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Access Matters
Ensuring a Quality and Inclusive Route to Higher Education for Adult Learners
| Date: | Friday 28 April 2006 |
| Venue: | Hardwick Hall Hotel, Sedgefield, County Durham TS21 2EH |
| Ref: | C13-45/04/06 |
| Fee*: | £120 *(includes lunch, tea/coffee) |
[Background] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
This conference is being organised jointly by NIACE, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and the National Open College Network (NOCN) and Access to Higher Education. It celebrates the ongoing success of the QAA recognised Access to Higher Education provision and provides delegates with the opportunity to hear the views of keynote speakers on how we can maintain the momentum for Access within the current policy context. There will be an opportunity to network and discuss the future development of Access to HE for adult learners.
Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP will provide the keynote address on the importance of Access as part of the skills agenda. An overview of the Access Development Project from QAA will illustrate how Access is trying to refresh itself and respond to the broader developments around the credit agenda. An Open College Network Regional Director will consider the implementation of the Access Project across the regions. A regional Learning and Skills Council (LSC) will underline the importance of Access in regional skills strategies and NIACE will consider the policy context for Access and a tertiary framework.
Focus:
The conference:
 | will celebrate the success of Access to HE provision and explore good practice; |
| offer delegates an opportunity to hear from key players in the qualifications, policy, quality assurance and adult learning arenas and to contribute to the debate on the future development of Access to HE; |
| will address the Widening Participation and Inclusion agendas, alongside that of skills and focus on the needs of adult learners. |
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Audience
| Policy-makers; |
| LSC, RDA, GO; |
| Authorised Validating Agency (AVA) officers; |
| Access coordinators & programme managers in FE; |
| Directors of Education; |
| Admissions tutors in HEIs; |
| Sector Skills Councils; |
| Widening participation practitioners. |
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Programme
| 10:30 | Arrival and Registration (Tea/Coffee available) |
| 11:00 | Welcome and
Introduction to the Day Chair: Pat Whaley, Regional Development Officer – North East, NIACE |
| 11:10 | Access Matters: the
Government perspective Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP |
| 11:20 | Access and the
Skills Agenda NE regional LSC Director (to be confirmed) |
| 11:30 | The Policy Context
of the Access to HE developments: A Quality Perspective Kath Dentith, Assistant Director (Access), Quality Assurance Agency |
| 12:00 | Taking Access
Provision Forward: The AVA Perspective Keith Mogford, Regional Director, OCN Eastern Region |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Access and the
Emergence of a Tertiary System Alan Tuckett, Director, NIACE |
| 14:00 | Round Table
Discussions An opportunity to discuss the future development of Access to HE for adult learners |
| 15:00 | Closing Remarks by the Chair |
| 15:15 | Close of Conference (Tea/Coffee available) |
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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