Spotlight on Professors:
The specialist backgrounds of Professor George Barber and and Professor Ulrich Lehmann are uncovered, as well as Professor Lesley Miller, who takes up her professorship in August this year.
Hats off to Margate:
An exciting exhibition of headwear, inspired by the rich and varied architecture of Margate has opened at Droit House, Margate Stone Pier.
Students' work to tour China:
University students, who originate from mainland China, have been invited to participate in the Design UK Get It Louder Exhibition, organised by the British Council.
Farnham course leader gets book published:
Kathryn Best, Course Leader in Design Management at Farnham has just had her book 'Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation' published by AVA publishing.
Governors Away-Day:
update by Professor Elaine Thomas
Executive gave presentations to the Board of Governors at our annual Governors' Away-Day in March.
Introducing the Board:
Over the coming months we will be introducing you to the University's Board of Governors. We begin with biographies of three new Governors, recently appointed to the Board.
Forthcoming events:
ucreative update
This is the first of our online staff newsletters and we hope that you like it and that, as it becomes a regular and established publication, you all feel able to make contributions to it.
By using this format we will be able to include moving images, longer features and effectively represent the range of information and successes which relate to all staff of the University.
We hope that it will prove to be a useful means of engendering a sense of community across our five sites and be an important vehicle for promoting our values of creativity, collaboration, distinctiveness, respect and sustainability.
Update since Roadshows
Executive clarified our respective roles and responsibilities to all staff at the roadshows in February and March. As well as identifying successes across the University, we highlighted some of the challenges and milestones we are facing. Of these, the most immediate continue to be student recruitment, achievement of student number targets and sustaining financial stability, beginning with reducing our projected deficit for 2007/08. The budget planning process for 2007/08 is underway and Paul Harper, Pro Rector Corporate Resources, is currently holding meetings with senior managers to agree individual budgets so that we can take a proposed University budget to the Employment & Finance Committee meeting of governors in June. All staff are working hard to recruit students and are to be congratulated on their efforts in turning round applications and communicating offers of places to applicants.
A senior planning group, consisting of the five Heads of College, the Planning & Policy Manager and chaired by Professor Mark Hunt, Deputy Rector (Strategic Planning), has been working collectively to agree appropriate student target numbers for 2007 entry.
Further updates from the Rector on the Governors Away-Day and Institutional Audit and University Title in the features section.
Double Lives
If you thought you knew your colleagues, think again! Every issue, we uncover the secret lives of University staff to reveal their hidden talents or unusual hobbies.
Institutional Audit and University Title
update by Professor Elaine Thomas
The University Title Group has been continuing its work in monitoring our progress towards University Title and we are currently drafting our submission document.
UK's first 'International Fashion Incubator Conference'
Thursday March 15 saw an historic event take place in Medway, when the University hosted the UK's first International Fashion Incubator Conference. Attended by delegates and speakers from the USA, Canada and France, the conference was a great success.
Website visitors top 100K
Since the launch of our new site in September 06, the numbers of visitors to the site has now doubled and reached over 100,000 during March alone.
No Ifs or Butts!
With the Government's smoke-free legislation coming into effect on 1st July 2007 the pressure is on smokers to give up.
Fashion students have designs on Mayor
When the Mayor of Medway, Councillor Angela Prodger, attended the Mayor's Charity Ball on Saturday 17 March, she was safe in the knowledge that no-one would turn up in the same dress.
Spotlight on Lifelong Learning Networks
How much do you actually know about Lifelong Learning Networks?
KIA backs design talent in UK
Kia Motors and the University joined together to create an automotive design challenge - the Creative Innovation Award (CIA) - which is aimed at second year BA students.
Farnham Staff presented with ECDL
Nine members of staff from Farnham are now licensed to use their computer skills anywhere in Europe, as they have recently been presented with their European Computer Driving Licences.
MAKE lecture
The first in a series of three lectures, planned for the Summer term, took place at Rochester on Wednesday 25 April in the Peter Williams Lecture Theatre.
