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Dockyard

Parking at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham

From October 2015, students and staff will need a University of Kent parking permit to park at the Historic Dockyard.

University staff and students are allocated a certain number of parking spaces at the Historic Dockyard which is in line with the University’s lease arrangements.

To ensure the number of Kent vehicles at the Historic Dockyard remains within this allocation, a permit system has been introduced.

These permits will be available to students via the Medway parking ballot.

For more information visit our transport webpages or email transport@kent.ac.uk.

Returning to Kent?

Welcome back! If you’re returning to Kent after the summer break, here’s a helpful summary for settling back in.

  • Timetables will be on the Student Guide before term starts on 28 September. Continue to go back and check your timetable regularly for updates including other events. Read our Timetabling FAQs.

 

  • You will need to register on SDS from Tuesday 22 September so we know you’re definitely coming back.

 

  • Term starts on Monday 28 September. Welcome Week is the week before (21-25 September). View term dates.

 

  • If you’ve got a new phone, tablet or laptop, get it Kent WiFi-ready before you come back to campus by running our WiFi setup tool.

 

  • Living off campus is very different from living in University accommodation. Read our community webpages for information on bills, bins, neighbours and much more!

Canterbury campus developments

  • Campus looks a bit different from when you last saw it. A big change is the new Templeman Library wing. There are over 500 new social, quiet and silent study spaces in Templeman West for you to use. Discover more about the changes in Templeman Library.

 

  • With the new space in the Templeman Library, the temporary study space in Senate will become staff offices for this academic year. Also, the Postgraduate Research Space will be in Oaks Study Hub from the start of term.

 

  • The new catering addition to the Canterbury campus, Hut8 at Turing College, opens in Welcome Week. Hut8 offers three eateries in one food-court style space – including pizza, fish and chips and flame-grilled BBQ items. You can eat in the restaurant seating area, or take advantage of the delivered takeaway service across the campus until late, seven days a week. Have a look at the Hut8 menus and online takeaway information.

Medway campus developments

  • Construction on your new Students’ Union building is moving along nicely. The new hording design will be in place for the start of term…you can’t miss it though, it’s bright purple!Listening events throughout the first term means you will have your say on the name of the new Student Hub. View a Q&A about the Student Hub, as well as all the latest photos.

 

 

 

Have a great 2015-16 at Kent!

Employability Festival 2015

From 12 – 23 October in Medway and 26 October – 6 November in Canterbury.

The Careers and Employability Service (CES) is co-ordinating a fantastic festival of events that you don’t want to miss.

Do you need some advice on writing a great CV, preparing for interview or assessment centres? Pondered what it’s like to work in a particular career? Or wondered what previous students from your subject have gone on to do?

Building on the success of the last two years, Employability Festival gives you the chance to do all this and more.

The highlight of the festival is the annual Careers Fair on Tuesday 3 November from 12.00 – 15.00 in the Sports Centre (Canterbury campus) where the University plays host to over 120 graduate employers. Take charge of your future!

To find more visit the CES webpages.

Mikkel Zangenberg to talk at BBC Proms Extra

Dr Mikkel Zangenberg, Lecturer in Danish Language and Culture from the Department of Comparative Literature, will be guest speaking at a forthcoming BBC Proms extra event to discuss Danish musician Carl Neilson.

Carl Neilson was a violinist and conductor, and recognised as one of Denmark’s greatest musicians. This year sees the centenary of Neilson’s birth, and Mikkel will be exploring the life and work of Neilson alongside Professor Christopher Cook (Gresham College), Professor Daniel Grimley (University of Oxford), and soloist Emily Beynon.

The event is free and open to all, and will be held 17.54 at the Royal College of Music on Tuesday 25 August.

There will also be a ticket-only performance of Neilson’s Flute Concerto, alongside Benjamin Britton’s Sinfonia da Requiem and Leo Janacek’s Sinfonietta, at 19.30 at the Royal Festival Hall the same evening.

For more details visit the event webpage.

