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Adult and Community Learning
Policy and Practice
This event is for participants in the Eastern Region ONLY.
| Date: | Monday 4 July, 2005 |
| Venue: | The Cambridge Belfry, Cambourne, Cambridgeshire |
| Ref: | C12-48/07/05 |
| Fee: | £60.00 (includes lunch, tea/coffee) |
[Background] [Programme]
Background
This conference is being organised by the regional arms of NIACE and the Standards Unit.
A regional conference earlier in the year heard about the outcomes of “Investing in Skills: Taking Forward the Skills Strategy” an LSC consultation paper on reforming the funding and planning arrangements for first steps and personal and community development learning for adults. These new funding and planning arrangements will be published very shortly and the 4th July event will offer the opportunity to consider their impact on learners and providers at both a national and a regional level. Jon Gamble, Director of Adult Programmes at LSC National Office will outline the national picture whilst Linda Hockey, Chair of the regional Adult Learning Strategy Group and Executive Director of LSC Bedfordshire and Luton will cover regional strategies for adult learning.
The regional Standards Unit has a brief to assist in the local delivery of the new national teaching and learning frameworks and in the effective implementation of new teaching and learning trials and pilots. There will be an opportunity on July 4th to hear about progress to date across the region and to hear first-hand accounts from providers of the benefits of the subject learning coach approach.
NIACE and the LSDA have been contracted by the Standards Unit to manage a project on improving teaching and learning in ACL. Drawing from good and outstanding practice on the ground, the project will collect and develop multimedia materials specially tailored for use with adult learners, and for continuing professional development (CPD) for curriculum leaders and adult education tutors. The conference will offer the opportunity to hear about progress to date as well as to make an active contribution to the future shape of the project outcomes.
The event is aimed at senior and middle managers in the ACL, FE and Work-based Learning sectors and others interested, at both strategic and operation levels, in the development of adult learning across the region.
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Programme
| 09.45 | Registration and arrival (tea and coffee available) |
| 10.15 | Welcome and introduction
Sue O’Gorman, NIACE Regional Development Officer |
| 10.25 | Future funding and planning
arrangements for Adult and Community Learning Jon Gamble, Director of Adult Programmes, LSC National Office |
| 10.45 | Questions |
| 10.55 | Raising quality through
improving teaching and learning Di Fuller, Regional Director, Standards Unit |
| 11.25 | Coffee break |
| 11.45 | Subject learning coach witness
session Gillian Frankland, Regional Development Practitioner, Standards Unit |
| 12.15 | The role of mathematics in the
adult curriculum Francis Bove, Standards Unit |
| 12.35 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Improving teaching and learning
in ACL Annie Merton, Senior Development Officer, NIACE |
| 13.50 | Workshops and feedback |
| 14.50 | Regional LSC strategies for
adult learning and reflections on the day Linda Hockey, Executive Director LSC Bedfordshire and Luton Chair of LSC Regional Adult Learning Strategy Group |
| 15.20 | Questions and concluding remarks |
| 15.30 | Close of conference |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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