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Annual Fund 2011 Annual Fund 2011 Donors’ Report Kingston University’s Annual Fund has now completed its fourth year of raising vital funds to support students and enhance learning facilities. The fund’s remit of improving the student experience is clearly being fulfilled. However, a student’s time at university is only one part of the story. What happens when a student completes their studies is just as important. With the rising cost of a university education, our students need to know that their degree will count when they venture out into the wider world. Recent research, published in the Times Higher Education and which analysed the ‘added value’ of a university education, shows Kingston to be amongst the best institutions in the country when it comes to graduate salaries; a Kingston education certainly counts. You, our alumni, are proving the value of a Kingston education by your successes and your generous donations. This year you have generously given over £91,000 in gifts and pledges, allowing us to provide life-changing scholarships for postgraduate studies, helping students who have encountered unforeseen financial difficulties, and supporting projects that are enhancing the student experience. The fact that the students who have benefited from your generosity can look forward to bright futures is a testament to both our reputation as a fine institution, and to those alumni who continually, despite the troubled economic climate, give to the Annual Fund. A huge thank you to you all! Professor Julius Weinberg Message from the Vice-Chancellor Message from the Through postgraduate scholarships, we are able to attract outstanding individuals to study at Kingston University. For the academic year 2011/2012, the Annual Fund has been able to award eight scholarships - each worth 50 per cent of tuition fees (up to a maximum of £3,000) - to the following students. Owing to exceptionally high standards, we have, for the first time, awarded two scholarships in a single subject area. • Amy Carrington MA Human Rights • Rachel Ellis MA Human Rights and Genocide Studies • Hanna Mal’ouf MSc Biomedical Science with Management Studies • Shaun Miles MSc Leadership and Management in Health • Veronika Moore MSc Environmental and Earth Resources Management • Syed Shahid Misar MA Fashion • Gabriella Reynolds MA Curating Contemporary Design • Sarah Symons MSc Psychology What your money has done Projects that you have helped Projects that you have THIS YEAr’s PosTGRADUatE SCHOLARS Amy Carrington described Hanna Mal’ouf was “elated her award as “an honour, a and surprised” by news relief and a huge confidence of her award. “I’m unable boost”. Her long-term aim to rely on my parents for is to specialise in women’s financial support, and rights, working to support without the scholarship women both nationally and I would really struggle to internationally. “This award means I can dedicate manage financially,” Hanna said. “Now I will be my time to learning and to volunteering in a social able to focus fully on my studies and actually change organisation, which is a central part of enjoy this intense year of higher education. I’m my course,” Amy said. “I firmly believe my time particularly keen on the course as it combines at Kingston, where we are taught by some of the biomedical science with management, which will leading human rights practitioners, will deepen help me achieve my career goal of working as a my knowledge and lay the foundations of my marketing manager within a science-based firm.” career, so I can best help women across the globe.” All of this year’s scholars would like to extend their sincere thanks to you, the donors. Rachel Ellis added that her scholarship will also allow her to continue to study a foreign language; Shaun Miles highlighted the benefits of “not being distracted” by financial problems; Veronika Moore said the scholarship would make a “huge difference” to her plans to work as a conservationist; Syed Shahid Misar will use his award to focus on research; Gabriella Reynolds will be able to continue with her voluntary work; and Sarah Symons, who aims to specialise in promoting mental health in schools when she graduates, described the award as “exceptionally helpful” to her long-term career goals. FORMER POSTGRADUatE SCHOLArs’ UPDatE Karolina Nowakowska Jeyaram Deivachandran MSc Cancer Biology, MSc Information Technology 2010/11 for Business Management, 2009/10 Karolina received an Annual Fund Postgraduate Jeyaram received an Scholarship in 2010 to Annual Fund Postgraduate study for an MSc in Cancer Scholarship in 2009 to study Biology. She is now a Scientific Officer for the for an MSc in Information Technology for Business Institute of Cancer Research. Management. He is now a high-flying Technology Consultant, working on government projects. While completing her Masters’ project on prostate cancer, Karolina worked closely with the Institute “Having the scholarship meant I could get the very of Cancer Research, and was absolutely delighted best out of my course, which was a terrific mix of to be offered a job there