Tag Archives: Canterbury

Returning to Kent?

Welcome back! If you’re returning to Kent after the summer break, here’s a helpful summary for settling back in.

  • Timetables will be on the Student Guide before term starts on 24 September. Continue to go back and check your timetable regularly for updates including other events. Read our Timetabling FAQs.
  • You will need to register on SDS from Tuesday 18 September so we know you’re definitely coming back. To ensure swift payment of your student loan, you are advised to re-register by Wednesday 19 September. It takes 3-5 working days from the point of registration for funds to be released to your account. Read more.
  • Term starts on Monday 24 September. Welcome Week is the week before (17-21 September). View term dates.
  • If you’ve got a new phone, tablet or laptop, get it Kent WiFi-ready before you come back to campus by running our WiFi setup tool.
  • Living off campus is very different from living in University accommodation. Read our community webpages for information on bills, bins, neighbours and much more!
  • Canterbury campus developments are taking place in Park Wood developing a new SU shop, expanding Woody’s with 60 extra seats, a balcony, garden, and creating a Study Hub with rooftop and studio spaces. CEWL has also moved to the Chipperfield building with more dedicated teaching and social space for staff and students and the School of Economics expansion is still taking place.
  • Find out what’s changed in the Templeman Library and in campus study space from Information Services.

Have a great 2018-2019 at Kent!

Free welcome activities for students

If you’re wondering how to spend your time at the University of Kent, what would be fun and where to meet new people, then you’ll want to know about these free events open to all. Kent Sport and Kent Union hope you can join us to try something different at the University of Kent Canterbury campus through Welcome Week and beyond. Get a taste of Kent Sport at these free events and make the most of our Student Saver membership offer to stay active all year!

 Events are varied and include:

 Check out the full timetable of exciting free activities and just turn up and join in, membership not required.

 To get up to date with Kent Sport news and events, find UniKentSports on social media and visit the Kent Sport events calendar to see what else is on.

Unirider discounted bus tickets

The cheapest way for Canterbury students to travel around the local area is the Stagecoach Unirider, which allows unlimited travel across Kent and East Sussex. The Unirider ticket is valid for the academic year and the discount is exclusive to University of Kent students.

 For the first two weeks of term, the Unirider will be available to buy from the Unibus parked on the lawn outside the Registry building on the Canterbury Campus between 10:00 and 16:00. It is also available to buy online from the Stagecoach website.

 Remember to purchase up to and including 1 October for the early bird discount of £180 for the academic year. This is a saving of 77% on the public price. After the 1 October, the price will change to £255 for the academic year.

 For more information about bus routes, timetables and discounts visit our Canterbury bus webpage.

Staff feedback complete on training and appraisal (RPD) functions in Staff Connect

You will soon be able to book Learning and Organisational Development training and record your appraisal (RPD) through Staff Connect, the same system that is used for HR and payroll.

In August, staff interested in seeing how these new elements of Staff Connect will work, attended user testing and training sessions and provided feedback on the system. The Staff Connect project team have been using this feedback to make improvements to the system and to update user guides before these new elements go live.

The Stakeholder Engagement Group has also met to provide feedback on the project. This group includes members from academic schools, faculties, professional services departments and unions to ensure all University of Kent staff are represented.

For more information please visit the Staff Connect website or contact staffconnect@kent.ac.uk

 

Student Art Pass- a year of art for just £5

Art Fund are launching a scheme called Student Art Pass, allowing any full-time higher education student to engage with art and culture.

Explore world-class museums all over the UK and enjoy a year of endless inspiration with friends, for your studies, or just for you.

From the V&A and British Museum to Cardiff Castle and Jupiter Artland, a Student Art Pass brings you free access to over 240 museums, galleries and historic houses, and 50% off major exhibitions.

Student Art Pass membership costs £5 a year and includes access to recommendations on what to see, creative competitions and paid opportunities in the arts.

The Student Art Pass is available for £5 for a limited time (until 9 December) to all full-time students, get yours here.

Library and IT services- Autumn term update

More library study space

You’ll be pleased to know that while you have been away we have been busy creating 140 new study spaces in Block D of the Templeman Library by converting office space on Floors 2 and 3. The toilets in Block D are also getting a make-over and will be gender neutral! The work in D Block will be completed before the end of the year.

Easier finding and checking out of books

We have been working on LibrarySearch, making it easier to:

  • see if a book is available
  • see where it is held
  • request it from another University of Kent library

When the same book is held by the Templeman, Drill Hall or Tonbridge Centre Library we have combined them into one entry!

