Happy New Year to everyone from FACE (Forum for the Advancement of Continuing 
Education)!

As part of our developing programme of activities, we would like to give you 
early warning of 3 events coming up this year.

1.  FACE London WP Seminar, 18 February 2000
This is a follow-up event which picks up the strands of last year's seminar.  
Hosted again by Government Office London (many thanks as always to Laurie 
Taylor), we hope to attract participants involved in Widening Participation 
projects in London and the SE, as well as anyone interested in hearing the 
latest from HEFCE, FEFC and GO. (Outline programme is an attachment to this 
mailing - let me know if you can't read it) 
Booking is likely to be brisk and there are only about 50 places so please 
reserve yours quickly by sending me an e-mail, fax or phone message.

2.  FACE Conference 2000.  Ruskin College. Monday 10 - Wednesday 12 July 2000
This year, we are very pleased to announce that our hosts are Ruskin College, 
Oxford.  We feel that this is very appropriate in view of Ruskin's long 
history in adult and continuing education in England and we are sure that 
this will be a very popular event indeed. The focus is appropriately 
'millennial' in that we will be looking towards the future for the continuing 
education movement.  The conference will also have a strong industrial 
flavour.
 
Bob Fryer from UfI is a confirmed key-note speaker and we will also have 
contributions from colleagues in Europe and the USA as well as local 
perspectives in work-based learning and the usual high quality contributions 
from our own members and colleagues.

Please get in touch early to reserve your place and particularly if you are 
interested in offering a paper.  We would be very pleased to hear from you.

The full programme will be posted when it has been finalised.

3.  'Creating Learning Pathways' - Towards a Widening Participation Strategy 
for Wales .  North East Wales Institute, Wrexham.  May 2000 (Exact date to be 
confirmed)
This is a joint event between FACE and NEWI.  These are exciting times for 
public policy in Wales and we are delighted to be able to help make a 
contribution to the debate about life-long learning issues that are at the 
forefront of the work of the new Welsh Assembly.

We hope to have speakers from the Assembly, from FE, and from the many local 
networks from throughout Wales to provide a platform from which lifelong 
learning strategies can be taken forward.

We will post further details here immediately they become confirmed.

To book for any of these events, please mail me at: [log in to unmask]

N.B. If anyone is interested in partnering us to arrange a similar (or 
different!) event this autumn, please get in touch as well.

Very Best Wishes

Howard Parker
FACE Events Co-ordinator
c/o Visiontrain
21 Westland Avenue
Wolverhampton
WV3 9NT

Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1902 565933