Every year, students rush to find properties as early as possible, and every year they face the same issues. Home Stamp are here to give you the advice you need to make the best decisions.
Make sure you attend our Housing Fair on 24 January 2018 in the Pilkington Building, where you can get free impartial advice, as well as have the chance to win a week’s rent – just by attending the event!
Find out more about the Medway Housing Fair.
The Dean for Internationalisation, Dr Anthony Manning is pleased to invite you to the University’s annual Internationalisation Forum, which will take place at both the Canterbury and Medway campuses next term.
The Canterbury Forum will take place on Wednesday 17 January 2018 in the Darwin Conference Suites 1 and 2, from 09.30-13.00. The event will start with refreshments at 09.00. The link to sign up for this event is here.
Our Medway Forum will take place on Wednesday 31 January 2018 in the Gillingham Building, Room G3-04, from 10.00 – 11.00. The link to sign up for this event is here.
The aim of this year’s events is to provide an overview on the progress of the University’s internationalisation activity and to launch the process of updating and consulting with colleagues for the next phase of the Internationalisation Strategy. This is in line with the University’s forthcoming review of its overall strategic plan.
Professor Karen Cox, Vice Chancellor, has kindly agreed to give the Canterbury Forum’s opening speech. The full programme will be published shortly.
All staff are invited to attend and there will be representation from the student body.
We very much look forward to seeing you at one of the events.
Missed out on the Arriva discounted bus ticket at the start of the year? You have another opportunity to purchase the discounted bus ticket which is valid until 31 December 2018.
The ticket allows travel on any Arriva bus all over Medway, Kent and East Sussex. This includes the 191 service which operates to and from Liberty Quays- Campus- Chatham- Isle of Grain, and stops on Pembroke campus and at Western Avenue and Dock Road for access to the Historic Dockyard Chatham.
The student annual ticket is £140 which works out at around 39p per day. The staff annual ticket is £280 which works out at around 78p per day. To get access to these huge discounts you will need to enter the relevant promotional code found at www.kent.ac.uk/transport/promotion . Once you have entered the code, the price will drop down from £940 to £140 or £280 accordingly.
Arriva are attending the Refresher’s Fair at the Student Hub Tuesday 17 January 2018 if you want to find out more information about tickets and timetables.
The Pint of Science festival is an international public engagement event that takes place over three days in May each year. Last year some 450 events took place across 26 cities in the UK including Canterbury and Medway. More than 1,000 scientists took to the stage in bars and pubs, sharing their research with members of the public.
A Pint of Science provides a unique platform for researchers to present, discuss and explore their work with their local community. It’s a fantastic opportunity to use your research to inform, explore and interact with a live audience.
Call for expressions of interest
Following a successful inaugural Kent festival last year (three sold-out events!), the Kent Pint of Science Team is co-ordinating the University’s festival for 2018. We plan to double the number of events to six adding Tonbridge to the line-up with Canterbury, and Medway.
We’ve already selected a number of pubs and are looking for expressions of interest from speakers, particularly Early Career Researchers and final year PhD students looking to develop their public engagement skills.
If you are interested, please email pintofscience@kent.ac.uk with the following details by 23.59 on Wednesday 31 January 2018:
Kent’s Pint of Science Team will review the expressions and develop themes for each evening of the festival – for examples of past themes, see: https://pintofscience.co.uk and https://www.kent.ac.uk/publicengagement/current-projects/pint-of-science.html
The outcome will be announced by the end of January. A practice run will take place in the spring.
Please direct any questions to the Kent Pint of Science team c/o Dr Simon Scott at pintofscience@kent.ac.uk
Registration is now open for our spring term Study Plus workshops which include Digital Photography, Child Protection courses, Advanced Excel courses, Introduction the Welsh Language and many many more.
Places are limited and are going fast so book your place now via SDS.
Find out more on our web pages.
The Centre for English and World Languages will be launching Cambridge English and IELTS exam preparation courses in January 2018.
The FREE taster sessions will take place on 16 January for the Cambridge course and 17 January for the IELTS course.
For more information on our IELTS course please see our web pages, and for more information on our Cambridge English course please click here.
If English is your second language, you can sign-up to FREE English and academic skills workshops and earn up to 20 employability points.
Registration is open now so don’t miss out!
Classes will start in January 2018 during week 14.
For more information, visit our web pages.
The Centre for English and World Languages are still taking bookings for the 10 week Language Express courses starting on 22 January 2018.
Classes take place on Monday evenings during weeks 14-23 at the Canterbury campus.
People who take the language courses say it not only increased their knowledge of the language of a country, but also its culture, and encouraged them to continue learning the language.
For more information on classes, fees and how to book your place, visit the Language Express webpages.
Colleagues are invited to attend the CSHE Research Seminar titled ‘Developing feedback practices based on what students want and on sound research and scholarship’ taking place on Wednesday 24 January 2018, 1-2pm in the UELT Seminar Room, Canterbury.
Presented by David Boud, Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney.
To improve feedback, we need to move beyond general impressions of students to understand what is working well and what is not. This was the premise of a national teaching development project designed to improve feedback practice across Australian universities, Feedback for Learning: Closing the Assessment Loop. The project aimed to build on the extensive literature on feedback in higher education to examine the extent to which feedback practices proposed by scholars were being adopted in normal courses in two large Australian universities and to develop resources that would help to transform feedback practice.
A novel feature of the project was that the students responding (n=4514) identified situations in which they received particularly effective feedback during their current program of study. The research team collated information about which were the most frequently mentioned and undertook detailed case studies of the course units in which they were used. The cases emphasise practices that can be scaled up and used in large classes and with multiple tutors. Details of the project and its resources can be found here.
Plese email us to confirm your attendance.
Bicycle hire is available for students and staff from this weekend, 13 and 14 January.
To do your bit for the environment and get a little fitter too, visit the Cycle Hub near the Pavilion at Canterbury campus to hire a bike from 10am to 4pm. The bikes come complete with lights, a lock and a bell and hire is from only £30 per term.
The service is provided by Chris and his team at ByCycle, working with the Transport team within the Estates Department. Bikes are provided by CyclingAge. For more information get in touch with Chris at chris@easybycycle.co.uk.
You can hire a bicycle from Liberty Quays at Medway campus. Simply ask at reception for more information.
Free bicycle checks
Dr Bike will be back at the Canterbury campus during term time to check and adjust your bike. Visit the Cycle Hub on Wednesdays to get your free bicycle health check. The service also returns to Medway from Thursday 18 January and is located outside the Rochester Building.
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