{"id":3396,"date":"2026-09-22T10:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:14:50","slug":"welcome-week-starts-here-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/09\/22\/welcome-week-starts-here-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Week Starts Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome &#8211; and welcome back &#8211; to the University of Kent!<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re new to Kent or returning for another year, Welcome Week is the perfect opportunity to settle in and importantly get all information you need to feel confident and prepared for the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Before teaching starts, you\u2019ll have the chance to enjoy free food and social events, with plenty to get involved in across your campus. These activities are a great way to meet or catch up with course mates and lecturers, explore your campus and make the most of your first week at Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Your timetable is scheduled allowing you time to complete inductions, hear from your course academics and discover your academic year ahead. Staff are always happy to answer your questions and talk to you about the support available throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New students <\/strong>Visit your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/welcome\/whats-on\"><strong>School Welcome page<\/strong><\/a> to view your full calendar of Welcome Week events. Use the <strong>Categories filter<\/strong> to find your compulsory course events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Returning students <\/strong>Visit your <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/studies\/our-schools\"><strong>new School webpage<\/strong><\/a> to find your School events. Use the <strong>Tags filter<\/strong> to see your subject-specific Welcome Back events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome &#8211; and welcome back &#8211; to the University of Kent! Whether you\u2019re new to Kent or returning for another year, Welcome Week is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/09\/22\/welcome-week-starts-here-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78257,"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,205698,309363,183846,1479,312219,312220],"tags":[465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396"}],"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\/78257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}