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AfD for Turing College

The "Articles for Deletion" discussion about Turing College may be of interest to those watching this page. Cheers, XOR'easter (talk) 20:16, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-collegiate

What does this mean? This could do with some clarification. Either it is collegiate or not. --Aloneinthewild (talk) 18:40, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Aloneinthewild The edit summary here says "Added semi-collegiate as it has 6 dependent colleges, but they are not fully independent. Please see Collegiate University list". I agree that semi-collegiate is confusing. TSventon (talk) 11:44, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Colleges

According to the colleges page and the list of college masters on the university website, the university has six colleges: Eliot, Rutherford, Keynes, Darwin, Woolf and Turing.^[1]^[2] A 2020 book lists the same colleges.^[3] The article also mentions Medway College and Park Wood College but does not provide sources. I suggest they should be removed unless/until independent sources can be found. Pinging @Timrollpickering: as the largest contributor to the article. TSventon (talk) 15:18, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check first before rushing to deletion. But Park Wood is a self-catering village and Medway is another campus. I've not had much contact for some years but I suspect this may be a confusion with the way the students' union incorporates representation of those sites into the college committee structure. Timrollpickering (talk) 17:35, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to note the problems with the information about colleges on the talk page, I am happy to leave the information in the article unchanged if it is not possible to improve it.

All I have found is mentions on the university website, I haven't found anything from the SU. I have found a Global Learning News post from 2023 listing eight colleges,^[4] so the number may have changed recently, or the information may be confused. TSventon (talk) 21:34, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Colleges". University of Kent. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
^ "College Masters" (PDF). University of Kent. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
^ Kumar, Krishan (2020). "The New and the Old: The University of Kent at Canterbury" (PDF). In Pellew, Jill; Taylor, Miles (eds.). The Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350138650.
^ "Finding Your Way Around Kent". University of Kent. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2025.

[1] "Colleges". University of Kent. Retrieved 8 May 2025.

[2] "College Masters" (PDF). University of Kent. Retrieved 8 May 2025.

[3] Kumar, Krishan (2020). "The New and the Old: The University of Kent at Canterbury" (PDF). In Pellew, Jill; Taylor, Miles (eds.). The Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350138650.

[4] "Finding Your Way Around Kent". University of Kent. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2025.

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