{"id":1794,"date":"2018-11-28T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2018-11-28T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T16:17:53","slug":"school-of-computing-postgraduate-students-raise-a-glass-to-celebrate-their-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2018\/11\/28\/school-of-computing-postgraduate-students-raise-a-glass-to-celebrate-their-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Computing postgraduate students raise a glass to celebrate their graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was shining and\u00a0 the town was buzzing with anticipation on Friday 23 November as hundreds of Kent University students made their way\u00a0 to Canterbury Cathedral\u00a0 to receive their diploma.<\/p>\n<p>Following the ceremony, over 100 people including academics, students and their families gathered at Caf\u00e9 Rouge for the School of Computing graduation party.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Richard Jones, Head of School, welcomed everyone and was delighted to award\u00a0 the <strong>School of Computing Prize<\/strong> for <em>best overall performance<\/em>. The prize was given to three exceptional postgraduate students: Maxime Agor, MsC Networks and Security, <span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #444444;font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">achieved 81%;\u00a0 <span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #444444;font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">D<\/span><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #444444;font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">orota Oleszczuk, MSc Computer Science, achieved 84.1% and\u00a0<span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #444444;font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Ali Hariri, MSc Advanced\u00a0 Computer Science, achieved 85%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maxime said <em><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #444444;line-height: 24px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size: 16px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;text-decoration: none;float: none;background-color: transparent\">&#8221; I chose to do a masters at Kent both because of the high quality teaching and the intercultural aspect. I was both surprised and delighted to receive this prize, after what happened to be the most exciting year of my life&#8221;.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ali Hariri commented <em>&#8220;I would have never achieved what I achieved without the support and guidance of the staff of the school of computing. They are very knowledgeable and I will forever be grateful to them. <\/em><em>My advice to the upcoming students: with enough time and effort, one can achieve anything, so just believe in yourselves and work hard!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was shining and\u00a0 the town was buzzing with anticipation on Friday 23 November as hundreds of Kent University students made their way\u00a0 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2018\/11\/28\/school-of-computing-postgraduate-students-raise-a-glass-to-celebrate-their-graduation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57780,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25219,124,1],"tags":[26854,5349,25219,57952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}