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The University of Essex in the Press
August 2011
19 August
Interest soars in university
Inquiries to University Campus Suffolk (UCS) have soared as
students race to enrol before higher tuition fees kick in next year.
A bumper year has seen the university take 250 course information
requests, more than double the numbers if received this time 12
months ago.
East Anglian Daily Times
Another record year for A-levels prompts
frantic university scramble
Record numbers of students embarked on a frantic scramble for a
dwindling number of university vacancies last night. The number
seeking a place through clearing was 189,992, compared with 185,223
last year…several universities said they would not be joining
clearing this year as they had already filled their places. The
University of Essex said it would accept only students with A grades
for the few places it had left.
The Independent online
Freshers service cider with Rosie
The Mercury Youth Theatre returns to the main stage this year
with a theatrical production of Laurie Lee’s popular West Country
novel, Cider with Rosie. The marks the return of two former Youth
Theatre members, David Norton and Natalie Songer…David has just
graduated from East 15 Drama School, in Southend.
Essex County Standard
Advice service forced to close
An education and training advice service is to close due to a
funding crisis. The Learning Shop, in St Nicholas Street,
Colchester, is to close on August 31 after more than a
decade…sponsors Colchester Institute, Open University, Colchester
Sixth Form College and the University of Essex have decided to pull
the plug because of rising running costs.
Essex County Standard
Graduate faces riot charges
A Colchester graduate and former borough council candidate is
among those charged with rioting in London. Peter Simpson, 26, who
studied politics and philosophy at the University of Essex, faces
four charges in connection with the mayhem in the capital last week.
Essex County Standard
18 August
Southend to get new multi-million pound
public library
An Essex town is to get a new multi-million pound public library
and learning centre. The £27m building in Southend will replace the
town’s existing Central Library and be built on the site of the
former Farringdon car park. The four-storey structure, to be called
The Forum, will be funded by Southend Borough Council, the
University of Essex and South Essex College.
BBC online (Essex)
Library given the go-ahead
Plans for a new £27 million library in Southend have been given
the go-ahead, but the suggestion of a giant TV within the grounds
didn’t go down well. The new building and scenic square, the
brainchild of Southend Council, the University of Essex and South
Essex College, will replace the Farringdon multi-storey car park in
Elmer Approach.
Echo
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website. Michael cashes in on his brightest idea yet.
When bright spark Michael Ings came up with an entrepreneurial
concept, he could not have predicted how successful it would be. He
said, “I did business studies at the Billericay School, which for me
interested, then I stayed local and went to the University of Essex”
Billericay Gazette
One quarter of UCS students dissatisfied
ONE in every four University Campus Suffolk students are
dissatisfied with their student experience, a poll of people in
their final year has revealed. The National Student Survey (NSS)
found 74% of people in their final year at UCS are satisfied with
the education they received and the university’s wider offering.
East Anglian Daily Times
Saffron Walden Reporter
Bury Mercury
Campus Road Diversions
Essex University has announced a series of new diversions for
motorists, as new building work gets under way.
The Gazette
New £27m library for Essex town
An Essex town is to get a new multi-million pound public library and
learning centre. The University of Essex is putting £10.4m towards
the building and £4m will come from South Essex College.
BBC News Online/Interactive
BBC Essex
Essex Life
The Perfect Scent for You
Need to take a chill pill? Lavender is the Xanax of the aromatherapy
world—its scent has been shown to lower stress-hormone levels says
Jules Pretty, professor of environment and society at the University
of Essex.
Self
Light Drinking During Pregnancy Might Not be Too Bad –
HealthEnclave
This study was carried out by researchers from University College
London, the University of Essex, Oxford University and the
University of Warwick. The study was published in the Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health.
http://www.healthenclave.com/
Letters of Margaret Mann to be presented at NALIS
A Victorian woman’s perspective of T&T in the 19th century is being
specially presented at the National Library in Port-of-Spain
tomorrow. Delon recently presented a lecture on the letters and the
artistic work produced by Mann under the tutelage of the Master,
Michael Jean Cazabon, at an international symposium at the
University of Essex.
