News Archive
VALUE Programme 2011-2012
20 December 2011
The VALUE Programme will be running again in 2011-12, following another successful year in 2010-11. VALUE will run at both Canterbury and Medway. For students from participating schools, recruitment and interviews will take place from the early part of the Spring term. Further information on VALUE.
VALUE Programme 2010-2011
26 September 2011
VALUE 2010-2011 is now over. We will be setting up arrangements for 2011-2012 in due course, and further information will be posted.
To all 2010-2011 VALUE students - please keep in touch! Let us know if we can help further with your studies.
The Value Team.
Student Conference 23 September 2011
20 September 2011
We are now nearing the end of the 2010-2011 VALUE Programme; VALUE 2010-2011 will finish with the one-day VALUE Student Conference on Friday 23rd September. The Conference is intended to provide a platform of useful and relevant skills and information to support Stage 2 and Stage 3. All those progressing to Stage 2 will have received e-mail about this event. Please see the Canterbury Conference programme.
We hope to see you at the VALUE Student Conference on Friday September 23rd, and wish you all the very best of luck for your studies next academic year and beyond!
The Value Team.
What's happening on VALUE now?
25 May 2011
Phase A of the VALUE Programme is now over, as we enter the examination period for Stage 1 students. We will be in contact with all VALUE students over the summer (Phase B), so please keep reading your email! If you have any questions about the examinations or your studies, do contact VALUE as well as your school. Please let us know if we can support you further in any way. We look forward to seeing you at the VALUE Student Conference in Phase C (23 September 2011), if not before.
What's happening on VALUE next year? Further news items to follow.
VALUE Programme lastest information
5 May 2011
VALUE timetables are now available on the website. So if you are a VALUE student, please keep checking your e-mail. Teaching sessions for VALUE will take place in weeks 25 and 26; the first two weeks of next term. If you have any queries about the programme, please contact the VALUE Liaison Tutor in your school, or value@kent.ac.uk .
VALUE Programme 2010-2011
21 January 2011
The VALUE Programme will be running again in 2010-11, following another successful year in 2009-10. VALUE will run at both Canterbury and Medway. For students from participating schools, recruitment and interviews will take place from the early part of the Spring term. Further information on VALUE.
Personnel changes to the team in the Student Learning Advisory Service
13 January 2011
Louise Frith will be joining the Student Learning Advisory Service’s team on the Medway campus. Louise replaces Christine Eastman. She will be on the Medway campus on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I am sure that you would all like to join me in welcoming her officially to the Medway campus. Read more…
Take advantage of this term’s study skills workshops
13 January 2011
“A lot of interesting information and useful tips”
“An Opportunity to discuss techniques with the tutor and other students”
The Student Learning Advisory Service offers study skills workshops each term on such topics as preparing essays, essay and dissertation writing, referencing and presentation skills. Places are still available! Read more…
Figuring out the future: new maths and statistics support for all students
4 October 2010
The Student Learning Advisory Service (SLAS) in UELT has won an award of £6000 from sigma, the centre for excellence in university-wide provision of mathematics and statistics support. The funding will be used to provide dedicated maths and stats learning support within SLAS, open to Kent students from all disciplines and all levels of study. The programme is being run with the support and participation of the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS). Read more…
Take advantage of this term’s study skills workshops
4 October 2010
“A lot of interesting information and useful tips”
“An Opportunity to discuss techniques with the tutor and other students”
The Student Learning Advisory Service offers study skills workshops each term on such topics as preparing essays, essay and dissertation writing, referencing and presentation skills. Places are still available! Read more…
VALUE Programme 2009-2010
4 October 2010
VALUE 2009-2010 is now over. We will be setting up arrangements for 2010-2011 in due course, and further information will be posted.
To all 2009-2010 VALUE students - please keep in touch! Let us know if we can help further with your studies.
Student Conference 24 September 2010
13 September 2010
We are now nearing the end of the 2009-2010 VALUE Programme; VALUE 2009-2010 will finish with the one-day VALUE Student Conference on Friday 24th September. The Conference is intended to provide a platform of useful and relevant skills and information to support Stage 2 and Stage 3. All those progressing to Stage 2 will have received e-mail about this event. Please see the Conference programme.
For some students, there may be other events in Phase C week, 20th September - 24th September. We will notify you by e-mail if this is the case.
Please could all students check their Kent e-mail on a regular basis. We will continue to use e-mail to send you important information.
We hope to see you at the VALUE Student Conference on Friday September 24th, and wish you all the very best of luck for your studies next academic year and beyond!
The Value Team.
What's happening on VALUE now?
