•Global Change and Economic Crisis in Tourism.
South Africa - 5th September 2010 to 8th September 2010
Organised by the International Geographical Union, the aim of the meeting is to discuss the relationship between tourism and development in the context of economic crisis and change, including global environmental change, and changing tourist behaviour and preferences. The conference will focus especially on the roles and potential of tourism for development, sustainability in tourism and relations between tourism, environment and broad global processes of change, highlighting different types of "crises".
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•Enhancing the Student Experience through Work Based and Placement Learning.
Leicester University - 7th September 2010 to 9th September 2010
Organised by ASET for UK HE academic and administrative placement staff, the conference will address the challenges of evaluating work and learning. Specific topics may include: assessing work-based learning; learning from and reflecting experience; equal opportunities for work placements; and  enterprise and entrepreneurship, and employment law.
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•Learning Support and Assessment through Blended Learning for Work Experience and Employability.
Thames Valley University - 13th September 2010
This event will showcase and invite feedback on the work in progress of a project based in the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Thames Valley University. The project aims to enable students, tutors, staff in the placement office and employers to liaise more effectively to provide learning support, information and networking opportunities before and during work experience. A variety of methods and technology have been used including the introduction of e-portfolios which demonstrate skills development.
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•6th National Conference: The Future of Culture, Tourism and Sport.
Inmarsat Conference Centre, London - 14th September 2010
Organised by Neil Stewart Associates and supported by a number of leisure, sports and cultural organisations, the conference will offer one of the first opportunities post-election to consider the future of the culture, leisure and sport sectors. The emphasis will be on the role of local authorities.
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•Graduate attributes in curriculum development through personal development planning.
Glyndwr University - 22nd September 2010
Organised by the Higher Education Academy, this workshop aims “to develop an effective conception and definition of graduate attributes (Gas) so that they can function as a touchstone and steer to curriculum development”, and consider how personal development planning (PDP) processes can best contribute to their acquisition. Issues to be explored include: how best to teach students to become conscious of developing and gathering the evidence for GAs; the most effective technology to support this process; GAs and employability; and opportunities for the development of GAs both within  and beyond the academic curriculum. This is the second of two workshops covering these topics, the first being held on 8 September at Swansea Metropolitan University.
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•Educating for the real world.
University of Surrey - 29th September 2010
Organised by the Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education, University of Surrey, this one day symposium focuses on the design of a curriculum that encourages, integrates, values and recognises “real world” education. This should better prepare students for life after higher education. The 'real world' denotes the world outside formal education involving, work, play, entertainment, social interaction, family and friend relationships, and much informal learning.
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•Developing an employer responsive learning provision.
Newport - 27th October 2010
This seminar is part of the Higher Education Academy's Evidence-based Practice Seminar Series 2010 and is offered by the Academy together with the Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance Subject Centre, and the University of Wales, Newport. It will highlight the methodology and lessons learned from a two year project to enhance accessibility to learning across Newport Business School for work-based learners, focusing on leadership and management.
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•ATLAS Annual Conference and PhD Colloquium 2010: Mass Tourism vs Niche Tourism.
Limassol, Cyprus - 3rd November 2010 to 5th November 2010
The conference is organised by the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Cyprus University of Technology and The Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS). It aims to consider the current state and future of tourism and leisure, with specific focus on two of the current controversies facing the industry: “Mass Tourism: Is it exploitation?” and “Niche Tourism or mass customisation?”
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•"Going for Gold”: HLST Annual Conference 2010.
St Hugh's College, Oxford - 9th November 2010
The conference aims to explore opportunities presented by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to re-vitalise curricula to enhance student learning opportunities and experiences, and to encourage student engagement with learning. Some of the likely conference themes will relate to the enhancement of students’ awareness of “real world” activities and the development of enterprise and entrepreneurship and creativity. See the conference website for further news and developments.
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•The Future Agenda for Higher Level Skills and Work-Based Learning: UVAC Annual Conference 2010.
Royal York Hotel, York - 11th November 2010 to 12th November 2010
The Conference is aimed at all those engaged in the development of higher level skills at HE level who wish to learn of and influence latest policy proposals and share good practice. It will focus on the policies of the new Government in relation to higher level skills and work-based learning and what businesses and employees want and need from HE, and include examples of innovative design and delivery of higher level work-based learning.
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•PDP in a meaner, leaner world.
The University of Birmingham - 22nd November 2010 to 23rd November 2010
This is the 10th Residential of the Centre for Recording Achievement. It will focus on a number of recent developments including e-portfolio systems and their use as a tool in capturing the personal accounts that have resulted from the PDP process, and on e-portfolio functionality as a way of linking such tools more closely to student learning and assessment. The agenda will also consider the re-awakening of interest in ‘graduate attributes’ and the growth of interest in extra-curricular ‘skills’ awards.
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•International Forum on Sustainability, Climate Change and Tourism: Challenges posed by the global economic crisis.
Bournemouth University - 25th November 2010
Organised by the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research at the Bournemouth University, the seminar aims to consider the current challenges facing sustainable development as well as the impacts of climate change as they affect tourism destinations and the tourism industry as a whole.
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•Back to the Future: Restating the Case for Tourism in Higher Education.
Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, Kent - 1st December 2010 to 3rd December 2010
This ATHE 2010 Conference, has as its themes, the changing landscapes of the tourism industry, tourism governance, and tourism in Higher Education. Possible sub-themes are the importance of ethics/sustainability/globalization, the changing HE environment, issues of employability, the relevance of tourism in wider society, and tourismification of society / of cities.
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•IEEC2010: Action in Enterprise Education.
Cardiff University - 3rd September 2010
Enterprise Educators UK and the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship are organising this conference with support from the Welsh Assembly Government. The aim is to describe and discuss the developments in enterprise and entrepreneurship education in the HE and FE sectors, and especially to highlight the achievements made in Wales.
