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).

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.

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.

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.