Journeys and Destinations: Widening Access to HE for Adult Learners

Journeys and Destinations: Widening Access to Higher Education for Adult Learners

Morley College London will once again be hosting our annual conference on the important theme of widening participation for adult learners, this year with a specific focus on Higher Education.

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Aimed for academics and practitioners leading and managing Higher Education, the conference offers an opportunity to discuss the challenges and prospects for widening participation amongst adult learners in higher education. This timely conference will address this area of growing importance ‘towards the objective of ensuring that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.’

Focusing on strategic challenges relating to marketing and communications as well as academic issues around curriculum design and pedagogy, the aims of the conference are to provide focus on how a variety of governmental strategies are enabling widening participation, particularly for adult learners and learners from disadvantaged backgrounds, and how providers can successfully respond to these. 

Schedule of the day:

930am- 10am

Registration, Teas and Coffees

10am-1020am

Welcome from the Principal and Higher Education Co-ordinator

1020am- 1130am

Morning Plenary Session

Office for Students, Greater London Authority and Pearson

This session will be chaired and include Q&A from the participants

1130am- 1230pm

Donna Pike (Havering College)

Camilla Mount (Birkbeck)

David Murray and Nazma Deen (University of East London) 

1230pm- 130pm

Lunch

130pm-230pm

Silvie Jacobi (London School of Mosaic)

Tom Sperlinger (Bristol) 

Beth Wheaton (GLA)

230pm- 330pm

Closing Plenary- The Morley Student Experience (Broadcast for Morley Radio)