as a result, where she will business and technology,” Jeyaram said. “I could continue her vital research. “It’s a very competitive also study additional optional modules, and attend field, and having the scholarship directly helped me the extra lectures which were on offer. It gave me to land the job I wanted,” Karolina said. “Crucially, the time I needed, and this has given me a huge it meant I could focus fully on my Masters’ project. advantage in my work as a technology consultant. The scholarship has helped me achieve my dream I’m so grateful to the donors for their support, and of working in cancer research and to try to make a I want to let them know that their generosity has difference in the fight against the dreadful disease. I had a really positive impact on my career.” was honoured to be chosen as a scholar and I would like to thank the donors for their kind support.” STUDENT HARDSHIP FUND The University’s Student Hardship Fund Among the many students who benefited provides vital, additional financial support to was a single parent with two children, one students who would otherwise be unable to of whom is disabled. She faced a financial complete their studies and realise their full crisis during her final year, despite taking potential, as a result of unforeseen financial on two part-time jobs to try and make ends difficulties. Keith Houghton, Head of the meet. Another, from Pakistan, was being University’s Student Funding Service, said: financially supported by his parents until the “This year we have assisted students who severe flooding destroyed their family’s crops, have been affected by natural disasters, the while a third student, who had disabilities economic situation and where other funds and a chronic medical condition, faced were not sufficient to cover the students’ homelessness. needs. We always tell students who receive help from the Annual Fund that these are from the generous donations of Kingston University alumni.” THE BUSINESS SCHOOL ARCHIVE A team led by Professor Robert Blackburn, Kingston researchers plan to undertake audio- Director of Research, Faculty of Business and Law, recorded interviews of people to build up the is currently establishing The Kingston University archive, which will then be available for students Entrepreneurial Archive, with the help of a grant and analysts of entrepreneurship. Professor from the Annual Fund. Blackburn said: “I am delighted that we have been given the opportunity to launch this archive at a The archive is aimed at capturing the motivations, time when entrepreneurship and its contribution to life events and experiences of people who are the economy and society is becoming increasingly recognised as being entrepreneurial in their field. recognised.” THE OPPORTUNITIES FUND The Opportunities Fund focuses on projects which “This project gave our students the opportunity help to enrich and widen students’ experiences, thus to see how they could use their practice in an better preparing them for life after university. This educational setting, beyond just selling their year the fund has helped to finance seven projects, own art,” Natalie Kay, the gallery’s education providing grants of up to £1,000 to help with start-up co-ordinator, said. “Many students were wary at costs, including the two detailed below. first, but they quickly grew in confidence, and the children saw them as inspirational role models. Future Shape, at the University’s Stanley Picker Gallery, linked third year Fine Art students Through working on the project, several students with children from local schools. The students discovered that education was a career path they developed and ran educational workshops in would consider, and two secured jobs in the field which the children created their own artworks. directly as a result of their hands-on experience. These were later displayed in a public exhibition at It’s wonderful that the donations are helping our the gallery. students to flourish beyond university.” THE OPPORTUNITIES FUND continued The University’s Science, Engineering and Gordana Collier, course director, said. “These Computing Faculty purchased five Mindstorm robots can be run with relatively simple software, robots, which are proving a major asset to but crucially we are using industry-standard Robot Club. Students from across the University software, which students will come across when can attend the club and learn to configure the they’re out at work, and this is an impressive Mindstorms to discover how robots can help them addition to their CVs. Through Robot Club, in their working lives. “One student has developed students also learn the value of collaborating in the basic unit into an all-terrain robot, and another teams - a skill vital to their careers - and we are built a system which could sort colours on a extremely grateful to all the donors for giving our production line,” students such a boost.” WHO DONatES? Our donors come from all backgrounds and from Katherine Metcalf, teacher, all walks of life, and every single penny really does PGCE Early Years, 1994.
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