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Entries for Guardian University Awards 2018

The Guardian University Awards 2018 were launched last week and entries are welcome until the final deadline of Friday 23 February.

The Guardian are inviting entries from UK HE across 15 categories which will be shortlisted and judged by an expert panel. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in April. Corporate Communications will again be co-ordinating Kent’s award submissions this year.

This year’s Guardian University Award categories are listed below and, with only a couple of exceptions, any projects nominated must have started within the last 18 months.

1.Teaching excellence

2. Advancing staff equality

3. Student experience

4. Widening access and outreach

5. Retention, support and student outcomes

6. Course and curriculum design

7. Employability and entrepreneurship

8. Business collaboration

9. Social and community impact

10. Research impact (projects must have finished in the past 24 months)

11. Internationalisation

12. Digital innovation

13. Buildings that inspire (capital projects must have been completed within the last 24          months)

14. Sustainability project

  1. Marketing and comms campaigns

You can find out more about the awards on the Guardian webpages.

Please do get in touch with Corporate Communications asap if you know of a project that we should be considering for this year’s awards – email us on communications@kent.ac.uk.