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Date: 30 Apr 2014
Location/venue: Room C101 Cottesbrooke Building Park Campus The University of Northampton, England
The Pathways to Employability team at the University of Northampton’s Business School is exploring ‘what lies beneath’ tutors’ and students’ engagement with work based learning. Three separate studies explore 1) learners’ perspectives of employability training, 2) tutors’ conceptions of employability and 3) students’ conceptions of reflection. Attendees are invited to consider these findings and share ideas for innovating work based pedagogy. More...

Date: 1 May 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: The Higher Education Academy Innovation Way York Science Park Heslington York, UK, YO10 5BR

This 1-day inter-disciplinary dissemination event for HEA Award holders is also open to all those interested or committed to improving teaching and learning in research and practice. This event is the 3rd in the HEA Award Team’s new event series called RIPE (Research, Impact, Pedagogy & Engagement); hosted by the Awards team who manage funding programmes from the HEA including Teaching Development Grants, Mike Baker Doctoral Programmes and Professor Sir Ron Cooke International Scholarships. More...

Date: 1 May 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: The Foresight Centre University of Liverpool 1 Brownlow Street Liverpool , England, L69 3GL

20 years after the publication of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic and 25 years after Bernabé, Chamoiseau and Confiant published their manifesto In Praise of Creoleness, we explore how teaching the transatlantic engages 'shattered histories' (Walcott, 1998) of the Atlantic.
This symposium will consider pedagogies produced by the Caribbean and the transatlantic. More...

Date: 6 May 2014
Start Time: 12:15 pm
Location/venue: The Higher Education Academy, Innovation Way, York Science Park, Heslington,York, England, YO10 5BR

This seminar will provide an opportunity to launch a report that looks at enhancing the understanding of the impact on learning and teaching of the recent significant changes in UK higher education policy. More...

Date: 7 May 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: London School of Economics

Building on the Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) Professional Development Programme which took place during 2013, the Higher Education Academy is now running 8 practitioner-focused events. More...

• Date: 7 May 2014
• Start Time: 10:30 am
• Location/venue: College Court Conference Centre, University of Leicester, Knighton Road, Leicester, LE2 3UF

This seminar will disseminate the findings of an HE Academy Teaching Development project, completed in July 2013, which produced online teaching resources, developed from student and employer case studies, about how employability and other transferable skills can be nurtured in doctoral programmes in ways that contribute to knowledge transfer in the workplace. This seminar will be of interest to those working in a wide range of doctoral programmes and those setting up practice oriented doctorates. More...

Date: 9 May 2014
Start Time: 09:00 am
Location/venue: Michael Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Rivermead Campus, Chelmsford, Bishop Hall Lane, Cambridge, CB1 1PT

Employability is recognised as:

“A set of achievements, understandings and personal attributes that make individuals more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen career, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy”. (Yorke, 2004)

In addition to subject specialist knowledge, employability is important to ensure a good supply of highly-skilled employable graduates to provide excellence in teaching, health care and resilient leaders for the future. More...

Date: 12 May 2014
Location/venue: Bristol University

The workshop is designed for people interested in developing whole institutional approaches to ESD in the curriculum– or embedded ESD more broadly than at present within their institution. More...

Date: 14 May 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: Room SW407 Aston University, England

Making internal recognition decisions support workshops will be used to offer support, guidance and development to those who are involved in making and/or supporting the assessment process within an institution’s Continuing Professional Development scheme. This is for those institutions who have, or are looking to develop, a CPD scheme which is accredited by the HEA. It will provide an opportunity for those involved in making recognition decisions within institutions to explore the UKPSF and evidence that may be presented against it. More...

Date: 14 May 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England, M13 9PL

Increasingly postgraduate work in the performing and visual arts can be described as interdisciplinary, and there is significant ‘cross-over’ from art into performance and vice versa. This HEA workshop focuses on issues surrounding learning & teaching postgraduates in the performing and visual arts, and provides a forum to raise and discuss issues and concern, to share ideas and practices, and to inform future developments. More...