ebulletin: August 2007
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General interest
Date: 8 April, 2008 - 9 April, 2008
Location: St Anne's College, University of Oxford
Event type: Conference
A conference focusing on ways of helping people to start and develop academic careers, with the emphasis on what these terms mean within particular academic disciplines. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 10 October, 2007
Location: Leeds Metropolitan University
Event type: Workshop
It is often asked if enterprise and entrepreneurship are relevant for students in humanities disciplines. In this workshop research into how humanities graduates can gain from learning and experiencing enterprise and entrepreneurship will be presented, as well as discussing ways in which students and institutions can implement and benefit from such experiences. The relevance of enterprising skills for ALL graduates, not simply those setting up on their own, will be discussed, as well as problems, setbacks and ways forward. For more information, please see the conference website.
Languages
Date: 16 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Workshop
Date: 14 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Forum
Date: 18 October, 2007
Location: Rm LG33, Building 28 (Learning Centre), Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham
Event type: Seminar
Date: 21 September, 2007
Location: Open Access Centre, Newcastle University
Event type: Subject Centre sponsored lecture
Date: 23 November, 2007
Location: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
This national workshop will bring together academics from modern languages departments who teach visual art from a range of national and historical contexts. By exploring the particular challenges and opportunities encountered in teaching the visual arts to students of modern languages, it will enable the sharing of best practice and the exchange of ideas, and will establish a network of colleagues working in this area. Colleagues wishing to participate should contact the workshop organisers; Abigail Brundin, Emma Wagstaff or Matthew Treherne. The event is free, but participants are asked to register at the workshop website.
Date: 9 November, 2007
Location: Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (LATEU), Building 25, Southampton University
Event type: Workshop
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to explore a fully-functional prototype repository of online learning materials enhanced with web 2.0 or social networking tools, and featuring an interface that enables you to browse using a language learning and teaching concept map. This repository allows ‘sharing in action’ and has been designed with community involvement so that it meets the needs of real life users. For more information, please see the conference website.
Linguistics
Date: 14 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Forum
Area Studies
Date: 14 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Forum
Date: 18 October, 2007
Location: Rm LG33, Building 28 (Learning Centre), Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham
Event type: Seminar
Date: 23 November, 2007
Location: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
This national workshop will bring together academics from modern languages departments who teach visual art from a range of national and historical contexts. By exploring the particular challenges and opportunities encountered in teaching the visual arts to students of modern languages, it will enable the sharing of best practice and the exchange of ideas, and will establish a network of colleagues working in this area. Colleagues wishing to participate should contact the workshop organisers; Abigail Brundin, Emma Wagstaff or Matthew Treherne. The event is free, but participants are asked to register at the workshop website.
Other news
Salary range: £37,500 - £40,000 negotiable
Full time, based in central London
Benefits include final salary pension scheme, and 28 days annual leave
CILT, the National Centre for Languages is the Government’s recognised centre of expertise on languages. It is also the Standards setting body for languages, interpreting and translation, and is the recognised expert body for language and cultural skills for the UK-wide Skills for Business Network. CILT works in partnership with the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies and through this partnership is involved in managing the 3 year Routes into Languages Project . We are seeking an enthusiastic, well-qualified member of staff to fill the following post:
The Higher Education Adviser is based in the Education and Skills Section at CILT. The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge of the languages field in Higher Education. He or she will be responsible for the development and coordination of all aspects of CILT’s support for the field, including the maintenance of accurate and fresh information on research and other developments. The person appointed will be CILT’s representative within the Subject Centre team, and will have a particular contribution to make to developing CILT’s partnership in the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. In the immediate future this will include managing CILT’s responsibilities in the Routes into Languages project. Good project management, research, writing and administrative skills are essential.
The closing date for applications is Friday 28th September 2007 and interviews will be held at CILT during October (date to be confirmed).
Full job description, and application information may be downloaded from our website at www.cilt.org.uk/vacancies or may be requested from Penny Rashbrook, Head of HR, CILT, the National Centre for Languages, 20 Bedfordbury, London, WC2N 4LB. e-mail penny.rashbrook@cilt.org.uk
The latest issue is now available. Issue 6 (Summer 2007) concentrates on Lifelong Learning and contains the following articles among others:
- From Continuing Education to lifelong learning
- Learning in the workplace, Learning in the third age
- Continuing Professional Development
To receive your free of charge copy, please email: llas@soton.ac.uk
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