We are looking for students at the Medway campus to help us promote Undergraduate Survey Month 3-14 February 2020.
The hours are a couple of hours a day but with a degree of flexibility.
If you are interested in this paid position then please email communications@kent.ac.uk.
Nominations are open for the Kent Student Awards which recognise and celebrate the outstanding contribution students make to the Kent student experience.
There are 9 categories such as Outstanding Contribution to Student Voice, Outstanding Contribution to Media and the Arts and Outstanding Contribution to the Community.
Do you know an inspirational Kent student? Well why don’t you show your appreciation by nominating them for a Kent Student Award?
You can nominate a student or group of students – the deadline is officially 22nd March but if you submit a valid nomination by Valentine’s Day you will be entered into a prize draw to win a £50 Amazon voucher.
The Kent Student Awards 2020 garden party awards ceremony takes place on Friday 29th May 2020.
Winners will receive a trophy, a brick in the ‘Footsteps Path’ and recognition of the achievement on their Higher Education Achievement Report.
The awards launched in 2014 and since 2018 has been co-led by Kent Union and the University of Kent.
Picture this: you’re struggling with something academic and you need some help. Probably sounds familiar doesn’t it? So you go to your friends and ask them about it, but they can’t help. Now what? Luckily Kent has a huge range of support mechanisms for just this kind of issue, like your Student Rep. Every course has a Student Rep who gets elected every year by students, for students. If it’s an academic issue a lot of people are having they’ll take it to Student Voice Committees, where they are discussed with other Student Reps and key staff within your school to try and fix them, or send them higher up to more senior meetings if needed.
If it’s an issue that no one else seems to be having, or maybe one you don’t feel comfortable discussing with your friends, your Academic Adviser is available to help you. Every non-PGR student at Kent has an Academic Adviser who is there to provide guidance with academic matters you’re struggling with, as well as pointing you in the right direction to other services like Student Support & Wellbeing or Student Advice, to name a few.
-Ethan Basso, Undergraduate Sciences Faculty Rep
Organising for Success brings together work that will empower staff to transform our students lives, helping us meet our Kent 2025 strategy and ensure a future we can be proud of.
Following changes to Executive Group and appointments to key senior roles, next week (w/c 20 January) we will begin consulting with senior leaders in central professional service directorates on a revised leadership structure to support the new divisions. We have recently updated the FAQs section of the website to cover feedback around this following our update in December.
Other activity underway across the project includes:
Professional Service / Division Workshops
We are currently organising a series of workshops with senior central professional service managers and our new Directors of Operations, which will begin the process of establishing a new operating model for divisions and professional services, along with defining the relationship between the two. These ‘kick off’ workshops will incorporate the work of Strand 3 and Strand 4 of Organising for Success, focusing on which activities and decisions fall where, along with capturing the processes we need to consider ahead of launching our new academic divisions.
Alongside this, we are currently making changes to the governance structure of the project to reflect the overlap between the two strands and recent staff changes, which will be shared more widely once they have been agreed with the Oversight Group.
Directors of Operations
The latest allocation of Directors of Operations to academic divisions is as follows:
Division of Humanities: Kerry Barber
Division of Natural Sciences: James Redmond
Kent Business School: Paul Verrion
Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences: John Crook
Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice: Rachel MacPhee
Recruitment to the remaining posts is ongoing. There is more information on the Transitional Arrangements section of the Organising for Success website.
‘Town Hall’ events for managers
We will shortly be holding a series of ‘Town Hall’ meetings for managers on the changes underway at the University through both Organising for Success and our wider financial recovery plans. These are designed to give those with significant line-management responsibilities a full understanding of the planned changes and their context, along with tips and resources to help with communicating with their teams. Learning and Organisational Development will be coordinating the sessions with support from the Organising for Success project team and will be communicating the details shortly.
Looking to get a better understanding on the university’s many and varied international funding streams? Then this event is just for you!
Date: 21 January 2020
Time: 09.00 – 12.30
Location: Darwin Conference Suite
The session will include an overview of the opportunities which can support research, education and training. In this session, we will focus on GCRF, Research Councils, Erasmus+ and case studies from across the University.
Guest Speaker: Rachael Sara-Kennedy – Head of Strategic Partnerships, UUKi.
To register your attendance, please click here to fill out the following form:
For further information please contact:
T: 01227 82 3908
E:deaninternational@kent.ac.uk
or visit the website
The School of Biosciences has been formally accredited across its full portfolio of undergraduate programmes. These accreditations were awarded from both the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) and the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS).
The RSB, the leading professional body for biological sciences in the UK, re-accredited all of the School’s undergraduate courses1 for a further five-year period. Furthermore, the School achieved Advanced Accreditation for its Sandwich year programmes from the RSB2. These awards were given after the assessment panel identified areas of good practice and evidence that Kent’s programmes are preparing students with the knowledge and skills sought by sector employers.
