More bricks, with messages from staff, alumni and current students will be added to the new Crab and Winkle Path alongside the Templeman Library later this year.
You can inscribe a brick with two lines of text for just £50 or, for four lines, £90 (16 characters per line).
All money raised will go towards the Kent Opportunity Fund.
The Student Projects Grant Scheme has been given a boost this year and £65,000 will be awarded for projects that will enhance the student experience and employability of Kent students.
Individual grants can be up to a maximum of £5,000 and applications are welcome from student groups in Kent Union, departments, faculties and schools across all our campuses.
Application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from the Kent Opportunity Fund webpage.
The closing date for applications is 19 December 2014.
Email W.K.E.Chow@kent.ac.uk if you have any questions.
The 50th anniversary season of films starts on 22 October with The Beatles’ delirious homage to the Marx Brothers and the Goon Show and satire of Bond films. Book now.
Take part in the Kent Law Campaign Student Group’s charity fun run on Saturday 25 October.
Last year’s 5km fun run raised £4,574 for the Kent Law Campaign and we hope this year is as successful.
It is just £10 to register and you will receive a t-shirt, medal and goody bag. You can register in the campus branch of Santander or online. For more information please visit the fun run webpages.
There will be trophies and prizes for the fastest male, fastest female and best fancy dress, so don’t miss out!
Kent Extra courses are non-credit bearing courses which you can take alongside your studies.
This is your chance to learn something new, or find out more about a subject you’re interested in.
The first Kent Extra courses available for 2014/15 are now open for registration:
More courses will be available throughout the year, so keep an eye on the Kent Extra webpages.
Vote for Kent student Hollie Mackenzie’s sculpture ‘Obscurant’ in the National Sculpture Prize Exhibition.
Hollie’s sculpture ‘Obscurant’, is three melting wooden lit lampposts, currently exhibited at Broomhill’s Sculpture Park in Barnstaple, Devon until the end of October. She is in the running for NSP ‘Public Speaks’ award and needs as many votes as she can get.
Hollie recently started her PhD at Kent and her art has been featured in the school’s newsletter. All her sculptures are hand-crafted and made of wood. They are carved to look as though they are melting – an illusion which requires lots of patience, skill and sand paper!
Help Kent’s American Football team, the Kent Falcons, by tweeting using ‘#KFalconsNFLuk @nfl_uk’ to give them a vote towards a once in a lifetime prize.
The NFL competition pitches University teams against each other for the chance to win an exclusive day with the Jacksonville Jaguars; a professional American Football team. The day includes training with the team and their coaches as well as providing a unique opportunity to maximise their potential in the upcoming season.
To win the incredible prize, the University teams must get the most retweets of their team hashtag (in the Falcons case, #KFalconsNFLuk @nfl_uk) by midday on Friday 31 October.
Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) is often referred to as the world’s first computer programmer. She collaborated with mathematician and inventor, Charles Babbage, and was the first to see the potential of his Analytical Engine.
Ada Lovelace Day (14 October) is not simply about celebrating this inspirational woman, but is an international celebration of all inspirational women working in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
As the Finding Ada website says:
‘Ada Lovelace Day is about sharing stories of women – whether engineers, scientists, technologists or mathematicians – who have inspired you to become who you are today. The aim is to create new role models for girls and women in these male-dominated fields by raising the profile of other women in STEM.
You can find out about some of the inspiring women who work in Science at Kent on the Athena SWAN webpages. These women work in Finance, Pharmacy, Engineering and Mathematics.
Find out about the paths that brought them to their current positions, the professional and personal challenges they’ve faced, and how Kent has supported them on their journeys.
Many offer advice to those who might want to follow in their footsteps and, as well as well as listening to their advice, remember – these women have made a career in Science-you can too.
Find out more about Ada Lovelace and how Kent is supporting women working in STEMM.
Sensus Access is an amazing online conversion tool that will enable the conversion of almost any electronic document in to a more accessible format.
SensusAccess is a self-service solution that automates the conversion of documents into a range of alternative formats including Braille, mp3, Daisy and e-books. The service can also be used to convert otherwise inaccessible documents such as image-only pdf files or scanned images into more accessible formats.
SensusAccess is intended as a self-service solution for print-impaired students at universities and colleges and complements the accessibility services usually offered by educational institutions. The service can also be used by faculty to convert lecture notes and other educational material into accessible formats.
SensusAccess is powered by the award-winning RoboBraille service and supports a multitude of languages beyond English. As such, SensusAccess can also be used as a learning technology for everybody: As a language learning tool, as a tool to convert academic papers into e-books or editable documents or as a way of turning textbook material into mp3-files.
The Student Learning Advisory Service (SLAS) in UELT is very pleased to announce the arrival of Tim Walker, our Royal Literary Fellow, at the Canterbury campus.
We would like to invite you and/or a colleague to come and meet Tim on Monday 13 October, 12.30-2pm, in the UELT seminar room, Canterbury campus.
There will be a buffet provided for lunch so can you please confirm your availability by responding to learning@kent.ac.uk.
About Tim
Tim Walker originally trained as a designer. He was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers in 1992, and his work has won gold at the International Advertising Festival of New York, the London International Advertising Awards, and the UK National Graphic Design Awards. He has also written and sub-edited copy for many of his business clients, and contributed articles on design to Creative Review, PR Week and Design Magazine.
In 2004 Tim left design to pursue a writing career, and he is the author of three children’s novels published by Faber & Faber: Shipley Manor (2007), described as ‘an impressively fluent debut’ by the Times Educational Supplement; The Flying Fizzler (2008) which is, according to Betty Bookmark, ‘filled with exquisite invention and bags of fun’ and; Rise of the Rattler (2009), which the Irish Times described as ‘a sharp and funny fantasy’. Since their publication he has worked as a visiting author in schools, colleges and universities around the UK, whilst embarking on a new series of adventure stories for young readers.
Tim will be based in SLAS in the UELT building on Mondays and Tuesdays where he will be happy to see students on a one to one basis to help them with their academic writing. To make an appointment, please email learning@kent.ac.uk or phone 01227 824016.
For those of you interested in learning more about the Royal Literary Fund, please visit the Royal Literary Fund website.