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Please note that places are still available for the following
conference:
Training for Excellence Conference
10am – 4.30pm
21 June 2001
Hereward College of Further Education, Coventry, UK
The ‘Training for Excellence’ Conference is the culmination of the first
year’s work of Hereward College’s FEFC-funded Widening Participation
project: Widening Participation in Higher Education for Disabled
Students. This project, which commenced in earnest in July 2000, seeks
to increase the number of disabled students in higher education locally
and focuses on students with significant impairments. Particular
attention has been addressed to the issue of transition from FE to HE.
One of the issues highlighted by work on the project is the need for
high quality training to ensure that both students and their support
workers are equipped with the skills to perform at their best in the HE
environment. This is particularly
pertinent as students move into HE and, in contrast to the
centrally-organised nature of FE/school support, are required to take a
much more pro-active role in their support arrangements. Numbers of
students with significant impairments in higher education are, as yet,
very low and opportunities to share experiences and examples of good
practice can be minimal.
The conference will take place from 10am-4.30pm on 21 June 2001 at
Hereward College of Further Education in Coventry, UK. A maximum of 50
places are available. No charge is being made for attendance at the
conference and lunch is provided. To reserve a place, please complete a
registration form and return it to Sian Hindle at the address shown.
Programme:
09.00 Refreshments
Session One
09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome: Cath Cole, Principal, Hereward College
10.20 Research Report: Sian Hindle, Lead Researcher – Disability and
Higher Education, Hereward College
10.40 Refreshments
Session Two
11.00 Ozcan Konur, City University – Transition from FE to HE: Current
Public Policy Issues
11.30 Ian Webb, Learning Support Advisor, Manchester Metropolitan
University – Implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
12.00 Emma Shelton, Disability Co-ordinator, Exeter University – Staff
transition from FE to HE; Observations from a Disability Co-ordinator
who has made the move
12.30 Lunch
Session Three
13.30 Workshop Sessions
Val Chapman, Equal Opportunities Co-ordinator, University College
Worcester - Training for Disability Co-ordinators
Rachel Perrin, Educational Enabler Co-ordinator, Hereward College -
Training for educational enablers
Hazel Peasley, Consultant Trainer, A World of Difference – Introductory
training for employing personal assistants
Tony Winstanley, Senior Manager, Derby College for Deaf People –
Transition arrangements for Deaf People
14.30 Feedback to conference
15.00 Refreshments
Session Four
15.20 Hazel England, Disability Liaison Officer, University of
Wollongong – Maximising independence for students with
disability in tertiary education in Australia
15.50 Eric Boardman, Regional Disability Liaison Office, Central
Queensland - Enhancing the access of people with
disabilities to tertiary education by promoting cross-sectoral
co-operation: the RDLO initiative
16.20 Closing address: Margaret Taylor, HE Co-ordinator, Hereward
College
16.30 Refreshements
To register, please contact Sian Hindle at:
Tel 02476 426171
Fax 02476 421916
Email [log in to unmask]
Post Hereward College; Bramston Crescent; Tile Hill Lane; Coventry; CV4
9SW; UK
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