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KENT - Autumn 2004

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News

News headlines in this edition include:

  • Education Secretary praises Transmanche
  • Kent Law Clinic wins legal award
  • Building work under way at Universities of Medway
  • School of Pharmacy welcomes first students
  • Minister visits Mexican conservation project
  • Honorary degrees 2004
  • Grass snakes uncovered
  • New Migration and Social Care centre

Development news

  • Alumni postgraduate scholar 2004 - Emma Silvester
  • Music bursaries
  • Getting ready for the phonathon
  • Legacy update - Sir James Colyer-Fergusson

Riding the waves of change

  • University Vice-Chancellor Professor David Melville, a member of the Working Group on 14-19 Reform and the government's Foundation Degree Task force and Chair of the Universities Vocational Awards Council, discusses Kent's position in this fast-paced environment.

Business links

  • Gear change for Kent Business School
  • Leading from the top - three new leaders at Kent Business School
  • £2.2m business boost - Government funding awards to support the knowledge transfer from universities to business and the wider community
  • Kent IT Clinic

Shaping the world: alumni profiles

  • Graduates from the University of Kent can be found in all walks of life, making a contribution in a huge variety of ways. Read interviews with some of them.

New frontiers

Research news including:

  • New Research Centre for the study of Law, Gender and Sexuality
  • Research project looking for genetic evidence of a historical population bottleneck in the Seychelles kestrel
  • European welfare policies
  • The end of early retirement
  • New non-invasive technique for high resolution imaging of the eye

Work, your flexible friend

  • Diana Houston, Professor of Psychology, talks about the research she has just completed, with graduate student Julie Walmsley, into work-life balance, as well as her secondment to the DTI.

Keeping up with Kent graduates: accountants

  • In the first of a new series KENT magazine finds our what some of our graduates have been up to since they left university, starting with Accounting.

Who's What Where

Making a difference

  • Read about Katie Abbotts' (E93) involvement with a mentoring scheme and her employment with Oxfam.

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