This Year's Conference
2010 Annual Conference
The 19th EAN Annual Conference
From Access to Success: Closing the Knowledge Divide
(Higher education for under-represented groups in the market economy)
Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
Mon 14th - Wed 16th June 2010
This year’s conference will focus on higher education in the market economy and its effect on equity and access for under-represented groups.
Come and join us for the conference debate, “An Enterprise Culture is NO Threat to Equity in Higher Education” and contribute your views to the discussion.
There will be a dissemination of the “Resource Book on Increasing and Sustaining Diversity in Higher Education” by Fran Ferrier, lead researcher. This book will consist of ideas and information to guide higher education institutions in planning, implementing and managing strategies, policies and activities to increase post-secondary participation and sustain the diversity within their student populations.
We are pleased to present some of this year's keynote speeches. Please click the titles to download:
Markets and Access: A Contradiction in Terms? Prof Roger Brown
Diversity means Business, Sonja Barendregt-Roojers
Widening Participation and the Changing Role of Higher Education in a Globalised World, Lennart Olausson
Funding of Universities and Their Access Agendas, Malcolm Gillies
European Universities' Response to the Challenges of Lifelong Access to Learning, Hanne Scmidt
Conference Theme and Objectives
Session in French: (pdf) (word doc)
Where to Stay- Information on Hotels & Hotel Booking Form
Directions to Sodertorns University
The conference will take place at Södertörn University, Alfred Nobel allé 7, Flemingsberg – less than 20 minutes’ train ride from central Stockholm. From Central Station take the train to Södertälje and alight at Flemingsberg.
