NADO ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND AGM 2005

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK CONFERENCE PARK

 

BEYOND COMPLIANCE

 

 

 

Programme

 

Conference - Day 1 - Morning Session

 

 

10:00 – 10.45              Registration and Coffee – Ramphal Foyer

 

Suppliers Showcase will be running from 10.00 am until 5.30 pm in the Ramphal Building, ground floor

10:45 – 10.55              Lecture Theatre

Welcome by the Chair – Dr James Palfreman-Kay

 

10.55 – 11.00              Opening Address by Kate Dodd, Director of Student and Ancillary Services, Warwick University.

 

11:00 – 12.00              Awaiting Title – Professor Alan Hurst, University of Central Lancashire.

 

12.00 – 1.00                Lunch – Ramphal Foyer and Suppliers Showcase

 

Conference - Day 1 - Afternoon Session

 

 

1.00 – 2.00                  Workshop Session 1  - Ramphal Building 1^st Floor

 

Workshop 1:               Learning Support Programme within FE – Innovative Programming to enhance Support  - Glenys Tucker, Worcester 6^th Form College

 

Workshop 2:              Awaiting Title - Dr Barbara Newland, Durham University

 

Workshop 3:               Creating Accessible Resources for Staff: Improving Disabled Student Learning Experiences - Robin Stenham, Project Manager and Chair of Project Team – CATER (Centre for Assistive Technology and Enabling Research).

 

Workshop 4:               Awaiting Title (Dyscalculia) - Jane Jolliffe, Dyslexia Support Tutor, Bournemouth University and Claire Trott, Loughborough University

 

Workshop 5:               Supporting, mainstreaming and recognising specialism - Alison Robinson, Higher Education Academy (Ramphal Building Ground Floor)

 

2.15 – 3.30                  Annual General Meeting for NADO Members

                                    Suppliers Showcase will be available for non-members

 

3.30– 4.00                   Tea/coffee break Ramphal Foyer with a demonstration by one of our Suppliers

 

4.00 – 5.00                  Workshop Session 2 – Ramphal Building 1^st Floor

 

Workshop 6:               Awaiting Title (Additional Support Funding) - Wayne Tomlinson, KPMG

 

Workshop 7:               Awaiting Title (Changes in Sector) - Ruth Thei, Higher Education Funding Council

 

Workshop 8:               Involving disabled people in the development of your Institution’s disability equality scheme: taking the first steps - Dr Caroline Davies

 

Workshop 9:               Online Staff Development for Disability Officers,  Dr Phil Gravestock, Projects and Development Manager, Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Gloucestershire.

 

 

Suppliers Showcase will be open until 5.30.

 

 

Conference Dinner

 

7:30 – 8.00                  Pre-Dinner Drinks – Panorama Suite

 

8.00                             Conference Dinner – Panorama Suite with time at leisure to follow in the Bar

 

 

Conference Day 2 - Morning Session

7.30 – 9.00                  Breakfast for residential delegates– Rootes Restaurant, First Floor, Rootes Social Building.

 

Suppliers Showcase will be running from 09.00 am until 4.30 pm in the Ramphal Building

9.15 – 10.00                Awaiting Title. Mike Adams, National Disability Team.

 

10.00 – 10.30              Coffee break – Ramphal Foyer and demonstration by one of our suppliers

 

10.30 – 11.30:             Workshop Session 3 – Ramphal Building, 1^st Floor

 

Workshop 10:             What does the Disabilty Equality Duty actually mean for Disability Practitioners – Ruth Thei - Higher Education Funding Council; Mike Adams - National Disability Team; Kate Goddard - Skill; Liz Sutherland, - Equality Challenge Unit Age and Disability Officer; Dr James Palfreman-Kay - Manager Additional Learning Needs Service, Bournemouth University and Chair of NADO.

 

Workshop 11:             Neurodiversity:  issues for student support – Dr. David Pollock, Principle Lecturer De Montford University.

 

Workshop 12:             FE Funding and Aspects of Widening Participation: an opportunity to share, explore and work together on these issues. John Michaux, Swindon College and Sheila Bryan, Weymouth College

 

Workshop 13:             Awaiting Title (HE and Support Workers) – Karen Robson, Disability Co-Ordinator, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.   

 

Workshop 14:             Demonstration by 1. Stereotype: New Opportunities – Stereotype Electronic Note-taker Training   2. Sight and sound technology.

                                    (Ramphal Building Ground Floor) 

 

11.45 – 12.45              The New Legal Framework: The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 – Bettina Rigg – Bond Pearce Solicitors  

                                   

12:45   - 2.00:              Lunch – Ramphal Foyer and Suppliers Showcase

 

Conference - Day 2 - Afternoon Session

 

2.30 3.00                     CAU - QAG The early years, Tony Hughes, Central Administration Unit (CAU) Manager - Quality Assurance Group (QAG) and Judith Archer, Chair – Quality Assurance Group (QAG)

 

3.15 – 4.15                  Workshop Session 4   Ramphal Building 1^st Floor

 

Workshop 15:             Problems – Whose Problems: Knotty issues in disability equality and the impact of the disability equality duty - Dianne Keetch, Disability Rights Commission. 

 

Workshop 16:             Duty of Care, Confidentiality and Disclosure – Bettina Rigg, Bond Pearce Solicitors

 

Workshop 17:             Facilitating Inclusive Education Through Assessment Change - Judith Waterfield, Head of Disability Assist Services, University of Plymouth

 

Workshop 18:             Awaiting Title (Supporting Students with Asperger’s Syndrome) - Gail Gardiner, Nicki Martin

 

Workshop 19:             Demonstration by Suppliers: 1. Bookchair

                                    (Ramphal Building, ground Floor)

 

4:15                             Tea and Close – Ramphal Foyer

 

 

Manager, Additional Learning Needs Service
Chair of NADO
Learning Support
Talbot Campus
Fern Barrow
Poole
Dorset
BH12 5BB

Tel: 01202 965327
Fax: 01202 965844

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