Enhance your CV and improve your employability by taking a Study Plus course in something different from your main area of study. Study Plus courses are non-credit bearing and are FREE to all Kent students.

There is a wide variety of courses, which allow you to explore your creative side as well as learning new skills to help you during your studies and when you graduate.

If you have good attendance on a Study Plus course, you will earn Employability Points and the course will appear on your Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR).

You can sign up for a course via Workshops in the Student Data System.

Visit the Study Plus website to view the full range of courses, and find out more.

The Centre for English and World Language are now taking bookings for the 10 week Language Express courses starting in January 2018. The courses are available in a choice of 4 languages:

• French
• Japanese
• Mandarin
• Spanish

Language Express is open to students, staff and members of the public.
Classes take place in the evening from 18.00 -20.00.

People who take the language courses say it not only increased their knowledge of the language of a country, but also its culture, and encouraged them to continue learning the language.

For more information on classes, fees and how to book your place, visit the Language Express webpages.

To commemorate the weekend of Remembrance Day, the University Cecilian Choir and Pops Orchestra come together for a short sequence of music, conducted by Deputy Director of Music, Dan Harding on Friday 10 November at 13.00

Music
The Last Post (Simon Morgan, trumpet)
Theme from Schindler’s List (Lydia Cheng, Molly Richetta solo strings)
Hymn to the Fallen – John Williams

The event in the Colyer-Fergusson Music Building will last approximately ten minutes. Admission is FREE.

The next meeting of the Kent Enterprise and Impact Network (KEIN) will take place on Wednesday, 8th November, 12.00 -14.00, Gillingham Building, G3-05 – Medway Campus.

KEIN, a network jointly created by Kent Innovation & Enterprise (KIE) and Learning and Development (L&D), brings together staff interested in collaboration. Academics, researchers, technicians and other members of staff can explore innovation and enterprise activities, maximising the impact of their work, and alternative sources of funding, in an informal setting.

This session will give information on the subject of enterprise funding. KIE’s Chris Nash (Innovation Officer for Funding) will deliver a presentation on the support offered for enterprise funding, and Dr John Dickinson, Reader in the School of Sports and Exercise Sciences, will share his experiences of working with external organisations as partners and clients, will tell us about his recently awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, with Manchester-based, Smart life, worth £163, 000.

All University staff are welcome to attend. To reserve your place at the session, including a free light lunch, please email entadmin@kent.ac.uk and specify any dietary or access requirements.

If you would like to come along for the presentations only, you are welcome to turn up on the day without booking a place and feel free to bring your lunch with you.

After a networking lunch, there will be two short presentations with Q+A, and informal discussion.

If you have any enterprise ideas or ideas prompted by the presentations, this is also an opportunity to share these and hear about how the University can provide support

International law scholar Professor Anne Orford will examine punitive responses to the current migrant and refugee crisis from a longer legal and social historical perspective for the 2017/18 Centre for Critical International Laws (CeCIL) Annual Lecture.

When is the talk?
The talk on Surplus Population and the History of International Law will be held on Kent’s Canterbury campus on Thursday 30 November.

Professor Orfords talk is open to all and will begin at 18.00 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 with an introduction by CeCIL staff member Professor Donatella Alessandrini. It will be preceded by a reception in Grinond Foyer from 17.00

Who is Professor Orford?

Professor Orford is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law, and Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where she directs the Laureate Program in International Law. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.

Her scholarship combines study of the history and theory of international law, analysis of developments in international legal doctrines and practice, and an engagement with central debates and concepts in related fields, in order to grasp the changing nature and role of international law in contemporary politics. Recent publications include International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press 2011) and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford University Press 2016).

In anticipation of this years event, CeCIL is posting a special series of Professor Anne Orford quotes on its Facebook page.

CeCIL is an innovative research centre which aims to foster critical approaches to the field of international law, and other areas of law that touch upon global legal problems.