FE-HE Collaborative Provision Annual Conference, 2010
Maintaining successful collaboration

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Over a third of students entering HE come from FE backgrounds and 100,000 vocational learners enter HE every year. As the government’s 2010 widening participation and foundation degree targets loom, funding cuts across the education sector will require tough choices and a streamlining of services for core provision.

This conference will provide the first opportunity to consider how cuts will affect collaboration between FE and HE, and the new challenges posed by developing funding methodologies. A must-attend for everybody who is aiming to improve collaboration, it will address government objectives and the latest findings from Ofsted’s review of FE provision in HE.

Speakers:

• Adrian Anderson, Chief Executive, University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC)
• Professor Sa’ad Medhat, Chief Executive, New Engineering Foundation
• Dr. Graeme Atherton, Executive Director, Aimhigher London West, Central and North (WECAN) Partnership
• Asha Khemka OBE, Principal and Chief Executive, West Nottinghamshire College and member of 157 Group
• Chaired by Dave Linnell. CEO and Principal, Cornwall College and member of 157 Group

More information is available from the Neil Stewart Associates website - www.neilstewartassociates.com/jd228

UVAC collaborates with Emerald to develop Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning journal

UVAC is delighted to announce it will be collaborating with the Emerald Group Publishing to develop a new journal focusing on higher education, skills and work based learning. The first edition is scheduled to be published in November 2010.

Journal Objectives

The objectives of the journal are trans-disciplinary across all sectors and subject disciplines:

To identify how skills gaps and shortages can be addressed through the provision of higher level work-based learning

To showcase UK innovation in the development, marketing, delivery, validation and evaluation of higher level work-based learning

To review and analyse international approaches to higher level work-based learning

To review and analyse the use of new technologies in the delivery and validation of higher level work-based learning

To identify and analyse partnership approaches in the development and delivery of higher level work-based learning programmes and professional development

To identify and analyse innovation in the validation of employer developed training programmes as higher education qualifications

To explore innovation in the funding of higher level work-based learning

To identify the benefits of higher level work-based learning to employers, employees and other learners

To explore new approaches to widening participation and social mobility in higher level work-based learning programmes, for adults and young people with vocational and work-based level 3 programmes and through APEL and credit

To review good practice examples of higher level work-based learning

To explore issues surrounding higher work-based learning and encourage lively argument and debate.

Click here to go the the journal home page on the Emerald website.

For more information on the journal and how to contribute, click here.

Click here for the joint press release.

UVAC Annual Conference Proceedings 2008 and Work-Based Futures III (2009) Conference Proceedings now available.

Click here to go the proceedings

Annual Conference 2009
5-6th November
Employer and Individual Demand for Higher Level Skills –
The Role of Higher Education
Royal York Hotel, York
Sponsored by

For copies of the presentations click here to go to our conference page.

New members

We are delighted to welcome the University of Plymouth and The Open University into UVAC membership.

UVAC Strategic Plan 2008-13
The UVAC Strategic Plan is available. Click here to view it.