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Buckingham in the news

April 2007 update

National news

Official UCAS extras listing. The Independent, 5 April.

The conferring of an honorary degree from the University of Buckingham on Professor Robert Pearce, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales Lampeter. Cambrian News, 12 April.
Read about Graduation 2007 at Buckingham

Obituary: John Paulley. The Times, 16 April.
Read the obituary of Dr Paulley on our website

"Do some careful research".The Independent, 26 April.

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Buckingham staff in the news

Professor Tom Cannon

  • Arsenal's Dein quits club amid takeover speculation. Bloomberg.com, 18 April.

Professor Mike Cawthorne et al.

  • On 23 April, an article detailing research carried out by Professor Mike Cawthorne and his team in the Clore Laboratory was published in the Society of Chemical Industry's magazine: Chemistry & Industry. The article, entitled "New formula for fit future", sparked blanket coverage - more than 200 articles appeared in the national and international media, as well as coverage on most of the major news and radio networks (including interviews for various programmes by both Professor Cawthorne and Dr Claire Stocker). The story also made the front pages of both the Daily Express and Metro London. Contact the Publicity Office for a full list of the coverage.
    Read our news article: Media coverage of Clore Laboratory research

Dr Gregory Ioannidis

  • Greece tragedy: Team sports without spectators does not solve problem. Hellenicathletics.com, 2 April.

Dr Terence Kealey

  • You can't buy love, but you can definitely buy learning. Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 April.

Misty McCrory (HR Manager)
  • CIPD - Members who were upgraded to Chartered MCIPD. Work (supplement to The Guardian), 14 April.
Julian Morris
  • 6 degrees of decimation. Oxford Mail, 7 April.
  • Catastrophe will not happen - economist. Oxford Mail, 7 April.

Professor Karol Sikora (Dean-elect, Medical School)

  • Radiotherapy waiting times too long. Channel 4 News, 3 April.
  • Patients 'top up' NHS care with private treatment. SocietyGuardian.co.uk, 23 April.
  • Free healthcare a "mirage". InTheNews.co.uk, 23 April.
  • Doctors' report claims: "We no longer have free health care".The Independent, 26 April.
  • 'Top-up' payments common across UK healthcare. Healthcarerepublic.com, 25 April.

Professor Alan Smithers

  • Don't punish bad pupils or they will feel left out, schools told. The Times, 11 April.
  • School behaviour guide criticised. BBC News, 11 April.
  • For £200, examiners show teachers how to raise pupils' grades. Evening Standard, 20 April.
  • Teachers "go on courses to help their pupils cheat". Daily Mail, 21 April.
  • Teachers shown how to raise pupils' grades. Gulfnews.com, 22 April.
  • Don't expect too much from your head teacher. The Independent, 26 April.
  • Time spent with a child "promotes learning more than books and gadgets". Daily Telegraph, 27 April.
  • Supply and demand. Times Educational Supplement, 27 April.
  • Competition swells ranks of professors. Times Higher Education Supplement, 27 April.
  • Marking advice fails to make the grade. Times Higher Education Supplement, 27 April.

Professor Chris Woodhead

  • Mixed emotions in village which fought for school. Northern Echo, 12 April.
  • School "embarrassed" Blair. Islington Tribune, 6 April.
  • Classroom thugs told: disrupt school and win an iPod! ThisIsLondon.co.uk (website of The Evening Standard ), 10 April.
  • Former education chief calls decision "crackers". Northern Echo, 12 April.

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Alumni in the news

Mark Lancaster (Business Studies 1992)

  • New Director lands at centre. Business to Business; Business MK, April 2007.

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Appearances and publications

Judith Bray

  • Key Facts: Land Law (3rd revised ed., Hodder Arnold, 30 March 2007).

Professor Tom Cannon

  • interviewed about Arsenal Football Club. Today Programme (BBC Radio 4), 19 April.

Professor Mike Cawthorne

  • "Opportunities and challenges for the development of pharmacological therapies for obesity treatment" for the UK Government Foresight Programme "Tackling Obesities: Future Challenges", published in Obesity Reviews 8, Supp.1, 2007, 131-136.
    Read more about this review on the Clore Laboratory pages

Professor John Clarke

  • Hunt, J. & J. Clarke, Castle House Buckingham: a comfortable family residence (Chichester: Phillimore, 2007).
    Read more about this book in our Publication of the week section

Professor Nigel Foster

  • "From persons to citizens: the evolution of personal free movement in the European Union", in R. Miller & P. Zumbansen (eds), Annual of German and European Law Vol.II/III (2004-2005) (New York: Berghahn, 2006), 239-282.

Dr Alan Martin

  • interviewed live about violence in films. MKTV, 11 April.

Professor Alan Smithers

  • interviewed on school discipline and pupils' behaviour. Drive Time (BBC Radio Five Live); BBC Three Counties Radio, 11 April.

Dr Mary Welstead

  • chaired session at the ABA/CAP Conference, Promoting Children's Interests: Preparation, Practice and Policy Reform. Harvard Law School, 13-15 April.

Professor Geoffrey Wood

  • discussed the question: Why should the Bank of England raise interest rates? Newsnight, BBC 2, 24 April.

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Local news

Thriller set in the future at cinema. Buckingham & Winslow Advertiser, 20 April.

University box (Buckingham & Winslow Advertiser; Brackley & Towcester Advertiser; Bicester Review)

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