Diary Note:
One-day seminar - unravelling the barriers...to seamless provision
The 3sixtyº University for Children and Communities is holding a one-day seminar at King’s College Conference Centre today (Thursday, November 22) to explore how to raise educational attainment by working with parents in communities with a history of non-participation in post school education.
A team from Liverpool Hope University will open the seminar with a presentation on REACHOut to parents and will examine the issues the University has had to address, and identify the steps taken to overcome barriers to progresssion. Liverpool Hope is developing ways of supporting and encouraging REACHOut course participants to move on to pre-access and access courses, leading eventually to higher education qualifications.
Kate Kasprowicz, Co-Director, 3sixtyº University for Children and Communities, said: “The aim of the seminar is to disseminate good practice in socially inclusive education and explore ways in which first steps back into education can be accredited to allow seamless progression into further and higher education.”
Providing locally based accessible opportunities in the community to try and encourage children to take up opportunities in learning, and for parents to support their children’s education.
Over 70 delegates will be attending and will be able to participate in a range of parallel workshops:
- community-based access - a framework for accreditation
- new community schools
- moving on – how REACHOut links with pre-access and access provision
- community outreach at Aberdeen College
- confidence is catching!
- Family learning in Aberdeen
This one-day seminar will take place at the King’s College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen. Anyone requiring further information, or a copy of the full programme, should contact Anne Knight, Northern College, on: (01224) 283694 or by fax: (01224) 283900, or by email: a.knight@norcol.ac.uk
Issued by Public Relations Office, External Relations, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen. Tel: 01224 272014 Fax: 01224 272086.
Further Information:
Angela Begg, University of Aberdeen Public Relations Office, Tel: (01224) 272014.
Anne Knight, Northern College, Tel: (01224) 283694.
University Press Office on telephone +44 (0)1224-273778 or email a.ramsay@admin.abdn.ac.uk.