eBooks
Get your teeth stuck into one of our eBooks and find out how our solutions can support the topics covered.
Student wellbeing in higher education
- let's face the facts
Here we explore the impact student wellbeing is having on student retention and university teams. We have looked into some shocking numbers and identified how we can come together to prevent the situation from getting worse.
Your Student Experience Guide
There are simple things your team can be doing to enhance the student experience from their initial website visit, through to departure. This guide will share tips and tricks for each stage of the student journey.
A One-Stop-Shop experience
A one-stop-shop service is where your customers have one contact on campus for everything they need. Find out more about the elements of a one-stop-shop service in this ebook.
The Ultimate Summer Guide
During one of the busiest times of the year, it's important you're prepared and ready to get into action! Check out The Ultimate Summer Guide for tips and tricks on how to achieve your best summer yet.
One simple task every conference team should be doing to increase revenue
Offering new services, or raising rates tend to be the most common way of increasing revenue. However, there is one additional activity that can also help increase revenue - enquiry tracking.
The impact that conferencing teams have on student enrolment
With student enrollment figures continuing to decrease, we explore how conferencing teams can take this as an opportunity to generate toward a greater enrolment pipeline.
Integrations between Kx and financial systems
It's important that all your applications integrate with your finance systems. Find out why it's so important and explore the variety of financial systems that our software integrates with.
Maximising space utilization with classroom integrations
Tracking space availability in a university can be challenging due to the communication between conferencing and academic departments. Here we explore how integrations can solve this!
Introducing Kx Integrations with other systems
Your Kx systems could be linked to other systems your university uses. Software integration will help you and your team achieve more. Find out more about Kx integrations.
The Parliamentary Review Magazine - Highlighting Best Practice
The Parliamentary Review is an indispensable guide to industry best practices, which demonstrates how sector leaders have responded to challenges in the political and economic environment.
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The perfect bedroom for the perfect guest
When you go on holiday and reach the hotel bedroom door, you feel a sense of excitement! Your room for the week is right there. You’ve spent hours flicking through the reviews and photos, and you’re finally here! It’s been a long day, and you can’t wait to melt into the sumptuous bed, with gently fragranced pillows and soft lighting.
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5 Contracting Best Practices for Conference Departments
Before you sign everyone on to next year’s events and conferences with your existing contracts, take a step back and have a look at them. You may want to consider making some changes to incorporate contracting best practices that may be missing.
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Why today’s students suffer with mental health
“If you need me – you know where I am” – how many people genuinely mean it? Sure, it sounds somewhat reassuring to a student, but in today’s world, it is counterintuitive to how young people communicate. There’s no denying that the shift in young people’s attention spans has been widely attributed to the advance…
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The Influence of Private Property Providers
Kinetic were recently selected to represent ‘Technology in Higher Education’ at the Parliamentary Review. Our Managing Director, Rob Turner, had the opportunity to describe the impact and opportunities from three key developments within the higher education industry to senior MPs, namely the increasing focus on the entire student experience, the demand for strategic revenue generation…
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Maximizing space utilization with classroom integrations
When organizing an event, one of the most important factors a conferencing department must keep track of is available space. So how can you make sure that your department is managing rooms and space availability in the best possible way?
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Is Repeat Business Always Good Business For University Conferencing Departments?
Part of the Kx eBook: The One Simple Task Every Conference Department Should Do To Increase Revenue (& Why You Should Start Doing It Right Now) Based on our own research, repeat business bookings for summer conferences typically range between 70-80% from year to year. With many conference departments operating as self-sustaining, that figure represents a…
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Enhancing the student experience during a pandemic
Going to university should be an exciting fresh start! A chance to explore a new city. Make new friends. Live a life of freedom! Yet this year, everything is different. But it doesn’t have to be as negative as it seems… With many universities advising students to self-isolate due to an increase in COVID-19 cases,…
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Top 15 in quarantine: Things to watch
After a day of working from home or perhaps looking after the kids, it’s nice to be able to put the laptop away, put the kids to bed and relax in front of the TV.
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GDPR and what it means for you
Have you heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) passed by the European Union Parliament? Since most of our readers are in North America, there is a chance that if you did hear about it, you figured it didn’t apply to you. Well, that may not be accurate. If you have conference guests or…
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The impact of social media on mental health
Residence Life Manager at FutureLets, Coventry University Tom Truman is a Residence Life Manager who is passionate about making a difference to student mental health. Below he shares his thoughts on the impact that social media has on mental health and his personal experiences. 3.5 billion people use social media. That’s 45% of the world’s…
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