For the second year running, Kent staff were among those who provided the most positive responses about their workplace in a national survey.
This year’s Times Higher Education (THE) Best University Workplace Survey , which took place over the course of several months in 2014, saw more than 4,150 higher education staff from 140 institutions across the UK complete an online questionnaire.
Of the 140 institutions, Kent was placed second in the category ‘I would like to recommend working at my university’, third for ‘My university offers a fair deal to its employees in terms of working conditions and benefits’ and fifth for ‘My work responsibilities allow for a healthy work-life balance’.
Last year, the inaugural year of the THE survey, Kent was placed second in the category ‘I would like to recommend working at my university’ and fifth for ‘My university offers a fair deal to its employees in terms of working conditions and benefits’.
Since its foundation in 1965, the University has become one of the largest employers in the region with more than 3,000 academic and professional services staff.
It also supports directly or indirectly a total of almost 6,800 jobs in the south-east and is worth £0.6 billion to the south-east’s economy, with its students contributing £211 million to that total (source: Viewforth Consulting, 2009-10).