FAO USS members and eligible members: confirmed changes to USS from 1 April 2016

Following the USS Employer Consultation Process earlier this year, you can now view a summary of the confirmed changes to the scheme which will take effect on 1 April 2016.

If you have any queries regarding the changes, please contact me or a member of the Pensions Team, Tarnia Craswell (x3601) or Alan Gazzard (x4767).

Please note: this does not affect SAUL members or eligible members

Wendy Green MCIPD | HR Project Manager| University of Kent Room 126, The Registry, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ

Tel: 01227 824982 | E-mail:  W.Green@kent.ac.uk | Web: http://www.kent.ac.uk/human-resources/

 

 

Gordon Lynch in The Independent

Professor Gordon Lynch, from the Department of Religious Studies, was interviewed by The Independent newspaper last week to preview a forthcoming exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood ‘On Their Own Britain’s Child Migrants’.

The exhibition will draw on Gordon’s research on child migration schemes that sent around 100,000 unaccompanied children from the UK to Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries from 1869 until the early 1970s.

‘While presented as being in the best interests of the child, the schemes were also intended to build up the British Empire with “good British stock”,’ explains Gordon in the article, which was published last Friday 14 August.

The exhibition will run at the Museum of Childhood from 24 October 2015 to 12 June 2016.

Read the full article.

Anna Katharina Schaffner in the TLS

An article by Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Reader in the Department of Comparative Literature, features on the front cover of this week’s Times Literary Supplement (TLS), published today, 21 August 2015, and is the lead article in the editorial.

The article, entitled ‘Our Sweet Tooth’, is an extended review of The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (OUP, 2015), edited by Darra Goldstein, which compiles work from historians, chemists, restaurateurs and neuroscientists, to explore sweets and sweetness from a variety of different perspectives.

‘It appears that our predilection for sweetness is, like the incest taboo, a cross-cultural phenomenon, and that it is ubiquitous and, in all likelihood, innate,’ explains Anna in the article.

Read the piece online, pages 10-12.

Careers and Employability Service shortlisted for awards

Congratulations to our Careers and Employability Service (CES) colleagues and more broadly, employability across the University, for being shortlisted in two categories in the AGCAS Awards.

All winners will be announced on the evening of Wednesday 2 September 2015 at the AGCAS Annual Conference for HE Careers and Employability Professionals conference at Warwick University.

 

SDS Replacement Project presentation

The new Tribal SITS data system will ‘go live’ in September 2016. This will replace our current SDS, both on the Cressida and the web interfaces.

The current SITS Admissions system will become part of this data system and the entire web interface will be known as KentVision.

From next August/September, students will log on to KentVision to enrol, choose modules, access their timetable, view personal information, access PG progress reviews, view their marks, etc.

From next September, staff will use KentVision to register students, view module diets, enter and view marks, approve PGR supervisory meetings, process scholarships, etc.

You are invited to attend the next all staff presentation on Thursday 10 September from 10.30am to 11.30am in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1*. This project briefing will include the current overall project status, a timeline reminder and work strand information, as well as a range of example KentVision pages. There will be a question and answer session at the end of the presentation.

More information on the project, including links to documents and presentations, can be found on the project webpages.

Alternatively for more information, please contact Nicci Place at: N.J.Place@kent.ac.uk 

*There will be a briefing at Medway during the autumn term

 

Electrical shutdown at various locations

From Friday 21 August at 6pm for one hour and Sunday 23 August at approximately 4pm for one hour, there will be an electrical shutdown to enable the installation of a new L.V. (Low voltage) panel to the boilerhouse.

The affected areas will be Estates, Maintenance, Grimond, Lumley, Aphra, UELT, Campus Security and both Natwest and Santander banks.

During this period temporary generators will be in place to supply the above areas.

The work will be carried out by SSE and MEM generation.

Could we ask that all electrical equipment that is not needed is isolated and the plug top is removed from the sockets i.e pcs.

This could reduce the amount of power failures when the supplies are re-instated.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused if you have any queries please contact the Estates Helpdesk on 01227 (82) 3209 or email Estateshelpdesk@kent.ac.uk.