Maintaining momentum for vocational progression in the new HE environment

15 Nov 2011

This FREE event is for:

• admissions tutors

• apprenticeship providers

• information advice and guidance practitioners

• higher education lecturers on a foundation degree or HNC/D course

• those interested in finding out more about higher apprenticeships

• those needing to know more about Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning

The aim of the conference is to showcase the ways workplace and vocational learners can more easily access higher education in a form which is most suited to their own and their employers' needs and to discuss how higher education institutions can best provide for these learners to their mutual benefit.

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What is it about?

With major changes happening in the world of higher education driven by government, all areas of the sector are needing to adjust. In their HE White Paper, the Government is “committed to opening up the higher education market, including to further education colleges and alternative providers, to meet the changing needs of employers, individuals and their communities.” Sussex Learning Network’s mission is to bring higher education within reach of the workplace and one of its major achievements is the suite of guaranteed progression agreements provided under the Sussex Vocational Progression Accord. This provision is being expanded to create a Sussex Progression and Credit System which increases the scope of the progression agreements, includes guidelines for the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning, typically gained in the workplace and improves opportunities for those coming through the apprenticeship routes to progress to higher education.

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Who is speaking?

Keynote presentations by:

Professor Stuart Laing, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Brighton

Tristram Hughes, Research Manager, CFE

Workshops on:

• Vocational progression: an introduction to Sussexroutes. How can those providing Information, Advice and Guidance to vocational learners take advantage of this resource?

• Enhancing higher-level work-place learning through APEL: introduction to a guide

• Apprentices: why apprentices make good candidates for higher education

• Learning Opportunities for learners at work: what is the Learning Opportunities service and how can it benefit learners?

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Where and when is it?

Bramber House, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QU (www.sussex.ac.uk/conferenceservices/1-7.html)

7 December 2011, 09.30-14.00. Lunch is included.

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