同事咖啡计划为每个在大学工作的人提供了一个机会，邀请一个他们从未亲自见过或不太熟悉的同事，在一杯咖啡(或茶!)上谈论他们各自的角开云体育主頁(欢迎您)色。

Registration is open until Friday 6th April but don’t wait too long to register as numbers are limited and vouchers allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, all you will need to do is complete a short form giving details about yourself and your guest. The registration form is on our webapge – click here to access the form.

If you are successful, you will then receive an email mid-April, confirming that a drinks voucher for two has been loaded onto your KentOne card and can be redeemed at one of the University’s commercial services outlets (Canterbury and Medway).

If you have chosen the “Mystery Colleague” option, you will be given the name of the person you have been matched with so that you can get in contact and organise your coffee encounter.

Coffee with Colleagues is part of the Kent Colleagues Connect programme, jointly funded by the Academic Division, Commercial Services and Learning & Organisational Development. This programme offers a number of opportunities throughout the year to meet colleagues across the University in an informal setting and learn more about their role. The full programme can be found here.

Here are examples of the extremely positive feedback received immediately following the event:

‘What a really enjoyable as well as extremely useful event”,
“A very welcome event”,
“A great event!”

This new initiative is part to the 2018 Kent Colleagues Connect programme which offers a number of opportunities for colleagues at the University to get to know each other’s roles better through informal meetings.

The next such opportunity will be the “Coffee with Colleagues” scheme which will open for registration next month and will allow participants to invite a colleague they do not know very well or at all to discuss each other’s roles over a complimentary cup of coffee (or tea!). Please watch this space to know when and how to take advantage of this offer!

For the full Kent Colleagues Connect programme for 2018 click here

Should you wish to find out more about Kent Colleagues Connect, please contact us directly by emailing KentColleaguesConnect@kent.ac.uk

2月14日，学术部门邀请您参加Kent’的第一次严格专业的速配活动。开云体育app客服这将是2018年2月14日的一个有趣的活动，反映了著名的快速约会形式!如果你想在非正式的环境中认识大学的同事，以更好地了解他们的角色，加强协作工作，并建立专业网络，请报名。开云体育主頁(欢迎您)< / p >

The event is open to all those working at Kent, whether based in schools or in central departments, either in an academic or a professional services capacity, and will take place in the Darwin Conference Suite (Canterbury) and Rochester Building (R2-09, Medway) between 11.00 – 12.00. followed by some additional networking time over a cup of tea/coffee and cake if you wish to stay back and meet yet more colleagues. Tea, coffee, and cake will be provided.

This event is part of the Kent Colleagues Connect scheme building on a number of very successful pilot projects run by the Academic Division over the last couple of years which brought together nearly 300 participants across 450 separate interactions. Kent Colleagues Connect will provide various opportunities throughout 2018 for informal meetings between colleagues across the University. The full calendar of events is available here.

Kent Colleagues Connect is the latest scheme from the Excellence Initiative, a professional development programme run by the Academic Division since 2012. The scheme is run with the support and participation of Commercial Services and Learning & Organisational Development.

Please register here for the Speed-dating event before 1 February 2018.

If you have any questions, please contact us on kentcolleaguesconnect@kent.ac.uk

The Shadow Matching Scheme is part of the “Excellence through partnerships” enhancement theme of the ‘Excellence Initiative‘, which the Academic Division has been running since 2012 for professional staff in the University’s schools and faculties.

More information about this scheme and others is available on the Excellence Initiative website, the go-to place for all professional staff in schools to learn about the various projects which have been put in place under the Excellence Initiative since its launch.

In addition, colleagues may wish to consider taking part in the Erasmus staff mobility scheme which provides excellent staff shadowing and training opportunities at other European universities.

If you have any question or suggestions about this scheme, please contact C.Gallien@kent.ac.uk

The next Excellence Initiative event will be a one-day conference on Thursday 12 January 2017 for all professional staff in schools and faculties. The conference theme this year is ‘Excellence and Change’.  More information will follow.

The School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA) administration team won the award for their work to revolutionise the student experience in the School.

Known as the ‘THELMA s’, the awards ceremony was hosted by comedian Jimmy Carr and held in The Grosvenor House Hotel in London last night Thursday, 23 June.

The team was recognised for its work in line with the University’s institutional strategy to heighten student satisfaction and embrace the Government’s Teaching Excellence Framework.

They provide outstanding innovations in student preparedness, recruitment and student success, by maximizing the creative engineering and digital media resources available. They created an innovative animation to facilitate students’ preparedness for the University, and introduced a highly successful Welcome Week Icebreaker event.

They also devised a new student progress profiling system that charts students’ academic progress which is now generating interest across the wider University and developed a Virtual Student Advisor (VSA), a dynamic webpage that centralises many of the university’s resources for pastoral/academic support.

Source: University of Kent, News Centre

Applicants should complete the attached form and submit their entry to C.Gallien@kent.ac.uk  by Wednesday 25 May 2016 by 5pm.  While the work described can involve innovative practices related to social media, websites, videos, events, etc., the evidence in support of the application must be paper-based, as stated on the application form.

The winner will be announced at a ceremony in June.

We look forward to receiving your entries.

This represents the fourth year running that a School administrative team from Kent has been shortlisted in the category ‘Outstanding Departmental Administration Team’.

In 2013 Schools across all three Faculties were shortlisted as a group. For the next two years, the School of Arts was on the awards shortlist and was Highly Commended in 2015.

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in London on 23rd June 2016.

Congratulations and good luck to the team from EDA!!

4月20日星期三，我们推出了影子配对计划，该计划旨在为专业服务人员提供在大学各地实习的机会。开云体育主頁(欢迎您)

这项试验计划是由学术学校的专业人员与中央服务部门的同事相互安排，为期三天半天。这将使同事们能够打破我们经常运作的一些孤岛，帮助他们更好地了解大学其他部门的工作，并使他们对自己的专业实践有一个新的看法。开云体育主頁(欢迎您)4月20日星期三的活动是这些活动的第一场:所有的比赛都被公布了，每对选手都可以见面并开始讨论他们的角色，以及他们希望从相互的跟踪访问中得到什么。这次活动非常成功，来自学术学校和中央服务机构的76人报名参加了这一试点计划。到目前为止，我们收到的非正式反馈是非常积极的。一个更正式的反馈收集将在几个月后举行，届时大多数跟踪访问将完成，这将为未来该计划的推进方式提供信息。< / p >

This new scheme is part of the “Excellence through partnerships” enhancement theme of the ‘Excellence Initiative’, which the Academic Division has been running since 2012 for professional staff in the University’s schools and faculties. More information about this scheme and others is available on the Excellence Initiative website, the go-to place for all professional staff in schools to learn about the various projects which have been put in place under the Excellence Initiative since its launch.

If you have any question or suggestions about this scheme, please contact C.Gallien@kent.ac.uk