{"id":275,"date":"2024-05-31T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/?p=275"},"modified":"2024-05-30T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:01:30","slug":"technician-commitment-turns-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2024\/05\/31\/technician-commitment-turns-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Technician Commitment Turns 7!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Technician Commitment is seven years old today!<\/p>\n<p>As a signatory we\u2019re committed to greater visibility, recognition, sustainability and career development for our technicians, and all technical staff in #highered and #research. Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/technicalservices\/technician-commitment\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/technicalservices\/technician-commitment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Technician Commitment\u2019s latest sector report, \u2018Inception to Impact: Seven Years of the Technician Commitment\u2019 highlights positive changes driven by institutions who have been part of the initiative since 2017. The initiative has grown to encompass over 120 signatory and supporter institutions and marked the beginning of a cultural shift within higher education and research institutions across the UK. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techniciancommitment.org.uk\/assets\/technician-commitment\/inception-to-impact-seven-years-of-the-technician-commitment.pdf\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fGScjnM76g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Technician Commitment is seven years old today! As a signatory we\u2019re committed to greater visibility, recognition, sustainability and career development for our technicians, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2024\/05\/31\/technician-commitment-turns-7\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78409,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[212657],"tags":[212657,241879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}