ebulletin: August 2009
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General interest
Date: 10 September, 2009
Location: School of African and Oriental Studies, London, WC1H 0XG
Event type: Workshop
Date: 21 October, 2009
Location: Tower Building, Perth Road, IT Lab Tower, IT Suite B (in the basement of the Tower)
Event type: Workshop
Date: 23 October, 2009
Location: Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ
Event type: Conference
The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) call for 2009-10 project bids is now available.
Intute has just released a new improved version of its website.
Following the Academy's Invitation To Tender for the role of TALIS Project Director, we are delighted to announce that Dr Janette Ryan and Jude Carroll will be taking on the role
Languages
Date: 23 September, 2009
Location: SR 1.06 Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds
Event type: Workshop
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 13 November, 2009
Location: University of Bath, Building 8 West, Room 2.8
Event type: Seminar
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.
Date: 18 November, 2009 - 19 November, 2009
Location: Manchester
Event type: Conference
Community Languages promotion and dissemination conference. It is aimed at Community Languages policy makers and language planners; complementary/supplementary and mainstream school teachers and headteachers; researchers and doctoral students. For more information, please see the conference website.
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: 18 November, 2009 - 19 November, 2009
Location: Manchester
Event type: Conference
Community Languages promotion and dissemination conference. It is aimed at Community Languages policy makers and language planners; complementary/supplementary and mainstream school teachers and headteachers; researchers and doctoral students. For more information, please see the conference website.
Other news
Colleagues are invited to participate in a consultation to inform the development of a new Islamic Studies Network. Please fill in the questionnaire.
Further details about this work can be found at The Higher Education Academy website.
The Diploma in Languages and International Communication is an exciting new qualification for students aged 14 to 19, due to be launched in schools and colleges from 2011. It will give students an insight into languages, culture and the wider world. Following research and consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, a final Line of Learning Statement (a description of the learning content) and final Line of Learning Criteria (which are used by Awarding Bodies to develop qualification specifications) were approved and published on 31 July.
Project Manager David Summers commented, “We’re delighted with progress to this point, and immensely grateful to all those who have contributed. The Diploma Development Partnership, alongside QCDA, DCSF and others, will now focus on working with Awarding Bodies to develop the qualification, and will prepare the ground for consortia to submit proposals in autumn 2009 to teach this Diploma from 2011. Look out for more information for both consortia and Awarding Bodies on the Diploma in Languages and International Communication website in the coming weeks.”
For general background on the Diploma please see the website.
