08 | NEWS | NEWS AND CURRENT AF FAIRS See the site click here PEOPLE New Harper Adams Director
Harper Adams University has welcomed Andy Jones as its Director of Learning and Teaching In this newly-
created role, Andy will have oversight of the University’s undergraduate and taught postgraduate
curriculum, international strategy, educational development and key services that support the University’s students and teaching staff. Andy has been a senior manager in
higher education for more than 10 years, most recently as Dean of the Faculty of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Learning at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).
Inspiring leaders
The 2014 shortlist for the Guardian’s inspiring leaders award has been announced. Up for the annual award are: Jamie
Agombar, Ethical and Environmental Officer, NUS; Professor Sir Robert Burgess, Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester; Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton; Tricia King, Pro-Vice- Master for Student Experience and Director of External Relations,
Birkbeck, University of London; Sir Alan Langlands, Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds; Professor Sir Christopher Snowden, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, University of Surrey; and Richard Taylor, Chief Operating Officer, Loughborough University.
Westminster builds architecture team
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INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT Moocs French style
The French platform France Digital University has launched a series of eight Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). About 30 MOOCs will be available by this spring on France Digital University, to which 100,000 people have already registered. The MOOCs offered cover multiple
disciplines such as Management, Law, Digital Technologies, International Affairs, Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities. As well as the €15m already pledged to
the MOOC initiative by the French government, a public-private partnership will enable an additional funding of five millionEuros to develop MOOCs aiming at vocational training.
Unilever Middle East comp
Unilever has announced the winning team for the Country Talent Championship Saudi Arabia. This championship is a part of a larger
Unilever competition amongst students held in different countries around North Africa and the Middle East, called ‘The Quest’ – a cross university competition. This year, students from King Fahad University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Effat University, University of Business and Technology (UBT) and Dar Alhekma College were asked to analyse the deodorants segment for Unilever, resulting in a strategy that would double the business by the year 2016, maintain and grow market share, deal with supply chain restrictions, and enhance the profitability of this category.
Vietnam ups its game
Vietnam is aiming for at least one ‘world-class’ national university to emerge by 2020, while also upgrading regional research-led universities to compete with the best in Asia by 2015 – in time for the formation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, economic community.
The University of Westminster has appointed Sean Griffiths as Professor of the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. Griffiths, a founder member of the architecture studio, Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT), has enjoyed a long association with the Department of Architecture at Westminster, initially as a student and more recently as a teacher and researcher. The appointment strengthens
the Department of Architecture's commitment to educating students for practice, and to the recognition of practice as research.
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Vietnam will need to grant more
autonomy to big national and regional universities to do so. Vietnam currently has no universities in the world’s top 200, or Asia’s top 100.
VC awarded Australia Day Honour
Monash University is proud to congratulate Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Ed Byrne on his Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in this year’s Australia Day Honours. The Companion of the Order of
Australia is awarded for eminent achievement and merit of the highest degree in service to Australia or humanity at large. It is Australia’s greatest civic honour. Professor Byrne received the
honour specifically for his eminent service to tertiary education, particularly through leadership and governance roles at Monash along with his biomedical teaching and research, as a scientist and academic mentor.
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