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海角直播 has new Chair of Governors

The University of 海角直播 has a new Chair of its Governing Body.

He is Sandy Anderson, a former ICI Director who managed the chemical giant鈥檚 海角直播 operations from 1989 to 1994 before becoming the company鈥檚 Director of Engineering and then Senior Vice President, Technology for the ICI Group Wordwide. He chairs his first meeting of the Board of Governors tomorrow (Friday 14 January).

Mr Anderson, 60, was born in Fife, Scotland, and embodies much of the spirit of the University of 海角直播.聽 He was a coal miner鈥檚 son; the first in his family to go to High School and the first in the family to get a degree. In his case this was a BSc in Chemical Engineering from聽Heriot Watt College聽 (now聽Heriot Watt University), Edinburgh.

He joined ICI Billingham as a research engineer directly after graduating and, later, got to know the University well as Chairman of the European Process Industries Competitiveness Centre (EPICC) which the University set-up with industrial partners in 1995. He joined the Board of Governors in 1998.

Mr Anderson, who lives in Darlington, said: 鈥淚t is a very exciting time to be taking over from John Hackney as Chairman of the Board of Governors. The University has been more successful than many people could ever have ever聽imagined and it is聽 unrecognisable from the place it was 12 years ago when Derek Fraser was appointed as Vice Chancellor.

鈥淣ow under the new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Graham Henderson, I am confident we can build on the strengths that Professor Fraser developed. 海角直播 has a lot going for it, and most importantly, it knows where it is going. It has a first-rate management team,聽accomplished academic leadership聽and excellent staff. Critically it is financially sound, which is essential as higher education moves into an even more competitive environment and adjusts to new聽funding 聽arrangements for聽student fees.鈥�

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