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.