View upcoming learning  and teaching workshops this month:

Assessment and ‘reasonable adjustments’: managing learning

15 October 2014, 1-2.30pm, UELT Seminar Room
The notion of ‘reasonable adjustments’ will be explored, and staff are encouraged to bring questions for discussion. Relevant policies and inclusive practices will be discussed, including specific ideas for enhancing teaching and assessment.

• Part 1: Designing assessment will look at principles of assessment design which will facilitate changes to accommodate reasonable adjustments. Available resources will be demonstrated.
• Part 2: Reasonable adjustments and working with ILPs will look at how ILPs function, and possible impacts on teaching and assessing students who have ILPs in place.

More events in October:

• Academic Advisers: Case studies and implementation, 22 October 13.00-14.30 Cornwallis NW, SR 5
• Students and Learning plans: Support to Study policy and ILP procedures, 29 October Woolf SR 5
• View more events

Join us for an exciting season of theatre and performance at Gulbenkian this autumn.

We have amazing performances from the circus inspired OFF, a blues scored production of FAUST and a contemporary version of Antigone. Plus you can book now for the mind-blowingly spectacular The Five & The Prophecy of Prana in November and our Christmas show Snow Play.

Details of all our special offers are available here.

To book tickets, click here, pop in to our venue or call 01227 769075.

The Central Campus Visitor pay and display car park will be closed for a short period on Thursday 9 October to allow access for a large crane to lift equipment over the Colyer Fergusson Building.

Alternative visitor car parking is available on campus in the following visitor pay and display car parks and is signposted: Sports Centre, The Pavilion, Beverly Farm and Oaks car parks.

Please advise any visitors that you are expecting on 9 October in advance so they are aware of the closure prior to arriving on Campus.

As soon as the lift is completed the car park will be reopened.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Mark Ashmore
Project Manager

The Staff Induction and Information Fair will take place on Tuesday 7 October in the Darwin Conference Suites, at the Canterbury Campus.

We warmly welcome all staff, regardless of length of service, to come along and visit the Information Fair, to browse the many stalls on offer showcasing University services and benefits for staff.

Please feel free to drop by the Darwin Conference Suites between 1.15pm and 1.30pm.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Learning & Development

The School of Arts, within a consortium co-ordinated by University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, has been awarded 380,000 Euros by the European Commission for an exciting new project ‘Three layers of telling a story: Creation of joint curricula in the Higher Education of Cinematographers, Puppeteers and Applied Theatre Practitioners’.

The three year project, led at Kent by Professor Paul Allain, is funded under the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships funding stream, which promotes activities designed to improve higher education through innovative approaches and practices.

Three Layers of Telling a Story will focus on cinematography, applied theatre and puppetry and will involve teacher exchange between partners of the consortium, including institutions in Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Ireland and Slovakia. Kent will also host teachers for sessions sharing teaching expertise, from Bergen, Budapest and Bialystok.

Professor Allain said ‘I am very excited about this opportunity to develop our curriculum and for staff interaction with so many specialist European partners in the two particular areas of applied performance and puppetry. Both these are enjoying a huge surge of interest in the UK, and this project is very timely’.

For more information on the Three Layers project, please contact Professor Paul Allain on P.A.Allain@kent.ac.uk.

For information about the opportunities of Strategic Partnerships funding under Erasmus+, please contact Primrose Paskins.

The Careers and Employability Service (CES) would like to invite you to take a look at their newly updated webpages.

Using the Chronos template, the webpages have had lots of additional content added to help students, staff, alumni and employers easily navigate the site.

Students and staff can view online Employability bitesize content by simply logging in with their Kent login. There are lots of short clips from real-world employers with advice on CVs, interviews, job hunting, application forms and much more which will help support the development of employability skills and can be accessed any time.

As part of Employability Week (3-7 November 2014), we have over 100 employers attending the Careers Fair on 4 November, but don’t forget, employers come to visit the University of Kent campus to give talks throughout the entire academic year! Make sure you keep updated by looking at our events pages.

The CES has included suggestions from students, staff and others, so we hope you like what you see.

There is much more content to come as we transition to our new site.

If you would like to make any suggestions on the look or content, then we would be pleased to receive it – just email careerhelp@kent.ac.uk.