We’re embedding
#FutureSkills
across our curriculum to provide our students with skills employers most value. Rated Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework.
140 delegates with 3 keynote speeches over 2 days - We're getting ready for the first
@BTS_twt
academic conference in the UK 🙌💙 Interdisciplinary speakers from more than 30 countries will examine the K-Pop phenomenon 🎵👉
#BTSandKU
#BTSARMY
Staff and students at
#KingstonUniversity
making last minute preparations for tomorrow's launch of "BTS A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project". We will be live tweeting from 9am tomorrow morning. Follow the conversation
#BTSandKU
@BTS_twt
"After two days in Kingston at the
#BTSConference
I’m more certain than before that the
#BTS
phenomenon is something that deserves respect."
@lklinks
' Philip Gowman says the two-day forum organised by
@ColetteBalmain
has endeared him to the
#BTSARMY
👇
@HarrisonFleschh
Hi Harrison, please can you email more details of the incident (location, time, date, what was said etc.) to kuquery
@kingston
.ac.uk so we can investigate this further.
Thrilled and immensely proud to be able to say our wonderful
#TownHouseKingston
building has won this year’s
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
😍🙌💙😱🎉
Our students, staff & the wider community can now say they study, work & enjoy being part of Britain’s best new building
#LoveKingstonUni
“Shakespeare’s plays shine a brilliant light on the established powers’ desperate attempts to avoid ethical accountability,”
@YanisVaroufakis
said in tonight’s
#KingstonUni
lecture. “They insist ethics is for wimps, the strong do as they will and the weak suffer as they must.”
We are delighted to have climbed up to 40th in the latest
@guardian
University Guide.
The eight-place jump from last year means we have achieved our highest-ever position in the league tables 🎉🥳🙌
@GdnUniversities
#LoveKingstonUni
The Niloufar Ebrahim Scholarship, in Memory of Flight PS752 Victims, supports an outstanding student to study at our Faculty of Business and Social Sciences.
If you're international postgraduate student find out more 👇 apply before 1 June 📅
It’s never too late to study! Among the graduates crossing the stage today was 82 year grandmother Hilary Forde-Chalkly who collected her Creative Writing MA watched by 7 members of her family.
#MadeinKingston
#makingKUproud
#Thunderbirds
are go! 🚀A magical moment at
@KingstonSchArt
as Puppeteer Mary Turner spoke about her career and the importance of moulding realistic looking female puppets, like
#LadyPenelope
, to a packed room of students and staff. 🙌 📸
@willbrooker
We’ve got a message from Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis on why being chosen as the next
#KUBigRead
means so much to her💙 We can’t wait to share Airhead with our students and staff🤩
@maitlis
@PenguinUKBooks
A book by award-winning broadcast journalist
@maitlis
has been chosen as this year's
@KUBigRead
. Her title 'Airhead' takes readers behind the scenes to catch a rare glimpse of some of her big interviews through her eyes. Read more in
@darlingmagazine
👇📖
We have been named in the top 50 of the 2020
@guardian
University Guide, rising 10 places to take the 48th spot. We've also topped the table for design and crafts and come in at number two for sport science. 🎨☺️👍
#KingstonUni
#MakingKUProud
Greek economist and former finance minister
@yanisvaroufakis
discusses the works and influences of another of his great passions,
#WilliamShakespeare
at
@Rosetheatre
on Monday 19 March. Booking is essential to attend and tickets are in high demand:
A new scholarship has been set up in memory of
#KingstonUni
postgraduate student Niloufar Ebrahim, one of 176 passengers and crew who lost their lives when a Ukraine International Airlines flight was downed in Iran two years ago this month💙
"A palatial £50m complex, the winner of the 2021
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
is a six-storey hymn to one of the main reasons for going to university: meeting other people."
We have today paid tribute to graduating
@KingstonBSS
student Niloufar Ebrahim. Niloufar was among those who tragically died in the Iran plane crash last week, along with husband Saeed. She had been due to graduate today with an MSc in Occupational and Business Psychology.
Today, we have launched our
#Covid19
vaccination centre at our health centre, enabling the most vulnerable people in our local community to receive the vaccine from their GPs 💉. 87-year-old Alan Burdis from
#Kingston
was one of the first to be vaccinated
#KeepKingstonSafe
We’re proud of our diverse University community and everything our students, staff and alumni achieve. We welcome people from more than 140 different countries to our campuses and believe everyone has the right to fulfil their true potential. Everyone’s different, thankfully.
A big welcome from everyone at
#KingstonUni
to students from the faculty of health, social care and education back today 👋😄the first of our new and returning students to join us this September 🎉
Congratulations to broadcaster and author
@CliveMyrieBBC
whose memoir 'Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope' has been chosen as this year's
@KUBigRead
�
Find out more about the book and our award-winning Big Read initiative 📖 👇
We asked students, staff and alumni to vote for their favourite student design for the official
#WelcometoKingston
bag to be given to new students... 🥁🥁🥁 and the winner is first year Creative and Cultural Industries: Digital Marketing student Yoana!🥳💙 What do you think?🤩
"I chose nursing because I wanted to surround myself with people who care about the world around them. I've truly found that"💙
@NursingKingston
alumna Chelsea Barrett is supporting cancer patients
@ChelwestFT
one year on from graduating from
#KingstonUni
Congratulations to our oldest ever graduate, 95 year old Dr David Marjot who has been awarded a Masters in European Philosophy. 🎓🎉
David is graduating alongside the rest of our fantastic
@KingstonSchArt
students as we begin the final days of our January 2024 graduations.
