ebulletin: June 2009
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General interest
Date: 23 October, 2009
Location: Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ
Event type: Conference
The Higher Education Academy is tendering to contract an individual to lead in the establishment and ongoing development of the TALIS project in association with the Prime Minister's Initiative and UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA).
Languages
Date: 19 June, 2009
Location: University of Bristol, School of Modern Languages, 19 Woodland Road, Lecture Theatre 1 (access through the entrance to the Arts Faculty, 5-7 Woodland Road)
Event type: Symposium
Date: 26 June, 2009
Location: University of Durham - Elvet Riverside 2 room 206 and 207
Event type: Workshop
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 26 June, 2009
Location: Coventry University
Event type: Other
Virtual Learning Environments User Group, Vth Annual Meeting Participation is FREE (subject to availability of places) and light lunch provided. Talks/discussion will include Second Life, Moodle, Sanako and Desire2Learn Email Marina Orsini-Jones for further information: m.orsini@coventry.ac.uk For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 18 September, 2009
Location: University of Ulster Belfast Campus, York Street Belfast
Event type: Symposium
Building on the success of our previous symposia in London (2007) and Nottingham (2008), the Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning is hosting a third symposium on the use of digital labs to be held in Belfast on 18 September 2009. This event aims to bring together digital lab practitioners to share examples of good practice in the use of digital labs for language teaching. With For more information, please see the conference website.
A review has been commissioned by HEFCE to investigate the health of modern foreign languages provision in English higher education (HE).
Linguistics
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 26 September, 2009
Location: The Hawthorns, University of Bristol
Event type: Applied Sign Linguistics Symposium
Date: 26 June, 2009
Location: Coventry University
Event type: Other
Virtual Learning Environments User Group, Vth Annual Meeting Participation is FREE (subject to availability of places) and light lunch provided. Talks/discussion will include Second Life, Moodle, Sanako and Desire2Learn Email Marina Orsini-Jones for further information: m.orsini@coventry.ac.uk For more information, please see the conference website.
