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Just prior to its meeting on Friday 1 April 2016, Council visited the University’s premises on the Historic Dockyard, Chatham, including the Galvanising Shop and the Sail and Colour Loft. Council also admired the sympathetically renovated Royal Dockyard Church and … Continue reading →

A new Women Count report has placed Kent among the top tier of 166 UK HEIs for the number of women on its 25-member council. With 48% of its Council positions taken up by women, Kent is well above the … Continue reading →

On Friday 26 February 2016 Council held its annual Strategy Day in Darwin College. Topics discussed included governance, the external environment, responding to current challenges in teaching, learning and the student experience and financial sustainability.  

A meeting of the Court of the University was held on Friday 22 January 2016 in Darwin Conference Suite. This was followed by the opening of the first phase of the Templeman Library extension.

Council met on 27 November 2015 and approved the 2014/2015 Financial Statements and the statutory reports/returns for submission to HEFCE. Council also considered the Key Performance Indicators and approved the People Strategy (subject to some re-drafting), a revised Health and … Continue reading →

Autumn Term 2015 has been an exciting month for the University Council, with its first trip overseas, to Brussels, and a number of new members attending their first meetings. In October 2015 new lay members Dame Ursula Brennan and Her … Continue reading →

Council considered and approved the draft University Plan for 2015-2020, subject to any further comments from the meeting of Senate to be held on 21 October 2015.  Council also approved the draft Estates Strategy. As the Council meeting was held in Brussels, Professor Roger Vickerman, … Continue reading →

Sir David Warren, Chair of the University Council and a former UK Ambassador to Japan, officially opened the new facilities for the University’s Brussels School on Thursday 15 October 2015.   Sir David, pictured  at the event with Professor Dame … Continue reading →

Council recorded its thanks to the outgoing members finishing their terms of office on 31 July 2015: Deputy Chair of the Council/Chair of the Finance and Resources Committee: Tony Quigley Lay members: John Bowers, Lord Hannay, Ashley West and Her Honour … Continue reading →

Council considered the draft Strategic University Plan 2015-2020.  Views were broadly positive and it was agreed that the next iteration would be considered at the Council meeting in October 2015, alongside the draft Estates Strategy 2015-2025, the first iteration of … Continue reading →