The Corporate Events team is looking for volunteers to help during congregations for Medway and Canterbury – can you help?

 MEDWAY (Rochester Cathedral):

Wednesday 21 November (x2 ceremonies), 10.30, 14.30

 CANTERBURY (Canterbury Cathedral):

Friday 23 November (x3 ceremonies) 10.30, 14.30, 19.30

 This is a special day for all of our graduating students, and a great opportunity to be involved in a feel-good University event.

 We have a variety of roles available for volunteers, so whether you would like to be in the Cathedral for the ceremony, helping the graduands check-in, or managing the guest queue, there is something suitable for everyone.

 Things to know:

– Volunteers working two consecutive ceremonies will be provided with lunch or dinner in between their two shifts

– Volunteers can choose any ceremony ‘shifts’ from the above list, and full training will be available for your designated role.

– In any role, there will be a member of the congregations’ team on hand to support you

– Different roles will have different start and finish times due to the requirements of that role for the ceremony

– It’s a wonderful week and is a great opportunity to see any students that you have supported graduate.

 If you would like to get involved in November 2018 Congregations, we would be delighted to have you!

 To register your interest or to find out more about the roles available, please email congregations@kent.ac.uk with your preferred ceremony/ies or your query.

From Tuesday 9 October, the estateshelpdesk@kent.ac.uk inbox will no longer be in use; emails sent to this address after this date will not be forwarded.

Please address all enquiries to the Estates Customer Services team at estatescustomerservices@kent.ac.uk or ext 16666.

Estates Department

If you are considering an application for an individual National Teaching Fellowship or a team Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence please come along to a briefing session being held on Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00 – 13:45, in the UELT Seminar Room, Canterbury.  The session will be presented by Fran Beaton, UELT, Academic Practice Team.

Every UK university can nominate up to three individuals annually for a National Teaching Fellowship Award, a process administered through the UK Higher Education Academy.  The aim of National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) awards is to recognise individual excellence in teaching and/or supporting higher education learning.  The HEA also recently developed an award to recognise the increasing importance of programme teams in teaching and student learning support: The Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE). While both NTFS and CATE are very competitive (55 NTF and 6 CATE awards are made nationally), University staff have enjoyed success, most recently in the 2017 and 2018 rounds.

This briefing is an opportunity to find out about the criteria, the application process, timescale and available support and hear about the experiences of previous NTFS and CATE winners.

Please email cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk to book a place.

As part of Kent’s Employability Festival 2018 the School of Engineering and Digital Arts are delighted to offer the following lecture:

Building Confidence, Developing Networks and Facilitating Career Progression on Wednesday 3 October from 1-2pm in Sibson Building (SIBLT2).

Key learning objectives:

• What recruiters are looking for in your soft-skills
• How to handle nerves and coping mechanisms for interviews
• Top tips for building self-confidence and understanding your personal brand
• Learning how to grow connections for benefitting your future career

The lecture will be delivered by guest speaker Vivienne Aiyela, Non Executive Director, The London Football Association, Senior Diversity & Inclusion Professional, Catalyst for Change.

The lecture is open to all students, book your space via Eventbrite.

The Learning and Teaching Network provides sessions based around the categories used in the National Student Survey for staff working towards enhancing learning, teaching and assessment. All staff are welcome to attend.  The events are intended for staff who work with students or are in learning and teaching roles.

To confirm your attendance at an event please complete the online booking form.

For further information and suggestions contact Dr Silvia Colaiacomo, Curriculum and Educational Developer – s.colaiacomo@kent.ac.uk

On Friday 28 September, the University held its annual Foundation Day Lecture and Dinner. This event celebrates the beginnings of the University, which opened its doors to the ‘First 500’ students in 1965. Watch this footage from the archives to learn more about why and how Kent was founded.

Lord Willetts delivered the lecture, titled ‘A new generational contract’, in the Colyer-Fergusson Hall.

Professor Ken Eaton, Lecturer for the Centre for Professional Practice has received a Publons Peer Review Award 2018 in the category of Clinical Medicine.  He was placed 91=. out of 10,000 peer reviewers, in this category, on Publons’ global reviewer database, determined by the number of peer review reports performed during the 12 month period to 1 September 2018.

Clinical Medicine is one of 22 categories included in the Publons database.  In total 230,000 reviews for 10,000 journals were entered in the database between 1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018.

Full details of how the Publons database of reviews operates can be found at www.publons.com

To find out more about the Centre for Professional Practice programmes and short courses visit: www.kent.ac.uk/cpp