Yearly Archives: 2015

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.

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.

Chair of the Young Alumni Group to abseil down iconic Olympic Park structure

Natalie Salunke, Chair of the Young Alumni Group, will be abseiling down the iconic ArcelorMittal Orbit on Friday 17th April 2015 to raise money for the Kent Law Campaign.

The ArcelorMittal Orbit is the UK’s tallest structure and has up to 20 miles of breath-taking views across London. Made of over 2000 tonnes of steal the ArcelorMittal Orbit was created by sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor and designer Cecil Balmond and constructed to commemorate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Please show your support by sponsoring Natalie online. All money raised will go towards the Kent Law Campaign and will be matched pound for pound by the University of Kent.

We would like to thank Natalie for her continued support of the Kent Law Campaign through her participation in various sponsored events including a skydive, Superhero Run, Thames Path Challenge and a Santa Run. To date, she has raised in excess of £5,500 towards our goal.

For more information about the ArcelorMittal Orbit Abseil please visit their website or contact Felicity Clifford to find out how you can take part in aid of the Kent Law Campaign.

Sporting Lecture – Introduction to strength and conditioning

Tuesday 3rd March saw Kent Sport deliver the second of its series of Sporting Lectures to celebrate the University’s 50th anniversary year and aimed at engaging with students studying at schools in the local Canterbury area.

The lectures form part of the University’s commitment to inspire and develop the sports professionals of the future, with a further goal of highlighting how a firmer understanding of the topics covered can help to enhance sporting performance.

Resident Kent Sport coaches James Cooper and Ben Roberts shared a practical introduction to how Strength & Conditioning is provided for elite level athletes and completed the session with a walking tour of Kent Sport’s new performance area, equipped with four Olympic-standard weightlifting platforms.

Students from four local institutions Canterbury High School, Canterbury College, The Simon Langton School for Boys and St. Edmunds were in attendance, with participants ranging in age and coming from a variety of different sporting backgrounds.

The next lecture is scheduled for Tuesday 10th March and will be focused on the role that a coach plays in sport. This lecture is being coordinated by the Coaching Network Officer for Kent, Louisa Arnold, and will be hosted at Canterbury College.

If you would like to know more details about the lectures or how your institution can get involved in collaboration with Kent Sport, please contact a member of the Sports Development team sportsdevelopment@kent.ac.uk

Exam timetables are out!

We are pleased to announce that your Exam Timetable is now available to view on the Student Data System.

Your exam timetable can be found by clicking on Details and Study from the menu on the left hand side, and then select ‘My Exams’.

This is your exam timetable based on your module registration. If you have any doubts about the modules on your timetable then please contact the Humanities and Social Sciences Undergraduate Office or your School (for Sciences students) as soon as possible.

For more information about examinations please visit the exams webpages.

Students with Adapted Exam Arrangements: The venue that you have been allocated will be displayed on your exam timetable – specific room allocations will be advised when you arrive at the venue for your examination.

Canterbury based students living at Liberty Quays (Medway): Arrangements are being made to provide a guaranteed booking on the Campus Shuttle in accordance with the date and time of your exam. You will be contacted separately about this.

PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT MOBILE PHONES ARE NOT PERMITTED IN EXAMINATION VENUES AND ANY BREACH OF THIS RULE WILL BE TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY.