Monthly Archives: March 2015

Discount tickets for Festival of Steam and Transport

Kent students and staff, along with five accompanying guests, can get discounted tickets for the Festival of Steam and Transport at The Historic Dockyard Chatham from 5-6 April.

You will need your Kent ID to receive the following rates:

  • Adult: £8.50
  • Concessions: £8.00
  • Child: £6.50
  • Family: £25.00
  • Add. Family Child: £5.00

These tickets will be available to purchase on the day of visit, however you may like to obtain tickets in advance, from The Historic Dockyard Admissions Desk during normal opening hours.

Win a hamper full of goodies!

We are giving you the chance to win a hamper full of goodies, including: a meal for 4 at either Mungo’s or Cargo, promotional merchandise, and tasty treats!

COMPETITION:

For a chance of winning, all you have to do is:

1.) Follow @universitykentcatering on Instagram

2.) Snap a photo of your favourite dish from either Dolche Vita, K-Bar, Origins, Mungo’s, Create, Rutherford Dining Hall, No1, or Cargo

3.) Tag the photo with #ukcfood

We’re looking for the tastiest Instagrams from around campus!

Competition closes 12:00 on Monday 16 March 2015.

The winner will be chosen by our panel, and announced on Tuesday 17 March 2015.

Please read the terms and conditions. Good luck!

Kent Union Leadership Elections

Voting for the Kent Union Leadership Elections is now OPEN and will stay open until 5pm on Thursday the 12th March.

These are the elections that decide the next generation of Officers to lead the Students Union.

Students can vote online at the Kent Union website

Students can also vote in the Kent Union campervan outside the Rochester Building or by the Drill Hall Library from 10-4 every day.

All student who vote can collect a scratch card from the campervan with loads of gifts up for grab from 10% off stationary in essentials, to a PlayStation 4!

For more information or to vote, just visit the Kent Union website.

40,000 extra e-books for you until August

During the coming months, you have access to 40,000 extra e-books from three prominent, high quality academic publishers: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Elsevier (via ScienceDirect).

They are available to all Kent students and staff.

Discover and use them for seminar preparation, essays or research. They’re easy to use and download on PCs, laptops and tablets.

To see what’s available, go to the e-book collections page on the Library website.

These e-books are also all in LibrarySearch just do your normal search for a topic and these extra titles will come up.

To narrow your search to e-books, you can set the filters on the right to Full Text Online (at the top) and Books (under resource type).

What happens in August?

The Library will buy the e-books that you used the most from these collections (around 2,000 of them) and they will become a permanent part of the Library e-book provision.

This is a new way of buying e-books that we are trying out. It puts you, our students and staff, directly in charge of selecting what e-books we buy, based on your reading patterns.

School of English careers fair

The School of English is hosting a Careers Fair on Thursday 12 March in Eliot Dining Hall from 12pm-3pm. Now in its third year, the Careers Fair is an opportunity for you as School of English students to consider some of the routes open to you after graduating.

Representatives from the University Careers and Employability Service will be there to offer advice and review your CV. There will also be representatives from Brighton Journalist Works, Canterbury Christ Church PGCE programme, Volunteering at Kent, Employability Points and many more.

Brighton Journalist Works will be giving a talk just before the start of the fair at 11am on Thursday 12 March in the Peter Brown Room. Brighton Journalist Works offer the fastest NCTJ (National Council for the Training of Journalist) course in the country and have trained hundreds of journalists to gain professional qualifications who have gone on to become successful working journalists.  All welcome.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Nawroz New Year Event

Several student societies and one foundation are putting on an event to celebrate Nawroz New Year, a festival which is celebrated by an estimated 187 million people worldwide, from Albania to China, Georgia to Iran (but not in Africa, as far as we know).

The event is on Wednesday 18 March, from 6.30pm to 9.30pm. in the Atrium of Keynes College. There will be lots of activities, including traditional music and dancing, egg-decorating, a quiz, a display of photographs from A Village in Syria and a talk by the Director of the Watling-Ubantu Foundation for International Students. All are welcome!

Time for a Check-Up!

Dr Bike will be at The Pilkington Building on the Medway Campus on  Wednesday 18 March between 8:30am and 2pm.

Please let your colleagues and friends at the Medway Campus know we’re coming.

Kent llm info session

Children’s rights and international politics talk

The School of Politics and International Relations Public Speaker Programme is pleased to welcome Massimo Toschi, presenting ‘Children’s Rights and international politics from Haiti to Europe: Time to Walk the Talk’.

Massimo Toschi is a member of the Roma Integration team. He has been with the FRA since 2009, contributing to the Agency’s cooperation with civil society (the Fundamental Rights Platform) and National Human Rights Bodies, as well as its work on the rights of the child and violence against women. He previously worked with the UN, as Child Protection Advisor and Chief of Child Protection Unit for the UN Peace-Keeping Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), as well as at the OSRSG/CAAAC headquarters. He was involved with the drafting of the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflict. Massimo worked for the European Commission’s European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights in Eastern Europe and for European NGOs managing several projects on child protection within the EU.

The talk will take place on Wednesday 18th March 2015 at 5pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3, followed by a drinks reception in Aphra Foyer.

All are welcome to attend and we look forward to seeing you there.

Immigration Website

Human Resources have launched a new immigration website to provide guidance on our immigration compliance.  The site will provide information for overseas applicants wishing to work in the UK, for our current staff who are sponsored or hold their own visa and for our managers recruiting from the international workforce.

Please contact Emma Milton, HR Immigration Adviser if you require further information.

University’s 50th Anniversary Employability Points Scheme – Help us celebrate another successful year

The University is delighted to announce details of the Employability Points (EP) Rewards Evening.

Developed by Kent Innovation & Enterprise, the EP Scheme encourages students to develop personal and work skills of value to future employers and offers reward points for their active engagement in extra-curricular activities outside their degree programme. The scheme has been highly praised by central Government and the business community.

Sponsors and supporters from around the country will attend the evening to celebrate the successes of the scheme.

This year’s ceremony will take place on Tuesday 2nd June from 5.30pm at the Grimond Building on the Canterbury Campus.

Register now
A light buffet will be provided to registered guests. Limited tickets are available so please register for this free event before Tuesday 26th May.

For any questions regarding this event, please email Nerissa  or phone 01227 816032.

For more information please visit the employability points webpage.