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University News VENTA / Issue 26 / Summer 2012 University Vice-Chancellor opens newly renovated classrooms at Soma School in The Gambia Professor Joy Carter, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Winchester, cut the official opening ribbon in February for two new classrooms, renovated with the money raised by Hampshire Diamond Jubilee Gambia Project 2012. She was joined by the University’s Chancellor, Professor Dame Mary Fagan, DCVO JP Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire as well as the British High Commissioner for The Gambia, His Excellency David Morley at a colourful opening ceremony attended by hundreds of members of the Soma community. “The new classrooms look absolutely wonderful,” said Professor Carter. “It was a real privilege to be able to attend these celebrations. The classroom environment can make a real difference to teaching and learning and I’m quite sure that these classrooms will have a positive impact on the children and staff at the school.” Staff and students have been enthusiastically fundraising along with Hampshire Schools to reach the project’s initial £20,000 target. £6,713 of the target was raised by All Saints School in Fleet who has forged strong links with the school over the last 12 years through their Learning through Friendship Project. All Saints Project Coordinator, Carmella Reece also attended the opening along with Marion Christmas MBE JP, founder of the Kaira Konko Scout Fellowship in Soma. At the ceremony, Lamin Kinteh, Project Manager for Kaira Konko, was awarded an honorary MBE, presented by the British High Commissioner, for his dedication and services to scouting and education. “Without Kinteh, our partnership with the Soma School could not thrive as much as it does,” said Carmella who completed her teaching training at Winchester in 2006. “He has been able to advise us on how our fundraising can be put to best use and he personally ensures that the money is spent on relevant resources.” The new classrooms have been furnished with new desks, tiled flooring, new blackboards and window shutters. Additional monies raised will also go towards improving facilities at Tahir School in The Gambia. For further information about Hampshire Diamond Jubilee Gambia Project see www.winchester.ac.uk/gambia or email gambia.project@winchester.ac.uk. University Vice-Chancellor Professor Joy Carter with Chancellor, Professor Dame Mary Fagan, DCVO JP Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire in one of the new classrooms at The Soma School in The Gambia. University Law students make it to the finals of national negotiation competition with perfect score Second Year Law students from the University of Winchester have come first in the regional heats of the Negotiation Competition of England and Wales, sponsored by the College of Law and the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR). The Department of Law entered two teams with James Stephens and Brea Hudson receiving a perfect 100 per cent score from judges and then competed in the national finals in Manchester in March. “When the results were first announced, there was a moment or two where Brea and I didn’t quite understand what had happened,” 4 said James, whose team had to prepare and negotiate two separate cases. “The organiser of the event came over and showed us the score sheet and told us that all six judges that had seen us had voted us their unanimous favourite. As if it wasn’t enough to get put through, but to receive a perfect 100 per cent score? Now that was surreal.” Twenty teams from ten Law Schools took part in the day long competition at the southern regional heats in Guildford (11 February). Other CEDR events took place at the same time in Birmingham, Chester and York with three teams from each region going through to the finals. “This competition provides an opportunity for law students to practice and improve their negotiation skills,” said David Chalk, Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Faculty of Business, Law and Sport at the University of Winchester. “It involves students in teams of two going head to head to measure their skills. For each round, participating teams receive, in advance, a common set of facts as well as confidential information known only to the side which they are representing.” Finalists will be given a one day training workshop in London with CEDR and the overall winner of the national finals will go forward to represent England and Wales in the international competition to be held in Belfast in July.
University News VENTA / Issue 26 / Summer 2012 University Performing Arts Studios awarded National Civic Trust Award The University has won a National Civic Trust Award for its outstanding new Performing Arts Studios building. The award was presented by architect and presenter of Channel 4’s The Restoration Man, George Clarke at a glittering ceremony at The Hub in Edinburgh at the beginning of the month. The Civic Trust Awards is one of the longest standing built environment awards schemes in Europe and the 2012 shortlist was drawn up from a total of 306 national and international entries. “The Civic Trust Awards celebrate not only design excellence but also the relationship between structures, places, the environment and communities,” said Malcolm Hankey, Civic Trust Awards Managing Director speaking at the event. “Winning projects have demonstrated architectural excellence whilst offering cultural, social or economic benefit to the local community.” The Performing Arts Studios building, designed by Design Engine Architects of Winchester, contains six performance spaces for physical theatre and human movement as well as flexible teaching facilities for seminars and academic workshops. As well as being thermally efficient and naturally aspirated, it is totally soundproof to protect nearby residents from noise, with no opening windows, dense concrete floors and a steel wall hidden from neighbours by a green ‘living’ wall. “We’re absolutely delighted to receive this Civic Trust Award,” said Tommy Geddes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor. “The University has worked hard, and at considerable extra cost, to respond to the needs of our neighbours while providing a first rate facility for our students. It’s a great achievement for the entire team to see our building listed alongside some of the very best projects the world of architecture and design has to offer this year.” The University of Winchester was the only organisation in the region to win a Civic Trust Award although Gosport Railway Station and Forest Park Special School in Southampton both received Commendations. Other winners of Civic Trust Awards include Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik; Prince’s Gardens, Imperial College, London; Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Las Arenas, Barcelona; The Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres, Stratford-on-Avon; Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge and H10, London Waterloo. 5
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