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EPC Admissions Tutor Event 2009

05 Nov 2009

Engineering Professors’ Council

 

One-day seminar for engineering admissions tutors

 

Thursday 5th November  2009

 

Royal Academy of Engineering

3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

 

The booking form for the event is now available from https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/AcademyOnline/multievents/displayEvent.asp?Type=Full&Code=ENGSC096

 

Programme for the day

 

10.00     Registration and coffee

 

10.30     Introduction                                  Professor Dik Morling,
Head of the Department of Electronic Systems, University of Westminster

 

 

10.40     The Student Experience           Naz Harrison
                                                                       
President,
                                                                        University of Brighton Students' Union

 

11.00     Transition to University             Professor Dik Morling

 

11.20     Questions and Discussion

 

11.50     The 14-19 Curriculum                Sandra Stalker,
Head of 14 to 19 Education, QCA

 

12.10     Widening Access                        James Turner,
Policy Director, The Sutton Trust

12.30     Questions and Discussion

 

13.00     Lunch


13.50     Key issues for International Students  
                                                                        Dominic Scott 
                                                                 
Chief Executive,  UKCISA

 

14.10     Engineering, The European Dimension      
Dr. Anthony Vickers  
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex;
UK Bologna Expert

 

14.30          Questions and Discussion

 

14.50     Student Experience and the International Student Market

                                                                        Tim Rogers 
i-graduate

 

15.30          Questions and Discussion

 

16.00     Close of formal programme; tea.



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