AFSG will hold a consultation meeting to discuss the proposal to introduce a Winter Assessment Period on Thursday 4 April at 10.00.
The paper that AFSG submitted to Education Board in February 2019 can be found via the following link.
If you can’t attend, but you would like to send your feedback and comments, please contact us at afsgconsult@kent.ac.uk
Alumna Christina Irwin, who graduated with a BA (Hons) in History and Philosophy of Art in 2016, has recently gained a position on the Graffiti Project, part of a Canterbury Journey project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and based at Canterbury Cathedral, which is currently seeking new volunteers.
The Canterbury Journey aims to engage new, hard to reach and diverse audiences through a volunteer programme that develops and interprets Cathedral collections. The Graffiti Project is an initiative that engages volunteers in recording marks found in the eastern crypt, etchings of lost voices from the medieval world.
‘This is such a valuable project,’ explains Christina, ‘I am acquiring new skills at one of the world’s most significant heritage sites, learning about historic collection practices and interpretation while meeting new people and sharing a passion with Cathedral professionals, volunteers and the public. It is exciting being part of this project which will become part of the Cathedral archive collections. I feel privileged to be part of this story.’
The graffiti tells us of religious devotion, fear of damnation, of love and of humour. Unlike contemporary graffiti or street art mostly seen as anti-social vandalism, medieval graffiti incised or scratched through vibrantly painted surfaces stood out clearly and would have been easily noticed suggesting that these images were totally accepted, these marks have meaning and function. There are prayers, devotional and votive, memorials, ritual apotropaic marks, compass drawn geometric designs, and five-pointed stars or pentangles, the symbol representing mathematical perfection in Ancient Greece, in abundance. There is relatively little published material about this subject and the imagery of the medieval parishioner is steeped in folklore and superstition, challenging the search for meaning.
The many voluntary opportunities can be found here.
The Templeman Library sits at the heart of the Canterbury campus and has been transformed to become a flagship 21st century learning environment comprising a new extension and extensive refurbishment of the existing building, together demonstrating new standards for renewal of 1960’s university buildings.
The 5,400m2 extension provides a lecture theatre, seminar, exhibition, archive, conference, study and café spaces. The building has received new welcome hall, windows and facade.
The SCONUL Library Design Awards showcase and celebrate the very best in recent academic library design in the UK and Ireland. The winners will be unveiled at the Library Design Awards event on Tuesday 26 November 2019 at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds.
The University of Kent Players would like to invite you to a script reading social on Monday 8 April at 17.30. The script we will be reading is Bothered and Bewildered, which we will be performing in September at the Gulbenkian.
Grimond Seminar room 3 has been booked from 17.00, with the script reading starting at 17.30. This session will be an opportunity for people to sit together reading through the script aloud. Each person will have the opportunity to play a different role, and sometimes several roles. This will be an informal session and there will be some soft drinks and snacks available.
This session is for actors interested in auditioning (or for those who just fancy a chilled out social), decisions on casting will not be made from this session. Information about the production and auditions can be found here.
Directions: Entering the Grimond building turn left down the corridor. The room is at the end of the corridor on the left.
Synopsis of the Play:
Bothered and Bewildered is a comic drama that follows Irene and her two daughters Louise and Beth as they begin a long journey in which the girls lose their mum in spirit but not in body. As her family struggle to come to terms with her Alzheimer’s, Irene’s past passion for romantic fiction blurs with reality. She discusses with her unseen and witty companion Barbara Cartland (Irene’s favourite and now deceased world famous romantic novelist) how best to write her ‘memory book’, disclosing to Barbara long kept family secrets that she would never reveal to anyone else.
We hope to see you there!
Many final year undergraduates are considering their next step, whether this is into employment or further study. As a follow up to the University’s recent Postgraduate Open Event, at which academic staff from every subject were present to answer questions about postgraduate programme, the School of European Culture and Languages hosted an event to give undergraduates the opportunity to speak with current postgraduate students about what to expect from a postgraduate degree.
Taking place in the School’s new bookable student meeting space, second- and third-year undergraduates were able to chat with both MA and PhD students over a slice of pizza and find out how they chose their course, what to expect from a taught MA, and what today’s postgraduates are hoping to go on to do after graduation.
Karl Goodwin, a PhD student in Classical & Archaeological Studies who attended the event, said: “I think the event was very effective for those that came; I got asked a wide range of questions which reinforces the need for such events. I thought [the event] was a big success, and hope it gets bigger.”
The School offers a wide range of taught MA programmes including Ancient History, Archaeology, Comparative Literature, Modern French Studies, Linguistics, Language and Literature, European Culture, Philosophy and Religion. We also have programmes that offer terms at Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture and at our Rome School of Classical and Renaissance Studies, as well as the MA in Heritage Management which is taught entirely in Athens. For more information about courses on offer and funding available, visit www.kent.ac.uk/pg.
The exam period will soon be upon us. Please see below information on what to expect this year.
Please be mindful during this time around venues and support students where possible.
