{"id":1098,"date":"2018-08-01T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:11:44","slug":"getting-started-at-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2018\/08\/01\/getting-started-at-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started at Kent!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Kent we are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lYV2zZj_drQ\">#AllInternational<\/a> and are looking forward to welcoming all of our new international, EU, and short-term exchange students next month! If you are one of them, we have put together a few links with important information to help you prepare for your arrival:<\/p>\n<p>(1) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/gettingstarted\/international\/index.html\">Getting started information<\/a> \u2013 for enrolment, activating your IT account, paying fees and more. Please note that you will need your Kent ID number to enrol, which will be notified to you via your KentVision tray.<br \/>\n(2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/gettingstarted\/international\/checklist.html\">Pre-arrival checklist for international students<\/a> \u2013 visa documentation, medical care, opening up a UK bank account and more.<br \/>\n(3) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/gettingstarted\/international\/arrange-your-travel-to-kent.html\">Book your airport transfer<\/a> for Arrivals Weekend 15 \u2013 16 September.<br \/>\n(4) Book tickets for our Welcome Week events (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/gettingstarted\/international\/cant-events-sept.html\">Canterbury campus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/gettingstarted\/international\/med-events-sept.html\">Medway campus<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update your status<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; now that you\u2019ve joined us, why not update your Facebook profile to show that you\u2019re studying at the University of Kent?<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or if there\u2019s anything we can do to make your arrival as easy as possible, please email us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:international@kent.ac.uk\">international@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>See you soon!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Kent we are #AllInternational and are looking forward to welcoming all of our new international, EU, and short-term exchange students next month! If you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2018\/08\/01\/getting-started-at-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46900,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}