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Representing FACE at the NADE conference 2010

Three members of the FACE Executive attended this years National Association for Developmental Education (NADE) annual conference which took place recently in Columbus, Ohio, USA. NADE is the sister organisation to FACE in the USA and amongst a number of areas of collaboration every year we have a reciprocal agreement on attending each others annual conference.

John Storan, Mike Hill and Tony Ackland represented FACE this year and for the first time organised a FACE stand in exhibitors hall which proved really popular with the 1200 delegates that attended the conference. Yes, that's right 1200 participants! It really is on a very different scale from our annual conference but everyone is really friendly and very well organised. There was a huge amount of interest in FACE at the stand in our annual conference at Southampton Solent University this year so we may find some NADE members joining us.

Over the years collaboration between the two organisations has developed year on year and one example of this at this year's conference was the excellent news that Mike Hill, FACE Secretary was selected as joint Chair of the NADE International Panel. During the conference there were a number of meetings with the NADE Executive Council where we both reviewed our existing collaborative arrangements as well as exploring how these could be further deepened and developed. Areas identified for future collaboration include: contributions to publications, study visits,electronic networking, knowledge and practice exchange. All three agreed this was a really productive visit and contributes to building the international networking capacity of FACE.

FACE conference sponsorship for Early Career Access/WP practitioners or researchers

FACE is delighted to announce that ESCalate the Education Subject Centre has kindly agreed to sponsor a full fees paid place at this year's FACE conference for someone working in access or widening participation who is 'early' in their career. Sponsorship includes all conference fees, university accommodation and access to the social programme. Travel expenses are not included. A further two day-rate places are available at 25% discount for early career authors.

So if you have been working in the areas of access or widening participation for less than two years you are eligible to apply for this sponsored place at FACE 2010 hosted by Solent University 30th June to 2nd July. Applicants should submit a title and abstract for a conference paper which will be reviewed by a special panel of the FACE executive. The successful author will be invited to attend the full conference free of charge, to give a full conference presentation and submit a full paper for publication in the conference publication.

Download an ESCalate sponsorship application form

The FACE ebulletin

Each month FACE circulates an eBulletin via email to update members and other interested colleagues on news highlights. Web pages and PDF files of these ebulletins are stored and made available from the links below. To be included on the circulation list, email Jim at James.Tate@uwe.ac.uk