Monthly Archives: July 2018

Calling all current and future parents at Kent!

As part of our commitment to improving and developing services and initiatives for current and future parents who work and study at the University of Kent, the Athena SWAN team are running a series of focus groups to explore what support and networks parents would like to see established and how to improve communication and information about maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies to all staff and students.

The dates of the upcoming workshops are as follows:

Canterbury:

10th July- 10.30-11.30
11th July- 10.30-11.30
12th July- 9.30-10.30

Register via Eventbrite for the Canterbury event here.

Medway:

12th July- 15.00-16.00

Register via Eventbrite for the Medway focus group here.

These focus groups and events are open to all parents and carers (current and future).

We are delighted to invite you to the next Mainstream Initiatives Launch of the Student Success Project for colleagues at Medway Campus on Tuesday 24th July 2018 at the Medway Building- M3-04.

The event will showcase the improved Student Success Dashboard- QlikView Phase 2,  the Student Success Resources Toolkit (SStaRT), and the highly anticipated Progress Profiles. The second version of the Student Success QlikView dashboard, which can provide data about school cohorts is released with added functionality, and granularity. Dashboard is strictly limited, so this is your opportunity to see what data is available to you and to find out who has access in your department.

So, come and find out how the toolkit can help you find the best initiatives for your school and hear how you can contribute your own activities and best practice to the toolkit.

This event is free and open to all Kent Staff and to hear when this will be available and what information it will contain, register attendance on EventBrite.

If you have any questions feel free to contact studentsuccessproject@kent.ac.uk

 

 

 

summer zone

SummerZone 2018

The school holidays are just around the corner, and that can only mean one thing… “I’m bored!” Kent Sport has the perfect way to keep your children entertained this summer, with up to two weeks of professional sports coaching, led by qualified and DBS checked coaches and supported by sports supervisors. If your children are aged five to 14 and would enjoy taking part in a variety of sporting activities on a daily basis, including football, kwik cricket, tag rugby, hockey and tennis, then book them on SummerZone 2018!

SummerZone will run from 9am to 3pm daily from Monday 6 to Friday 10 August (week one), and Monday 13 to Friday 17 August (week two). Late pick-ups are available from 3pm to 5pm and will include staff-led fun games and creative activities.

“Just to say that EasterZone has been fantastic once again! Jack has been so happy, has made new friends, gained in confidence and has slept so well!! Can’t wait for SummerZone!”

You can book places for SummerZone now through the online store or by filling out an application form, available online or at reception. Booking is available for one week, two weeks or individual days. For full details visit our webpages. Booking closes on Friday 20 July.

To stay up to date with Kent Sport news, Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter UniKentSports and if you have any questions you can email sportsenquiries@kent.ac.uk.

You are invited to The Centre for Professional Practice Pop-up event

Thinking about professional development programmes?

The Centre for Professional Practice, which offers flexible, part-time, work-based studies is coming to Canterbury campus with its Pop-up stand to provide information to the University’s staff who may want to further their careers.

Come and find us:

Wednesday, 4 July, 12.00-13.00 near Gulbiankin and 13.00-14.00 near Blackwells Book Shop

The Master’s in Professional Practice or BA/BSc Top-up in Professional Practice are flexible, part-time programmes which have been developed for professionals who want the opportunity to validate the professional knowledge, experience and skills they have amassed during their careers and use this to progress their professional careers:

BA/BSc Top-up in Professional Practice. This two-year, part-time programme is suitable for those who already have an Undergraduate and  Foundation Degrees, HND or equivalent and would like to top it up to an honours degree.

MA/MSc in Professional Practice. This three-year, flexible, part-time programme has proved particularly popular amongst managers and professional staff in a range of organisations and businesses.  Requests for accreditation of prior experiential and certificated learning (APECL) are welcome.

The programmes enable participants to:

•       Gain new perspectives on their professional role and develop new approaches to transform their work-related practice

•       Develop professional knowledge and enhance career opportunities

•       Stimulate thinking about the challenges associated with their area of practice

•       Engage, review and analyse the currents debates associated with work practice

The programmes, delivered by the Centre for Professional Practice at the University of Kent’s Medway Campus, offer a flexible way of study (on average 6 weekends a year, Friday-Sunday) and are currently recruiting to the 2018/19 intake, which commences on 19 October 2018.