26 May 2010
Phase A of the VALUE Programme is now over, as we enter the examination period for Stage 1 students. We will be in contact with all VALUE students over the summer (Phase B), so please keep reading your email! If you have any questions about the examinations or your studies, do contact VALUE as well as your school. Please let us know if we can support you further in any way. We look forward to seeing you at the VALUE Student Conference in Phase C (24 September 2010), if not before.
What's happening on VALUE next year? Further news items to follow.
VALUE Programme lastest information
29 April 2010
Applications for VALUE 2009-2010 are now closed. In consultation with participating departments, we are now finalising the VALUE timetable. Draft timetables are now available on the website. So if you are a VALUE student, please keep checking your e-mail. Teaching sessions for VALUE will take place in weeks 25 and 26; the first two weeks of next term. If you have any queries about the programme, please contact the VALUE Liaison Tutor in your department, or value@kent.ac.uk .
VALUE Programme 2009
13 October 2009
VALUE 2009 is now over. We will be setting up arrangements for 2010 in due course, and further information will be posted.
To all 2009 VALUE students - please keep in touch! Let us know if we can help further with your studies.
What's happening on VALUE now?
27 May 2009
Phase A of the VALUE Programme is now over, as we enter the examination period for Stage 1 students. We will be in contact with all VALUE students over the summer (Phase B), so please keep reading your email! If you have any questions about the examinations or your studies, do contact VALUE as well as your department. Please let us know if we can support you further in any way. We look forward to seeing you at the VALUE Student Conference in Phase C (25 September 2009), if not before.
What's happening on VALUE next year? Further news items to follow.
VALUE Programme lastest information
17 April 2009
Applications for VALUE 2009 are now closed. In consultation with participating departments, we are now finalising the VALUE timetable. Draft timetables are now available on the website. So if you are a VALUE student, please keep checking your e-mail. Teaching sessions for VALUE will take place in weeks 25 and 26; the first two weeks of next term. If you have any queries about the programme, please contact the VALUE Liaison Tutor in your department, or value@kent.ac.uk .
VALUE Programme 2009
22nd January 2009
The VALUE Programme will be running again in 2009, following another successful year in 2008. VALUE will run at both Canterbury and Medway. For students from participating departments, recruitment and interviews will take place from the early part of the Spring term. For further information, please see www.kent.ac.uk/uelt/learning/value .
Take advantage of our new programme of workshops
22nd January 2009
Need some guidance with your writing? Need some advice on exam preparation? Don’t miss out on study skills tips/advice! Places on workshops on preparing essays, effective revision and successful exam techniques are available. Read more…
Labyrinth week 13-19 October
13 October 2008
The new Canterbury Labyrinth, located behind Eliot College, will be launched this week and there are events every day to mark the occasion - for staff, students and (continued ...)
Take advantage of our new programme of workshops
4 October 2008
Need some guidance with your writing? Need some advice on any aspect of your studies? Come to our workshops on preparing and writing essays, referencing and plagiarism, effective reading and other study skills topics. Places are still available. Read more…
VALUE Programme 2008
30 September 2008
VALUE 2008 is now over. We will be setting up arrangements for 2009 in due course. Further information will be posted.
New Royal Literary Fellow for Medway
30 September 2008
The Student Learning Advisory Service in UELT is very pleased to announce that Simon Levack is the new Royal Literary Fellow at the Medway Campus.
Simon Levack is a novelist and short story writer. To date he has published four books: Demon of the Air (2004), Shadow of the Lords(2005), City of Spies(2006) and Tribute of Death(2007). All are historical mysteries, set in Precolumbian Mexico on the eve of the Spanish conquest. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and his short story “Jade Skirt” was selected for The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries(2008). His first novel, Demon of the Air, won the Debut Dagger Award, given by the UK Crime Writers' Association, in 2000. His novels have been published in the United States, Spain and Russia as well as the UK, and have been widely praised: in Britain, the Guardian called Demon of the Air “A most rewarding read”, while in the US, Publishers’ Weekly awarded starred reviews to both his first two books. He has published some non-fiction, including ghost-written articles in the specialist legal press and an article in The Codex, published by the Mesoamerican Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. He is married with one son and lives in Kent
E-mail: learningmedway@kent.ac.uk
Phone: 01634 88(8884)
For those of you interested in learning more about the Royal Literary Fund, please visit the following website: www.rlf.org.uk
VALUE Student Conference - 26 September 2008
12 September 2008
We are now nearing the end of the 2008 VALUE Programme; VALUE 2008 will finish with the one-day VALUE Student Conference on Friday 26th September. The Conference is intended to provide a platform of useful and relevant skills and information to support Stage 2 and Stage 3. All those progressing to Stage 2 will have received e-mail about this event. Please see the Conference programme.
For some students, there may be other events in Phase C week, 22nd September - 26th September. We will notify you by e-mail if this is the case.
