Archive - Welcoming New Learners

Date(s)

This conference was held on the following date(s)
08/04/2006

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Programme:

10.00 Coffee and Registration

10.30 Welcome - Rob Eschle, Regional Chair

10.35 Irene Tracey, Director (Planning and Resources)Adult and Community Learning, Essex

11.00 Chris Minter, Adult Learning Manager, Brighton & Hove

11.30 John Dickinson-Lilley, NCODP

12.00 Introducing Bill Rammell (Rob Eschle)& presentation

12.45 Lunch

13.30 Plenary – The Challenges Ahead

14.15 Annie Merton, Senior Dev.Officer for Community Learning, NIACE

15.00 Final discussion (& summary)

15.30 Tea & depart

Contributors included:

Bill Rammell	needs no introduction and we are delighted that he agreed to come, both as Minister of Higher, Further and Adult Education and as a local MP.
Chris Minter	Chris Minter is Head of Adult Skills & Learning at Leicester City Council and the ECA’s Honorary Secretary. He helped the ECA and its partners to establish the very successful TEACh European Active Citizenship project, funded under the EU's Grundtvig Adult Education programme.
Maggie Evans	is the Principal of the North-West Essex Adult Community College and its associated centres. She has been indefatigable in her work for adult learning and developing new and innovative projects in the College, which has been an active member of the ECA for many years – at present both the ECA regional Chair and the Treasurer are on the College’s governing body. She introduced Irene Tracey, the Planning and Resources Director of Adult and Community Learning, Essex.
John Dickinson-Lilley	the Project Officer for the Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People, is putting together an information toolkit about the Disability Act to help staff and volunteers in the Region’s Community and Voluntary Sector with this far-reaching Act.
Annie Merton	is a Senior Development Officer at NIACE. She has twenty-five years experience of delivering, managing and supporting adult and community learning, originally in London and then in Leicestershire. Annie joined NIACE in 1998 as Development Officer, Widening Participation and was one of the team responsible for setting up and managing the first five rounds of the Adult and Community Learning Fund. She now works primarily with local authority adult learning - undertaking project work and consultancy with, for, and about local authorities, and convening the national network of local authority adult learning officers, LEAFEA, as well as undertaking more general development work in adult and community learning. Her recent projects include: devising a way of describing the different strands of adult learning for LSC planning and funding purposes and now working with the LSC on the next stages of preparing for the funding changes in adult learning. She is the NIACE project manager for Managing Better, a management development programme for LEA ACL officers, working in partnership, with FPM, a Leicester based management development company; for Support for Success, an LSC funded national quality improvement programme, managed by the Learning and Skills Development Agency; and for Improving Teaching and Learning in ACL, a new learning materials and staff development project for the DfES Standards Unit. She also co-ordinates NIACE’s work attributable to their grant from the Local Government Association.