Colleagues,
I am circulating details of this seminar and the details about programme and
registration are included below. Please note that a reduced fee for research
students is offered. The Seminar is being organised on behalf of the three
CE organisations and brings together both key issues and useful
publications.

UACE Research Sub-Committee with SCUTREA and SRHE Research Sub-Committee one
day seminar
The Research / Policy Interface in Continuing Education
The seminar will address issues of communication and overlapping or
competing interests, between research and policy communities.  The aim is to
refresh channels of communication, and identify priority areas for research,
of interest to both policy makers and researchers.
Speakers:
Andrew Morris, Learning and Skills Development Agency
Peter Weller, Widening Participation Research Team, Analytical Services
Division, DfES
Gareth Parry, Sheffield University
Lorna Unwin, Leicester University
Vivian Leacock, Scottish Executive
Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, DfES Standing Committee on Higher Education
Research


23 MAY 2003
10:30 am - 3:45 pm
Friends House, Euston Rd., London (opposite Euston Stn)

10:30   Arrivals and Coffee
10:50   Introduction: Mary Thorpe (Open)
11:00 - 11:30   Differing Agendas: collaboration, compromise and
contestation - Lorna Unwin (Leicester)
11:30 - 11:40   Questions/comments to speaker
11:40 - 12:10   From Idea to Impact - Andrew Morris (DfES & LSDA)
12:10 - 12:20   Questions/comments to speaker
12:20 - 12:45   What evidence is needed for justifying investment in
learning, and for policy development? - Peter Weller (DfES)
12:45 - 12:50   Questions/comments to speaker
12:50 - 1:45    LUNCH
1:45 - 2:00     The work of ELLNet - Vivian Leacock (Scottish Executive)
2:00 - 2:15     The work of DfES Standing Committee on HE Research
2:15 - 2:40     Making and Taking Policy Questions - Gareth Parry
(Sheffield)
2:40 - 3:45     PANEL composed of the speakers, takes questions and comments
from participants
3:45    Tea and Close

Online booking:
<http://iet.open.ac.uk/uace/>
Contact for Registration:       UACE Seminar, Anna Page, PA to Professor
Mary Thorpe, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University,
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Fax: 01908 654173       Email: [log in to unmask]
Seminar fee (including lunch): £50.00 Reduced fee for Research Students -
£15
Your reservation will be confirmed by email on receipt of the full fee.

Participants will also receive a copy of a paper by Professor David Raffe on
the topic of the seminar, which participants might read in advance:-
Lifelong Learning, Policy and Research: Rhetoric or Reality.  Copies of two
reports from Andrew Morris and LSDA will also be provided.