DVDs have moved

The DVD collection has moved location, but it is still on the ground floor of Block B. This is a result of consultation with the School of Arts about how best to place the DVDs and viewing stations to enable collection-related academic activities throughout the year. Watch this space for some talks about our film collection in the Autumn Term.

Study Hubs

There have been some exciting changes to Study Hubs over the Summer. We’ve got a new study space opening in the Park Wood Student Hub complex, Darwin’s small PC room had a make-over and Senate will be opening as a dedicated Postgraduate study hub!

Professor Read co-organises International Conference in Turin

Professor Peter Read is co-organising an International Conference, Métamorphoses d’Apollinaire, this autumn at the University of Turin and the Museum of Modern Art, Turin. The conference, running on 22-23 October 2018, marks the centenary of the death of French war-poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) and will bring together speakers from France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Switzerland, UK and USA.

The conference will also include the opening of an exhibition on Picasso and his circle at Turin’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and a professional performance of Apollinaire’s “surrealist drama” The Breasts of Tiresias, first published in 1918,  at Turin’s Teatro Stabile. Peter is co-organising the conference with Professor Franca Bruera (University of Turin) and Professor Laurence Campa (University of Paris X-Nanterre). The conference is co-sponsored by the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent.

Lent by the National Gallery 1997 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/L01895

Peter Read and Picasso in Paris

Professor Peter Read is giving two public lectures at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to accompany the exhibition “Picasso Bleu et rose” (Picasso Blue and Pink), which will run from 18 September 2018 to 6 January 2019 and include 240 works of art. Peter’s first talk, on Picasso and the Circus, will be at 3pm on Saturday 13 October in the restored “fumoir”, or Smoking Room, of the museum, which is a former railway station and hotel, opened in 1900. Peter’s talk is part of the “Picasso Circus Weekend” taking place in the museum that Saturday and Sunday, with a big top in the nave of the building and performances by trapeze artists and an “extreme dance” company from New York.  Peter’s second talk, at 12 noon on Friday 2nd December, in the Musée d’Orsay’s lecture theatre, will be on representations of Paris in Picasso’s work during his early years in the city, from 1900 to 1906.

Peter Read has also contributed several texts to the catalogue of the Cubism exhibition opening at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on 17 October, and has contributed to a Dictionnaire du cubisme being published to accompany that exhibition.

 

Hello Library and IT services!

If you’re a new student, you’ll soon be using the Library, IT systems and study spaces to help you do your work. Here’s how to get started and make the most of them.

Don’t buy books yet unless your lecturer advises you to as we aim to stock every book on your reading list.

Come to a Library and IT! Welcome Session

A welcome session is your best chance to explore the Library and find out about IT you will need to use at Kent.

They run from Monday to Friday in Welcome Week, between 09.30–16:30, starting on the hour and half hour, from the Welcome Hall, Main Entrance, Templeman Library.

Check your timetable to see if there is a session for your subject booked. If not, or if you miss it, join any session during the week.

You’ll learn about:

  • what’s in the Library
  • finding and borrowing books
  • where you can study
  • using PCs, printers, loan laptops

…and much more!

You’ll also get a free gift, and the chance to win a £20 Amazon voucher in our prize draw. Don’t forget your KentOne card as you will need this to enter the Library!

Get Connected

You can connect to Wi-Fi as soon as you arrive on campus. If you’re living on campus, look out for your ‘Get Connected’ booklet in your accommodation.

Use the wired internet with a network cable for the fastest gaming and streaming. If you don’t have one, get one free from the IT & Library Support Desk in the Templeman Library. For help in connecting to your phone, tablet or laptop ask IT & Library Support Desk.

Need more help?

For help with Library and IT Services:

Autumn Short Courses Programme at Tonbridge Centre

The Tonbridge Centre has launched its latest programmes of short courses. The programmes are  designed to provide study opportunities for personal interest or self-development, among like-minded people and without formal assessment. Courses include weekday and Saturday lectures, Study Days and weekly courses at Kent’s Tonbridge Centre and Medway Campus. Subjects include French Painting and Culture, Art and Politics, The Treaties of 1919-23, The Cambridge Spies, The Modern Commonwealth, the literature of Zola and Maupassant, and The Grand Tour.

 

Full details of the programnmes can be found by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge

 

A staff discount is available on some courses: please call 01732 352316 in office hours or email tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk for further information.