{"id":16573,"date":"2022-08-04T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=16573"},"modified":"2022-08-11T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:59:39","slug":"dr-zita-stone-holds-pre-sessional-talks-for-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2022\/08\/dr-zita-stone-holds-pre-sessional-talks-for-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Zita Stone Holds Pre-Sessional Talks for International Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/people\/senior-leadership-team\/2485\/stone-zita\">Dr Zita Stone<\/a>, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and PG Student Experience (Taught) and Senior Lecturer in Management held pre-sessional talks for international students and University of Kent applicants earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The presentations included <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Managing Corporate Social Responsibility Globally<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Expectations of Postgraduate studies in the UK <\/span><\/i>followed by a session on Monday 25th July about the Learning Journey on the KBS Business degree. They aimed<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to help to ease students in to the intensity of postgraduate study in a new country.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2021\/10\/Zita-Stone-750-x-493.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12475\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2021\/10\/Zita-Stone-750-x-493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr Stone says: &#8220;<span class=\"TextRun SCXW134253563 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134253563 BCX8\">Ensuring that our students feel part of the KBS community starts at the applicant stage. We engage with students on the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW134253563 BCX8\">pre-sessional<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134253563 BCX8\">programme<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134253563 BCX8\"> to ensure they feel supported, informed and excited about the fantastic journey ahead on their chosen postgraduate course at KBS.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Applicant Nanako Oide commented: &#8220;The talks [delivered by Zita Stone] showed me not only the importance of practical studies in the Business School but also tips for success in postgraduate studies such as a networking and communication within the School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another attendee, Pinchan Pongmontree, said: &#8220;I loved the way she drove students to understand the topic and raise awareness. I thought that the information about this topic and activities in Kent was very useful, and many of my friends found it interesting too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/postgraduate\"><strong>Our postgraduate courses attract a wealth of international students from across the globe and span all areas of business. Find out more here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/international-programmes\/pre-sessional-courses\">Our Pre-sessional courses prepare you for degree study in the UK. All our courses focus on developing your academic study skills.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Zita Stone, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and PG Student Experience (Taught) and Senior Lecturer in Management held pre-sessional talks for international students and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2022\/08\/dr-zita-stone-holds-pre-sessional-talks-for-international-students\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74553,"featured_media":16578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[261730,112454,118135,1363,789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16573"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions\/16713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}