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•11th World Leisure Congress Chuncheon 2010.
Chuncheon, Korea - 28th August 2010 to 2nd September 2010
Organised by the Korean Society of Leisure and Culture Studies in conjunction with the 1st World Leisure Games and the World Leisure Trade Show, the congress has the theme of “Leisure and Identities.” Academics, educators, students, industry professionals, and others in the field of leisure, recreation, tourism, and sports will address the academic, social, industrial, and political issues and concerns around the theme.
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•Supporting the Student Experience: a Welsh Perspective.
Aberystwyth University - 19th July 2010 to 20th July 2010
Organised by Aberystwyth University, this event aims to showcase achievements and enhancements in Welsh HE in supporting the student experience. There will be workshops on various topics including: Personal Tutoring; Supporting Students / staff development; and Whole person development - skills and employability.
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•Critical Questions, Innovations & Practices in Work Based Learning.
Teesside University - 13th July 2010 to 14th July 2010
Organised by the Work Based Learning Network of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL), the conference themes will include: the challenges of contemporary developments in WBL, in particular the critical questions facing those engaged in WBL as it faces the challenges of the 2010s; assessing and changing pedagogic practices and curriculum design to meet the needs of those engaged with WBL; and tackling tensions and engaging relationships for all WBL stakeholders.
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•Inspiring Learners: Equipping the Next Generation of Graduates.
University of Greenwich - 6th July 2010
This year’s annual learning and teaching conference aims to explore the interplay between learning, teaching, and employability, and the wider world. The focus will be on ensuring that students are equipped not only with disciplinary knowledge and competence but also with graduate-level capabilities. The roles of academic staff, academic support staff and students, and employers, alumni and social enterprise agencies will be considered.
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•Enhancing the postgraduate research experience: skills, employability and careers.
Edinburgh Napier University - 6th July 2010
This is the second of the Higher Education Academy’s 2010 events designed to help institutions enhance their postgraduate research provision. The meeting will explore postgraduate research skills, careers and employability and will include overviews and case studies arising from the Higher Education Academy’s postgraduate research experience survey (PRES) as well as the Smith report ‘One Step Beyond’.
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•Internationalising Higher Education: Where Next?
University of Plymouth - 30th June 2010
This, the Vice Chancellor's Teaching and Learning Conference 2010, has the theme “internationisation”. “Internationalising the UK Student Experience”, one of the five main topics, encompasses producing global citizens, employability in a global labour market, overseas placements and volunteering.
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•Promoting and Strengthening UK Tourism: Strategies for 2012 and Beyond.
The Commonwealth Club, Westminster, London -  23 Jun 2010 - 23rd June 2010
This Westminster policy and practice briefing, hosted by the House Magazine, will discuss the progress of the tourism strategy and it’s impact across the UK. The best ways to move forward with marketing, funding and skills strategies in the run up to the Olympic Games and beyond, evidenced by successful examples at home and abroad, will be considered.
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•Employability in the Curriculum; Beyond the Bolt-On?
University of Central Lancashire - 22nd June 2010 to 23rd June 2010
Organised by the University of Central Lancashire, this conference will focus on how student employability is best developed and enhanced, with the emphasis on non-vocational disciplines. It will: draw upon practice that has embedded employability within the whole curriculum, rather than through “bolt-on” modules; examine models and practices applicable to the varied landscape of HE; consider the contribution that all our graduates make to the world economy in times of economic crisis.
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•Higher Education Academy Annual Conference 2010.
The de Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire - 22nd June 2010 to 23rd June 2010
The theme of the conference is "Shaping the future, exploring impacts and changes to the student learning experience over the next five years". One of the four tracks is “Future Students” which encompasses student engagement, employability, enterprise, work based learning, internships, and partnerships with business and employers.
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•Blended Learning Conference 2010.
University of Hertfordshire - 16th June 2010 to 17th June 2010
Organised by the University of Hertfordshire’s Blended Learning Unit, this conference focuses on innovations in blended learning drawn from HEIs in the UK and around the world. One suggested theme is the enhancement of different aspects of the curriculum including employability, lifelong learning, study skills and personal development, and the whole student experience.:
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•Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference.
Shannon College of Hotel Management - 15th June 2010 to 16th June 2010
Organised by the Shannon College of Hotel Management, the conference is given the theme “Current Challenges and Future Opportunities” and will focus on the different types of tourism - popular, niche, and specialist - and the challenges they pose including sustainability, political issues, heritage and regeneration, and tourism education.
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•Employability CETL Conference 2010: Success in Developing Student Employability.
Sheffield Hallam University - 10th June 2010
This conference, organised by the Employability CETL (e3i) at Sheffield Hallam University, will showcase successful interventions, initiatives and innovations to develop student employability. Specifically, the programme will include: interventions, initiatives and resources that have resulted in positive feedback/evidence of employability skills development; curriculum design that has produced an increased emphasis upon employability skills; teaching approaches that have fostered employability skills within a subject setting; positive feedback from employers and alumni about employability skills development; and strategy/policy initiatives that have enhanced the importance and profile of employability within the institution. This conference will be repeated on 1 July 2010.
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•PDP and e-portfolios: looking to the future.
University of Glasgow - 8th June 2010
Organised by the Higher Education Academy, the CRA and QAA Scotland, the next meeting of the jointly run PDP forum will look at PDP in relation to the Enhancement Themes and the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) as well as recent research in the area of PDP.
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•World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and the Local.
Quebec City, Canada - 2nd June 2010 to 4th June 2010
Organised by Leeds Metropolitan University’s Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, this conference will focus on the current state and future of tourism to the sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list, especially: their protection and conservation; dealing with increasing numbers of tourists; and the needs of different stakeholders, different sites and different cultures.
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•Implementing and Sustaining Change in the Higher Education Sector: The CETL initiative, 2005-2010.
Sheffield Hallam University - 20th May 2010
