We are pleased to announce that your Exam Timetable is now available to view on the Student Data System.

Your exam timetable can be found by clicking on Details and Study from the menu on the left hand side, and then select ‘My Exams’.

This is your exam timetable based on your module registration. If you have any doubts about the modules on your timetable then please contact the Humanities and Social Sciences Undergraduate Office or your School (for Sciences students) as soon as possible.

For more information about examinations please visit the exams webpages.

Students with Adapted Exam Arrangements: The venue that you have been allocated will be displayed on your exam timetable – specific room allocations will be advised when you arrive at the venue for your examination.

PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT MOBILE PHONES AND SMART WATCHES ARE NOT PERMITTED IN EXAMINATION VENUES AND ANY BREACH OF THIS RULE WILL BE TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY.

Banish those winter blues by joining the Worldfest fun from 15-27 March.

The festival, organised by staff and students, celebrates diversity and  multiculturalism at the University. Highlights include:

• World food market outside Essentials in Canterbury from 21-24 March
• Poetry slam workshop and battle on Tuesday 22 March
• Paint-throwing fun for Holi on Wednesday 23 March
• Student societies perform at the International Student Showcase on Thursday 24 March

View the full programme.

Banish those winter blues by joining the Worldfest fun from 15-27 March.

The festival, organised by staff and students, celebrates diversity and multiculturalism at the University. Highlights include:

• Free international food and student performances at Medway’s Diversity Fair on Wednesday 16 March, 11.00-14.00, in Pilkington Building
• St Patrick’s Day celebration at Coopers on Thursday 17 March
• Poetry slam workshop and battle on Tuesday 22 March in Canterbury
• Paint-throwing fun for Holi on Wednesday 23 March in Canterbury

Book the Campus Shuttle to join the Worldfest celebrations at Canterbury.

View the full programme.

Reuse your Kent travel mug in one of our outlets (K-Bar/Origins/Bag It/Gulbenkian Café/The Sports Café/Dolche Vita/Mungo’s/Create/Cargo/No.1) and receive a large hot drink for the price of a regular.

You can purchase our reusable coffee cups for £5 at either Origins, Mungo’s or Dolche Vita and receive your first hot drink for free.

Registration for the sixth annual Postgraduate Festival is open from 1 April 2016!

Visit the Festival webpages for more information.

There’s only a few days left to nominate a student who you think deserves a Kent Student Award and that £400 cash prize. View the award categories.

The deadline for nominations is midnight on 6 March 2016.

Nominate an amazing Kent student now!

The Kent Student Awards recognise and celebrate extracurricular student achievement at the University of Kent.

Please encourage your colleagues, students, businesses and our external partners to nominate.

To mark University Mental Health Day on 3 March, here’s a reminder from Student Support and Wellbeing of just some of the great support available to you.

Big White Wall

If you’re going through a stressful time or struggling with mental health issues, you can get free online support from Big White Wall. Watch the video for more details.

The service is designed to help people get support, take control and feel better. It provides 24/7 peer and professional support (with trained counsellors at all times) plus a range of wellbeing tools to help people self-manage.

The service is safe and anonymous.

To join, email the University Wellbeing Team at wellbeing@kent.ac.uk

Kent Student Social Support Network

The Kent Student Social Support Network, is a group of students who meet every fortnight to socialise and support one another through the ups and downs university life can bring.

Sometimes they also invite guests to run workshops such as relaxation techniques and assertiveness training.

To get involved email studentsocialsupportnetwork@kent.ac.uk

You can also find out more by following them on Twitter or by reading their blog. 

Self-help guides and e-books

Check out the free wellbeing and study e-books available on the University website. Books range from exam and revision tips to managing stress and depression.

There are also excellent self-help guides available for free from the NHS website.

Wellbeing Zone

Sign up for the University’s free wellbeing app – Wellbeing Zone.

The app allows you to review your current wellbeing and makes recommendations to help you feel at your best.

Meditation CD

Learn how to relax with the help of a meditation CD created by a fellow student and University staff. Find out more and how to get the CD.

Oasis Garden

If you ever feel you need to escape reality for a bit head down to the Oasis Garden.

The garden is located on the land next to Parkwood and the Crab and Winkle Way in Canterbury.

Find out more

For all the support available check out the Student Support and Wellbeing webpages.

The fully-qualified Student Support and Wellbeing Team are also available to chat, confidentially, whenever you feel you need to.

Update – deadline extended to 29 March 2016.

From 14 – 25 March 2016, if you’re a stage one or two student, you will need to choose the modules you will study in 2016-17.

You may choose your modules through SDS. You’ll be emailed with information about what you need to do!

Guidance is available at the Online Module Registration (OMR) webpage. Sciences students should check your programme information with your School.

You must choose your modules from 14 – 29 March as there will be no further opportunity to make selections until September 2016.

Why do I need to choose so early?

There are over 1500 modules available to students across three faculties which need to be allocated tutors, teaching rooms and timetables.

A few modules have to be restricted in number, especially if they need specialist equipment or to use a particular room/space. Where these modules are oversubscribed they are subject to random allocation to ensure you are given equal chance of taking the module. This takes place after you have chosen your modules so you have to be in it to be included.

Even if you’re not taking one of these restricted modules you still need to choose during the OMR process so that planning can go ahead. This gives us time to check that you’re meeting the requirements of your programme, allows schools to cancel modules which aren’t popular or draft in more teaching staff for over-subscribed modules and helps timetabling to prevent clashes between key modules.

If you picked modules last year you can use this opportunity to change your choices if you want to. You may find that your programme requirements look a bit different this year as we’ve tried to make things simpler and easier to understand. The module catalogue has also been improved. You can research module information at the module catalogue.

The KentOne card is your University ID. You can use it as a cashless purchasing card for a quick, easy and safe way to buy food and drink from our award-winning catering outlets on both the Canterbury and Medway campuses.

Every time you use it, we give you a 5% discount at the till.

For a list of places you can use your card, where you will receive your 5% discount, to top up online and frequently asked questions, visit KentOne card.

Why use your KentOne card:

• Saves you money – every time you use it, we give you an exclusive 5% discount.
• Safe and secure – instead of carrying round cash, top up your card online and if you lose it, the balance will be transferred over to a replacement card.
• Saves you time – get through the tills quicker than by using debit or credit cards.

Where to use your KentOne card: 

You can claim your 5% discount at 12 different University catering outlets across the Canterbury and Medway campuses.

Your KentOne card also provides services such as:

• accessing specific areas of the University;
• borrowing books from the Templeman Library (Canterbury campus);
• gaining entry to the exam halls and participating in student elections;
• purchasing books and stationery items as Blackwell’s bookshop on the Canterbury campus;
• and if you have catering package, this will be added to your KentOne card.

How to use your KentOne card:

First, visit KentOne card to login to your account, using your Kent email address and set up a password. Here you can top up your card, review your purchases and check your balance.
Parents / guardians can also have a separate login to top up your card online.
Paying for items is quick and easy, just hand it over at the till.