Please see below and attached details of a half day conference that the Library Service and the University's Academic Professional Development Unit are hosting which you may be interested in attending.
Title: Peer Mentoring: Opportunities and Challenges in a Diverse Student Community
Date: Wednesday 10 June 2009
Time: 9.15am - finishing with lunch at 12.30pm
Venue: Leicester Business School Graduate Centre, Bede Island, De Montfort University, Leicester
Description:
This event will look at the challenges of developing peer mentoring schemes that have relevance to a culturally academically and diverse student community. It will draw on the experiences (successes and failures) of a range of approaches, and in particular will focus on 4 key themes:
* The challenge of engagement
* Finding the 'right' approach
* Management of schemes
* Use of technologies
Sandy Gilkes, Head of the Centre for Academic Practice at the University of Northampton, Institutional Teaching Fellow, a National Teaching Fellow and a Fellow of the Staff and Educational Association will provide the keynote address followed by an opportunity to attend two workshops.
For further information about this conference please go to:
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/services/hr/apdu/conferences_and_events/Conferences.jsp
To book onto this conference email [log in to unmask]
Best wishes
Nila Patel
Professional Development Co-ordinator
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Academic Professional Development Unit
De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH
Tel: 0116 257 7626 Fax: 0116 250 6360 Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/services/hr/apdu/index.jsp
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The Academic Professional Development Unit seeks to be accessible
& inclusive in its professional development activities. Please contact
APDU to discuss your needs & requirements (in confidence if you wish).
It is assumed that you have already sought prior agreement from your line manager to attend our events.
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For details of our current programme of professional development activities please go to:
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