{"id":18,"date":"2024-12-11T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T10:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=18"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:56:56","slug":"new-school-names-from-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2024\/12\/11\/new-school-names-from-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"New School names from January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer we let you know that we were making some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/news\/36729\/changes-to-our-academic-structure-from-jan-2025\">changes to our Academic Management Structure<\/a>\u00a0and we can now confirm what the 10 academic Schools at Kent will be called from January 2025:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Agreed School names<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Subjects<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>School of Computing<\/td>\n<td>Computing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics<\/td>\n<td>Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, Physics &amp; Astronomy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>School of Arts and Architecture<\/td>\n<td>Architecture, Planning, Spatial Interior Design, Drama, Film, Graphic Design and Media<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>School of Psychology<\/td>\n<td>Psychology, Tizard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>School of Economics and Politics &amp; International Relations<\/td>\n<td>Economics and Politics, International Relations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>School of Social Sciences<\/td>\n<td>Child Protection, CHSS, Criminology,\u202f Philanthropy, PSSRU,\u202fSociology,\u202fSocial Policy, Social Work<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kent Law School<\/td>\n<td>Law<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>School of Humanities<\/td>\n<td>Classics, English and History<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u202fKent Business School<\/td>\n<td>Business<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>School of Natural Sciences<\/td>\n<td>Biosciences, Chemistry, Conservation, Forensic Sciences and Sports &amp; Exercise Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>What does this mean for me?<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Most of the changes will be behind the scenes so you may not see anything obvious as staff work hard to minimise disruption to your studies.<\/p>\n<p>You may start to hear staff using these new school names however Divisional email addresses will still work until the end of this academic year.\u202fIf you\u2019re unsure who to contact,\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/support\/nexus\">ask Nexus to be linked up with the right service or team.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><b>I am on a course being phased out. Where do I go for support?<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>If you are on a course being phased out, please be reassured that we will continue to support you while you\u2019re at Kent. Heads of School and support staff from your assigned school, as well as central teams, are on hand to support you.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re unsure who to contact,\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/support\/nexus\">ask Nexus to be linked up with the right service or team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courses being phased out will be aligned to one of the new schools (see table below).<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Phased out area<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Host School\/Centre<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Art History, Centre of Music and Audio Technology<\/td>\n<td>School of Arts and Architecture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>English Language and Linguistics, Comparative Literature<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/language-centre\">Language Centre<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Health and Social Care<\/td>\n<td>School of Social Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Journalism<\/td>\n<td>School of Arts and Architecture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Anthropology, Philosophy, Religious Studies. Human Biology and Behaviour, Ethnobotany<\/td>\n<td>School of Economics, Politics and International Relations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Human Geography<\/td>\n<td>School of Natural Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or feedback in the meantime about the new Academic Management Structure, please email\u202f<a href=\"mailto:kent2030student@kent.ac.uk\">kent2030student@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer we let you know that we were making some\u00a0changes to our Academic Management Structure\u00a0and we can now confirm what the 10 academic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2024\/12\/11\/new-school-names-from-january-2025\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,205698],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}