ebulletin: June 2010
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General interest
Date: 21 June, 2010
Location: Language Lab 0/11, Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University
Event type: Workshop
Date: 1 September, 2010 - 2 September, 2010
Location: The Edge, University of Sheffield
Event type: Conference
The project will address a particular problem: the scarcity of up-to-date, online resources for community languages. The aim of the project is to work together to co-create a community collection of online language and cultural materials which will significantly enhance existing materials to support community languages.
The National Student Survey is a census of final year undergraduate students in the UK. Conducted since 2005, the 2009 survey asks students 22 questions about their learning experience at university. Each institution's results are broken down by discipline and made publicly available on the Unistats website.
Languages
Date: 12 June, 2010
Location: York St John University, York
Event type: Seminar (supported by the LLAS guest speaker fund)
Date: 25 June, 2010 - 26 June, 2010
Location: University of Bath
Event type: Conference (supported by the LLAS guest speaker fund)
Date: 1 July, 2010 - 2 July, 2010
Location: Etc venues, London, SE1 1GA
Event type: Conference
LLAS with support from UCML are carrying out a survey on the motivations of 'non-specialists' studying languages in UK higher education and the languages and types of study on offer. The survey has been funded by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
Area Studies
Classics in the Subject Centre (CSC) at the Higher Education Academy is supporting research for a project entitled: Mapping Internationalisation in the Classics.
Other news
The Higher Education Academy Islamic Studies Network is now on Twitter. Further details about the Network can be found on The Higher Education Academy website.
The Subject Centre’s Language Café Project (2006-08) was last week awarded one of six European Awards for Lifelong Learning at a ceremony in Barcelona.
