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Back to the Future
| Date: | Friday 18 November 2005 |
| Venue: | Brightelm Centre, Brighton |
| Ref: | C12-69/11/05 |
| Fee*: | £120 – Statutory/Private Organisations £75 – Voluntary Organisations (*includes lunch, tea/coffee) |
[Background] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
In September 1945 Friends Centre was established:
‘To meet the need for fellowship, the need to share religious experience, to
meet the hunger for knowledge, to encourage the vision of peace and
international understanding, to arouse interest and action in civic and social
affairs and to provide a means of developing creative ability.’ [From Friends
Centre’s first programme in September 1945]
The aim of the conference is to reflect on this inspiring vision in order to refocus adult education’s sense of purpose, recover its driving ideas and reinvent the future.
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Audience
Adult education practitioners, leaders and researchers, further and higher education staff, students, policy-makers and others.
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Programme
| 09:30 | Arrival and Registration (Tea/Coffee available) | ||||||||||
| 10:00 | Welcome and Introduction to the
Day Steve Barton, Chair of the Friends Centre |
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| 10:15 | Keynote Address Alan Tuckett, Director, NIACE |
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| 10:45 | Buzz Groups (7-8 people) share thoughts, then comments and questions from the floor | ||||||||||
| 11:15 | Tea/Coffee Break | ||||||||||
| 11:30 | Workshops 1) The ‘hunger for knowledge’ – is this more than the national skills agenda? 2) The ‘vision of peace and international understanding’ – how can adult education contribute? 3) The ‘interest and action in civic and social affairs’ – can adult education help engage people in their communities? 4) The ‘means of developing creative ability’ – can adult education still unlock creative potential in everyone? |
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| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 14:00 | Panel Discussion: where are
we going and how can we get there?
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| 15:15 | Closing Remarks: Taking the
vision forward Juliet Merrifield, Principal, Friends Centre |
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| 15:30 | 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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