Events 2012
- Bookings open for Wales’s first national Future Directions conference
- Date: 26 April 2012
Glyndŵr University, Wrexham
The Higher Education Academy has opened bookings for Wales’s inaugural Future Directions conference – Graduates For Our Future. The conference will showcase and celebrate the first Wales-wide quality enhancement theme – Graduates for Our Future - and its three work strands: Students as Partners; Learning in Employment; and Learning for Employment.
- Future Directions – Foundation Degrees: Where policy meets practice
- Date: 29 February 2012
- • employer and work-based learning routes into Foundation Degrees
- • institutional development of Foundation Degree
- • relevant policy areas.
Glamorgan Conference Centre, University of Glamorgan
This event will focus on Wales’s creation and development of Foundation Degrees so far and in the future.
The interactive sessions will focus on:
- Seminar: Part-time study in higher education for a buoyant economy and social inclusion
- Date: 23 February 2012
- • part-time study
- • part-time employer-focused provision in HE
- • opportunities for progression from further education in Wales
Park Plaza Hotel, Cardiff, 10:00 – 16:00
We are inviting senior representatives from universities and organisations who have an interest in;
to help inform our advice to the Welsh Government, which will be submitted in March 2012. The event will focus on part-time study as it relates to social mobility and upskilling of the workforce, including flexible learning and continuing professional development (CPD). There will be speakers from the Welsh Government, HEFCW and the Open University.
To register your interest, please contact Craig Brett: 029 2068 2279, craig.brett@hefcw.ac.uk