Organised by the Higher Education Academy this conference provides an opportunity to promote the achievements of the CETLs in bringing about change, reflect on lessons learnt, and look forward to ways of sustaining their impact. The work of some of the CETLs focuses on employability themes including Personal Development Planning, enterprise, work-related learning, and career management skills.
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•Alumni feedback on employability skills development – responding through innovative pedagogy to embed employability within the curriculum.
Sheffield Hallam University - 12th May 2010
The Employability CETL (e3i) at Sheffield Hallam University, the organisers of this meeting, have obtained feedback from alumni on the extent to which their courses provided them with the skills and attributes - their employability skills - that have prepared them for the world of work. This research focused on the perceptions of alumni about their employability skills development whilst at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). At the meeting there will be case-studies of particular courses at SHU which have embedded employability skills in the curriculum via innovative pedagogy and used a bespoke e-portfolio to support employability skills development via PDP,
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•Employer Engagement through Work Based Learning.
West Park Centre, Dundee - 10th May 2010
This one-day conference organised by QAA Scotland will be of interest to anyone in the sector working on employability and/or work- based learning. Further details are awaited.
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•Reflective learning.
Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development - 28th April 2010 to 28th May 2010
This online course, involving a weekly commitment of about 4 hrs, provides a broad introduction to the topic of reflective learning for those who are promoting this activity with learners. The focus will be the provision of practical ideas that are applicable to working directly with students. In particular the course will address issues of helping learners to start with reflection and to deepen their reflective practice in order to enhance their learning. Participants might  be working with students and other learners in higher education and might, for example, be involved in setting up personal development planning schemes within their institutions, or within modules.
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•Researching and Evaluating Personal Development Planning and e-Portfolios.
National College for School Leadership, Nottingham - 26th April 2010 to 28th April 2010
Organised by the Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA), this International Residential Seminar will focus on electronic portfolios and their use for the implementation of PDP. Their introduction and development, and support for their use by staff as well as students, will be covered.
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•Sustainable Tourism: Issues, Debates & Challenges.
Crete & Santorini, Greece - 22nd April 2010 to 25th April 2010
Hosted by the Technological, Educational and Instituet, Crete, and the School of Sport, Leisure and Travel, Buckinghamshire New University, UK, the conference will address key issues in the development and management of sustainable tourism in an era of climate change. Academics, policy-makers, and industry practitioners are invited to attend.
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•TTRA 2010: Health, Wellness and Tourism - Healthy Tourists, Healthy Business?
Budapest - 21st April 2010 to 23rd April 2010
Organised by the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA), this conference will explore how the changing and growing need for health and wellness is affecting tourism.
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•Celebrating through Times of Crisis: prospects and potentials for tourism, festivals and cultural events.
Copenhagen, Denmark - 20th April 2010 to 21st April 2010
This conference will discuss the complex implications of the global economic downturn for the relationships between tourism, festivals and cultural events.
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•Transforming Learners, Transforming Lives Conference.
University of Plymouth - 13th April 2010 to 15th April 2010
Organised by the Centre for Excellence in Professional Placement Learning, this conference aims to discuss innovation, knowledge and practice in placement, practice or work-based learning. Themes include: preparing and supporting students as they make the most of the placement experience; and assessment for learning and for practice
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•Enabling a More Complete Education: Encouraging, Recognising and Valuing Life-Wide Learning in Higher Education.
University of Surrey - 13th April 2010 to 14th April 2010
Organised by the Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education (SCEPTrE), this conference looks at activities that prepare learners for the future beyond just studying a subject. Specifically, the opportunities and challenges afforded by university Award Schemes that enable learners to integrate academic study and learning from other parts of their lives, will be considered.
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•Supporting Sustainable e-Learning Forum (SseLF) Special Interest Group: Learning to Work.
Glasgow Caledonian University. - 25th March 2010
The meeting will address the following key questions: how can universities prepare individuals to function effectively in the contemporary and future workplace?; what is the role of groups, networks and the collective in knowledge work and work-related learning?; and what emerging technologies are useful in supporting work-related learning?
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•Sustainable Development in the Higher Education Classroom: Perspectives from Area Studies and Development Studies.
University of Birmingham - 19th March 2010
This seminar will focus on sustainable development and sustainability literacy, an attribute which graduates of all disciplines should possess. The hitherto comparatively limited knowledge exchange between the fields of Area Studies and Development Studies, will be explored.
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•Teaching Strategy and Entrepreneurship Through Cases.
University of Copenhagen - 18th March 2010 to 19th March 2010
Organised by the European Case Clearing House (ECCH), this workshop, aimed at  teachers of entrepreneurship, will explore how effective cases can be in the teaching of strategy and entrepreneurship. Participants will learn how cases can help students make sense of theory. Different types of case materials and how to source them will be covered.
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•ALPS Conference: Work-Based Learning and Assessment for the Next Decade.
Westwood Hall, Leeds - 16th March 2010 to 17th March 2010
The 2010 Conference will focus on the work and projects of the CETL: Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS). Specific themes will include: trends and potential developments of work-based learning and assessment over the next 10 years; a review of current and up-and-coming learning technologies; and factors affecting the employability of graduating students.
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•Graduates for the 21st Century: Integrating the Enhancement Themes.
Heriot-Watt University - 2nd March 2010 to 3rd March 2010
This Conference, supported by the Scottish Higher Education Enhancement Committee (SHEEC), will consider the already-completed Enhancement Themes addressing aspects of learning and teaching including employability.
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•Tourism, Sport and Mega Events International Summit.
Johannesburg, South Africa. - 24th February 2010 to 26th February 2010
Organised by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), this conference will consider the importance of the world travel and tourism sector and major sporting and cultural events to re-inspire tourists to travel to global destinations. Delegates are expected from government, industry, academic institutions, and sport associations.
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•The Role of Higher Education in the Regions.
The Bloomsbury Hotel, London - 23rd February 2010
