From Monday 10 June to Friday 6 July 2019, a Bin Amnesty will begin in Canterbury, which will allow students moving out of properties in specific locations to place bin bags next to their household waste and recycling bins, and the waste contractor will collect during this four-week period. The Bin Amnesty will be in operation for the following roads:

See Bin Amnesty list of roads (PDF document)

Check your bin collection dates on Canterbury city council website

Household waste recycling in other areas

If you live outside of the Bin Amnesty area, purple sacks will be available from each College Reception, to allow you to dispose of extra waste during this time. Larger, bulky items will need to be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centre on Vauxhall Road (postcode CT1 1HD).

Household Waste Recycling Centre opening times:

Monday – Saturday 8.00 – 16.30

Sunday – 9.00 – 16.00

We work with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to collect and donate any of your unwanted items. See below for your nearest location on and off campus.

The following items are accepted: clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, books, computer games, CDs, DVDs, electrical items, crockery, cookware and homeware.

The following items CANNOT be accepted: knives, branded work or sportswear and duvets and pillows. See Give a Dog a Duvet Day

To arrange for the BHF to collect bulky furniture and electrical items, complete their collection request form

The British Heart Foundation fund over £100 million research each year into heart and circulatory diseases.

To prevent unwanted duvets from going to landfill or incineration, the University is supporting a number of local animal charities by donating unwanted duvets as beds for dogs, puppies, cats, kittens etc.

If you have a duvet you no longer need, and it’s clean and undamaged, please place in a clean carrier bag or bin bag and deliver to Rutherford College reception. The University will then arrange for the duvets to be donated to local animal charities.

This initiative will operate throughout the summer term, from Tuesday 7 May to Friday 14 June 2019.

As part of a brand new video series, SECL students guide you through life at Kent. In this first video, second year Hispanic Studies student Rebecca guides you through a typical week in her life as a Modern Languages student.

Rebecca Ogden, Lecturer in Latin American Studies, said: “A week in the life of a Modern Languages student at the University of Kent is a varied mix of lectures, seminars, small study groups, independent study, one-on-one supervisions with lecturers, speaking practice in the target language (plus beach trips and nights out…)

Many students, like Becky, also fit sports and paid work around their studies. While our students become fluent in their studied language(s), they also become experts in the histories, cultures and politics of the countries in which that language is spoken.

All of these activities add up to the development of critical thinking, creativity, communication skills, team working, confidence, and resilience, which is why our language graduates are so employable.”

Watch Rebecca’s week in the life video

Fancy being in the 2020 Kent Graduate Prospectus?

Enrolment Management Services (EMS) are doing a photoshoot for next year’s prospectus on Wednesday 22 May.

If you are a postgraduate student and would like to help the University by being part of the photoshoot, please contact Elisa (e.m.snyman@kent.ac.uk) for more details.

The photoshoot will take place at various locations throughout the day and you can come along for all or some of the day, morning or afternoon.