Dates
Tuesday 7 May – Friday 14 June 2019 (weeks 25 – 30)
Venues – Canterbury
Main Hall
Small Hall 2
Small Hall 3
Darwin Conference Suite
Eliot Hall
Adapted Arrangements Venues:
Keynes Seminar Rooms 11-17
KSA 1 – Keynes College (PC Room)
Cornwallis North West Seminar Rooms 1-12
Grimond Seminar Room 1-8
Venues – Medway
Pilkington Building
Dockyard Church / Sail & Colour Loft
Gillingham Building
Medway Building
Adapted Arrangements Venues
Gillingham Building
Medway Building
Times
Morning exams begin at 09.30, afternoon sessions begin at 14.00.
Papers can last one to three hours. Students sat in adapted arrangement venues are entitled to 25%, 33%, 50% or 100% extra time. This means the latest finish could be 20.00.
Saturday exams are scheduled for the first four weeks of the exam period, morning and afternoon.
Bag Room
Students are not permitted to bring bags. Students will need to use the following bag rooms:
Canterbury Campus –
Keynes Seminar Room 7
Medway Campus –
Pilkington Building Room 014
Gillingham Building Room 2 – 03
Dockyard Church – Foyer Entrance
Seating Plan
Students will be allocated a seat for each exam, the seating plan will be posted at each venue before the start.
What to bring
KentOne Card
Pens, pencils and writing equipment (in a clear pencil case)
Still water in a clear plastic bottle
What NOT to bring
Mobile Phones / Smart Watches / Headphones
Bags
Food (Unless permission given prior)
Any drink other than water
Exam Timetable
Students can view their timetable on SDS.
Contact Details
Canterbury: exams@kent.ac.uk
Medway: medwayexams@kent.ac.uk
Find out more on our Exams webpages.
Do you commute to Canterbury Campus and have an exam you don’t want to be late for?
Then why not consider staying on campus in Eliot College. Reduce stress and have more time to concentrate on studying with no need to worry about driving home late at night or missing an exam because of traffic, train strikes or other travel delays outside your control.
Living in a corridor of up to eight other short-stay students, all rooms are self-catered singles with bedding and towels provided. Rooms are £20 a night with a minimum of a two-night stay required to book.
You can find out more or book online on our Accommodation webpages.
If you have any questions please email: holidays@kent.ac.uk
Do any of your students commute to the Canterbury Campus? We now have short-stay accommodation in Eliot College available for students living off-campus to book online.
This accommodation package is ideal for anyone worrying about getting to campus and missing an exam because of traffic or other travel delays outside their control, or for students who want more time to concentrate on studying without traveling home late at night. Rooms are £20 a night, with a minimum of a two night stay required to book.
Students will live in a corridor of up to eight other short stay students, all rooms are self-catered singles and have bedding and towels provided. Find out more.
Short-stay accommodation in Eliot College is only available for Kent students, however don’t forget that we also have year-round visitor accommodation available in Beverley Farmhouse next to Canterbury Innovation Centre, ideal for guests who want to stay on campus for the duration of their visit.
If you have any questions please email: holidays@kent.ac.uk
Rebecca Barton-Hagger, MA Linguistics student in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, has been awarded the title of Sportswoman of the Year 2019 at the Team Kent awards.
Rebecca is the squad captain and coach of the University of Kent Karate club (ranked sixth nationally) and a member of the England Karate team. She recently qualified for the EUSA Combat Championships – the European universities championships in karate – taking place in Zagreb, Croatia, in the summer.
At BUCS (British Universities and College Sports) Rebecca won two bronze medals, Senior Female Kata and Female Team Kumite. At the WUKF European Championships, which took place in October 2018, Rebecca won two gold medals, one silver and one bronze, and took the title of Female European Heavyweight Champion 2018.
Rebecca comments on the balance between sporting life and academic life, and describes how her studies in Linguistics help to maintain a balance with her sporting commitments. Rebecca said: ‘Karate provides a good stress relief, and helps give a clear head for my studies. It is good to have a balance; the difference is massive but in a good way.
‘Winning the Team Kent Sportswoman of the Year is a huge honour – I still can’t believe it! It has been a successful year for me, but it certainly did not come without its challenges, so it is also a big confidence boost as I begin my preparations for the European University Combat Games in Croatia this summer. Karate has always been an enormous part of who I am, and being able to continue my training and international competing alongside my degree would not have been possible without the support from both Kent Sport and my academic school.’
As exam time is approaching, the Transport Team (Estates department) are working with Stagecoach to provide extra Uni2 buses on Sundays and Bank Holidays Sunday 21 April – Sunday 16 June 2019.
During term time we provide a 24-hour bus service six days a week, serviced by the Uni1, Uni2, 4 and Triangle buses. The additional Uni2 services mean that there will be a 24/7 bus service for this period to help you travel to and from the library to prepare for exams. See additional Uni2 services below.
To town centre
To Hales Place
Easter vacation
The Uni1 and Uni2 buses will also continue to the usual timetable over the Easter vacation (6 April to 6 May 2019) despite being outside of term-time. See usual timetable.