Our Enrolment Management Services Team will be taking photos of the Medway campus on Wednesday 21 September 2016. If you would prefer not to be featured in the photos please let the photographer know if you see them near you.

We are working with Arriva Bus company to improve the bus services to Medway campus.

As a trial for 2016/17, the 191 service will now operate to and from Liberty Quays – Campus- Chatham- Isle of Grain. This includes stopping on Pembroke campus and at Western Avenue and Dock Road for access to the Historic Dockyard Chatham.

This will help students and staff getting to campus, particularly students travelling between Liberty Quays and the Historic Dockyard Chatham.

The 191 trial will come into effect from 18 September 2016 and will be monitored over the academic year. Please provide feedback to the Transport Team – transport@kent.ac.uk.

Don’t forget to check out the discounted tickets, routes and timetables online. The annual student and staff tickets allow travel on any Arriva bus all over Medway, Kent and East Sussex. The student annual ticket is £140 which works out as only 39p per day!

Look out for the Transport Team, Estates, over Arrivals Weekend and the coming weeks where you can ask any questions and pick up timetables, leaflets and freebies.

For more information follow @unikent_travel on Twitter or visit our transport news webpages.

Transport Team

01227 82 3609   transport@kent.ac.uk   @unikent_travel   www.kent.ac.uk/transport

The Campus Shuttle booking system is now open. Book a seat.

Students and staff can attend The Historic Dockyard’s ‘Salute to the 40s’ weekend on 17 and 18 September 2016 for a discounted price of £5.

Buy vintage items and enjoy music, food and drink at one of ‘Britain’s Best Vintage Festivals’ (Daily Telegraph 2014). Find out more about Salute to the 40s.

You will need your University of Kent ID to receive the discount on the day.

We know that some of you have experienced problems with your timetable showing incorrect times. We are working on this and should have a solution in place by Tuesday 13 September.  Please check your timetable again tomorrow.

Please note regular teaching hours are Monday – Friday, 09.00 – 18.00, except Wednesdays which are 09.00 – 13.00. Read more information about your timetable.

Timetabling Office
timetabling@kent.ac.uk

If you’re fully registered for your modules, here’s when you can expect to receive your timetable for 2016-17…

Stage 0 and 1 students

Stage 0 and 1 timetables will be on the Student Guide by Friday 23 September 2016.

Stage 2 and 3 students

Stage 2 and 3 timetables will be on the Student Guide during the week starting Monday 12 September.

Postgraduate students

Postgraduate timetables will be on the Student Guide by Friday 23 September 2016.

Resits students

If you had to resit an exam over the summer your timetable might be delayed. Your timetable will be on the Student Guide by Friday 23 September 2016 at the latest.

Important – check your timetable in the Student Guide regularly!

Continue to go back and check your timetable regularly for updates including other events.

Got a question?

Read our timetabling FAQs.

Recent evidence from crime surveys, student surveys and professionals working with students has shown that there is a significant problem with sexual harassment, sexual coercion, rape and domestic abuse in student populations across England.

The University has introduced a range of initiatives to help combat sexual harassment on campus, including:

• Guidance for students
  The University has produced guidance for students who have been sexually assaulted or raped. This guidance is available on the Student Services Policies page and Student Support and Wellbeing’s updated ‘Rape and Sexual Assault’ webpages.
• Guidance for staff
  The University has also produced guidance for staff responding to an incident of student sexual assault or rape. The guidance for staff document can be found on the Student Services Policies page.
• Intervention Initiative at Kent
  The Intervention Initiative was successfully piloted in March 2016, through Study Plus, and will run again this academic year. This bystander initiative was originally developed by the University of the West of England (UWE) and aims to prevent sexual harassment by empowering students to act as prosocial citizens. Further information about the content of the course can be found on UWE’s website.
• E-training module for staff – coming soon
  A short e-training module has been created to raise awareness of what you should do if a student discloses to you that they have been sexually assaulted or raped. The e-training module will be available soon.
• Sexual Assault Responders
  In addition to the above initiatives, approximately 25 members of staff from across the University are being trained as Sexual Assault Responders. This important role will respond to incidents that occur on campus out of office hours at both Canterbury and Medway campuses.

The Student Success (EDI) Project will be holding a staff symposium on Wednesday 26 October 2016. The event will run from 12.00 – 17.00 (lunch provided) followed by a drinks reception which concludes at 18.00.

The event will update delegates on the work across the pilot schools and the latest institutional and national data.

There will be presentations from Heads of Schools, demonstrations of interventions, feedback from the Closing the Gap Conference and plenty of time for questions and answers.

The aim of this event is to share ideas, perspectives and knowledge. It is hoped that the range of attendees from across disciplines and backgrounds will facilitate an interesting and stimulating debate on the issue of student attainment.

This event will be free to all University of Kent staff but numbers will be limited.

Venue TBC. Full agenda will be circulated 20 days prior to the event.

Book via the Online Store.

Sent in by e.a.buswell@kent.ac.uk.