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Perserverance Conquers Everest for Sir Ranulph Fiennes perserverance conquers Everest Summit for sir ranulph Fiennes else Economy in thE spotlight : cookEry Book rElaunch : Funds For scholarships Join the and thE WinnER iS... 6 Announcing the Alumni Achievement Awards. Expedition Leaders Global acadEMic alliances 10 GCU joins the Santander Univer- sities Network We at JAGGED GLOBE are widely recognised as the best British organisers of mountaineering expeditions to the Greater Ranges. Trips planned PEaKinG ouR intERESt 12 Explorer! Adventurer! Marathon runner! for 2010 reflect our growing passion for more remote, GCU honorary graduate Sir Ranulph COVER STORY PaGE 12 Fiennes scales Mount Everest at 65 Cover: Sir Ranulph Fiennes adventurous places. Our heritage is rooted in years old. photographed by Ian Parnell the high mountains of the Himalaya; RacE aRound thE Gulf 16 A trip by GCU dignitaries to the our expanded activities serve Middle East highlights the success to strengthen our bond of partnership projects. with the wild, high cRaSh! FALL! SluMP! 18 Financial Services lecturer Patrick places. Ring discusses the prospects for winter 2009 recovery. fivE MinutE intERviEW 22 This month with toy magnate Alan Bennie. WElcoME to thE WINTER 2009 Edition of caledonian+. The past 12 months have seen the near collapse of banking giants, the stock market and financial institutions. In this issue, we ask how the banking system CLIMB should be reformed and what 2010 may hold for the economy. We ask GCU You can join us for two weeks academics for their insight and have an or two months on expeditions exclusive interview with graduate and TREK to every continent on the Chief Economist of RBS, Andrew McLaughlin (pages 18-20). 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I was delighted to begin the new academic Farewell... year with a ceremony at the University of Jinan, Shandong, China, to aftER 41 YEaRS at GCU, launch our joint honours degree programmes in Finance, Investment & W Senior Lecturer David Donald has Risk and Environmental Civil Engineering. Since Chairman Professor Fan and I signed retired. David spent over 35 years a Memorandum of Understanding in November 2008, we have made remarkable specialising in Government, Politics progress. Our students travelled to Jinan during the summer for an academic and and Social Sciences. He became cultural exchange, an experience which has heightened their ambitions to succeed the Deputy Head of the Politics in the global marketplace. In September 2009, we welcomed five PhD and four Department from 1980 to 1992, Masters students from the University of Jinan to study with us in Glasgow, each and then a subject leader of the Division of having been awarded a joint scholarship. We also welcomed President Cheng, Vice- Politics until the late 1990s. In 2003, he was Chancellor of the University of Jinan, who is engaging in an important research seconded from Social Sciences to direct the project in the School of Built & Natural Environment as a Visiting Professor for a Spoken Word project – a funded IT collaboration three month period. with the BBC Archives and Michigan State and Northwestern universities in the USA. Looking our partnership is founded on a shared commitment to provide education back at his time at GCU, David said: “There is for the most talented young people whatever their backgrounds or financial nothing I would rather have done than learn circumstances and on a determination to promote our social mission for the common and teach at what became Glasgow good. It is also based upon trust and friendship, the key cornerstones of a successful Caledonian University. I will always regard partnership. myself as a member of the university, and I hope our graduates feel the same way.” We WILL DEVELOP OUR international partnerships and friendships in China and David hopes to maintain an association across the globe this academic year, and with the university and would be especially I look forward to keeping you updated. delighted to hear from former students. Please email [email protected] To read more about the cultural New School exchange trip, please go to page 21. ...and Welcome of Health thE univERSitY Would like to welcome Professor Zeljko thE universitY iS PRoud to announcE the launch Sevic as Dean and Christopher of the School of Health, following the successful merger of Moore, Vice Dean, of the the Schools of Nursing Midwifery and Community Health Caledonian Business School (CBS), and Health and Social Care. The new school, led by Professor the largest business school in Frank Crossan as Dean and Professor Valerie Webster as Vice Scotland with over 4,000 students Dean, will have 400 staff and over 4,000 undergraduate and studying a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate students. postgraduate and professional programmes. By bringing together the range of health, nursing and Dean Sevic said; “Through a joint effort by all social care disciplines, the school will be able to develop PRofESSoR PaMELA GilliES staff I hope that the school can continue to inter-professional training and cross-disciplinary programmes deliver a first class education to our students as well as support the university’s world leading research in PRinciPal and vicE-chancELLOR and expand on our innovative and applied the health field, which was ranked in the UK top 10 in the research based projects.” For more information 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. For more information visit visit www.gcal.ac.uk/cbs www.gcal.ac.uk/health 4 Caledonian+ winter 2009 Caledonian+ winter 2009 5 . alumninews + . .. universitynews + . ........................................................... Ian Deary US honours GCU acknowledges honorary graduates Alumni two of gcu’s honorary graduates have been awarded America’s highest civilian pr o f ess o R i a n d E a ry, honour HNC Medical Laboratory honour by President Barack Obama. Sciences ’76, received his Honorary graduate and Magnusson Fellow Achievement Professor Muhammad Yunus is one of 16 Alumni Achievement Award at the November graduations recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of at the Royal Concert Hall in Freedom, alongside fellow honorary graduate Awards Glasgow. Ian, now a Professor Mary Robinson, the first woman President of of Differential Psychology at the Ireland and a former United Nations High thE universitY iS PRoud to announcE the recipients of the 2009 Alumni Achievement University of Edinburgh, has Commissioner for Human Rights. The Medal Awards. Four outstanding graduates have been recognised for their achievements in pioneered psychometric and of Freedom is awarded to individuals who business, literature and academia. They include a construction entrepreneur based other psychological research make a manifest contribution to the national in the Middle East; an internationally acclaimed Jewish food critic; an outstanding programmes to discover the interests of the US, world peace, cultural or Dough
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