RE: [kent-grads] Any university's collegiate system fading?

["Steve Kellett" <steve_kellett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That pretty much sums up my experience ('78-'81)

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I agree - at least during my time at Kent (94-98), any Harry Potter-style
college loyalty was tongue-in-cheek. One tended to forget that there was a
collegiate system at all, and the only distinguishing features of the
colleges were the standards of accommodation and quality of the bars and
food! 



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From: owner-kent-grads@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-kent-grads@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Tim Roll-Pickering
Sent: 15 December 2005 14:33
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Subject: [kent-grads] Any university's collegiate system fading?

Oxford is overhauling its admission system which will result in central 
applications and "The university admitted that as a result, colleges will 
lose autonomy and individuality."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/15/noxf15.x
ml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/15/ixhome.html

I have to admit that in my time at Kent (1998-2002) I did not especially

feel the college system - other than the location of some accomodation 
(which was not used by all and in any case I understand this has since been 
decoupled) and having to vote in your college for SU elections (though this 
was increasingly abandoned by my last year) I could have gone through my

entire university career and never once have it matter just which college I 
was in. (Okay there were some other things but not all followed them.)

Was it different in earlier years?

 Tim. 



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