With the theme, “The impact of higher education on economic development”, this conference, supported by the NCGE and Enterprise UK, will address a range of issues including: the role played by HEIs in the economy ie, their provision of knowledge transfer and skills for graduates and employees; and how HEIs, businesses and government can work together in the career development of graduates and employees.
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•The Cruise Industry - Emerging issues, problems and solutions.
University of Plymouth - 18th February 2010 to 20th February 2010
This is the second International Cruise Conference and is aimed at cruise industry professionals and academics, aiming to focus on the growing cruise industry, its people, products, processes and practices, and principles.
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•CAUTHE 2010: Challenging the limits.
Grand Chancellor Hotel, Hobart, Tasmania - 9th February 2010 to 12th February 2010
The CAUTHE annual conference will focus on: heritage tourism; ethical and sustainable tourism; place and destination management; consumer demand for tourism & hospitality; tourism and hospitality education; challenging the right to travel; and sport tourism and sport events.
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•Tourism & Transport.
University of Wolverhampton - 4th February 2010
Part of the Tourism Society & Travel and Tourism Diploma Series of Events 2009-10, this meeting will examine the relationship between tourism and transport. It will focus on the future of low cost airlines, cruise travel, ferries and train travel in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
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•The Entrepreneurial Academic.
The Orange Studio, Birmingham - 3rd February 2010
Organised by Blueberry Training, this workshop will suit academic and support staff with little or no enterprise experience looking to acquire new skills, or intermediates looking to improve. One of the sections is entitled, “Working with entrepreneurial students”.
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•9th ANZALS Biennial Conference
Brisbane, Australia - 1st February 2010 to 4th February 2010
Themed ' Exploring New Ideas and New Directions', this conference will address the major issues that have significantly impacted on the form and structure of leisure focused recreational activities, tourism initiatives and event planning. It will be of interest to recreation and leisure researchers, lecturers, and students, and others from the sport, outdoor, tourism industries and governmental and other sectors.
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•Employability & Personal Development Planning Conference 2010.
University of Worcester - 14th January 2010
Organised by the Academic Development and Practice Unit of the University of Worcester, this conference will: examine the latest research on PDP in the region; explore the potential of PDP as a means of developing student employability: and share and discuss the variety of PDP and employability provision across the University.
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•Creating Future-Proof Graduates Exhibition.
Birmingham Council House, Birmingham - 11th December 2009
Organised by The Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) at Birmingham City University, this meeting and exhibition is an outcome of the first of the initial HEA funded National Teaching Fellowship projects from 2007 to reach the dissemination stage. It will feature resources developed to help students identify and prepare for critical incidents which, according to employers, epitomise the major problems that newly qualified graduates encounter when they start work in the ‘real world'.
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•Strategic Priorities and Managing Risk for 2010.
The Queens Hotel, Leeds - 10th December 2009
This higher education and further education national conference will focus on the challenges and risks associated with ensuring that higher education and higher level skills training are prioritised as part of strategic planning. One of the aims concerns the development of an “employer-led curriculum to meet the needs of the economy and the higher level skills agenda and lifelong network”.
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•Beyond the Boundary: Creating New Epistemologies.
University of the West Indies, Barbados - 8th December 2009 to 11th December 2009
This is the first international tourist conference in the Caribbean region and will bring together academics and tourism industry practitioners from across the region and internationally to discuss Caribbean tourism today and in the future.
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•Navigating Shifting Sands and Moving Mountains:  New Paradigms for Tourism and Tourism Education?
Losehill Hall, Peak District National Park - 2nd December 2009 to 4th December 2009
This, the 2009 annual conference of the Association for Tourism in Higher Education (ATHE), will be an opportunity for academics to reflect on their contribution to helping shape the landscape of tourism as part of society. How should future tourism curricula influence the way students are encouraged to think about the challenges facing the world, themselves and the role of tourism in a changing and uncertain world? One of the conference themes is “Employability in tourism – new skills for a new society”.
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•Quality and responding to employer needs - sharing good practice.
Lakeside Conference Centre Aston University - 1st December 2009
This conference sees employer engagement as a complex area of activity of increasing importance both in the policy development of government and in the strategic development of HEIs. Organised by Foundation Degree Forward, The Higher Education Academy, and the Quality Assurance Agency, it focuses on the quality assurance of employer responsive provision to HEIs.
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•'Do I really need to write another essay?' Authenticity and Assessment in Foundation Degrees.
26 Nov 2009 - Aston University - 26th November 2009
Aimed at researchers/practitioners, this annual SACWG (Student, Assessment and Classification Working Group) meeting, will focus on the assessment of work-based learning with foundation degrees and similar.
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•The Ninth Residential Seminar of the Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA).
Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester - 26th November 2009 to 27th November 2009
This is an opportunity to hear about the latest developments in the world of recording achievement. The emphasis will be on the development of the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) and the increasingly significant issue of evidencing wider student achievement. One of the workshop themes is “linking PDP to employability and career development”.
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•Advances in Business Tourism and Research.
Liverpool - 22nd November 2009 to 24th November 2009
This is the 6th ALTAS Business Tourism Meeting and is aimed at academics interested in the field of business tourism. Within its broad agenda it will consider the state of business tourism today and in the future and cover current practice in teaching and research in this field.
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•Assessment and Feedback - What's The Answer?
Oxford - 12th November 2009
Within the range of issues covered by the annual conference of the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network are a number of topics which can relate to employability development of students. These include enhancing student confidence, improving their reflective practice, and developing e-portfolios for assessment of student placements.
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•Tourism Frontiers 3030.
ExCeL, London, UK - 12th November 2009
The University of Bournemouth in partnership with the World Travel Market and the Travel Daily News are organising this annual forum to identify and debate the key strategic changes – trends, opportunities and challenges - in tourism development over the next 30 years. At least two research-based presentations will add to the discussion. A ticket for the World Travel Market is necessary to attend.
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•World Travel Market 2009.
