Researchers from the University of Oxford are conducting a national online survey on health behaviours in first year university undergraduate students.
This is a 10-15 minutes questionnaire which you will kindly be asked to complete up to two more times in the next year. Each time, you could win one of the many £20-£50 Amazon vouchers!
To participate, you must be a first year undergrad university student.
For further information, please email claudia.Vadeboncoeur@dph.ox.ac.uk
The Careers and Employability Service has a huge range of fantastic events taking place throughout the year for you to get involved with, including:
These will help you to gain skills, increase your employability, and learn how to make the job-hunting process a breeze!
Don’t forget to use the University events calendar to stay up-to-date with what’s on. You can save events to your phone or computer, and never miss a talk again!
The first Kent Extra courses to run in 2014/15 are now open for registration.
Visit the Kent Extra webpages to find out more about the courses and how to sign up.
The School of Arts, within a consortium co-ordinated by University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, has been awarded 380,000 Euros by the European Commission for an exciting new project ‘Three layers of telling a story: Creation of joint curricula in the Higher Education of Cinematographers, Puppeteers and Applied Theatre Practitioners’.
The three year project, led at Kent by Professor Paul Allain, is funded under the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships funding stream, which promotes activities designed to improve higher education through innovative approaches and practices.
Three Layers of Telling a Story will focus on cinematography, applied theatre and puppetry and will involve teacher exchange between partners of the consortium, including institutions in Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Ireland and Slovakia. Kent will also host teachers for sessions sharing teaching expertise, from Bergen, Budapest and Bialystok.
Professor Allain said ‘I am very excited about this opportunity to develop our curriculum and for staff interaction with so many specialist European partners in the two particular areas of applied performance and puppetry. Both these are enjoying a huge surge of interest in the UK, and this project is very timely’.
For more information on the Three Layers project, please contact Professor Paul Allain on P.A.Allain@kent.ac.uk.
For information about the opportunities of Strategic Partnerships funding under Erasmus+, please contact Primrose Paskins.
The Careers and Employability Service (CES) would like to invite you to take a look at their newly updated webpages.
Using the Chronos template, the webpages have had lots of additional content added to help students, staff, alumni and employers easily navigate the site.
Students and staff can view online Employability bitesize content by simply logging in with their Kent login. There are lots of short clips from real-world employers with advice on CVs, interviews, job hunting, application forms and much more which will help support the development of employability skills and can be accessed any time.
As part of Employability Week (3-7 November 2014), we have over 100 employers attending the Careers Fair on 4 November, but don’t forget, employers come to visit the University of Kent campus to give talks throughout the entire academic year! Make sure you keep updated by looking at our events pages.
The CES has included suggestions from students, staff and others, so we hope you like what you see.
There is much more content to come as we transition to our new site.
If you would like to make any suggestions on the look or content, then we would be pleased to receive it – just email careerhelp@kent.ac.uk.
The new Lunchtime Concert series begins in robust fashion on Wednesday 8 October, as pianist Helen Crayford explores ragtime piano music, including music by Scott Joplin and Fats Waller – all in period costume!
Step back in time in the Colyer-Fergusson Hall at 1.10pm; admission is free, with a suggested donation of £3. And fear not: the concert will end at 1.50pm to allow time to get to 2pm commitments.
Find out more on the Music webpages or email d.harding@kent.ac.uk.
Sections along the A2 between Brenley Corner (where the road meets the M2) and Wincheap (for the A28) will be rebuilt, which will involve nine weekend closures of the coastbound carriageway.
The coastbound carriageway will be fully closed from 8pm each Friday until 6am each Monday from 3 October to 1 December; weather permitting.
A signed diversion will be in place via the A299 and A256 during the closures. For visitors to the University of Kent the diversion is:
As this is one of the main diversions given by the Highway Agency, please ensure you give plenty of time for travel as there are expected delays.
Further information can be found:
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This Welcome Week new and returning University of Kent students were asked to share their ‘selfies’ as part of the University’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
The competition was run via the University’s Instagram channel which received over 150 entries with the hashtag #HelloKent50.
All the entries were of a high standard making it difficult for representatives from the University and Kent Union to choose a winner.
After significant deliberation, Mona Mohsin a third year student from Kent Business School was chosen as the winner for her colourful photo incorporating the Kent Wheel – a 33m high ferris wheel currently on the Canterbury campus for the University’s 50th anniversary.
Mona will receive an iPad Mini for her winning entry which can be viewed on Flickr.
You can also view some of the other selfies we received on Flickr.
The competition was a joint initiative between the University of Kent and our students’ union, Kent Union.
The autumn term schedule of workshops from the Careers and Employability Service at Medway is now available.
The big event at Medway this term is the Employability Fair on Wednesday 15 October, 1-3pm, Pilkington Building open space. View the list of the exhibitors attending.
The Students’ Union (Kent Union) Code of Practice governs the arrangements for Kent Union, including the rights of members, opting out of membership and other important information.
Kent Union is a registered charity and therefore subject to the restrictions placed on charities by the law. Kent Union’s charitable objects are the advancement of education of students at the University of Kent for the public benefit by:
If you have any questions regarding this, please email councilsec-staff@kent.ac.uk.