Trinidad Guardian
17 August
Students say Essex University is the place to go
STUDENTS have rated Essex University as one of the best in the
country to go to.
The Gazette
Only top unis ‘should give degrees’
Only England's top universities should have the power to award
degrees, a study has suggested. It argues that some universities
already offer degrees accredited by other institutions, for example,
Writtle College in Essex, where degrees are awarded by Essex
University.
The Sunday Sun
The Local
The Daily Echo
Worksop Guardian Newspapers
Cambridge News Online + 201 other Publications
Don't despair if results are less than triple A
A-LEVEL students across Tendring and north Essex have been told not
to despair if their results are not what they wanted on Thursday.
The University of Essex is urging teenagers who miss out on places
at their chosen universities to turn to a back-up system instead.
The Gazette
Learning Shop to close after funders pull plug
AN education and training advice service in Colchester town centre
is to close because of a funding crisis. The Learning Shop, in St
Nicholas Street, will close on Wednesday, August 31, after more than
a decade. Sponsors Colchester Institute, Open University, Colchester
Sixth Form and Essex University have pulled the plug because of
rising running costs.
The Gazette
Don't forget lunches on school shopping list
With school starting, it's time to stock up on notebooks, backpacks
and pencils and maybe lunch boxes so our kids can take a healthy and
nourishing lunch from home. Beyond observed behaviour changes,
studies were done by Essex University to determine how better
nutrition translated to different test scores.
Fort Collins Coloradoan
16 August
My special farm is all about education
Farming is not just about produce. In recent years it has also been
a valuable tool in environmental protection, health and education.
Essex University is one of the founding partners of the care farming
initiative.
The Gazette
Why are BCCI fraudsters being protected? - Bureau of
Investigative Journalism
Bureau of Investigative Journalism Professor Sikka, a professor of
accounting at the University of Essex, used the Freedom of
Information Act to ask the Treasury to release the missing
information. It refused…
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/
Future is bright for budding Coleg Gwent actors
TALENTED Coleg Gwent students are set to take the next step in their
careers after being accepted to some of the UK’s most prestigious
stage schools. Many of the budding actors from the college’s musical
theatre department will be going on to higher education institutions
including Performers College in Essex University.
South Wales Argus
British Feminist Thought
Companion volume of French Feminist Thought includes 22 articles by
experts in different fields on such subjects as history, literary
theory, Northern Ireland, and race. Chapter 8, The 'Family Wage':
Some Problems for Socialists and Feminists: Michele Barrett and Mary
McIntosh (City University, London and University of Essex)
CIO Australia
15 August
BBC Look East and BBC Essex
Professor Jules Pretty, Biological Sciences
Re: Clearing
Interviewed about clearing and the need for students to think
carefully about their options.
Nice guys really DO finish last... Nasty people earn $10,000
more a year, study finds
A study which looked at the link between personality and wages has
found that 'agreeable' workers earn significantly less than their
meaner colleagues. Researchers for the Institute for Social and
Economic Research at the University of Essex claimed their study
proved that the amiable are on average paid less.
Mail Online
This is Money
Gender and History - Retrospect and Prospect
This book presents a wide-ranging and important collection of new
work on gender history. Leonore Davidoff, the founding editor of
Gender & History, is Research Professor in Social History,
University of Essex.
Good Gear Guide
14 August
College records success in overseas programmes
Westerfield College, Lagos, an institution that offers International
Degree Foundation Programme for students wishing to study in the
United Kingdom has announced that its first set of graduating
students recorded a 100 percent success in academic performance.
The college’s partnership base with Universities in the UK has
expanded to 12 universities including University of Essex…
http://234Next.Com/
13 August
Exercise in nature improves mental health and self esteem
Researchers at the University of Essex (United Kingdom) said no
matter if physical activity is done in a park, in the garden of the
house or in any other place full of flora and fauna, five minutes of
"green exercise” as called by the authors, could be enough to
improve the emotional state.