ExCel London - 9th November 2009 to 12th November 2009
Although aimed primarily at international travel professionals within travel businesses, this annual event will be of interest to those in education who wish to stay abreast of the latest developments in the diverse range of destinations and industry sectors comprising the world travel industry.
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•UVAC Annual Conference 2009: Employer and Individual Demand for Higher Level Skills – The Role of Higher Education.
The Royal York Hotel - 5th November 2009 to 6th November 2009
The conference will focus on the role of higher education in the provision of the higher levels skills needed by employers and individuals, particularly during economic recession and recovery. It will also include coverage of innovation in higher level work-based learning, funding regimes and vocational progression routes to higher education and will seek to provide examples of good practice from across the UK.
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•The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Annual Conference 2009.
Liverpool - 3rd November 2009 to 6th November 2009
ISBE ‘s 32nd annual conference, aimed at practitioners, educators, policy makers and researchers from across the world, will review and discuss the latest research on small business development and entrepreneurship education.
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•The National Work Placement Exhibition.
Olympia 2, London - 29th October 2009
Organised by the Venture Marketing Group, the two National Work Placement Exhibitions, at Olympia on 8 October and Birmingham NEC on 29 October, enable students seeking work experience, summer internships or a year in industry, including overseas opportunities, to meet a wide variety of employers.
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•Personal Tutoring in Higher Education – Where Now and Where Next?
London - 26th October 2009
Organised by SEDA, this meeting  will focus on the various personal tutoring models which are currently being deployed in UK universities. Part of the agenda is to explore the relationship between personal tutoring and Personal Development Planning.
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•euroCHRIE 2009 Annual Conference.
Helsinki - 22nd October 2009 to 24th October 2009
The theme of the conference of The European Council on Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Education is, “From Services to Experiences in Tourism and the Hospitality Industry and Education”. It will be an opportunity to discuss current developments in different sectors of the hospitality industry, especially  to review the consequences of the global economic crisis, and learn about the future challenges and prospects for the hospitality industry.
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•International Dimensions of Graduate Employability: Developing the Global Citizen.
Oxford Brookes University - 16th October 2009
Arising from the FDTL5 Enhancing Graduate Employability Project, this workshop aims to: explore institutional approaches to embedding employability into the curriculum; identify some key issues surrounding graduate employability with a specific focus on international perspectives; and consider how a difficult economic climate influences the demand for graduate skills.
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•Does It Really Make a Difference? Evaluating the Impact of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education.
University of Surrey - 15th October 2009
The overall aim of this conference, organised by the Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group, is to take stock of entrepreneurship education and see if it is having an effect and what the impact has been. The meeting will provide an update on research in the evaluation of enterprise education and provide educators with the tools to measure the impact of their entrepreneurship programmes including the assessment of students’ entrepreneurial potential and progress.
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•The 2009 International Tourism Biennial: Marketing the Past – Managing the Future.
Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey. - 14th October 2009 to 17th October 2009
Organised by the School of Tourism & Hotel Management of Çanakkale Osakis Mart University, this conference is for academics who are engaged in teaching, research or managment in the tourism and hospitality industry. Its aim is to focus on issues such as tourism sociology, hospitality management and marketing, tourist psychology, tourism economics, and sustainability. A detailed conference programme will be issued.
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•SkillsActive Higher Education Forum.
SkillsActive, Castlewood House, London - 13th October 2009
This meeting, organized by SkillsActive and aimed at those in HE working in sport and health and fitness, looks at higher level skills development in the active leisure and learning sector. It will discuss the latest developments in the sector, share best practice, and provide an opportunity to hear from industry experts.
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•Culture with a Twist: New Ways of Thinking about Cultural Tourism.
Turku, Finland - 23rd September 2009 to 24th September 2009
Organised by the European Cultural Tourism Network and Turku Touring, the conference will look at current developments in cultural tourism.
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•Tourism and the Third Sector: Releasing the Potential.
Neuchatel, Switzerland - 18th September 2009 to 20th September 2009
Organised by the The Educational Travel Foundation, the aim of this conference is to focus on the considerable potential for positive outcomes of "Tourism Sector – Third Sector interaction". Representatives from a diverse range of organizations including those from the third sector, public authorities, policy makers, industry and community representatives, tourism researchers and others are invited to attend.
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•International Conference on Tourism Development and Management: Tourism in a Changing World – Prospects and Challenges.
Kos Island, Greece - 11th September 2009 to 14th September 2009
This conference, for academics, tourism professionals, and others, will consider the changes and challenges international tourism faces today and especially the many negative social, political and environmental repercussions that affect destinations and their populations across the contemporary world.
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•Education for Sustainable Development: Graduates as Global Citizens.
Bournemouth - 10th September 2009 to 11th September 2009
Organised by Bournemouth University, this conference, in the context of internationalising higher education, will focus on promoting sustainable development and the development of global citizenship through learning, teaching and assessment, student support, extra curricular activities, and other initiatives.
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•The ASET Conference 2009.
Lancaster University - 8th September 2009 to 10th September 2009
Organised by ASET for UK HE academic and administrative placement staff, the Conference focuses on current issues in work-based and placement learning and their effects on employability development for students.
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•Developing Global Citizens.
Leeds Business School - 3rd September 2009
This event, organised by the Association of Business Schools and the BMAF Network,is about the challenges and opportunities raised by the global citizenship agenda in UK business schools. It will look at global employability, pedagogy, curriculum development and how to embed the teaching of global citizenship in HE courses.
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•International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference 2009: Advancing Enterprise Education.
Edinburgh - 2nd September 2009 to 4th September 2009
Organised by Entrepreneurship Educators UK and the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NGCE), this conference expects to encompass several broad themes including 'raising awareness', 'enterprise in context', and 'enterprising pathways'. Other themes may be added and will be announced on the conference website.
» External website
 
