The exam period will soon be upon us. Please see below information on what to expect this year.

Please be mindful during this time around venues and support students where possible.

Dates
Tuesday 7 May – Friday 14 June 2019 (weeks 25 – 30)

Venues – Canterbury
Main Hall
Small Hall 2
Small Hall 3
Darwin Conference Suite
Eliot Hall

Adapted Arrangements Venues:
Keynes Seminar Rooms 11-17
KSA 1 – Keynes College (PC Room)
Cornwallis North West Seminar Rooms 1-12
Grimond Seminar Room 1-8

Venues – Medway
Pilkington Building
Dockyard Church / Sail & Colour Loft
Gillingham Building
Medway Building

Adapted Arrangements Venues
Gillingham Building
Medway Building

Times
Morning exams begin at 09.30, afternoon sessions begin at 14.00.

Papers can last one to three hours. Students sat in adapted arrangement venues are entitled to 25%, 33%, 50% or 100% extra time. This means the latest finish could be 20.00.

Saturday exams are scheduled for the first four weeks of the exam period, morning and afternoon.

Bag Room
Students are not permitted to bring bags. Students will need to use the following bag rooms:

Canterbury Campus  –
Keynes Seminar Room 7

Medway Campus  –
Pilkington Building Room 014
Gillingham Building Room 2 – 03
Dockyard Church – Foyer Entrance

Seating Plan
Students will be allocated a seat for each exam, the seating plan will be posted at each venue before the start.

What to bring
KentOne Card
Pens, pencils and writing equipment (in a clear pencil case)
Still water in a clear plastic bottle

What NOT to bring
Mobile Phones / Smart Watches / Headphones
Bags
Food (Unless permission given prior)
Any drink other than water

Exam Timetable
Students can view their timetable on SDS.

Contact Details
Canterbury: exams@kent.ac.uk
Medway: medwayexams@kent.ac.uk

Find out more on our Exams webpages.

Do any of your students commute to the Canterbury Campus? We now have short-stay accommodation in Eliot College available for students living off-campus to book online.

This accommodation package is ideal for anyone worrying about getting to campus and missing an exam because of traffic or other travel delays outside their control, or for students who want more time to concentrate on studying without traveling home late at night. Rooms are £20 a night, with a minimum of a two night stay required to book.

Students will live in a corridor of up to eight other short stay students, all rooms are self-catered singles and have bedding and towels provided. Find out more.

Short-stay accommodation in Eliot College is only available for Kent students, however don’t forget that we also have year-round visitor accommodation available in Beverley Farmhouse next to Canterbury Innovation Centre, ideal for guests who want to stay on campus for the duration of their visit.

If you have any questions please email: holidays@kent.ac.uk

Rebecca Barton-Hagger, MA Linguistics student in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, has been awarded the title of Sportswoman of the Year 2019 at the Team Kent awards.

Rebecca is the squad captain and coach of the University of Kent Karate club (ranked sixth nationally) and a member of the England Karate team. She recently qualified for the EUSA Combat Championships – the European universities championships in karate – taking place in Zagreb, Croatia, in the summer.

At BUCS (British Universities and College Sports) Rebecca won two bronze medals, Senior Female Kata and Female Team Kumite. At the WUKF European Championships, which took place in October 2018, Rebecca won two gold medals, one silver and one bronze, and took the title of Female European Heavyweight Champion 2018.

Rebecca comments on the balance between sporting life and academic life, and describes how her studies in Linguistics help to maintain a balance with her sporting commitments. Rebecca said: ‘Karate provides a good stress relief, and helps give a clear head for my studies. It is good to have a balance; the difference is massive but in a good way.

‘Winning the Team Kent Sportswoman of the Year is a huge honour – I still can’t believe it! It has been a successful year for me, but it certainly did not come without its challenges, so it is also a big confidence boost as I begin my preparations for the European University Combat Games in Croatia this summer. Karate has always been an enormous part of who I am, and being able to continue my training and international competing alongside my degree would not have been possible without the support from both Kent Sport and my academic school.’

The shuttle runs term-time only which means that the last day the shuttle will be running this term will be Friday 5 April 2019.

The shuttle will start running again at the start of the summer term on Tuesday 7 May 2019. Booking will be available a week or so before this date. The Transport Team will tweet when booking becomes available.

For more information visit the Campus Shuttle webpage or follow @CampusShuttle on Twitter.

The Lord Roberts steam engine will be visiting the Medway campus on Tuesday 2 April.

The Lord Roberts was built in the early 1900s and used on the campus when the HMS Pembroke Royal Naval Barracks were being built to bring bricks from the local brickyard to the campus.

The Lord Roberts is making a visit to the Historic Dockyard this week and the owners would like to bring the engine back onto the campus on Tuesday 2 April.

The programme for the visit is:

·         12:30 – outside the Hawke building

·         14:00-14:30 – outside the Student Hub

Please feel free to drop by and see this excellent example of early 20th century engineering.

Following feedback from staff groups, new functionality has been added to Staff Connect and you are now able to record time off in lieu (TOIL) earned and taken in the system. This replaces individual TOIL management systems such as e-Days, spreadsheets or Outlook and provides as consistent way of recording absence across the University.

TOIL balances in Staff Connect are kept separate from annual leave entitlements. For Staff in grades 1-6 TOIL can be earned by the hour. For Staff in grades 7 and above, TOIL should be earned in half day or full day blocks. For all staff TOIL should be taken in half day or full day blocks. More guidance on the use of TOIL can be found in the Overview for Managers and there are employee and manager user guides available.

The introduction of the recording of TOIL in Staff Connect fits with the project’s aim to streamline our HR processes and provide employees and managers with a one-stop-shop for most HR-related activity. It supports the principles of Simplifying Kent in reducing duplication of systems with their associated costs and effort.

‘Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memory’ – Professor Chris Jarrold

University of Kent staff and students and the general public are invited to attend our Annual Lecture, which is to be held on Wednesday, 22 May 2019.   The talk will begin at 3pm in Keynes Lecture Theatre 4 (KLT4) and be followed by a drinks reception in Keynes Atrium Foyer at 4pm.  If you would like to attend this event please email psychannuallecture@kent.ac.uk by 15 May 2019.

The title of the talk is “Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memory” and it will be given by Chris Jarrold, Professor in Cognitive Development, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol.

Abstract

Verbal short-term memory (VSTM) undoubtedly improves across childhood and is thought to support children’s acquisition of vocabulary and other academic abilities. Understanding the causes of VSTM development is therefore of both theoretical and practical importance. An influential view is that apparent changes in VSTM capacity reflect change in the use of rehearsal to support performance. However, in this talk I critique that position, before putting forward a radical reassessment of the status of rehearsal. I focus in particular on the claim that children undergo a qualitative change in their use of rehearsal around the age of 7. Here I show that key evidence to support this view can instead be explained by general improvements in memory capacity, review data showing gradual improvements in the strategic use of rehearsal in children, and develop the implications of my account for neuropsychological cases where VSTM is compromised.

Brief biography

Chris Jarrold is Professor in Cognitive Development and Head of the School of Psychological Science at the University of Bristol (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/expsych/people/christopher-r-jarrold/index.html).  He is a world-leading expert on cognitive development, especially on the processes that support goal-directed behaviour and the maintenance of information in immediate memory, among both typically and atypically developing children.  His work has been funded through numerous research grants, and has had a significant influence on both theory development and educational practice, leading to him receiving prestigious early- and mid-career awards from the British Psychological Society and Experimental Psychology Society.

The talk is being hosted by David Williams, Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Kent.  We would be delighted if you are able to join us for the talk.