Widening Access to Education

Competition and diversity in UK Higher Education

Competition and diversity in UK Higher Education – online learning models, alternative providers and the changing shape of the sector

 

with

Professor Martin Bean, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University; Dr Stephen Jackson, Director of Reviews, QAA; Gordon McKenzie, Deputy Director, Higher Education Structure and Shape, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Andy Westwood, Chief Executive, GuildHE

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Thursday, 4 July, 2013

The future of adult and community learning

Westminster Employment Forum Keynote Seminar

The future of adult and community learning

 

with

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Tuesday, 2 July, 2013

European countries make real progress toward greater transparency for qualifications - Cedefop

Over the past year, progress in developing and implementing national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) has allowed more countries to link these to the common reference framework for qualifications, the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).

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Saturday, 29 June, 2013

World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education

Montreal 2013 is the first global event of the World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education. It is also the first step on our journey to build and enact an agenda for change that will ensure more participation also means wider participation and success.

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Wednesday, 19 June, 2013

Seminar: Changing Inequalities and Access to a Differentiated Higher Education System

The seminar will present the findings of a study of changing patterns of application and entry to higher education. Through analysing UCAS data, the researchers have investigated changes in the characteristics of applicants to HE between 1996 and 2010, and the ways in which universities have become more differentiated. The study compared England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland over the first full decade since devolution, and examined trends in cross-border movements.

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Monday, 10 June, 2013

La VITA è bella

VITA is a European GRUNDTVIG project funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme and deals with validating social, personal and organisational competences that are essential for the challenges of the European service economy.

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Monday, 10 June, 2013

Westminster Employment Forum Keynote Seminar - The future of adult and community learning

This seminar is timed to follow the release of the Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning's final report and will focus on the findings of the report, including best practice in community learning, improving links between colleges and businesses, the role of technology in supporting adult learning and improving the quality of teaching in the sector overall.

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Monday, 10 June, 2013

Teaching Inclusively: Changing Pedagogical Spaces

Developing inclusive teaching and learning practices in higher education is a key component of widening participation (WP) strategy. Pedagogies in higher education have the potential to contribute to creating inclusive spaces where all students can develop a sense of belonging and fitting in. This is strongly emphasised in the recent HEFCE/OFFA interim report, and is anticipated to form a central dimension of the national strategy for widening participation.

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Monday, 10 June, 2013

The International Council for Adult Education - 2013 Academy, Jordan September 1st, 2013

The ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy (IALLA) is an international training course on advocacy that intends to give emerging leaders in the field of adult education and social movements, the opportunity to acquire the skills to advocate for the right to adult learning and education and to consolidate ICAE as a global network committed to that end. This international course was held for the first time in 2004, in Norway, and since then, a total of six editions have taken place in Africa, Europe and Latin America.

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Thursday, 6 June, 2013

ESREA Access, Learning Careers & Identities Conference call for papers

ESREA Access, Learning Careers and Identifies Conference, 28-30 November, Sweden

Please find attached the second Call for Papers for the above Conference.

For further information, please contact Barbara Merrill.

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Thursday, 30 May, 2013

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