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Realising the Creative Campuscontact•December 11 1 Contents News The magazine of the University of Dundee • December 11 www.dundee.ac.uk/pressoffice Realising the creative campuscontact•december 11 1 contents news.................. ....03 from the principal... Since writing my last column, there have been a series of communications from the Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council. Of these, perhaps the most high profile for Dundee was the ‘invitation’ to begin discussions on potential merger with our sister organisation in the City, the University of Abertay. I don’t intend to rehearse here the arguments that have been played out in the press, and indeed I think our position was made clear in the press statements creative campus......14 we made at the time. The strength of feeling in Dundee against such a proposal was palpable, and Government ministers were quick to revise their position. Personally, I am thankful that the distraction it caused has to a large extent dissipated, so that we can concentrate on developing our future strategy, and forging ahead with the excellence agenda in both teaching and research. Around the same time the Government also released its spending review and budget plans for the period to 2014. Remarkably, the proposed funding levels for higher education announced in the budget were much more positive than the sector had expected: 14% cash terms increase to 2014- 15, equating to around a 6% real terms increase. We should perhaps spare a thought for colleagues in the further education sector who were not so lucky, seeing their funding reduce by over 13% in cash terms (equating to more than 20% in real terms). Of course precise details of the effects for the University will not be known for some time but, taken together with our efforts to recruit future portrait........18 students from the rest of the UK, this increase has the real potential to help towards restoring the funding reductions of recent years as well as to bridging the funding gap with institutions court news..............26 in England. On the negative side, however, is the proposed capital funding levels, which see a reduction for the higher and further education sectors combined of £30m, down to just £60.7m. This reinforces the need for the University to manage its finances carefully to create sufficient headroom to maintain investment in the capital infrastructure. The Government also published a pre-legislative paper on post-16 education: Putting Learners at the Centre (http://scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/09/15103949/0). The Government is consulting widely on this document, and there will almost certainly be consequences for the University if the proposals find their way into legislation, as is widely expected. The paper covers a range of issues: the flexible learner journey and widening access, the skills agenda and its links with employability, maintaining Scotland’s research excellence, student support arrangements, efficiency and sustainability, funding, governance and accountability. sels 2012................29 One of the proposals in the paper is the establishment of a single, centralised knowledge exchange what’s on...............31 office for Scotland. Knowledge exchange is a central part of any institution’s innovation strategy, and relies heavily on the one-to-one relationships that build up between individual academics and industry. To be effective, business development activity of this kind has to have a clear understanding credits of the institution’s research capability and capacity, and it must be able to assess the value and Contact is published by the potential of the knowledge creation process. Potential partners in innovation must have close links Press Office, External Relations. to the researchers to enable institutions to act on opportunities as they present themselves. There is Contributions are welcome but a synergy here in the relationship which feeds the innovative flow of creative ideas, and which risks cannot be guaranteed publication. Advertising is also welcome. being lost if these relationships are ‘managed’ by a separate and independent centre, at one remove Printed by Winter & Simpson Print. from the universities. There are also concerns here for the treatment of intellectual property. This Editor l Hilary McNally includes an institution’s ability to profit from the discoveries and innovations of their own research [email protected] but more importantly the role of IP in driving productive partnerships with users of research. t 01382 388878 l f 01382 385515 Design l Fiona Livingstone With the SNP’s paper there are clear signals that the post-16 education landscape will change. Whilst Design • Print • Marketing some aspects are to be welcomed, others will require careful consideration over the coming months. [email protected] Scottish charity no: SC015096 Professor Peter Downes • Principal and Vice-Chancellor www.dundee.ac.uk/pressoffice For more news from the Principal read his blog at http://blog.dundee.ac.uk/principal/ 2 contact•december 11 More than 700 students celebrated their academic achievements last month at two Winter Graduation ceremonies held by the University. The two ceremonies at the Caird Hall in Dundee city centre allowed students whose courses finished after the traditional summer graduation to receive their awards as soon as possible after completing their studies. Professor Pete Downes, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, congratulated all graduating students on their achievements. “The University’s first Winter Graduation was held last year and it proved to be a great success with students enjoying the opportunity to mark this special occasion with their families shortly after the confirmation of their award,” he said. “It is always a source of pride and delight to welcome students and their families here for graduation. This is a major milestone in anyone’s life.” The morning ceremony saw students from the College of Arts and Social Sciences and College of Art, Science and Engineering receive www.dundee.ac.uk/pressoffice their awards while in the afternoon it was the turn of students from the College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, the College of Life Sciences and psychology and education students from the College of Arts and Social Sciences. During the afternoon ceremony an honorary degree was bestowed on Professor Sir John Bell, a Canadian immunologist and geneticist who is President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and who holds the Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford. Following the ceremonies graduates and their families were able to continue the celebrations at a host of special Winter Graduation events at Dundee University Students Association (DUSA). contact•december 11 3 Skin cancer genes identified The genes which contribute to the most frequently occurring life Details of the research have been published in the journal PNAS USA threatening form of skin cancer have been identified for the first (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). time by a research collaboration between the Medical School and “These gene mutations are a common factor in a form of skin cancer scientists at Harvard and University of California, San Francisco. which is both common and life threatening,” said Professor Irene Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the most frequently Leigh, who led the Dundee end of the collaboration. occurring life threatening skin cancer. Unlike other common skin “By identifying these mutations, our group at Dundee, working cancers, such as Melanoma and Basal Cell Carcinoma, the genes which with international partners, hopes to exploit the process of skin are frequently mutated in cSCC have, until now, been unknown. development to which these genes contribute to develop new Now the researchers at Dundee, Harvard and UCSF have identified two cancer therapies capable of targeting skin and similar cancers such highly related genes which are mutated in three quarters of all cSCC as lung SCC.” cases. The gene mutations are also active in a significant proportion of The research was carried out with Dr Andrew South and Dr Charlotte SCC cases in the lungs. Proby in Professor Leigh’s laboratory at Dundee, together with The identified genes are known as ‘NOTCH’ and the mutations are colleagues at Harvard and UCSF. thought to inhibit normal barrier development, important processes The research at Dundee has been supported by Cancer Research UK in both the skin and lung. and the European Research Commission. Top child health honour for Professor Greene Professor Stephen Greene, Academic Lead on Child Health in the Professor Greene qualified from University College Hospital, London, School of Medicine, has been elected President of the International and subsequently pursued a career in Child Health with positions Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), one of the in Oxford, Great Ormond Street, London, the Kinderspital Hospital world’s leading bodies on child health. in Zurich, and Guy’s Hospital, London. He was appointed as NHS Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist for Tayside in 1987 and then He will serve at ISPAD President from 2012 to 2015, during which moved to the University in 1998 as Senior Lecturer and then Reader time he will oversee their 2014 annual conference in Toronto, the in Child and Adolescent Health. He was appointed Academic Lead city where insulin was discovered. for Child Health in 2009. “I am deeply honoured to be elected President of such a His specific research interests lie in diabetes in the young, prestigious organisation,”
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