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Liverpool welcomes new VC
The University of Liverpool has appointed Professor Janet Beer as its next Vice-Chancellor. Professor Beer will be the
University’s fi rst woman Vice-Chancellor and one of only three in the elite Russell Group. She will join the University on 1 February 2015, taking over from Professor Sir Howard Newby who is retiring after six years as Vice- Chancellor.
New Deputy VC for Regent's London
Regent’s University London has announced Professor Simon Jarvis will become its new Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 1 January 2015.
Responsible for developing Regent’s'
position as the UK’s leading private, not- for-profi t university, he will also strengthen international recruitment, research and plans for achieving Research Degree Awarding Powers.
Farwell elected as AUA President
Professor Ruth Farwell, Vice-Chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University, has been elected as the new Honorary
President of the Association of University Administrators (AUA).
Durham appoints MBA Head
Durham University Business School has appointed Dr Julie Hodges as new MBA Programme Director, taking over from Professor
Sue Miller. Dr Hodges will assume strategic
responsibility for the full-time, Executive and Global MBAs as well as operational responsibility for the full-time programme. Administrators (AUA).
Competition win for new Vietnam campus
Working with Boston architects Machado and Silvet i Associates, UK landscape architecture fi rm, Grant Associates, has won an international competition to design the new Vietnamese-German University Campus in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam. This is a unique collaboration between
the World Bank, the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training and the German Hessen State Ministry of Science and Art that aims to develop an internationally accredited higher education programme for research and advancement for Vietnamese students and to build a campus for the new university. Phase One of the project is due for completion in November
2017. Grant Associates’ landscape design proposal embraces the concept that a sustainable university campus should be a multi-layered and multifunctional landscape that becomes an active living classroom, as well as a tool for restoring and improving the environment. Highlights of the design include a native,
tropical woodland perimeter belt which provides a strong, multifunctional edge to the campus. This brings shade and reduced air temperature; shelter for people and wildlife; a reduction of dust and noise; habitat creation for fl ora and fauna, as well as at ractive shady routes for students to feel more connected to nature.
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