AllVoices
12 August
Theatre Review: Darkness
Darkness (Lakeside Theatre / University of Essex): This intricate,
fast-paced piece explores the nature of sacrifice and the boundary
between faith and madness, ultimately leaving the audience with a
set of unanswered questions.
http://www.threeweeks.co.uk/
Technical help for students at Essex University
WOULD-BE students at Essex University will be able to make an
informed choice, with a new phone application being launched. The
app, created with Geocast TV, allows users to discover what it is
like to study at Essex, how to get to the campuses, read the latest
news and course information, and book an open day.
The Gazette
10X: Kout giving online businesses alternative payment
option
Devan Koshal started his first business at 13. This year, at 20, he
dropped out of the University of Essex in England to focus
his attention on his latest venture, a
simpler, more elegant way for small merchants to sell online. Kout –
the last four letters of “checkout” – provides e-book sellers and
...
http://www.bizjournals.com/
11 August
Courses for Forces - Soldiers turn to studying online
Kaplan Open Learning has seen an influx of ex-service men and women
completing a degree course to further a new career. Leaving the
Services through retirement or injury can often leave an individual
with feelings of uncertainty or lack of motivation for their future
outside of the world they have been used to. Kaplan is an affiliate
college of the University of Essex and work in partnership with the
Institute of Leadership and Management.
Open PR
10 August
Surprising Picture Emerges Of British Rioters
From an organic chef and an opera house steward to a university
student, a surprising picture emerged on Wednesday of some of the
alleged troublemakers behind Britain's worst riots for decades.
Another alleged rioter was a 20-year-old student at Essex University
near London, Banye Kanon.
The Telegraph
Irish Independent
World News Australia + 50 other outlets
That way scholarship lies: the Globe shuns Disneyfication
Times Higher Education That way scholarship lies: the Globe shuns
Disneyfication Times Higher Education Theatre schools, such as those
at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the University
of Essex.
Times Higher Education
Thinking of studying at Essex University? Check out our app
WOULD-BE students at Essex University will be able to make an
informed choice with a new phone application being launched
The Gazette
Joe Twyman
Joe Twyman became one of the founding directors of YouGov in 2000
with responsibility for building the company’s online research
operations and is now a lecturer in
research methods at the University of Essex Summer School in Social
Science Data Analysis and Collection.
The Huffington Post
How Riots Behave Like Forest Fires
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, a professor of government at the
University of Essex in the United Kingdom, told Discovery News that
the geography of riots and how they spread seem to show certain
patterns -- patterns similar to those followed by wildfires…
MSNBC
http://news.discovery.com/
http://www.abc.net.au/
BLOG: When IT's all in your mind
For IT to bring any real value, it must perfect its connection
directly to the brain. However, Palaniappan Ramaswamy at the
University of Essex in Colchester, UK, says the system needs the
driver to be fully alert and prepared to break and may not work yet
in the real world; it is only a matter of time.
MIS Asia
9 August
GTA riots link an "expected moral panic"
GTA riots link an "expected moral panic" :
"If you plot the sales of realistic games over time, and the number
of events of youth violence, the correlation is negative,"
said Dr Andy Przybylski, research fellow
at the University of Essex. "On a societal scale, youth levels of
youth violence ...
http://www.eurogamer.net/
Colne actress wins role in crime drama Law and Order
Amy Strange on leaving Nelson and Colne
College, where she studied A-Levels, spent three years at East 15
Acting School at the University of Essex.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/
GCR Live - 2nd Annual Pharmaceutical Conference
A roundtable discussing cases in the pipeline, approach in other
member states, life cycle management versus anti-competitive
behaviour and deregistration. Speakers: Pierre Regibeau,
University of Essex (Charles River Associates).
Environmental Law Professors
8 August
BBC Three Counties Radio
Dr Rick O'Gorman, Department of Psychology
Interviewed by BBC Three counties following a recent paper in The
Lancet suggesting that letting people donate to charity via texting
would be more effective than collecting on the street.