Congratulations to the 2,606 graduates collecting their degrees over the last week 🙌
Vice-Chancellor Professor Steven Spier posed a question to our brand new
@kingstonalumni
… “What’s the best thing about studying at Kingston University?” 🤔
Here’s how they replied 👩🎓👨🎓 🥰
“Professor is the only title I have ever wanted.” See our former Chancellor
@Bonn1eGreer
accept her honorary award - Thanks for all of your hard work and support! 🙌❤️
#MadeinKingston
#LoveKingstonUni
Congratulations to our very own
@JudithFrancois6
who has been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship by
@AdvanceHE
for her work in helping BAME
#MentalHealth
nurses develop skills and confidence to access more senior roles 🎉👏🙌
@KUStGeorges
Congratulations to everyone receiving their results this week!🥳 We’re so proud of everything you have achieved in such difficult and uncertain times💙
#MakingKUProud
About last night… 🏆🎉🍾
A huge thank you to the many hundreds of people involved in the planning, design and construction of our
#StirlingPrize
winning
#TownHouseKingston
🙌
And to our amazing students and staff who work and study in, officially, the UK’s best new building 💙
"I am really proud to have received this recognition from the College of Paramedics, it's a career highlight."
Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing Tom Quinn has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from
@ParamedicsUK
. Well done, Tom 👏🎉
To continue her legacy, the Niloufar Ebrahim Scholarship in Memory of Flight PS752 Victims has been set up with her family to support an international Masters student in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences. Donations can be made to the fund below:
Three of our nursing experts are delivering vital intensive care training to newly-qualified nurses during a secondment
@StGeorgesTrust
to help with the battle against the
#COVID19
pandemic 👇
@NursingKingston
We have seen strong improvements across the board in this year's
#NationalStudentSurvey
, with our overall satisfaction rate jumping to 82.2 per cent from 80.5 per cent. This rise has bucked the national trend.😊🙌
#NSS2019
#NSS
"The early signs are the building is working exactly as it should. It's flooded with people who already seem at home, studying, meeting, wandering, looking, at ease with themselves and one another."
@ObserverUK
's
@rowanmoore
on our new
#TownHouse
building
The Metropolitan Police is evacuating an area of Kingston which includes the whole of Penrhyn Road campus.
The Penrhyn Road campus will be closed for the rest of the day. All staff and students based at Penrhyn Road may go home. (1/3)
Did you catch
@KingstonECE
automotive engineering lecturer Patrick Sheen explaining why
#electriccars
accelerate so fast on BBC Two’s The Secret Genius of Modern Life with
@FryRsquared
last night? 🚗 🏁
If not, watch back here 👇
#secretgenius
Today we celebrated the opening of our brand-new pharmacy simulation suites. Healthcare pioneer Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
@EAnionwu
marked this momentous occasion for
#KingstonUni
🙌
The facilities will give students the opportunity to practise in realistic hospital & GP settings💊
#KingstonUni
has been awarded TEF Gold, recognising our commitment to high quality teaching, providing an outstanding student experience and supporting our students to achieve successful degree outcomes 🙌
Find out more 👇 🏅
Leslie Thomas QC
@_lesliethomas
,
@kingstonalumni
and specialist in international human rights and constitutional law, has become the first black Professor of Law
@GreshamCollege
🎉The prestigious appointment will see him deliver a lecture series: Death, The State and Human Rights
“We are delighted, with the support of her family, to be able to provide opportunities for others who share Niloufar’s passion and ambition to study at
#KingstonUni
."
Read more about The Niloufar Ebrahim Scholarship in Memory of Flight PS752 Victims 👇💙
Today we’ve announced our
#KUBigRead
shortlist for 2020📚 Need help deciding which one to read first? 📖 🤔 Too many to choose from?🤯 Pause to find out which one you should start with⏯⬇
On Tuesday we got it wrong. We’re sorry.
We failed to reaffirm that we stand with our black students, staff, and alumni.
We didn’t represent our values, the values of our community or our actions. We need to do better.
1/3
Did you know kingston University has welcomed students from over 140 countries across the globe? 🤔🌍 today our student ambassadors are excited to welcome our new international students to the Kingston family👏🤗
#weareinternational
#welcometoKU
"My 20 year old self would not recognise me today and I believe that would hold true for many of you - Kingston has changed us all for the better." Rocket scientist 🚀Jack-James Marlow, who was awarded his PhD today, addressed graduates at this afternoon's
@KingstonSEC
ceremony👏
Why do books matter? 🤔 That’s the theme being explored by publishing expert and author Professor Alison Baverstock at her inaugural professorial lecture today at 5-7pm 📚 Join us👇
@alisonbav
A brand new sculpture trail will be launching in
#Kingston
this August after a call from
#KingstonUni
,
@RBKingston
, Canbury Community Trust and Kingston First. Six of the 40 submissions will be displayed around the town. Find out more in
@SW_Londoner
👇
"As a University situated within a Royal Borough, the loss of our Monarch is particularly poignant. We will remember the impact she has made around the world."
Vice-Chancellor Prof Steven Spier pays tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II following her passing.
Congratulations to all our students getting results today - we're so proud of you and everything you have achieved. And if you've received results from another university and are coming to Kingston University in the autumn, we can't wait to meet you!
#resultsday
#MakingKUproud
Meet some of our 160 strong Clearing hotline team 😍💙 This friendly group are ready to talk to you about what you can achieve at
#KingstonUniversity
📚🙌
Call the
#KingstonUni
#Clearing
hotline to find the perfect course for you ☎️0⃣8⃣0⃣0⃣ 0⃣4⃣8️⃣3⃣ 3⃣3⃣4⃣ 👍