Students may be eligible for staff fee remission or loans (subject to eligibility criteria).

For more information see Centre for Professional Practice page.

Julie Williams- Kent Hospitality’s June PRIDE Award Winner

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the June Kent Hospitality PRIDE Award is Julie Williams, Turing College Domestic Assistant. The Personal Responsibility in Delivering Excellence Award recognized Julie’s caring personality while consistently providing additional support to residential students on the Canterbury campus.

An extract from one of Julie’s nomination reads: ‘…she has always made sure that I am OK even when I am anxious about exams and she will always give me the best advice […] When I fell very ill, and an ambulance was sent to me, Julie showed the paramedics where I was and a few days later she came around to see if I was OK’.

Any Kent Hospitality staff member (permanent or casual) may be nominated from Canterbury and Medway campuses. The award is given in March, June, September/October and December with each winner receiving £100 of shopping vouchers, a certificate and a Pride pin badge.

It’s really easy to nominate a member of the Kent Hospitality team for a Pride Award. Just visit the Pride website and complete our online form. The closing date for the next Pride Award is Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 12 noon.

Well Done Julie!

 

KMTV

KMTV launches new exciting TV schedule

This week KMTV begins a brand new exciting TV schedule – 24 hours a day of KMTV and a new lunchtime bulletin! And a fresh look at Kent with the live outside broadcast show ‘Kent Goes Out’ on summer Friday evenings.

You can see the link to view the new schedule and listings now available for everyone on the KMTV website.

The new look brings Vintage Comedy mornings with The Lucy Show, Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney Show, a Food Morning on Wednesdays, weekday western afternoons with Bonanza, The Lone Ranger and Hawkeye and The Last of the Mohicans, and new guaranteed times for films (Midday Movie for musicals, comedies and classics, 2pm Films including popular sci-fi creature features, Midnight Movie with horrors and 1970s classics, and 9pm Films at the weekends).

At lunchtimes every weekday there is a NEW lunchtime news bulletin at 13.45. And Kent Tonight remains KMTV’s flagship show at 17.30-18.30 each weekday, repeated at 21.15 and with an 20.00 bulletin in-between.

Saturday and Sunday mornings have been given over to Children’s TV with  programmes running from 06.00 such as Zoo Babies and cartoons, then the newly made British children’s series Teenie Weenie leading into the classic tales of boy and horse Champion the Wonder Horse and Fury.

The evenings feature our own shows and vintage US crime series, sci-fi, factual looks at space and aviation, a bit of celebrity and some football heroes..

Dragnet and Man with a Camera , One Step Beyond and Sherlock Holmes  are all classic series in our evening schedules. And to help us remembers that ‘all that glisters is not gold’ we’ve got Pain Behind the Fame and Hero 2 Zero.

Our own shows: Team Talk at 18.30 on a Monday and repeated throughout the week; Chris & Co for business on Wednesday at 18.30 and repeated; the music show Bassed in Kent on Thursdays and Fridays at 20.45 and Paul on Politics live at 17.00 on a Friday and repeated over the weekend. Made in Kent our food show, Kent Says given over to viewers’ opinions and Kent Thinks featuring University of Kent lecturers are throughout the week.  And the kmfm Breakfast Show kicks off every weekday with Gary and Laura at 6 simulcast on the channel.

Expect Respect E-Module

The compulsory Expect Respect e-module is now available on moodle in correspondence with the new Respect at Kent policy that will come into effect in the new academic year.  The aim of this e-learning module is to introduce new students to the University’s Student Charter and Dignity at Study Policy. This module is available to both staff and students at Kent as we are all responsible for ensuring that the University is a safe place to live and study.

The e-module is hosted on both internal and external Moodle and can be found using the following links:

Internal – https://moodle.kent.ac.uk/2017/course/view.php?id=2923

External – https://moodle.kent.ac.uk/external/course/view.php?id=278

This module provides brief training to raise awareness of issues around sexual respect, rape and consent.

For further information and guidance on these issues student’s key contacts are:

  • your Master’s Office
  • your School’s Student Support Officer
  • Campus Security 01227 823300 or 01227823333 (for emergencies). You can also contact Campus Security via the SafeZone app. This can be downloaded at https://www.kent.ac.uk/safezone/