{"id":62,"date":"2019-06-26T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/?p=62"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T08:11:32","slug":"technician-commitment-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2019\/06\/26\/technician-commitment-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Technician Commitment update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ellis, Assistant Director of University Operations and Chair of Kent\u2019s Technician Commitment Working Group and Paul Sinnock, Director of IT and Technical Services, School of Engineering &amp; Digital Arts represented the University at the Technician Commitment signatory event held on 24 June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The University collected an Award of Submission in recognition of progress made towards the principles of the Technician Commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent signed up to the Technician Commitment in September 2017, The Technician Commitment is a sector wide, collaborative initiative led by the Science Council and supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/technicians.org.uk\/\">Technicians Make It Happen campaign<\/a>, to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research. 83 institutions have pledged action to support technicians through visibility, recognition and development.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a technical member of staff interested in finding out more about the Technician Commitment at Kent, information including the current action plan can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/hr-learninganddevelopment\/documents\/Technicians\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated web pages for the Technician Commitment at Kent are planned to be launched over the summer \u2013 keep a look out for further announcements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article by <b>Laura Pheils<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ellis, Assistant Director of University Operations and Chair of Kent\u2019s Technician Commitment Working Group and Paul Sinnock, Director of IT and Technical Services, School &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2019\/06\/26\/technician-commitment-update\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55250,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[212657],"tags":[212657],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"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\/55250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}