Tuesday 1 December 2009 - Lakeside Conference Centre, Aston University, Birmingham

This conference represents one of the outcomes of the partnership between QAA, Foundation Degree Forward (fdf), the Higher Education Academy and is supported by the Higher Education Funding Council England (HEFCE).

Employer engagement is a complex area of activity and is of increasing importance both in the policy development of government and in the strategic development of Higher Education Institutions .

This conference builds on QAA's Annual Liaison Conference event held in July 2009, where participants were presented with the general findings of a survey into approaches to  the quality assurance of employer responsive provision and discussed the contents of a forthcoming QAA publication on this area of activity.

The aims of this conference are:

• to present the QAA survey findings in more detail
• to present a range of approaches to quality assurance of employer engagement from 9 HEFCE funded projects that have been identified and supported by the partnership
• to have an understanding of fdf's Employer Based Training Accreditation (EBTA) scheme.

Further information

This is a one day conference open to higher education practitioners whose remit includes employer engagement and work-based learning. To book a place, please see the HEA website.