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World-leading researchers in key areas, such as systems security, communications and computing education, and interdisciplinary work with biosciences and psychology all contribute to an extensive support framework for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
An internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for programming education, the School of Computing is a leader in computer science teaching and home to two National Teaching Fellows, authors of widely used textbooks and award-winning teaching systems such as BlueJ and Greenfoot.
The University of Kent has announced an extensive programme of teacher CPD (Continuing Professional Development) courses that will strongly support the goal to improve computer science teaching in UK schools. These course will be designed and delivered by the Computing Education Research Group in the University's School of Computing.
Jael Kriener, postgraduate student in the School of Computing, has been awarded a Scholarship to attend the Programming Language Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) 2012 which is co-located with the Principles of Programming Languages conference (POPL '12) in Philadelphia, USA, in January 2012.
On 13th December 2011, Cisco CTO Tony West spent a day at the School of Computing where he was awarded an honorary professorship.
Rackspace International Vice President Technology & EMEA CTO, Nigel Beighton visited the School of Computing on 5th December 2011.
* Guardian Good University Guide 2011
** The Complete University Guide 2011