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Kent is awarded gold in the TEF

The University is awarded gold, the highest rating, in the UK Government’s Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

Search for new antibiotics

Kent bioscientists work with school pupils to isolate antibiotic-producing bacteria

By David Norman.

In Conversation: the autumn season

Gavin Esler and guest speakers Polly Toynbee, Terry Waite, Owen Jones, Francesca Simon and Michael Gove

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About us

The UK's European University: committed to the transformative power of education and research.

Map showing Kent locations in Canterbury, Medway, Tonbridge, Paris, Brussels, Rome and Athens

Stunning locations

UK campuses close to London and European centres in Paris, Brussels, Rome and Athens.

Research excellence

Our research is responding to 21st-century problems.

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Campus master plan

Our vision to create the best garden campus in the UK.

Around the University

Students 'rebuild' St Augustine’s Abbey in virtual reality

Destroyed in the 16th century, the Abbey can now be experienced in virtual reality, thanks to a collaboration between English Heritage and the University.

Academic looking at pictures of tooth fossils on a computer screen

Rethinking the origin of our species

Kent research has helped to show that modern humans evolved 100,000 years earlier than we thought.

Grenfell Tower: the role of Right to Buy and lessons not learned

Dr Ed Kirton-Darling, an expert in housing and inquest law, comments on the fire at Grenfell Tower in West London.

Battle of Medway: anniversary lecture

A public lecture at our Medway campus marks the 350th anniversary of the Battle of Medway.

Illegal wildlife trade growing on the dark web

Research at Kent explores how the dark web poses a new challenge to law enforcement agencies.