The Post Room is currently open for University business from 08.30 hrs to 16.45 hrs, Monday to Friday and for personal postal services (staff and students) from 12.00 noon to 14.00 hrs.

With effect from Monday 30 November 2015 to Tuesday 22 December 2015, Monday to Friday (but excluding the 18 December 2015, when the Post Room has restricted hours) we will be extending our opening hours for personal postal services for staff and students from 12 noon to 15.00 hrs.  We will of course continue to be open for University throughout the day ie: from 8.30 hrs to 16.45 hrs, Monday to Friday.

The Postal Services Office is located in the Estates Department at the junction of Giles Lane and Park Wood Road. They can be contacted on 01227 823210 or by email at estatespostroom@kent.ac.uk.

On Wednesday 25 November at 18.00 in Rutherford Lecture Theatre One, Dr Elizabeth Schächter will give a Rutherford Grass Roots lecture entitled Exile’s Children: Vienna to London

Edith Mahler and Hans Schächter were born in Vienna to middle-class Jewish families. They studied medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1929. The Anschluss changed their lives: they fled Austria in 1938 and came to England. The lecture, drawing on family archives, tells the story of that flight and their first years of exile, as they faced an uncertain future.

Dr Elizabeth Schächter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Literature and Italian in the School of European Culture and Languages at the University. She has published widely on Italian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular several seminal studies of the writer Italo Svevo including Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste (2000). More recently her research has focused on Italian Jewry, resulting in the monograph The Jews of Italy, 1848-1915: Between Tradition and Transformation (2011).

Lecture free and open to all.

Bite-size application forms: find out how to get your applications noticed by employers.  Please book your place using the link below.

https://careers.kent.ac.uk/leap/event.html?id=457&service=Careers+Service

CIMA – Careers in Accountancy and Finance: the Student Recruitment Manager at CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) will be talking about careers in accountancy and finance.  Please book your place using the link below.

https://careers.kent.ac.uk/leap/event.html?id=469&service=Careers+Service

More from the Careers and Employability Service:

B-KEW bursary: if you have secured some unpaid work experience you could be entitled to the B-KEW bursary.  Find out more on our website.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/ces/bursarykew.html

Make your own witch’s broom (besom)on 10 Dec with KE071-Woodland crafts: besom making. More courses are starting in January. Sign up via Kent Extra workshops in SDS.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/extra/courses/index.html

Go to our Postgraduate Open Event on Saturday 28 November, 10.00 – 13.00.

For info about all Kent’s programmes in Canterbury, Medway and our European centres, plus our £9m postgrad scholarship fund including discounts and scholarships for Kent students.

Book now: http://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/visit/openday/pgevents.html

Blythswood Care are running their annual Shoebox Appeal for underprivileged children and adults in Serbia and Romania and are bringing their work to the Medway campus on Saturday 28 November GK Volunteering has been supporting it for the past month and I have taken 28 Medway students along so far, checking the shoeboxes before they are dispatched abroad.

They are calling it Super Saturday and are looking for as much support as possible including staff. It is running from the Christchurch Building room RWG15 from 09.00-17.00. Anyone can drop in from the odd hour or stay all day.

It is with regret that, due to the current heightened security situation in Belgium and the increased difficulty for our staff travelling between our Paris and Brussels centres, the University has taken the decision to cancel the Open Events scheduled for Tuesday 24 November (Paris)  and Wednesday 25 November 2015 (Brussels).  We will reschedule these events early in the New Year and will update the website accordingly.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, but encourage you to contact us if you have any questions regarding studying at the University. If you have any queries regarding our programmes in Paris and Brussels then please contact us as follows:

Paris Centre – Telephone: +44 (0) 1227 824954; email paris@kent.ac.uk

Brussels Centre – Telephone: +32491369411; email bsis@kent.ac.uk

Canterbury campus – Telephone: +44 (0) 1227 827272; email information@kent.ac.uk

Kent Sport challenges you to join in with the first ever Firewalk at the University. In support of the Pilgrims Hospice (http://www.pilgrimshospices.org), can you conquer your fears and discover your inner confidence to overcome life’s challenges? No tricks, no special effects. Just you and the fire! This event will be at the Pavilion on Monday 29 February 2016 at 18.00 and you can register online (http://www.pilgrimshospices.org/donation/registrations/register).

On the night

18.00-18.30 Participants arrive to sign in

18.45 Interactive training seminar with Cliff Mann begins

20.30 Head outside to face the flames!

We recommend that friends and family coming to support should arrive around 20.00 when things start hotting up as they won’t be allowed inside the seminar hall during the training.

Spaces at this event are limited so register your interest early to avoid disappointment. The closing date for registrations for Firewalk Canterbury is Thursday 25 February 2016 at 17.00, or earlier if it reaches capacity. Due to the nature of the event, you will not be able to sign up on the day.

We know you’ll feel fantastic as you hot-foot it for hospice care. After all, if you can achieve this, you can find the confidence to do anything. You can register online here (http://www.pilgrimshospices.org/donation/registrations/register) or by calling the Pilgrims Hospice Firewalk team on 01227 812609 and pressing 2 to speak to Robert. Are you cool enough to try the Firewalk?! For more great events at Kent Sport see our events calendar (https://www.kent.ac.uk/sports/events/index.html) and stay up to date with UniKentSports on social media.

Cargo Bar will be offering a Christmas themed two-course meal for £12.95. It will include a main meal and dessert (from a choice of three options).

Booking is essential and can be ordered from Monday 30 November until Friday 18 December 12.00 – 21.00. If you are interested in booking please contact Cargo on 01634 582615 or email cargobar@kent.ac.uk to request a menu and booking form.

Merry Christmas!