Formal Education

Part-time and mature study - increasing participation and improving retention

Delegates at this seminar will assess the challenges for universities and colleges in expanding part-time and mature student recruitment, following the dramatic drop in applications last year, as well as looking at issues affecting such students throughout their time at university.

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Wednesday, 11 December, 2013

George Head and Margaret Sutherland - International partnerships and collaborative working: easy to say but hard to do?

George Head and Margaret Sutherland recently spoke at the University of Glasgow's internationalisation conference. Below is an abstract of their paper. They would be happy to engage in discussion with subscribers, and make their full paper available.

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Monday, 9 December, 2013

Margaret Sutherland keynotes at "Potential Development and Gifted Education" conference in Nijmegen, 1 November 2013.

Margaret Sutherland was a Keynote speaker at the International conference, Potential Development and Gifted Education on 1 November 2013 at the Behavioural Science Institute and the Center for the Study of Giftedness, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, a partner of the University of Glasgow within the International Research Universities Network. She spoke of how countries across the globe are considering how to provide education for all.

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Monday, 9 December, 2013

New publications of interest

HEPI Report (62): The impact on demand of the Government's reforms of higher education The first evidence on part-time demand and an update on full-time John Thompson and Bahram Bekhradnia (PDF)

PTES 2013: Findings from the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PDF)

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Wednesday, 30 October, 2013

World Access Congress Follow up

On behalf of the EAN, I would like to express a huge appreciation of everyone who took part in the first ever World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education in Montreal last week. We hope your participation in the congress was successful and that it led to many new contacts, exciting project ideas and partnerships.

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Friday, 25 October, 2013

RPL: Supporting Transitions - SCQF Partnership RPL Network in Scotland

The SCQF Partnership Network's Recognition of Prior Learning Annual Conference will be taking place on Tuesday 19 November 2013 at the newly opened 200 St Vincent Street, Glasgow. The event is only a few weeks away, this is why you should be there. 

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Tuesday, 8 October, 2013

AQMeN Applied Quantitative Methods Network

Devolution and geographies of education: the use of the Millennium Cohort Study for 'home international' comparisons across the UK

This seminar will be presented by Professor Chris Taylor, Cardiff University

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Abstract

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Tuesday, 24 September, 2013

Joint University of Edinburgh/LSE afternoon seminar

 

"Educational attainment and inequality in Scotland:
How does Scotland compare with the rest of the UK?"

Date: Wednesday 28th August 2013

Venue:  G.21 Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

 

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Monday, 15 July, 2013

SHRE Research Awards 2013

See attached flyer for details and contact information

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Monday, 15 July, 2013

Competition and diversity in UK Higher Education

Competition and diversity in UK Higher Education – online learning models, alternative providers and the changing shape of the sector

 

with

Professor Martin Bean, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University; Dr Stephen Jackson, Director of Reviews, QAA; Gordon McKenzie, Deputy Director, Higher Education Structure and Shape, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Andy Westwood, Chief Executive, GuildHE

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Thursday, 4 July, 2013

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