{"id":4594,"date":"2016-09-15T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T10:44:38","slug":"the-sibson-building-a-new-home-for-kent-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/09\/the-sibson-building-a-new-home-for-kent-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sibson Building: A New Home for Kent Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Kent Business School are pleased to announce the naming of their new academic home as the Sibson Building, named so after the University&#8217;s third Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robin Sibson.<\/p>\n<p>The naming of the Sibson Building follows the precedent of naming academic buildings after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ovc\/vice-chancellor\/previousvc.html\" target=\"_blank\">former Vice-Chancellors<\/a>: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/templeman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Templeman Library<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus\/building\/ingram-building\" target=\"_blank\">Ingram Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Robin Sibson is a statistician, who is best known for his research on natural neighbour interpolation.<\/p>\n<p>Sibson was Vice-Chancellor from September 1994 to August 2001 and led the University through a period of significant change: including creating the current structure of schools and departments; beginning an expansion of student numbers and widening participation with links to associate colleges; and developing higher education provision in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/locations\/medway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medway <\/a>leading to the\u00a0creation of a new campus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/\" target=\"_blank\">KBS <\/a>will be moving into the new Sibson Building in early 2017, a new home that encapsulates our academic values and identity.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the Sibson building began in January 2015. The building will be jointly occupied with the School of Mathematics, Statistics &amp; Actuarial Science (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smsas\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">SMSAS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read more information on how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/about\/developments\/canterbury\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sibson Building Construction<\/a>\u00a0is progressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Business School are pleased to announce the naming of their new academic home as the Sibson Building, named so after the University&#8217;s third Vice-Chancellor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/09\/the-sibson-building-a-new-home-for-kent-business-school\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40913,"featured_media":4597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[5349,164157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594"}],"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\/40913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}