•The Power of Two Career Management and Development: Making the most of PDP.
University of Leicester - 15th July 2009
This joint Centre for Recording Achievement/Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services event, the fourth in an annual series, will showcase a range of practice which seeks to ensure students undertaking PDP gain maximal advantage in their career thinking, management and development and recognise the links between PDP, CPD, graduate development and lifelong learning.
» External website
 
•The International Event Management Summit.
Gold Coast, Australia - 6th July 2009 to 8th July 2009
Organised by the Australian Centre for Event management, the Summit is aimed at public and corporate event practitioners as well as researchers. The key theme is, “Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Development: How do public and corporate events engage with the global agenda?”. The Summit will also deal with more general themes associated with the further professionalisation of the Australian and International events industry (e.g. managing event businesses, event management technology).
» External website
 
•The Future of the Student Learning Experience.
University of Manchester. - 30th June 2009 to 2nd July 2009
The Higher Education Academy's 2009 Annual Conference is likely to touch on a number of aspects of student employability including, for example, employability within the student life-cycle, preparation of students for the multinational and multicultural workplace, and innovation in creativity, student enterprise, and employer engagement. See the conference website for developments.
» External website
 
•Resorting to the Coast: Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside.
Blackpool - 25th June 2009 to 29th June 2009
Organised by the Leeds Metropolitan University Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, the conference will focus on current issues and trends within coastal tourism.
» External website
 
