'Year 7 Discovery Days'
We are holding four Discovery Days on campus for year 7 pupils from Tues 12th- Fri 16th March and will be looking for 6 ambassadors to facilitate the sessions each day.
These are really fun, hands-on days so if this sounds like something you'd be interested in look out for the postings online in the next couple of weeks.
As many of you will know Jenni Woods is on maternity leave. So Emily Butters is now Widening Participation Projects Manager working on the compact scheme, look after children project and other random projects. We also welcome Ana Baker as Outreach Programme Co-ordinator. Ana will be contact you about events and when we need ambassador for education liaison work. Sarah Baba joins us as are new Education Liaison Officer; covering for Emily Butters. If your struggle to take that all in, I also have to tell you that Emily Moore is leave us for Royal Holloway at the end of the month! So all change and we wish her well. I hope you will welcome all the new staff into the ambassador scheme and show them how great Kingston is.
Alumni Ambassador Marketa Setinova email us to tell us about the Health is First Youth Exchange Together England who they work for.
They are looking for 5 people (18-25 years old) from the UK to take part in 'Health is First' project in Luxembourg. The project will bring together people from Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Estonia, Portugal, United Kingdom, Greece, Poland, Italy, Netherlands and Czech Republic. The program of the project will include workshops on sport, environment and Human Rights, untypical sport activities, trip to Luxembourg, meetings with sportsmen and local youth service and press conference. You can find out more on facebook
I can infrom you that Luxembourg is lovely! Anyway any question check please do email them.
Plagiarism Campaign – Work Opportunity
Hello Everyone,
The KU annual plagiarism campaign is taking place on all campuses during teaching week 2 and we need you to participate.
It runs from 12pm -2pm each day on all campuses from Monday 6th February to Friday 10th February.
If you can participate for one or two on any/all of those days you will be paid £7.50 p.h
Duties will include handing out a quiz and getting it back, and giving students a feedback sheet and discussing plagiarism with them. You will be given the quiz and answers beforehand.
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Duties:
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Helping to set up/pack away an event
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They will need to help pick up the materials and also pack them away – returning to a pre agreed point close to the event. The promotional point will have plagiarism publicity and copies of the survey.
In addition to the survey, sweets will be handed out as an incentive for students to complete the survey.
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Welcoming visitors
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Welcoming and speaking to anyone who is interested finding out more about plagiarism, encouraging them to participate in the survey and providing written feedback.
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Leading an informal chat about student life
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The main role for them is to chat to students and engage them by sharing their own experience. To reflect on the experience of the whole time spent at Kingston and to discuss/inform of support available on academic skills.
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Other (Please detail what this might be)
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To note any key issues which fellow students report. To take contact details if a student requires a specific response that the SA cannot provide.
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You can respond to Lorraine Allibone l.allibone@kingston.ac.uk directly if you are available to participate.
Struan
Hello,
Next week corporate communications are looking for someone to help package up the new magazines.
This will be a full days work between 9am and 5pm at a pay rate of £7.50 per Hour.
It will be based at River House.
Please contact Hilary Wells if you want to do it. Please email H.Wells@kingston.ac.uk to sign up on a first come bases.
Thanks,
Struan
We urgently need some updated quotes for the new prospectus. If you can, please can you send me a quote for some or all of the following areas to k.gutteridge@kingston.ac.uk by the end of Thursday 12th January.
*A quote encouraging people to make the most of all opportunities available to them through Uni - meeting people and trying new things. Getting a good balance between study and fun.
*A quote that demonstrates that regardless of background, qualification route, experiences, Kingston will welcome you.
*Your top tip about taking/ doing a placement as part of your course.
*A quote about project work with external companies you may have worked with (or competition etc)
*Top tip for getting involved with the extracurricular side of Kingston (volunteering, societies, clubs, etc)
* if you are a PG student who did UG at Kingston - or a final year thinking about PG - what are the benefits?
*Top tip about employability and enhancing your CV through opportunities Kingston offers
*top tip about choosing the right location and university for yourself
*Top tip for a) living in halls b) living in private accommodation c) commuting (which ever you have experience of!)
*top tip for budgeting
Many thanks in advance!
Kerrie
Volunteers wanted
The University is reviewing the whole way it deliverers it academic programmes.
We are invite you to a focus group to get your input on how the University might go around reviewing it assessment, module and tutoring If you want to input into shaping your university then can go along to one of the focus groups that will be held over the coming weeks.
- 27th Jan between 12-2
- 31st Jan between 12-2
- 1st and 3rd Feb between 12-2
Lunch will be provided. To sign up to a foucs group then please email me at struan.campbell@kingston.ac.uk
So soon it will be that time of year again to recruit open application more ambassadors, we be losing 48 ambassadors this year.
We need your help in making sure lots of good people apply for the role. Hopeful you will know just how worth while it is being an ambassador and will want to share the information.
The first step is to invite your friends to join the facebook group, the link is here. http://www.facebook.com/events/295231343847034/
We will be updating you with more information soon as we need more ambassadors to help in the recruitment drive, at the assessment and induction stage.
Struan
Morning, In the interests of democracy I have post up a poll for our next social. Thanks for all the message with ideas. Please let me know what dates might be best for you and what you like to do. Also please comment on if you got any other ideas for things to do.
The poll link is here http://www.kusa.org.uk/node/1257
Struan
Check out the blog section for a short review of the employability event held a few weeks ago. I have posted up a few top tips that be helpful.
Have a good weekend,
Struan