KEELE MANAGEMENT SCHOOL SET TO PARTNER WITH GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE
Keele Management School, together with the Centre for International
Exchange and Development, hosted a visit last week by senior management
representatives of Guangdong University of Finance, Guangzhou. The
purpose of the visit, led by Vice President Professor Songping Guo and
Professor Qianyuan Wang, Head of Research, was to prepare closer links
between Guangdong and Keele, in particular in the area of finance and
allied fields. Guangdong University goes back to 1950, with origins in
the People's Bank of China.
The pictures shows, from
left to right: Professor Qianyuan Wang, Professor Matthias Klaes,
Professor Songping Guo, Professor Jan Wenzelburger.
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APPOINTMENT TO HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY
 Rama
Thirunamachandran, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, has been
appointed as a board member and trustee of the Higher Education
Academy. The Academy is UK's main professional body for university
academic and teaching support staff. Its main role is to work
with the higher education sector to enhance the quality of students'
learning experiences. This includes everything to do with the quality of
higher education from the perspective of the student - teaching,
assessment, the curriculum - together with aspects of student support,
management and infrastructure that bear directly on quality.
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KEELE LECTURER'S POETRY ACHIEVES PBS RECOMMENDATION
 Lecturer in Creative Writing James Sheard's new collection of poetry, Dammtor, was published this month by Cape, and has been selected as a 'recommended collection' by the Poetry Book Society.
The
selectors describe the book as "a kind of European Noir, a world as
iron grey as an Anselm Kiefer...written in a voice that isn't under any
illusions, spare and precise, and able to exercise great vigour in ideas
and language."
Dammtor is James's second full collection of poems - his first (Scattering Eva) was shortlisted for a Forward Prize in 2005, and an earlier publication, Hotel Mastbosch (2003), was a PBS Pamphlet Choice in 2003.
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PHARMACY FILMED FOR NHS LOCAL
Professor Stephen Chapman, Head of School of Pharmacy, was interviewed this week for NHS Local,
a new digital service for patients and clinicians. He discussed the
School's innovative use of technology for undergraduate and postgraduate
teaching. Luke Bracegirdle, Tom Pardoe and Karl Reid were all
filmed demonstrating their production work to create a set of new
computer generated characters for a web-based venous thromboembolism
(VTE) resource, as well as virtual patients used as part of the
undergraduate MPharm programme and for commercial enterprise
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DISCOVER MORE ABOUT MIGRAINE
Some of the world's leading experts on headaches visited Keele and
the School of Medicine last week for an event which aimed to give people
a chance to find out more about the condition. The Migraine Trust
organised the joint public event with the British Association for the
Study of Headache (BASH) to mark the start of Migraine Awareness Week
2010. Speakers included Professor Peter J Goadsby, from the University
of California, and Dr Brendan Davies, from the North Midlands Regional
Headache Clinic, based at the University Hospital of North
Staffordshire. The day covered managing migraine, the latest treatment
options such as Botox and new developments in research.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
11th September 1953
Fifty-three young employees of the West Midlands Division of the
National Coal Board are spending the week at a residential school at the
University College, organised to provide broad background knowledge of
the mining industry. |
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