{"id":854,"date":"2023-12-01T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=854"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:02:28","slug":"important-update-from-karen-cox-6-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/12\/01\/important-update-from-karen-cox-6-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Important update from Karen Cox &#8211; 6 December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University\u2019s Executive Group will be holding an <strong>all-staff meeting from 3-5pm on Wednesday 6 December<\/strong>. You can attend in person in <strong>Sibson Lecture Theatre 3, or online<\/strong>. There will be important updates from Karen Cox about the University\u2019s finances, an overview of where we are at the moment with Kent 2030, and a Q&amp;A with the University\u2019s Executive Group.<\/p>\n<p>It is not necessary to do so, but you can sign up for this meeting by informing the University whether you will attend <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkent.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Da8c975e7e37af57929dd354f2%26id%3D07ef7ff23e%26e%3Db86be3f3ad&amp;data=05%7C01%7CC.Hall-515%40kent.ac.uk%7Ca58a9dff75924285890e08dbf260297a%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638370267057607054%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=bvlyYH%2BazfJ1HmjMkGvNRFyddho7pKh4nzhdV%2B3Z8Hs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">in person<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkent.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Da8c975e7e37af57929dd354f2%26id%3D232ddc700d%26e%3Db86be3f3ad&amp;data=05%7C01%7CC.Hall-515%40kent.ac.uk%7Ca58a9dff75924285890e08dbf260297a%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638370267057607054%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IJa7a5sVE1QGAornZyw8%2BHAEP5BlvXcu8XoYNyX%2BR0E%3D&amp;reserved=0\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you can, please make every effort to attend this meeting.<\/strong> Your negotiators have been working hard to impress upon EG the importance of giving all staff as much up-to-date information as possible about the University\u2019s position and about Kent 2030. It would be helpful for Kent UCU to make a good showing and for members to put their questions directly to management.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder also that Kent UCU will be hosting a <strong>meeting with Andrew McGettigan, a leading expert on the UK HE sector, at 1pm on Thursday 7 December;<\/strong> Andrew will be presenting an important report on the University\u2019s position. Please see Kester\u2019s previous email from this morning or contact Christopher Burden-Strevens (<a href=\"mailto:C.Burden-Strevens@kent.ac.uk\">C.Burden-Strevens@kent.ac.uk<\/a>) if you have not received an invitation to this meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University\u2019s Executive Group will be holding an all-staff meeting from 3-5pm on Wednesday 6 December. You can attend in person in Sibson Lecture Theatre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/12\/01\/important-update-from-karen-cox-6-december\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}