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Conspiracy theories are strangely convincing, a study at the University of Kent has found. Nadine Clarke reportsMohamed Al-Fayed is apparently not the only person who thinks that his son Dodi and...
View ArticleKent students float Medway boat race
Students are aiming to row themselves into the history books by taking part in the first university boat race down the river Medway in Kent.The universities at Medway boat race, due to take place on...
View ArticleDouble first for female scientist
The first woman to head a UK research council is leaving her post to become the University of Kent's first female vice-chancellor.Prof Julia Goodfellow, who has previously served as vice-master at...
View ArticleUniversity of Kent
Kent describes itself as "the UK's top European university", and many courses offer a foreign language option or a year abroad. It's part of the Franco-British University of the Transmanche and there's...
View ArticleRAE 2008: University of Kent results
Results for University of Kent in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008
View ArticleWhy do celebrities get honorary degrees?
Thrilled as one might be for Orlando Bloom and Kim Cattrall, one has to wonder what the point isShould the news that Sex in the City actress Kim Cattrall and Pirates of the Caribbean actor Orlando...
View ArticleCold, cramped, confined – occupational hazards for Kent's sit-in students
• Five stand firm 22 days into tuition fees action • Protesters seek help from Archbishop of CanterburyAs the mist rolled in over Canterbury this morning, Jules Stephenson started to think about...
View ArticleStudents to end sit-in protest over tuition fees
University of Kent students say they will leave tomorrow after four-week occupationStudents who spent Christmas and New Year occupying their university in protest at rises in tuition fees are to end...
View ArticleBrian Simpson obituary
Leading academic lawyer in the field of legal history, legal philosophy and human rightsBrian Simpson, who has died aged 79, was one of the greatest academic lawyers of his generation in the fields of...
View ArticleHow to beat technology addiction
Has your BlackBerry taken over your life, or your iPhone? Academics are trying to find ways to helpYou're in the middle of reading a long, important document, but suddenly find you can't concentrate....
View ArticleMark Kinkead-Weekes obituary
English literature scholar and expert on DH LawrenceIn 1965, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, who has died aged 79, began a lectureship at the recently established University of Kent at Canterbury and...
View ArticleTuition fees 2012: what are the universities charging?
Universities are announcing their tuition fees for students in 2012. How much are universities planning to charge?• Get the dataHere is our list of universities and how much they intend to charge in...
View ArticleJournalism Foundation backs local politics website
A grassroots website dedicated to reporting on local politics, Pits n Pots, was relaunched today with support from the Journalism Foundation (JF).The site, based in Stoke-on-Trent, is the first...
View ArticleUniversity guide 2013: University of Kent
Our at-a-glance guide to the University of KentKent describes itself as the UK's European university, and many courses offer a foreign language option or a year abroad. It even has postgraduate sites...
View ArticlePublishers form Free Speech Network to fight off statutory press regulation
This week sees the launch of the Free Speech Network, an umbrella group that is said to include every major British newspaper publisher, plus some from Europe and further afield, and other groups...
View ArticleAfter Leveson: press freedom in the free market is not what it seems
Today's extract from the new book After Leveson* is taken from a chapter by Professor Julian Petley of Brunel university in which he takes issue with another media academic, Professor Tim Luckhurst of...
View ArticleDouble first for female scientist
The first woman to head a UK research council is leaving her post to become the University of Kent's first female vice-chancellor.Prof Julia Goodfellow, who has previously served as vice-master at...
View ArticleUniversity of Kent
Kent describes itself as "the UK's top European university", and many courses offer a foreign language option or a year abroad. It's part of the Franco-British University of the Transmanche and there's...
View ArticleRAE 2008: University of Kent results
Results for University of Kent in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008
View ArticleWhy do celebrities get honorary degrees?
Thrilled as one might be for Orlando Bloom and Kim Cattrall, one has to wonder what the point isShould the news that Sex in the City actress Kim Cattrall and Pirates of the Caribbean actor Orlando...
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