•Brokering Skills Solutions Together in Northern Ireland.
University of Ulster - 25th June 2009
Organised by SkillsActive, the Chief Leisure Officers Association (CLOA), and the University of Ulster, this seminar offers health and fitness sector employers the chance to find out about the changes to the skills and qualifications landscape across Northern Ireland. It is hoped to: arrive at a common understanding and definition of the term ‘employability skills’; receive an update on what the current and future fitness workforce will look like in 2012; and provide a interactive brokering skills session.
» External website
 
•2020 Vision with 2009 Hindsight: Policymaking for Skills and the Global Economy.
University of Greenwich - 20th June 2009
One of a series of seminars on the theme, 'Current Issues in Post Compulsory Education', this meeting will look at the drive in the UK and Australia to provide students with the skills needed for a successful, ‘world class’ economy. The rationale for this policy and what this means for all those concerned with post-compulsory education will be considered.
» External website
 
•Internationalisation of the Curriculum Conference 2009.
Oxford Brookes University - 19th June 2009
With the theme, “Internationalising the home student”, this conference, organised by the Oxford Brookes University's Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, will consider the need for and the ways of preparing graduates to be ‘effective global citizens’. One of the discussion groups will focus on “widening the graduate attribute debate: a higher education for global citizenship”.
» External website
 
•THRIC 09: 'Contemporary Issues in Irish & Global Tourism & Hospitality.
Dublin - 16th June 2009 to 17th June 2009
This, the 5th Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference (THRIC), will focus on eco-, leisure/sport, food, events, and volunteer and other forms of tourism, nationally and internationally. There will also be sessions on HR in tourism and hospitality, entrepreneurs/innovation, SMEs and other topics.
» External website
 
•Graduate Employability: The What, the Why, and the How?
Oxford Brookes University Business School. - 16th June 2009
This one-day workshop, presented by the FDTL5 Enhancing Graduate Employability Project and hosted by HLST & BMAF, will offer the opportunity to: explore institutional approaches to embedding employability; discuss some key issues surrounding graduate employability; consider the demand for graduate skills in a difficult economic climate; and enable the sharing of best practice within the higher education sector to enhance graduate level employability.
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•Investing in Talent for a Positive Future: The Role of Hospitality and Tourism Work Placements.
Edinburgh - 11th June 2009 to 12th June 2009
This, the 24th Annual PATH (Placement Advisors for Tourism and Hospitality) Conference, will be of interest to educators, placement advisers and employers. It will focus on current issues and especially the critical role of placement in workforce development, and in particular how to ensure continued investment in work placements in a challenging economy. Further details are available from Sarah Graves at sgraves@brookes.ac.uk
» External website
 
•Telling e-portfolio Stories 2009 conference.
University of Wolverhampton - 10th June 2009 to 11th June 2009
This conference, organised by the University of Wolverhampton and JISC, is an opportunity to share “e-portfolio stories” from areas such as learning, teaching, assessment, PDP, CPD, work based learning, research, strategy and policy. The intention is to align the conference closely with the work of JISC and ‘Effective Practice with e-Portfolios’ and theme the stories from the perspectives of learners, practitioners, institutions and lifelong learning.
» External website
 
•Flying Start Programme: Sports Business (technology, service or product related).
Wolverhampton - 8th June 2009 to 10th June 2009
This free FlyingStart business start-up programme, organised by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, is open to all final year students, postgraduates and recent graduates with a sports related business idea. The Programme is a practical and hands-on introduction to starting a business. It will provide the essential knowledge to launch an enterprise and allocate a personal mentor for 12 months and give access to an extended network of individuals able to help with the business start-up process.
» External website
 
•Tourism Academics and Employers Conferences.
The Strand Palace Hotel, London. - 1st June 2009
Jointly organized by ABTA, the ITT and the Tourism Society, these conferences offer travel recruiters and human resource experts two opportunities to meet tourism academics to influence course content and to discuss what knowledge and skills graduates need to enter the travel and tourism industry. There will be a similar meeting on Wednesday 18th March 2009 at Leeds Metropolitan University. See the linked website for details.
» External website
 
•7th Asia-Pacific CHRIE Conference 2009.
Singapore - 28th May 2009 to 31st May 2009
The conference focus is hospitality, tourism and event management in the Asia-Pacific and the main theme is “creative hospitality research and innovative education: reflecting the present, embracing the future”. One of the key topics will be current trends and future developments in careers in the hospitality industry, and management trainee programmes. See the website for conference information updates.
» External website
 
•Student Perspectives on Employability.
Sheffield Hallam University. - 14th May 2009
The third annual conference of the Sheffield Hallam University Centre for Excellence in Employability will focus on student perspectives on employability. It will explore how students understand the notion of employability, to what extent they deem this an important aspect of their higher education studies, the aspects of employability they feel need a greater emphasis and suggestions for programme (re)design.
» External website
 
