{"id":163,"date":"2013-01-10T17:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-01-10T17:18:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:18:26","slug":"undergraduate-applications-to-the-school-of-biosciences-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2013\/01\/10\/undergraduate-applications-to-the-school-of-biosciences-continue-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate applications to the School of Biosciences continue to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent is bucking the national trend of declining university applications for undergraduate degree programmes. While new applications to study at University have declined across the UK, the University&#8217;s applications have risen by 6.3% compared with last year. The School of Biosciences has seen an even more impressive increase of\u00a029% on last year&#8217;s figures\u00a0according to the lastest application data &#8211; a ringing endorsement for the quality of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/study\/undergraduate\/index.html\">undergraduate degree\u00a0programmes<\/a>. This follows on from annual increases over the last 5 years and reflect our strong league table position,\u00a0our outstanding performance in the National Student Survey, and our high levels of graduate employability.<\/p>\n<p>Read the recent university <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/stories\/increaseapplications\/2013\">press release <\/a>for more details.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2013\/01\/10\/undergraduate-applications-to-the-school-of-biosciences-continue-to-rise\/&amp;t=Undergraduate applications to the School of Biosciences continue to rise' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Undergraduate applications to the School of Biosciences continue to rise%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2013\/01\/10\/undergraduate-applications-to-the-school-of-biosciences-continue-to-rise\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2013\/01\/10\/undergraduate-applications-to-the-school-of-biosciences-continue-to-rise\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2013\/01\/10\/undergraduate-applications-to-the-school-of-biosciences-continue-to-rise\/&amp;title=Undergraduate applications to the School of Biosciences continue to rise' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2013\/01\/10\/undergraduate-applications-to-the-school-of-biosciences-continue-to-rise\/&amp;title=Undergraduate applications to the School of Biosciences continue to rise' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent is bucking the national trend of declining university applications for undergraduate degree programmes. While new applications to study at University have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2013\/01\/10\/undergraduate-applications-to-the-school-of-biosciences-continue-to-rise\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}