10:30 - 10:45 Introduction: Peter Williams, Chief Executive, Quality Assurance Agency
Morning theme: Diversity of expectation in higher education, chaired by Peter Williams
10:45 - 11:00 Outcomes of subject/academic
review
Gillian Hayes, Quality Assurance Agency
Slides - MS Powerpoint (171KB) | PDF
(197KB)
11:00 - 11:30 Keynote speaker:
Diverse delivery and good practice
Penny Blackie, Higher Education Partnerships
Manager, City College Manchester
Slides - MS Powerpoint (68KB) | PDF (62KB)
11:30 - 12:30 Seminar groups integrating representatives
of higher education institutions and further education colleges
Morning
seminar themes were transmitted to the plenary and then to the afternoon
parallel sessions
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch with poster session
13:30 - 14:00 Plenary
Morning seminar questions reported and then sent to
afternoon parallel sessions
Afternoon theme: Good practice, chaired by Valerie Stead, member of QAA’s Board of Directors
14:00 - 14:30 Keynote
speaker:
Janice Shiner, Director General, Lifelong Learning Directorate,
DfES
14:30 - 15:00 Keynote speaker: Higher Education Further, the future
Dr John
Brennan, Chief Executive Officer, Association of Colleges
Slides - MS Powerpoint (128KB) | PDF (115KB)
15:00 - 16:00
Parallel sessions (see delegate pack for rooms)
Views from
and questions to:
- Widening participation group - Chris Green, APU
- Funding group
- Edexcel - Jill Lanning
- QAA - Stephen Jackson
- Foundation Degree Forward - Derek Longhurst
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