From Monday 22 to Friday 26 June the St Stephen’s Hill/Tyler Court steps will be closed.
This is to enable the installation of floor markers on the concrete landings for the visually impaired.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
If you have any queries please contact the Estates Helpdesk on Ext. 3209.
Westgate Hall was home to this year’s ‘Big Lunch’, organised by the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, which took place on Sunday 7 June.
‘he Big Lunch is a simple idea from the Eden Project: that as many people as possible across the UK have lunch with their neighbours in a simple act of community, friendship and fun.
The hall was decorated with bunting, seasonal flowers and homemade table decorations in light pastels to bring in the feeling of summer. Everyone brought along plenty of food to eat and share. There was balloons and bubbles and hula hoops for the kids and the big kids.
ASDA generously supported the event as did the Curzon Cinema by providing our raffle prize.
The event was a great success and attended by about 80 residents of Kent.
Event organiser Famy Rashid said:
‘I love community events and saw this as a great opportunity to bring the people of Canterbury together.
‘Having only recently joined the Westgate Hall team, I had a limited time to organise the event but the community spirit in Canterbury is alive and kicking, and everyone came together and made it a fun day. We had families, young people, older residents – a real mix. We have a whole year to plan the Big Lunch for next year and it’s going to be bigger and better.’
Plans for new state-of-the-art, purpose-built student social facilities at the Medway campus have moved a step closer to reality.
Official permission has now been granted for the development by the universities of Kent and Greenwich to convert an unused listed building at Medway – formerly home to a swimming pool and bowling alley – into a ‘student hub’ for use by all 10,000 students at the campus.
Now that both listed building consent and planning permission has been given by Medway Council, the universities aim for facilities to be open in time for their respective student intakes in September 2016. The student centre, which will feature a café/bar, catering, entertainment and social activity space, will also include a home for GK Unions , the students’ union partnership between Kent Union at Medway and the Students’ Union University of Greenwich.
‘Phase 1’ for carrying out work on the project is currently out to tender and the universities expect to make an appointment in late June, with the works beginning in either July or August.
The universities hope to appoint contractors to begin work in near future. Students themselves have been helping to shape the design of the new facilities, through surveys and a consultation process led by GK Unions working with Dannatt Johnson Architects.
All the key buildings on the Medway site, including the old swimming pool, date back to the early 20th century when they were part of the HMS Pembroke Royal Navy barracks .
While the universities of Kent and Greenwich will fund and manage the proposed capital project, many of the new facilities will also be available to students of Canterbury Christ Church University .
A team of students and alumni runners is taking part in a 300-mile ultra marathon from Canterbury to Amsterdam to raise money for charity.
The University of Kent Athletics and Cross Country Club runners will complete ten marathons in ten days. They are raising funds for the British Heart Foundation and the Kent Opportunity Fund, which supports scholarships, extra-curricular projects and bursaries for our students.
The runners left Canterbury on 15 June to a rousing send-off by Kent students and staff, including Dame Julia Goodfellow, Vice-Chancellor; Graham Holmes, Kent Sport Director; Kim Brophy, Fundraising Volunteer Manager at British Heart Foundation; and Nina Mehmi, Kent Union Vice President (Sport). The Kent Bunny also made an appearance.
Runners from the Athletics and Cross Country Club are well-known for taking on big challenges and, in 2014, completed eight marathons in eight days running from Canterbury to Paris. The Cants2dam run is their biggest challenge yet and one of many exciting student projects taking place during Kent’s 50th anniversary year.
You can support the team by making a donation via Just Giving or by texting TEXT CDAM50 £5 to 70070 to donate.
For further information, contact Tim Farrow.
A power outage on campus this Saturday, 20 June, will mean that:
Why?
Estates are carrying out an electrical shutdown, which will affect many buildings on campus.
More detail about the electrical shutdown.
All the lifts across the Canterbury campus were put out of service last night due to the problem with the telephone network which affected the emergency phones inside the lifts.
The lifts will be brought back into service as soon as possible.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
If there are any queries please contact the Estates Helpdesk on Extn 3209.
Since 2009, students, staff and alumni have been busy fundraising for a bigger home for the Kent Law Clinic and a new Moot Court.
On Monday 15 June, building work for the new Kent Law Clinic started on the lawn between Eliot Extension and Rutherford College.
The new ‘The Wigoder Law Building’ is planned to open in June 2016 and benefits include:
Read more about the project on the Kent Law Campaign webpages.
Kent Law student Charly Pennington has won a two-week vacation scheme with Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance.
Charly, who graduates with an LLB Law degree from Kent Law School in July, was one of 20 students across the UK to secure the prestigious prize in the firm’s Intelligent Aid competition.
Now in its fifth year, the annual competition requires students to write an essay on a topical question, with 40 shortlisted entrants being put forward to a two-day final in London.
This year, students were asked to write an essay about the importance of the Rule of Law to a developed economy.
Charly said:
‘We had to write it in 500 words and were encouraged to be creative with how we presented it.
‘I finally settled on it being written as a text message conversation between a lawyer and a client.
‘It definitely paid off though because when I got to the finals, three of the partners that I met remembered my entry better than most.’
Clifford Chance seek to find students who can demonstrate their intelligence, their ability to structure a convincing argument, and their understanding of the practical application of the law.
Later this summer Charly will spend two weeks at Clifford Chance’s offices in Canary Wharf, with one week in Mergers and Acquisitions and the second week in Corporate Finance. She will also sit the firm’s assessment centre tests and be invited to go through the interview process for a 2017 Training Contract.
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Third-year student Aimee Dutto has secured three internships at women’s magazines following the successful completion of the module ‘Writing in the Media: A Practical Approach’, run by the Department of English Language and Linguistics .
Aimee took ‘Writing in the Media’ as a wild module and enjoyed it so much she decided to try journalism as a career.
The module involves producing a portfolio of journalism and media-related writing, but also has some brilliant tips, including using LinkedIn, which helped her gain some great contacts and network with the right people.
Aimee has just completed her first internship at Woman magazine and has secured two more internships with Cosmopolitan magazine and Woman’s Health magazine.
At Woman magazine Aimee worked on the fashion pages writing captions for articles on high street matches and celebrity latest styles, as well as liaising with PR assistants and fashion outlets.
Aimee said ‘The module really helped me decide the path I wanted to take. It is very competitive and takes a lot of patience and hard work to get the internships but ‘Writing in the Media’ was the first step in my career and a great inspiration. My career goal is to be Editor-in-Chief at Vogue – one day!’
She has now also been offered a place on the MA in Fashion Journalism at the London College of Fashion and has an interview for an editorial assistant role at Harrods publishers.
We wish Aimee every success for the future.