• Students will row for it in boat race

  By Canterbury People at 08:00 on 13/05/11

  

  STUDENTS from the Towns' three universities will take to the water to settle their differences with a popular campus tradition. Rowers will be battling it out over two watery miles during the fifth Universities at Medway Boat Race on Saturday. Reigning champions University of Greenwich will face off against old rivals University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University. Saturday's weather is expected to take a turn for...

• Exhibition will also focus on town’s port and iconic cliffs

  By Canterbury People at 08:00 on 29/04/11

  

  A COASTAL development museum focused on the Port of Dover is being designed. But Dover Harbour Board has not decided to invest millions in a new attraction. The museum is part of a thesis project by architecture students at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury. Entitled This Is England, the project involves ten postgraduate students, working with Dover Arts Development (DAD), researching areas of Dover...

• Mock wedding event

  By Canterbury People at 08:00 on 29/04/11

  

  EXCITEMENT of the royal wedding caught the imagination of pupils at St Edmund's Pre-Prep School in Canterbury. Children proudly wore handmade hats and threw confetti over their own William and Kate. Reception class teacher, Amanda Johnson, was inspired to stage the mock ceremony and pupils helped to make the life-size models and dressed them in original clothes from 1950s. Pupils designed invitations, studied historical...

• School’s £14m project underway

  By Canterbury People at 08:00 on 22/04/11

  

  GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, visited Canterbury's Spires Academy in Sturry to 'turn the turf' and mark the start of work on the school's £14 million new building. He said: "When the first turf is moved it is a very important step and this is a tremendously exciting project for Spires Academy. "I'm just thrilled to be here and I hope to come back and see it when it's finished." A student from each of...

• Graduates donate to university

  By Canterbury People at 08:00 on 22/04/11

  

  UNIVERSITY of Kent bosses are celebrating after receiving two donations from former graduates. Kennedy Wong who went to the university's Kent Law School at Canterbury is now based in Hong Kong. He has pledged to give the university £500,000 over the next five years for legal studies facilities. It is the single largest gift from a former student the university has received since it opened in 1965. Sir David Akers-Jones, a...

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