Awards for helping the disabled
A disability charity has launched an award scheme based on the
quality of wheelchair access at shops and attractions. Volunteers
from Colchester Institute and Essex University are expected to help
with the audit.
The Gazette
University mergers will mean a restructuring of those at the
top
Prof Colin Riordan, who arrives at Cardiff next year from the
University of Essex, has been active in promoting the role of
British higher education abroad as chair of the International and
European Policy Network of Universities UK.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/
Bottom layer - When Saturday Comes
Local support is boosted to some extent by elements from
population’s resident at the University of Essex and the large
nearby garrison.
http://www.wsc.co.uk/
Grants in your early career
I want to come back to issues for those applying for academic jobs
but at this time of year there is an important question to address
for those who have cleared that initial hurdle and find themselves
facing a whole track of other hurdles - Jo, a private career coach,
has a PhD in sociology from the University of Essex and was formerly
a program officer at SSHRC
University Affairs Online
7 August
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Professor Eddy Higgs
Next week Australia holds its census and so Rear Vision traces the
recent history of this ancient institution, to make sense of who
counts, and who does the counting. Speakers
included Professor Eddy Higgs from the University of Essex,
whose books include Life, Death and Statistics.
From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country
music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to
the literature and culture of the American South
Richard Gray is Professor in the Department of Literature at the
University of Essex. His books include The Literature of Memory:
Modern Writers of the American South, Writing the South: Ideas of an
American Region (which won the C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society
for the Study of Southern Literature).
Good Gear Guide
6 August
A New Sociology of Work
This book asks what might be required of “a new sociology of work”
and why such a project is vital for understanding people’s working
lives at the start of the twenty-first century. Lynne Pettinger is
Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research
interests include work and consumption in the service sector, with
particular reference to aesthetic labour, and to the relationship
between production and consumption more generally.
Australian PC World
5 August
Singer Alison Moyet to get honorary degree
BILLERICAY-born singer Alison Moyet is set to receive an honorary
degree from the University of Essex.
Southend Standard
BBC News Online
Billericay Today
Work to demolish old Farringdon car park begins
Workers are to restart the demolition of a town centre car park to
make way for a new £27million library in the heart of Southend.
Southend Council will contribute £12.5million of the cost, Essex
University £10.4million and South Essex College £4million.
The Gazette
Southend Standard
University library bid goes in
Essex University has now applied for planning permission to build a
£21 million student centre and library extension. Plans for a
six-storey library and a three-storey student centre have been drawn
up by Patel Taylor Architects, the company which designed the
university's controversial Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall.
The Gazette
Details of Southend's Bid to become the Country’s 67th
City in Time for London Olympic Celebrations
The next generation is being groomed for success in Southend,
according to the town’s official bid campaign for city status. Up to
20,000 students study at the town's University of Essex campus and
South Essex College, coming from more than 50 countries.
The Echo
Iran shelling of Kurd separatist rebels displaces over
200 families.
Last month, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari Hoshyar Zebari (or
Hişyar Zêbarî) (born 1953) who is the current Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Iraq and holds a masters degree in sociology from the
University of Essex in the United Kingdom, demanded Iran stop the
shelling, which has been ongoing since July 16, saying it is
damaging ties between the two neighbours.
The Free Library
Angel Springs Sponsor part of Edinburgh Fringe Festival
A new endeavour is taking place at Edinburgh Fringe Festival this
summer, and will comprise mostly of young artists in training at the
East 15 Acting School. PR Web UK
Bezinga.com
4 August
Why do people find video games so irresistible?
The secret behind the ever-increasing popularity of video games is
that it enables you to act through a different identity and feel
better about yourself and your abilities, says new research.
This research was led by Andy Przybylski, visiting research fellow
at the University of Essex, the journal Psychological Science
reports. 'A game can be more fun when you get the chance to act and
be like your ideal self,' explained Przybylsk.
BBC Essex
East Anglian Daily Times
The Gazette
Sify.com
AustraliaNews.net + 58 other outlets
Public order policing in a changing African political
environment
Mutuma Ruteera worked for several years on human rights in Kenya.
