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FACE Conference 2008
"Challenging Isolation: the role of lifelong learning"
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Keynote Speakers at the 2008 event included:
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Professor Robert Cormack, Principal of UHI Millenium Institute;
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Claire Callender, Professor of Higher Education, Birkbeck, University of London;
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Professor Dianne Willcocks, Vice Chancellor of York St John University
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Professor John Storan, of the University of East London, Director of Continuum and Chair of FACE.
Keynote Presentations
Access: the York St John Story
Professor Dianne Willcocks
Student Bursaries: the winners and losers
Claire Callender, Professor of Higher Education, Birbeck, University of London
Overcoming the Tyranny of Geography: HE provision in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Professor Robert Cormack FRSE,
Principal, UH
Challenging Rural Isolation: Building Partnerships for Lifelong Learning
Professor Stuart Billingham, Pro- Vice Chancellor, York St John University
Workshop Presentations Wednesday 2nd July
Lifelong Learning in Teaching
Patricia Watson
The Journey of Students – Writers in Cyberspace
Tony Wailey and Susan Sambade
‘Business Facing’ Skills through WBL
Alec Forsyth and Mike Goodwin
Understanding and Coping with Academic Demand: the lifelong
learning experience
Dr Derek Young
Work-based Learning: Reflections on Practice
Julie Dickinson and Dorothy Lennon-Price
Workshop Presentations Thursday 3rd July
Aimhigher Roundtable Discussion: the Scottish Perspective
Margaret Dundas, SFC
Geographically dispersed WBL’s – a pedagogical support programme
Mike Goodwin and Alec Forsyth
LLL: Learning to Work or Working to Learn
Dr Derek Young
Maximising Options: the perceived meaning and value of vocational learning
Dr Jim Tate and Arthur Baxter
Targeting Isolation: The data dilemma
Ed Bickle and Olivier Cognard
Why are there so few Care Leavers at University?
Deirdre Lynskey
Written Off? Learners’ Perspectives on the efficacy of an intergenerational project
Angela Fish & Kathryn Addicott (Report for FACE R&D Funding)
There’s more to learning than earning – the wider benefits of
lifelong learning
Sheila M Hughes (Report for FACE R&D Funding)
Developing Skills for Independent Learning for Access to HE Students
Frank Nieto and Anastasia Dimitriadou (Report for FACE R&D Funding)
Pathways into Higher Education. Working with disadvantaged groups including BME learners
Samar Al-Afandi and Fiona Chapel
Equal opportunities at Linkoping University: common policies for students and staff
Ake Wasteson
The experience of Developing a Cross Sector Widening Participation Care Programme: working in partnership across four boroughs
Maggie Mclinden, K B Ong and Andrew Lowing
New route to recognition: a WBL model to remove barriers to professional registration in engineering
David Edmondson, Susana Lidberg and Bill Glew
The Impact of Compact: one University’s Experience
Jenni Woods and Steve May
Foster carers' reflection on their experiences and achievements within lifelong learning and widening participation
Jasbir Panesar
An Institutional Response to Students Leaving Care
Joy Clews and Phil Davis
Lifelong Learning Networks & Progression Agreements: Building the Mode
Sarah Adibi (Report for FACE R&D Funding)
How can HE meet the needs of voluntary sector work based learning in Wales?
Kathryn Addicott and Professor Danny Saunders
Supporting Professionalism in Admissions (SPA) and current issues in HE admissions and student recruitment
Annie Doyle
Workshop Presentations Friday 4th July
Apprentices, The Isolated Cohort – breaking down the barriers
Suzanne Leech and Vic Leyden
Building Bridges between the university and local mental health services: a theatre course for users of mental health services
Dr Nick Rowe, Gemma Aldred, Emma McKenzie and Carole Lee
Ka Whangaia, Ka Tupu, Ka Puawai (That which is nurtured blossoms then grows)
Catherine Dickey
Exploring prisoners’ experience of education in Ireland – a life history approach
Jane Carrigan
Download this workshop paper in PDF or Word format
Measuring the impact of Aimhigher on participation in HE by learners in SE London (PDF)
Measuring the impact of Aimhigher on participation in HE by learners in SE London (Word)
David Chilosi, Margaret Noble, University of Greenwich, UK
Philip Broadhead, Goldsmiths College, UK,
Mike Wilkinson, London South Bank University, UK
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