardeners’ World according to the BBC website, Yorkshire Post, Glasgow Herald, Daily Telegraph, Western Daily Press, Broadcast Now, Horticulture Week, TV Scoop, and Amateur Gardening.
Gurvir Tumman was one of Building Design’s five graduating diploma student award winners with a plan to redevelop the harbour at Whitstable.
Five students from Malta have graduated in Occupational Safety, Health and the Environment from the school, according to the Times of Malta.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080810/business/five-graduate-from-greenwich-university
Alan Powers had a letter published in Architects Journal in favour of the preservation of Robin Hood Gardens.
Landscape Architecture graduate Elam Fenton was the Designer Profile in Image Interiors.
Education & Training
According to the Farnham Herald and Alton Herald, comedians Hale and Pace met while studying at Avery Hill Training College.
Patrick Ainley had a letter published in Times Higher Education which said that big questions relating to technological advances have been unasked in all aspects of education.
Health & Social Care
Glen Matten, Nutritional Therapist and regular TV guest, is a visiting lecturer at Greenwich, according to Norwich Evening News.
Professor Ros Corney is conducting research into the experiences of parents who have an adult child with as gambling problem, according to Coinslot International.
General campus news
The Avery Hill campus may be providing accommodation for up to 800 athletes and support staff taking part in the 2012 Olympics, according to Greenwich Mercury.
Medway
School of Engineering
Wet News, Medway Messenger and KM Extra reported that a new Public Health Engineering degree from Greenwich will help manage dwindling water supplies as demand increases in the Thames Gateway.
Kent Profile, Kent on Sunday and Kentish Saturday Observer reported that the school has been given funding from the Prime Minister’s Initiative to develop a partnership in Malaysia to increase the numbers of their engineers.
Professor Alan Reed has been awarded the Bulk Solids Handling Award by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, according to Quarry Management.
According to the Sheppey Gazette, Faversham Gazette, and East Kent Gazette, Ronnie Fitzgerald from Minster College is coming to Greenwich to study Engineering.
School of Science
According to Farmers Weekly, Weald Granary, a farmer owned co-operative has with Greenwich trialled different methods of crushing domestic oilseed rape to produce biofuel.
Dr Alpha Tejan Wurie, former Minister of Education in Sierra Leone and visiting researcher in the school, has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), according to the Sierra Leone based Awareness Times website.
Greenwich is one of the organisations helping to reintroduce the pool frog, according to a DEFRA press release and 7thSpaceInteractive website.
According to Environment Times, Professor Steve Leharne has been awarded a £250,000 grant to develop a means of extracting solvents from soil before they contaminate water supplies.
Lucie Pollard was the focus in Your Local Interview in Your Medway.
According to Saudi Gazette, a delegation from the British University in Dubai returned from a fact finding mission to the UK including presentations on sustainability at Greenwich.
The Wharf publicised thenew BSc in Forensic Science and Criminology.
Eighty young scientists from all around the world have taken part in a conference hosted by the school about polymer colloids which helps manufacturers produce better paints, inks, pharmaceuticals and detergents, according to the Medway Messenger.
Natural Resources Institute
Dr Steve Belmain explained about theRat Management for Rural Communities in Bangladesh project on the Bangladesh based website New Nation.
According to New Food, France24, African Business, Indian based Zee News, Yahoo News, US based Physorg, South African based ifrica, and Health 24 websites, a study for PhytoTrade Africa by NRI suggested that wild harvesting of baobab fruit could generate trade of up to one billion dollars (640 million euros) a year for African producers.
http://www.france24.com/en/20080810-african-tree-life-recast-european-superfruit?pop=TRUE
According to the Reuters Africa website "The timing (of the Accra aid meeting) is important in the post-Doha debacle," said Ben Bennett, an economist with Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute.
Medway School of Pharmacy
Medway Extra reported on the graduation ceremony for the Medway School of Pharmacy.
General campus news
Medway Messenger reported on the graduation ceremonies at Rochester Cathedral and the awarding of honorary degrees to Stuart Story and Keith Clarke from Atkins. According to Kent on Sunday, BBC commentator and former athlete Stuart Storey was awarded an honorary degree at one of the ceremonies.
According to Medway Messenger, Greenwich has been recognised for its continuing commitment to helping teenagers in care get into higher education by being given the Frank Buttle Trust Quality Mark for Care Leavers.
Medway Matters (council newsletter) is one of the partners in the Medway Innovation Centre at Rochester Airfield.
Medway Messenger focussed on the work of the Victoria County History volunteers led by Dr Sandra Dunster into the history of ordinary people in the Medway towns.
According to the Malawi based Daily Times website, the Malawi Kent Association was launched at the campus.
http://www.dailytimes.bppmw.com/article.asp?ArticleID=10454
Kent on Sunday reported that mother-of-two Trina White has gained a First Class honours degree in Sports Science & Fitness.
Medway Messenger publicised an Open evening at the campus.
Further information
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