Graduates of accredited courses receive one year of free membership from the RSB at Associate level, creating opportunities to build networks when applying for jobs and gaining enhanced recognition for their skills and experience. Together with the School’s outstanding graduate employability record, this is a huge benefit to those entering the working world of biology and life sciences.
In addition to the RSB accreditations, all of the School’s Biomedical Science degree programmes3 also achieved re-accreditation by the IBMS, the leading professional body for biomedical scientists for a further five-year period. IBMS accreditation certifies that the degrees meet the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards of proficiency for biomedical scientists and allows Kent graduates to enter further training on the path towards registration. IBMS degree accreditation is also of value for students heading towards other careers, such as medicine, industry and academia. The curriculum review process involved in IBMS accreditation ensures that all Kent Biomedical Science graduates receive high quality, research focused scientific education and practical skills training.
Professor Dan Lloyd, Deputy Head of the School of Biosciences, said: ‘We are grateful to all staff, clinical colleagues and students who have contributed to this success. The professional oversight and scrutiny of accreditation is a measure of confidence that our degrees prepare our students for graduate-level opportunities. This undoubtedly underpins students’ future employability, and the ability for them to reach their full potential.’
Footnotes:
[1] Accredited courses by the Royal Society of Biology: BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, BSc (Hons) Biochemistry with a Professional Year, BSc (Hons) Biochemistry with a Year Abroad, BSc (Hons) Biology, BSc (Hons) Biology with a Professional Year, BSc (Hons) Biology with a Year Abroad, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science with a Professional Year, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science with a Year Abroad.
[2] Course with Advanced Accreditation from the Royal Society of Biology: BSc (Hons) Biochemistry with a Sandwich Year, BSc (Hons) Biology with a Sandwich Year, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science with a Sandwich Year.
[3] Accredited courses by the IBMS: BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science with a Professional Year, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science with a Year Abroad, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science with a Sandwich Year.
As part of the Discover STEM@Kent lecture series the School of Computing will be hosting two lectures, open to students, staff and the wider community, looking at technology and the modern world.
In the first lecture Dr Tomas Petricek will discuss ‘Making Data Relevant in an Age of Fake News’
When: Monday 20 January at 15.00-16.00
Where: Cornwallis Central Lecture Theatre 1
Governments and journalists have access to increasing amounts of raw data about the world, making it possible to produce factual reports based on solid evidence. At the same time post-truth politics means that data and facts are becoming less relevant in public debate. Can more transparent, open and engaging ways of working with data reverse this dangerous trend? In this talk, Tomas will discuss how novel research on tools for data exploration and data visualization can help. Along the way, he will show a number of fun examples, looking at data about the UK government spending, Olympic medals and financial markets. Open to all, just come along.
In the second lecture Dr Colin Johnson will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Will a Robot take my Job? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work’.
When: Wednesday 5 February at 17.00-19.00
Where: Grimond Lecture Theatre 3.
A new industrial revolution is upon us, as intelligent machines take the place of humans across the economy. The impact of this could be vast – from increasingly sophisticated robots carrying out manual work, to artificial intelligence doing work in the law and accounting, through to robots working in the most human of jobs such as health and social care. This talk will examine whether the hype around AI is justified, which areas of work this will revolutionise, and which jobs will be untouched.
Please book for this event via the Eventbrite website
A Mexican wave in a football stadium, a heartbeat, the motion of slime mould, and oxidation wave in certain chemical reactions are all examples of excitable waves.
We’re very pleased to welcome Professor Paul Sutcliffe from Durham University as our guest speaker at the SMSAS Public Lecture on 15 January 2020. His talk will describe the mathematical modelling of excitable waves and how this can be used to understand some unusual wave patterns created recently in chemical experiments that produce a happy reaction.
When: Wednesday 15 January 2020, 18.00 -19.00
Where: Sibson Lecture Theatre 3
To book your free place please do so via Eventbrite
You are warmly invited to attend the next E-Learning Forum titled ‘Tracking student progress and activity in Moodle’.
When: Tuesday 28 January from 12.00 – 13.30
Where: UELT Seminar Room
In this session we will:
To book a place, please complete the online booking form
This term you can choose from a wide range of courses, including: KE024 Talking Cultures, KE122 Digital Photography or KE197 Advanced Photography, KE155 Introduction to Sustainability, KE178 IELTS English Exam Preparation and KE198 Career Toolkit.
We are introducing a new course on Vampires (KE201) and two new Art courses: Art and Politics (KE202), and Art and Society (KE202) – these will be available to sign up to soon.
King Arthur at the Movies (KE195) will return for the spring term, as will Screen Writing (KE087) and Dirty History (KE004).
You can still sign up for KE194 Business Start-Up Journey, which is series of standalone workshops continuing in the spring term and which allows you to choose the sessions that interest you the most.
You will earn Employability Points for any courses that you do (subject to satisfactory attendance).
To see the full range of courses running this term , see the Study Plus website. If you want to be the first to know about new courses as they are released, join our mailing list.