Previously, he has worked with the Nairobi Law Monthly, and the
Media Institute. He completed his MA in international human rights
from the University of Essex, UK.
www.defenceweb.co.za
Arts group to open new Colchester home
Firstsite, a Colchester-based visual arts organisation, has revealed
that its new Rafael Viñoly Architects-designed home is to open its
doors to the public on 25 September. Funding partners for the
development of the new venue include Colchester Borough Council
(CBC); Essex County Council; Arts Council England; and the
University of Essex.
Leisure Management - Online
3 August
Plant Biology 2011 will bring 1,500 plant scientists to
Minneapolis
Scientific meeting will discuss how plants can produce biofuels,
among many topics. The many hundreds of speakers and posters will
also highlight advances in the role of plants in improving human
health and nutrition, securing sufficient food for a growing human
population, and enhancing understanding of the fundamental biology
of plants and how they work. A list of sessions of general interest
is included below: Ulrike Bechtold (University of Essex,
UK):"Over-expression of Arabidopsis heat shock transcription factor
A1b increases drought tolerance and water productivity"
EurekAlert!
Growing up on the land: Urban Roots executive stays busy, whatever
the season!
Self-professed farm nerd Max Elliott loves picking okra. An amateur
might not know the plant secretes an oil that will leave the
untrained, bare-handed gardener scratching for hours. He lived in
San Francisco and got a job as a food stacker. He volunteered with
some middle school gardening projects. He went on to attend a
one-year master's program in Environmental Studies from the
University of Essex in Colchester, England, after working with a few
more community gardening programs. He learned that it was important
to teach people not just to grow food, but also how to cook.
Austin360
2 August
Vistra Appoints New Private Client Director
Vistra Jersey today announced the appointment of Victor Ho to the
role of Director - Private Clients. Victor has over 20 years'
experience in the financial services industry, specialising in
wealth management and estate planning for Chinese corporate and high
net worth individuals. Victor was born in Hong Kong and graduated
with an honours degree in Accounting, Finance and Economics from the
University of Essex in 1991
World Market Media
The Sun Herald
The San Francisco Chronicle + 108 Media
Outlets
Car braking system taps directly into the
brain
A mind-reading device that taps into a driver's brain can recognise
and act on the brain signals to stop the car precious milliseconds before the
signals become leg movements. Palaniappan Ramaswamy at the University of Essex
in Colchester, UK, points out that the experiment was conducted in a simulated
environment where the subjects were fully alert and prepared to brake, which is
seldom the case in reality.
Electronics Weekly
New Scientist Online
A New Jury to Put the British Public Interest First
A campaign has been launched to hold to account Britain's 'feral'
elite for the series of crises which have scarred the country. To
work out how to do it we call for a new Public Jury for the British
public interest to propose reforms of banking, politics, media and
the police. Signed By: Prem Sikka, University of Essex.
Guardian.co.uk
Worlds News Daily
University of Essex Adds DI Press, CTP.
At the beginning of 2011, the in-plant at U.K.-based University of
Essex in Wivenhoe Park, rebranded itself as Print Essex. The
13-employee shop then strategically targeted a broader range of
customers including those in the commercial market.
In-Plant Graphics
Good Night for Date Night
According to the British researchers with the Institute for Social
and Economic Research, children are happiest when their mother is
happy in her partnership.
Washington Post
On Parenting
Top-level students offered cut-price degrees
Students with top A-level grades are set to be offered cut-price
courses and cash sums by universities desperate to attract them.
Cash deals are already being offered in Essex and Kent to attract
students for next year, where students getting three A's will get a
£2,000 scholarship regardless of their financial circumstances.
Daily Mail
Sunday Times
Times Higher Education
University boss joins hacking probe
The new chairman of governors at the University of Essex is to help
with the phone hacking inquiry.
Lord Currie of Marylebone, a member of the University's council
since 2009, will be appointed chair of the council on August 1 and
serve as one of the six panel members in Lord Justice Leveson's
inquiry
East Anglian Daily Times
Changes at University
The Chairman of the University of Essex's governing body has stepped
down.
