Other Events
Other Events
Edge Hill University's Inaugural Lecture Series
Posted 12.03.10
Widening Participation: where have we come from, where are we now and where are we going?
Professor Liz Thomas will deliver the 3rd Professorial Lecture at the 3rd Annual Widening Participation Conference (see below)
Mainstreaming Equity: Opportunity and Success In Higher Education
Bookings are now being taken for the 3rd Annual Widening Participation Research Centre Conference -
"Mainstreaming Equity, Opportunity and Success in Higher Education" on the 14th - 15th of April 2010, Holiday Inn, Lime Street, Liverpool.
Keynote speakers for the 24 hour event are:
Dr Helen May, Higher Education Academy
Strategies for institutional change to embed equity in HE
Virtual keynote: Professor Kerri-Lee Krause, Director, Griffith Institute for Education Research, Australia
Being Strategic about the First Year
Professor John Storan, Director, Continuum, University of East London
How are institutions doing at mainstreaming equity?
Learning from the Widening Participation Strategic Assessments.
For keynote outlines click here
On the evening of the 14th of April you are invited to attend a drinks reception, buffet dinner and the Inaugural Professorial Lecture delivered by Dr Liz Thomas at Edge Hill University (Edge Hill University are providing coaches from Liverpool to Ormskirk return).
For conference programme, booking form and flyer click here, or contact Julia Clarke
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for more information.
Prepared Minds, Prepared Places: Post Secondary Access in the Global Village
Toronto, Ontario October 25th to 27th 2009
Community, institutional and corporate leaders, visionaries, educators, practitioners, policy-makers and concerned citizens, from the not-for-profit, voluntary, private and public sectors are invited to register for the Inaugural Conference of the YMCA-led Canadian Post-Secondary Access Partnership.
- Exchange approaches to building strategies and initiatives that link education, economic and community development objectives.
- Find out how your community can take up the Community Access Challenge.
- Share innovative practices for inspiring and preparing youth and adults for post-secondary studies, engaging students in their own success, mobilizing partners and measuring outcomes.
- Network with other organizations with common objectives from across Canada and internationally
- Find out how your organization can get involved in the Canadian Post-Secondary Access Partnership.
Initiatives that serve Aboriginal youth and adults, those from lower-income households, cultural and ethnic groups that remain underrepresented at the post-secondary level, and other “first-generation” students, will be the focus of keynotes, panels, parallel presentations, workshops and a Best Practices Gallery.
This conference is about prepared minds and prepared places.
Be prepared. Change lives.
EVERYONE CAN GO
Journal of Developmental Education: Call for Manuscripts
July 2009
Journal of Developmental Education:
The National Centre for Developmental Education have made a call for manuscripts to be included in their next journal, 'The Journal of Developmental Education (JDE)'.