Employability and Personal Development Planning Conference January 2010: Programme

Employability and Personal Development Planning Conference January 2010: Programme

2nd Annual Employability and PDP Conference
Thursday 14th January 2010
Worcester Room, Conference Centre
University of Worcester

9.15am Registration

9.45am Welcome: Rose Watson, Employability Development Officer

10.00am    Keynote Speaker: Ms Brenda Little, Principal Policy Analyst, Centre for Higher Education Research and Information: “Blurring boundaries…whose learning is it anyway?”

10.45am What’s new across the Midlands? 

Sharing good practice and research on PDP across the region: PDP/Employability developments and projects across the University of Worcester: an overview

Speakers include Rachel Moule, Birmingham City University; Sarah Wilson-Medhurst, University of Coventry; Arti Kumar, University of Bedfordshire.

11.45am  Break

12.00pm  What’s new across Worcester?

• The Worcester Award:  Rose Watson
• Employability and Disability NTFS project: Val Chapman
• New developments in Pebblepad:  Libby Symonds

1.00pm  Lunch

1.45pm Keynote Speaker: Dr Ros Foskett , Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Worcester: “Embedding employability in the student life-cycle”

2.30pm What’s new in the disciplines?

A showcase of good practice across the academic disciplines at Worcester:

• Jill Terry, Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts: Progression project in Arts and Humanities
• Gareth Dart, Institute of Education: The student experience of work experience modules
• Susie Hart, Institute of Sports and Exercise Science: Attitude Affects Outcome
• Helen Shaw, Worcester Business School: work placements at Worcester and other universities
• Lorraine Weaver and Debbie Homes, Institute of Science and the Environment: Embedding employability and PDP
• Kate Thackeray and Huw Richards, Institute of Health and Society: Engaging Employers and E-portfolios

3.30pm Plenary: John Peters, Academic Development and Practice unit

3.45pm Close