Bill Gore, a chemical engineer and accountant, joined the 25-strong
board, which is responsible for the university's budget, planning
and investments in 2005. He will be replaced by Lord Currie of
Marylebone.
Gazette
Davinder Kumar
Davinder Kumar is an award-winning development journalist and Press
Officer for the global child rights organisation Plan International.
He is a graduate of Human Rights Centre, University of Essex where
he completed his Masters in Human Rights with specialisation in
humanitarian communications and international development.
Huffington Post – The UK Edition
London 2012 park sparks architectural argument between old
and new names
Prince Charles’s favourite architects have accused the head of
England’s national architectural review body of “overt prejudice”
after he made a barbed attack on the heir to the throne’s love of
traditional buildings, and heaped praise on the resolutely modernist
designs that will be beamed around the world as the backdrop to next
summer’s games. When talking to soldiers destined for service in
Afghanistan in 2008 he said the Ivor Crewe building at Essex
University “looks like a dustbin from the outside”
HackneyCitezan
1 August
Top A-level students to be offered cut-price degrees
Students with top A-level grades are set to be offered cut-price
courses and cash sums by universities desperate to attract them.
These deals are being aimed at pupils with grades of at least two
A's and a B after the Government announced they can take-on as many
students as they want as long as they meet those standards.
Sir Steve Smith, outgoing president of Universities UK and vice
chancellor of Exeter University, says changes brought in by the
Coalition will force many institutions to offer enticing deals to
students.
Cash deals are already being offered in Essex and Kent to attract
students for next year, where students getting three A's will get a
£2,000 scholarship regardless of their financial circumstances. Read
in full
here
Daily Mail
A new jury to put the British public interest first
Professor Prem Sikka, from the University of Essex, is among those
backing a campaign for a new Public Jury for the British Public
Interest to propose reforms of banking, politics, media and the
police.
Guardian
Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Reality Comes to Iceland
As part of the Climate Reality Project, Sigurdur Eyberg will give a
presentation on the impact of climate change on Iceland and what we
can do to solve it. Sigurdur, Project Manager for Gardarsholmur, has been trained by
Vice President Al Gore to deliver a multimedia presentation to
connect the dots between our changing climate and the extreme
weather we have seen around the world. Sigurdur has led a varied career as a recording artist with the
Warner Bros. subsidiary Atco-East/West, and as an actor with a
degree from East-15 Acting School.
MBL.is
A New Sociology of Work?
This book asks what might be required of “a new sociology of work”
and why such a project is vital for understanding people’s working
lives at the start of the twenty-first century.
It is a collection of essays examining the concept of work,
questioning what constitutes work, and where work ends and other
activities begin.
People involved include Lynne Pettinger, Lecturer in Sociology at
the University of Essex, and Miriam Glucksmann, a Professor of
Sociology at the University of Essex.
ARN-Online
Changes at University
The Chairman of the University of Essex's governing body has stepped
down.
Bill Gore, a chemical engineer and accountant, joined the 25-strong
board, which is responsible for the university's budget, planning
and investments in 2005. He will be replaced by Lord Currie of
Marylebone.
Gazette
University boss joins hacking probe
The new chairman of governors at the University of Essex is to help
with the phone hacking inquiry.
Lord Currie of Marylebone, a member of the University's council
since 2009, will be appointed chair of the council on August 1 and
serve as one of the six panel members in Lord Justice Leveson's
inquiry.
Another two Essex honorary graduates will also join him as panel
members - Shami Chakrabarti, CBE, director of human rights group
Liberty and former Channel 4 political editor Elinor Goodman.
East Anglian Daily Times
Student digs go-ahead
University bosses have welcomed a new high-rise student block which
is set to be built behind the Waterfront in Ipswich.
The 14-storey building, which was unanimously approved by planning
members yesterday, will sit off Star Lane. Simon Britton, interim
director of estates at University Campus Suffolk, welcomed the
decision.
East Anglian Daily Times
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