{"id":553,"date":"2012-04-19T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=553"},"modified":"2012-04-19T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:54:26","slug":"become-a-student-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2012\/04\/19\/become-a-student-rep\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Student Rep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Student&#8217;s Union are running elections for student reps &#8211; closing date is 10th May.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for course and school reps for next academic year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What will make you stand out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By becoming a Course Rep you become one of 300 students out of the 19,966 students at the University of Kent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You will not only improve your educational experience you will also gain something extra special for your CV.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The successful candidates will be offered training, will help shape University policy for their course and will also gain important skills which will help you in the increasingly challenging jobs market.\u00a0 For those who are successfully re-elected in Course Rep elections there will be new training and support sessions for you next year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Put yourself forward to be a Course Rep before nominations close on Thursday the 10<sup>th<\/sup> of May!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All Course Rep position that will represent Postgraduate Research students and Undergraduate years two and three next year from Wednesday 28<sup>th<\/sup> March will be accepting nominations. For anyone currently on a foundation course year one elections will be taking place in October 2012 for year one Undergraduate Course Rep positions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to nominate yourself:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>To be a course rep you need to nominate yourself via the Kent Union website. You will be able to do this from Wednesday 28<sup>th<\/sup> March at 9am with nominations closing on 10<sup>th<\/sup> May at 12pm. You can then vote from the 14<sup>th<\/sup> May at 9am until the 21<sup>st<\/sup> May at 9am. Results for the Course Rep positions will be posted on the Kent Union website on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> May.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Nominations are also open for <strong>School Rep positions<\/strong> which support course reps within their school and work with their faculty rep to make sure school based successes are championed and that any issues are resolved.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0To nominate yourself for any of the positions please go to:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/elections\/coursereps\/\">http:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/elections\/coursereps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If you have any questions please email &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:elections@kent.ac.uk\">elections@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Student&#8217;s Union are running elections for student reps &#8211; closing date is 10th May. We are looking for course and school reps for next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2012\/04\/19\/become-a-student-rep\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1975,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}