TO:  ALL UALL MEMBERS

 

Dear Colleague,

 

The UALL Work Based Learning and Employer Engagement Networks

present a conference on
Work Based Learning; Community and Employer Engagement

University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC)

28– 29 June 2011

Please see details of this conference attached.  The conference addresses themes around engaging employers and other agencies that are not directly involved with education to collaborate with HEIs to address the learning needs of people and their work practices. This includes social, economic policy and inherent values within the broad area of WBL as a field and mode of study. We include all higher level learning; Foundation Degrees, Foundation level, Bachelor, Masters, Doctorates, other awards, short courses and CPD.

Deadline for Call for Papers: 22 March 2011.

Keynote Speakers:                                  

 

Professor Norbert Grunwald, Rector University of Wismar, Germany

‘Workplace Learning in Germany’

 

Professor Karen Evans Institute of Education, University of London

‘Putting Knowledge to Work;  Exploring potential for the 'sandwich placement model' of work integrated learning’

 

Dr Rhys Rowland-Jones, Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer (Dubai)

School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University

For further information, please contact Carol Costley at [log in to unmask] or Pauline Armsby at [log in to unmask]

 

With best wishes,

 

Lucy

Lucy A Bate MSc
Administrator: Universities Association for Lifelong Learning
21 De Montfort Street
Leicester, LE1 7GE

Tel:  0116 285 9702
Mobile: 07717 178247
Fax: 0116 204 6988
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Website: http://www.uall.ac.uk