Category Archives: Root

“Let’s take a breather…”

Well I might do if I could… I don’t even have time for that sentence itself these days, let alone time to actually follow through with its implications! Conference season has arrived. Election season is coming. We’re arguing. We’re complaining. We’re shouting. We’re making a mess. We’re showing everyone what we’re made of. I could go [...]

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Breaking the Ice

Meetings never go to plan, do they? You never stick to schedule, and the agenda begins to lose all meaning. It’s just a document that encourages people to think that there’s something in mind when the meeting is organised. More often than not you end up incredibly off topic, discussing something that is in no [...]

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October – wasn’t it busy?

If I were to tell you about everything that has happened in the last month, then I could be writing for days. MidKent College has been in a frenzy of student activity, inspiring talks and tired souls since the term began. Of course, we are celebrating the London 2012 Olympics this year and have been [...]

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Welcome to the new year

With enrolments, inductions and some lost students, it’s not difficult to say the start of the first term might just be the busiest and hardest time of the academic year. When there are thousands of students pouring through the doors of both of our College campuses, it seems fitting that the Students’ Union, and myself, [...]

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Hi all!

It’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog and many apologies for this. Just proves how crazy-busy life as a Sabbatical Students’ Union President is! So, what is it that has been keeping me busy? Recently Jo Carter, the Youth Worker based on the Medway Campus, and I have been setting up the new [...]

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SU President – Taylor Kane

I would just like to welcome every new and returning student to MidKent College (even if it is a little late in the year). My name is Taylor Kane and I am your Students’ Union President this year. Everyone who attends a MidKent College course at least once a week over the academic year is [...]

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