If you have any concerns or issues regarding your progression to Stage 2 please contact us by e-mail, value@kent.ac.uk . Alternatively, please call in and see us when you are back at the University.
Please could all students check their Kent e-mail on a regular basis. We will continue to use e-mail to send you important information.
We hope to see you at the VALUE Student Conference on Friday September 26th, and wish you all the very best of luck for your studies next academic year and beyond!
The VALUE Team
VALUE Programme
24 June 2008
As you will probably be aware, the majority of the results for Stage 1 Examinations should be available in early July. All those students within the Faculty of Social Sciences will receive their results by 7th July. We will be monitoring your results carefully, and contacting you by e-mail or 'phone to discuss any issues that arise relating to progression or re-sits.
However, please get in touch straight away if there's anything you would like to discuss, or any help you need! E-mail value@kent.ac.uk if there's anything you need to ask.
Please don't forget, if you have changed your contact details at all for the Summer period, e.g. changed your alternative e-mail address or your mobile 'phone no., do let us know.
The VALUE Team
VALUE Programme
22nd May 2008
Phase A of the VALUE Programme is now over, and Stage 1 Examinations are ongoing. If there is anything you need to discuss with us, please get in touch. Please email value@kent.ac.uk .
Once the examination results are available, in general from late June/early July onwards, we will be in touch with you all individually to discuss or confirm results (VALUE Phase B). We will also be in touch with you over the summer concerning VALUE Phase C: please note the VALUE Student Conference will be on Friday, 26th September.
In the meantime, very best wishes for your examinations ... GOOD LUCK!
The VALUE Team
VALUE Programme
6 May 2008
Phase A of the VALUE Programme is ongoing and timetables are now available on the website. VALUE students please keep checking your e-mail. Teaching sessions for VALUE will take place in weeks 25 and 26. If you have any queries about the programme, please contact the VALUE Liaison Tutor in your department, or value@kent.ac.uk .
VALUE Programme lastest information
15 April 2008
Applications for VALUE 2008 are now closed. In consultation with participating departments, we are now finalising the VALUE timetable. Draft timetables are now available on the website. So if you are a VALUE student, please keep checking your e-mail. Teaching sessions for VALUE will take place in weeks 25 and 26; the first two weeks of next term. If you have any queries about the programme, please contact the VALUE Liaison Tutor in your department, or value@kent.ac.uk .
Walk the University's labyrinth
Monday 28th April 10am-3pm (last entry 2pm) Upper Senate Chamber
An opportunity to walk the University's labyrinth. Come for a short introductory talk (every hour, on the hour, 10am–2pm), then walk the labyrinth and stay for as long as you wish.
All welcome. There are some restrictions to wheelchair access due to the nature of the labyrinth, but alternatives are available: Come and see what’s on offer. Please also note that there will be a second opportunity this term on Monday 2nd June, 10am-1.45pm (last entry 1pm).
Further enquiries: telephone Alison Foley, ext. 4016 or email Jan Sellers at J.G.Sellers@kent.ac.uk . Read more ....
Value Programme latest information
28 March 2008
Applications for VALUE 2008 are now closed. In consultation with participating departments, we are now finalising the VALUE Time Table. Students who have applied to VALUE should hear from us by the end of term, and we will also be publishing a draft time table in Week 24. There may be a meeting in Week 24 for some VALUE students, or contact by e-mail, to advise students how to prepare over the Easter Vacation. So if you are a VALUE student, please keep checking your e-mail. Teaching sessions for VALUE will take place in weeks 25 and 26; the first two weeks of next term. If you have any queries about the programme, please contact the VALUE Liaison Tutor in your department, or value@kent.ac.uk .
The VALUE programme starts again - highly acclaimed platform to build success at Stage 1
January 2008
Are you really worried about Stage 1 Exams? Have you found aspects of your course unexpectedly difficult? Are you maintaining good progress on your course, but concerned about maintaining this progress across the rest of the year? Do you feel it’s essential that you have some more help with your Stage 1 Exams? If you experience these type of concerns, then please consider joining the VALUE Programme. Read more ...
Students welcome: Exploring and walking the Labyrinth
On Thursday 31 January, a spectacular, hand-painted canvas labyrinth 36 feet wide (11 metres) will be laid out on the floor of the Senate Chamber, ready to be explored in two events for students and staff that afternoon. Read more ...
Take advantage of our new programme of workshops
14th January 2008
Need some guidance with your writing? Need some advice on exam preparation? Don’t miss out on study skills tips/advice! Places on workshops on preparing essays, effective revision and successful exam techniques are available. Read more…
New Royal Literary Fellow for Medway
24th October 2007
The Student Learning Advisory Service in UELT is very pleased to announce the arrival of Jonathan Gregson, our Royal Literary Fellow at Medway. Read more…