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CANCELLED - Learning to Learn: the voice of the learner

The Beehive Research Centre
University of Newcastle
Newcastle
NE1 7RU

10 December 2009

Time: 10am - 3pm
Cost: £150 plus VAT
Early Bird Discount £125 plus VAT for booking made before November

This conference will examine the issues for learning and teaching in FE with reference to current policy issues affecting the sector. Questions the event will examine include:
- How can putting the learner at the heart of the learning process create lifelong learners?
- How can the FE sector most effectively build and implement strategies focused explicitly on teaching and learning?
- What good practice in this area already exists in FE, and how can it be built on?
- What are the barriers to learning to learn approaches in the FE Sector and how can they be overcome?
- Is the sector ready to manage the impact of current policy developments?

Keynote presentations will be made by

- Professor Kathryn Ecclestone, Professor in Education, Oxford Brookes University

- Theresa Thornton, Northumberland College, Learning to Learn in FE project college

- Mark Young, Lewisham College, Learning to Learn in FE project college

- Dorothy Smith, Interim Regional Director, LSC North East

- Dr Kate Wall, University of Newcastle and lead researcher of the Campaign's Learning to Learn in FE project

Further details to be announced.
Contact information
NameKarla McLaren
Emailkmclaren@cflearning.org.uk
Telephone020 7766 0010


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