Tag: Anglia Ruskin

17:40 Tuesday 3rd June 2014
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: Figures obtained by the BBC show that complaints and appeals made against universities in the UK have risen by 10% since 2012, when some starting charging fees of up to £9,000 a year of course. More than 20,000 complaints were made last year alone. Simon Renton is Vice-President of the University and College Union, the UCU. They represent the thousands of university staff across the UK, and he joined me earlier.
SIMON RENTON: They’re disappointing, but I don’t think, no, they’re not surprising. I’m sorry to say that they pretty much fall in line with what we had expected.
CHRIS MANN: And why is that?
Continue reading “Simon Renton UCU on Complaints and Student Expectations”

09:35 Thursday 20th March 2014
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[A]NDIE HARPER: Could the wetter and warmer winters we’re having be having a negative impact on our rivers? I suppose this is the first wetter warmer winter we’ve had for some time. But that’s the subject of a new study, after environmental scientists suggested nutrient runoff from agricultural land could be lowering the quality of water in the rivers. Dr Bob Evans is from Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute, and is involved in the study. Good morning to you.
BOB EVANS: Good morning.
ANDIE HARPER: Now I say the wetter warmer winters that we have now. Well that was the case for quite a few years, then we had that burst of cold ones. But if there’s ever been a wet warm winter, this has been it.
BOB EVANS: Well yes. But it was a very wet winter last year, which was also very difficult for the farmers. So these things go up and down. It’s really quite difficult to work out whether the trend is towards a particularly wet sequence, or a drier sequence. These things, they happen. They’re very difficult to predict.
ANDIE HARPER: Now there was always a concern about our water courses, wasn’t there, in the halcyon days of farmers putting sprays on fields willy-nilly? But most of us are under the impression that they’re so controlled these days that that doesn’t happen.
Continue reading “Agricultural Runoff and Water Quality”

17:47 Tuesday 22nd October 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: A leading Cambridge academic has called for the Government’s Green Deal to be scrapped. Dr Aled Jones, who’s (from) the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University has delivered a speech in the City today. He says the only way to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions is to increase energy efficiency, (and) to bring in legislation. Aled is with me now. Hello.
ALED JONES: Hi Chris.
CHRIS MANN: So explain that for us please.
ALED JONES: Well basically arguing that the Green Deal which is basically a finance package with high interest rates and up front costs isn’t achieving the goal of getting us, householders, consumers to do exactly that, to insulate. So we need to have a radical rethink about the policy, and put in place probably mandatory standards and other things that will encourage us and actually make us do it, while also putting in place other carrots, and helping us to do it.
CHRIS MANN: So what’s wrong with the Green Deal so to speak?
ALED JONES: The main reason people don’t insulate their houses is hassle-factor, so it’s just too difficult for us to do it; we don’t like clearing our lofts; we don’t like moving plants off walls to get solid wall insulation on the outside. And what the Green Deal finance does is offer you a loan. So people are already averse to taking out loans, and it doesn’t really go to the heart of the problem, which is making it an easier process.
CHRIS MANN: Most people can’t afford solar panels on their roof.
Continue reading “Green Deal Unable To Deliver Energy Efficiency”

17:42 Friday 6th September 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: Cambridge researchers say water shortages and not oil are at the root of many of the Middle Eastern crises, including Syria. As global leaders gather at the G20 summit in St Petersburg to discuss the alleged atrocities of the Syrian government, Anglia Ruskin University is exploring the underlying drivers of the Syrian crisis. Here’s Dr Aled Jones, Head of the Global Sustainability Institute. (TAPE)
ALED JONES: So water is critical for a range of different things, infrastructure, food, the way we live. And as it’s becoming more scarce in particularly unstable regions, then we are more likely to see conflict over it.
CHRIS MANN: And do you think specifically the conflicts in, for instance, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan and so on, they all have their root causes in water? Continue reading “Dr Aled Jones On Water Resources Regional Conflicts And Civil Unrest”

17:50 Thursday 11th July 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: After Spain, the East of England is the most stressed region in Europe for water. Thousands of pounds has been given to Cambridge’s Anglia Ruskin University to investigate and promote new ways of improving water efficiency. And I’m joined now by Dr Aled Jones, who’s the Director of Anglia Ruskin’s Global Sustainability Institute. Aled, hi.
ALED JONES: Hi Chris.
CHRIS MANN: Stressed. What does that mean? Continue reading “Water Efficiency Global Sustainability Anglia Ruskin”