{"id":396,"date":"2018-08-03T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/?p=396"},"modified":"2018-12-03T15:06:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:06:32","slug":"event-to-launch-technician-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/2018\/08\/03\/event-to-launch-technician-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Event to launch Technician Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Over 50 technicians attended an event on 4 July 2018 to launch the\u00a0Technician Commitment at Kent<\/p>\n<p>Learning and Organisational Development hosted an event on 4 July 2018 to launch the\u00a0Technician Commitment at Kent\u00a0 The event also celebrated the contribution of Kent\u2019s technical staff.<\/p>\n<p>Denise Everitt, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer opened the event which over 50 technicians attended. The event included a presentation from Tracey Dickens from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and lots of ideas generation about how Kent can meet its pledge to technicians under the Commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The Technician Commitment is a sector wide, collaborative initiative led by the Science Council and supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/technicians.org.uk\/\">Technicians Make It Happen campaign<\/a>, to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-401\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/files\/2018\/12\/TC-event-4-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/files\/2018\/12\/TC-event-4-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/files\/2018\/12\/TC-event-4.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/2018\/08\/03\/event-to-launch-technician-commitment\/&amp;t=Event to launch Technician Commitment' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Event to launch Technician Commitment%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/2018\/08\/03\/event-to-launch-technician-commitment\/' 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\/landodlatestnews\/2018\/08\/03\/event-to-launch-technician-commitment\/' 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\/landodlatestnews\/2018\/08\/03\/event-to-launch-technician-commitment\/&amp;title=Event to launch Technician Commitment' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/2018\/08\/03\/event-to-launch-technician-commitment\/&amp;title=Event to launch Technician Commitment' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50 technicians attended an event on 4 July 2018 to launch the\u00a0Technician Commitment at Kent Learning and Organisational Development hosted an event on 4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/2018\/08\/03\/event-to-launch-technician-commitment\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[212657],"tags":[212658],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/landodlatestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}