Top accolades for university leaders
and oversees the university’s teaching and learning strategy. She also works closely with schools and services to secure an excellent student experience and works with registry to ensure the quality of the university’s provision.
She is a board member of Go Higher West Yorkshire, a member of national awarding organisation CERTA’s access to higher education committee, chair of the Dewsbury Learning Trust, chair of the Education and Training Foundation’s advanced teacher status steering group and a member of its expert panel on professional standards and workforce development.
Dr Grainger is responsible for the central teams that look after the university’s public relations, website, printed publications, digital marketing, alumni relations and student recruitment.
Her additional qualifications include a Master’s in Business Administration and a Diploma in Marketing with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). She is also a Fellow of the CIM.
Dr Grainger is a member of the governing body at Calderdale College and represents the university on the board of the local community foundation, One Community.
As Companions of the CMI, they join university vice-chancellor Prof Bob Cryan, director of estates and facilities Colin Blair, director of finance Andrew McConnell, deputy vice-chancellor Prof Tim Thornton and Prof Liz TownsAndrews, director of research and enterprise.
These latest awards are in addition to a rolling programme that will ultimately see more than 300 of the university’s managers become Chartered. ew businesses can get up and running much faster following a link-up between a payments specialist and a bank.
Elland-based Acceptcards has joined forces with Metro Bank to enable people starting up in business to get a new business bank account, debit card, access to online banking and a ready to use multi-channel card payment solution in one fell swoop.
Metro Bank has offered on-thespot current account opening for some time. Now it can also offer a complementary ready-to-go merchant services solution as well.
Metro Bank chief executive Craig Donaldson, pictured, said: “Business owners are time-pressured enough and often have ever-growing to do lists. We don’t want them to be held back by anything, but the limits of their ambition.
“By joining forces with Acceptcards we’re making things even more convenient and streamlined for our customers, meaning they can get up, running and trading in a matter of hours, rather than days - if not weeks.”
Acceptcards was set up in 2005 to offer a specialist point of contact for all aspects of card acceptance.
It helps businesses all over the UK to find the best payment solutions for their individual needs.
Richard Bradley, chief executive at Acceptcards, said: “Our focus has always been on finding new and innovative ways for our partners to support their customers’ payment needs.
“Having worked with Metro Bank for some time now, we knew that a highly convenient, in-store payment solution would sit perfectly with their revolutionary approach to serving business customers.” Our independent and partner-driven approach ensures clients receive advice they can rely on and trust. To discuss your plans in confidence please contact David Butterworth