Dear Jo

I will be attending the Network day on 22nd March at Surrey - but am
also taking this opportunity to introduce myself round the network.

I am the Director of the University of Westminster CETL for Professional
Learning From the Workplace. We see the role of the Centre as to develop
a community of practice that develops the conditions for learning in,
from and through work. We see this community as including students,
academics, employers and other organisations concerned with accrediting
workplace learning. We aim to do this through engaging with employers to
understand their needs and enhance their engagement in the curriculum;
through curriculum critique and developments that prepare students
experientially for the workplace; that bring forward the learning from
experiences of work and encourage the learner to integrate these
learning experiences for the enhancement of their professional and
personal practice; and through processes of reflexive evaluation and
dissemination such as action learning.

We are a new Centre that was created by drawing together aspects of
"excellent" practice in this area with the University to work together,
in response to the Funding Council's CETLs project (see
www.hefce.ac.uk).

An area for discussion that I am concerned about at the moment, as my
university puts greater emphasis on its employability strategy, is how
we maintain the focus on the learner as a person or organisation who is
developing their practice of "Learning for a Complex World" - as in
Surrey's conference for later in the year - at the centre of the
project.


 Best wishes

Sibyl

Sibyl Coldham
Director - Centre for Excellence in 
Professional Learning from the Workplace
University of Westminster
+444 (0) 207 911 5192

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From: Work Integrated Learning Network
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Subject: Re: work INTEGRATED learning day

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-----Original Message-----
From: Work Integrated Learning Network
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Sent: 25 January 2007 18:44
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Subject: work INTEGRATED learning day

Colleagues

Although we realise that not everyone can make March 22nd, we're going
ahead with that date on the basis that you just can't please all the
people all the time. We might aspire to make the outcomes of the day so
exciting that those who can't be with us in person will WANT to engage
with us in the next steps, whatever they turn out to be. I also know we
have at least one member in Australia so for him and for anyone else
interested, we have an Access Grid Node - fancy networked video
conferencing facility - but it needs a matching AGN in your institution.

If you have one, and want to join us without travelling, let us know and
we'll give it a whirl.

I've put together and attached a very rough programme - back of the
envelope stuff - so that you will see a need to firm it up with better
ideas of your own. My doubts and questions are in red, also to encourage
you to respond and make changes. And footnotes provide links for
additional information.

That's it really. If people who have said they are interested now decide
they aren't, I'm not sure how that will make me feel. But I'm prepared
to risk it. 
Jo Tait
(Assistant Director, SCEPTrE)
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sceptre/