The new global cultural economy is an overlapping discursive order where money, commodities and persons are involved in ceaselessly chasing each other. It is not a shapeless inventory, there is always the fear of cultural absorption reaching global polity manifestations. In other words, what might appear as one man’s imagined community is another’s prison. As such, marketing and media consultancies are now adapting to the technologies that will embrace new ways that maximise productivity to allow their clients to remain on top of today’s competition and future ones.

As such, finding a course which unlocks these predictive insights is vital for preparing for a career in the ever-changing world of modern media.

This joint honours degree offers an academically rigorous approach to the study allowing students to have hands-on teaching and interactions with experienced members of the broad field who bring a wealth of industrial insights including Journalist professional Mrs Rayner who is always available to support and guide students on their journalism journey by proving personalised attention and freedom to their work. This is not short of allowing students to explore and control their own assignment objectives i.e writing an article on their chosen topic and allowing to interview persons of interest. In other words, students are encouraged to work independently on the design and execution of coursework.

However, if this independent directory is not for you, the school’s non-credit academic programmes like writeright and Student Learning Advisory Service (SLAS) have been designed to help new students bridge the gap between sixth form/College and University by providing a pathway to academic success i.e 1 to 1 meetings on how to reference, what lecturers are looking for when marking your work and how to manage your time effectively. As well as this, the passionate module leaders involved in the social policy/journalism school are able to provide you with direct feedback with their extensive office hours which is a vital opportunity for understanding your assignments clearly allowing you to have a greater chance at achieving top grades.

The progressive curriculum allows students to choose their intellectual investments with the course structure appointing students the freedom to often choose what they want to learn. In other words, throughout my time at the University of Kent I was able to pick from an extensive catalogue of modules which allowed me to understand which topics I am interested in perusing I.e in my first academic year I chose promotional media which allowed me to have a taste of the pr and marketing world by producing my own mockup portfolio of brand collaborations, logos and copying which I continue to use and build on today when applying for internships.

In saying this, the current course is split between the main Canterbury and Medway campus which is not ideal for those who do not like long car journeys. The university does provide an easily accessible and free coach to both campuses which runs hourly from the bus stops. Despite this, I found that if you had only one seminar or lecture at Medway it was not worth the journey as it would take up 3-4 hours of your time which many of my course mates rarely did. Whilst, the module leaders did always record and post their slides I noticed a vast difference in both my attention and the success of the module if I did not attend face-to-face events. As such, For them to improve this course, I would suggest that the university sets up this combined course on only one campus.

It was good – I met some really lovely people along the way. The teaching wasn’t the best but was all part of the experience!

I loved life before the pandemic- after the pandemic hit everything became quite dull in Kent

I think Kent is a good university if you make use of the resources around you. The lecturers on my course were very enthusiastic and ready to help with assignments. My course being small I believe I got a lot of 1 to 1 support. Covid however did play a huge part during the duration of my course. It left a lot of students including me very confused with how to access learning material, marking etc.
I do also believe there was a lack of support after graduating. I don’t think there was another focus on job applications, interviews and the ‘real world’.
However, I do not regret coming to Kent, I had learnt a lot and made a lot of enjoyable memories.

I loved going to the University of Kent. I attended the International Foundation Year on the Canterbury campus after graduating high school in Boston, MA. It was a lot for little old me to transition into higher education from a different country, but with the university’s help I was able to bond and connect with other students in the same position. I learned British politics, history, and how to write/research papers to that reflect a university scholar. With these skills I was able to branch out and apply to their Journalism program on their Medway campus. I met my best friend and had a lot of fun with hands on camera work and media studies, as well as learning how to write and interview the public. The only downsides that I experienced during my four years of higher education was that I felt my department was very disorganized. With those feelings, I applied to be a student representative to see what it what other students don’t see on the day to day. The disorganization that my fellow students felt came from a lot of department wide confusion and lack of communication which lead to assumptions. Furthermore, I wished that the teachers would help you more with the preparation of the “graduate funk.” After graduating in this weird climate (job market, economic recession/inflation, etc) I feel like I didn’t have a lot of direction of where I could have taken my career. Not everyone who studies journalism wants to work/report on local news or wants to be a copywriter. All in all, I had a lot of fun during university which lead to a lifelong friendship and pushed me to strive for a bright future, but the cons of university brought a tsunami of burnout and anxiety (especially with two years of COVID-19 interrupting my studies). Through my own research and connections, I had to solve my own “problems” which, in the end, I guess what going to university is all about.

Studying at the University of Kent has been one of the most exciting experiences I’ve had in my over five years of working in education. As an educator with an African background who has taught in Lagos, Nigeria, I can attest to the uniqueness that the international experience at the University of Kent offers. The programmes are well designed to facilitate effective learning. The classroom facilities at the University of Kent are the best I have experienced so far. They have very friendly members of staff, and the school policy is friendly to both teachers and students.

So far, I have not experienced anything I did not like. The system is committed to evolving to meet students’ and staff’s welfare needs. One could tell easily from regular engagement meetings with stakeholders whenever situations like industrial actions, COVID-related policies, etc are around the corner – especially when it will affect their experiences.

Student life is quite interesting and UniKent is very international, I have met and connected with students from different continents just within the campus.

With my experience at the University of Kent, I have the assurance that my career prospects are very promising. You’d love to study at the University of Kent.