{"id":3488,"date":"2019-02-01T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:59:35","slug":"study-plus-coppicing-basket-making-and-hazel-fencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/02\/01\/study-plus-coppicing-basket-making-and-hazel-fencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Plus &#8211; coppicing, basket making and hazel fencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/studyplus\/general-info\/about.html\">Study Plus<\/a> allows University of Kent students to improve employability skills, develop personal creativity and expand cultural and academic knowledge.\u00a0 They are free, short-term, non-credit bearing courses which allow you try something different!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/473\/bride-ian\">Dr Ian Bride<\/a> leads Study Plus courses on Woodland Coppicing and Woodland Crafts.\u00a0 These fascinating, practical and super fun courses are run at Billhook Nook in Brotherhood Woods.\u00a0 Last term students enjoyed learning about sustainable woodland management, creating witches brooms, coppicing, basket making and building their own Christmas wreathes.\u00a0 This term&#8217;s course includes coppicing, brash fencing, basket making, Betel Mania (wooden mallets), small tree felling and Hazel hurdles (fence panels).<\/p>\n<p>Study Plus courses appear on your final degree transcript so are a fabulous way to demonstrate the diversity of your interests and skills.\u00a0 Maybe join up for one next year?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/studyplus\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/studyplus\/index.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3490\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3490\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/02\/Wreaths1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Wreath making - Study Plus\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/02\/Wreaths1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/02\/Wreaths1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/02\/Wreaths1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/02\/Wreaths1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wreath making &#8211; Study Plus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Plus allows University of Kent students to improve employability skills, develop personal creativity and expand cultural and academic knowledge.\u00a0 They are free, short-term, non-credit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/02\/01\/study-plus-coppicing-basket-making-and-hazel-fencing\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1975,"featured_media":3489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159354,124,6600],"tags":[872,957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}