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Path: Home > Conferences > Archive > Mar 2002 > Prime Time

Prime Time - learning to enjoy later life.

NIACE's International Women's Day Conferences

Date:	Thursday 7 March 2002
Venue:	Britannia Hotel, Birmingham
Ref:	C9-24/02/02
Fee:	£125 per delegate £75 per delegate for Voluntary Organisations (includes tea/coffee/lunch)

[Background & Aims] [Audience] [Programme]

Background & Aims

The NIACE 2002 International Women’s Day conference will focus on older women and how learning can help them to lead an active and fulfilling later life. Thematic strands will include financial literacy, health and active ageing, networking, employment, working with ethnic minority elders, research into women’s lifelong learning needs. There will also be a short performance from the Spare Tyre Theatre Company.

The conference will give delegates ideas and insights into older women’s needs and the kinds of approaches that will help them to make the most of their later years.

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Audience

Managers and staff delivering programmes to adults in Adult and Community Learning, Further Education, Higher Education and the voluntary sector; people working with older women in an education, health or social services context; people concerned with issues to do with ageing; women’s education groups; women’s networks and people working on retirement or older workforce issues.

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Programme

10:00	Arrival and registration (Tea/Coffee available)
10:30	Welcome and introduction to the day Dr. Veronica McGivney, Principal Research Officer, NIACE
10:40	Keynote address Hilary Samson-Barry, Deputy Director, Women’s Equality Unit, Cabinet Office Followed by discussion/questions
11:20	A decision that changed my life Beryl Allan, Older Learner
11:45	Workshops - morning session (please indicate choices on the booking form) Mature Women’s Workforce Initiative Liz Farmer, Manager, Mature Workforce Initiative, Loughborough College Pre-retirement/financial matters Di Whitelegg, Project Manager - Older & Bolder Project, Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Lifelong Learning Partnership Jo Walker, Pre-retirement Association Welcoming older Black women into learning Joanna Sands and Glenda Cox, Manchester City Council Education Department Leisure and social networks in older working-class women’s lives: can education have a role? Jeannie Holmes, Coventry Community Education Service Agewell: anti-ageist approaches to learning Katherine Hughes, Ruskin College
12:45	Lunch
13:35	Workshops - afternoon session (repeated)
14:40	Older Women: Issues, Empowerment, Action! Elizabeth Sclater, Social Inclusion and Equalities Manager, London Borough of Lewisham
15:15	Listen to me Presentation from Spare Tyre Theatre Company
15:45	News from NIACE Older and Bolder Programme Closing Comments Ann Ankers, Development Officer, NIACE
16:00	Close of conference (Tea/Coffee available)

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