•The University of Northampton Learning and Teaching Conference.
University of Northampton , Sunley Management Centre, Park Campus. - 13th May 2009
Organised by the University of Northampton, this conference aims to enhance understanding of four key transitions in students’ learning, one of which is “Employment/employability: transitions into work”.
» External website
 
•Employer Engagement: How far should universities go to meet the needs of employers?
The Commonwealth Club, London. - 13th May 2009
This Times Higher Education conference has a wide agenda including: the development of high level skills; learning and working; the state of work-based learning; and employers’ views of workforce skills for the 21st century.
» External website
 
•University Challenge! Careers for life have gone… delivering effective entrepreneurship education across the faculties.
Napier University Business School, Edinburgh. - 7th May 2009
This BMAF workshop considers the education agenda and how value can be added, and the employability and enterprise agenda and how graduates from all subjects can be helped to decide on suitable career paths.
» External website
 
•PlaceNet Conference 2009.
Edinburgh - 22nd April 2009 to 24th April 2009
The conference will be of interest to HE placement professionals. Details are yet to be announced.
» External website
 
•Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.
Amman, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan - 4th April 2009 to 7th April 2009
Organised by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, and the UK Council for British Research in the Levant, Jordan, this conference will critically explore the major issues facing the MENA region with regard to the development of tourism and its relationships with heritage and culture.
» External website
 
•Planning for the Future - Learning from the Past: Contemporary Developments in Tourism, Travel and Hospitality.
Rhodes, Greece - 3rd April 2009 to 5th April 2009
Organised by the University of the Aegean, this meeting looks at how today’s tourism, travel and hospitality environment is changing. Industry practitioners, educators and researchers are expected to attend.
» External website
 
•An International Conference: Tourist Experiences: Meanings, Motivations, Behaviours.
University of Central Lancashire, Preston - 1st April 2009 to 4th April 2009
In the context of expanding participation in tourism, with new destinations, new attractions, and new markets continuing to emerge, the purpose of this international conference is to provide a forum for exploring the diversity of behaviours, motivations and meanings embraced by contemporary tourist experiences. It is expected that the conference will attract academics / researchers from both the field of tourism and other related disciplinary backgrounds
» External website
 
•Learning for a Complex World.
University of Surrey, Guildford.  Tuesday 31st March & Wednesday 1st April 2009 - 31st March 2009 to 1st April 2009
Organised by the University of Surrey, the conference aims to encourage exploration of the concept of ”learning to be professional”, “in the context of enabling learners to develop the agency and capability necessary to become an effective and successful professional”. It will explore gaining experience of real professional work, the qualities needed for good professional practice, the role of PDP and learning through reflection, and integration of academic and extra-curricular experiences.
» External website
 
•HEEG: Essential Tools for Entrepreneurship Education.
Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading. - 26th March 2009
The Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group (HEEG) is a network of universities in the South East of England working together to promote student entrepreneurship. The event will showcase examples of experiential learning tools, including games, videos, online applications, etc. It will be an opportunity to hear about the theory underpinning entrepreneurship education and to try out these tools.
» External website
 
•Careers in Sport + Leisure 2009.
Sheffield - 25th March 2009 to 26th March 2009
Sponsored by ISPAL, Sheffield Hallam University, and SkillsActive this inaugural Careers in Sport and Leisure event aims to increase knowledge of the industry and the opportunities within it for young people who leave university with a sport and/or leisure related qualification. Some of the country’s biggest trainers, employers, and young people interested in their career future will be able to meet and interact.
» External website
 
•Internationalising the curriculum.
An online course - 23rd March 2009 to 1st May 2009
Run by the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, this fully online course will of benefit to academics developing, or planning to develop, curricula to prepare graduates for living and working in an international, multi-cultural society. Participants will need to bring to the course the outline or details of a course (a whole programme not a module) that they wish to internationalise.
» External website
 
•ASET and QAA Codes of Practice for Work-Based and Placement Learning - New ASET Code Launch.
Nottingham - 19th March 2009
The revised Section 9 of the QAA Code of Practice: Work-Based and Placement Learning was published in October 2007. This meeting, organised by ASET, “the professional body for placement and employability staff”, will discuss  the QAA Code which is aimed at policymakers in HEIs who are involved in drawing up strategies and procedures regarding their institution's placement management system. The ASET Code of Practice has now also been revised to keep both Codes fully complementary. This 2nd edition, entitled 'A Good Practice Guide for Placement and Other Work-Based Learning Opportunities in Higher Education', will be launched at this event.
» External website
 
•Enhancement Themes Conference 2009: ‘Developing Graduates for the 21st Century’.
Heriot-Watt University - 5th March 2009 to 6th March 2009
Sponsored by The Scottish Higher Education Enhancement Committee (SHEEC), the conference will build on and integrate work from all the previous Enhancement Themes. The new theme, and focus of this meeting, will address the questions, “what should be the attributes of a graduate from Scottish Higher Education in the 21st century and how can the achievement of these attributes best be supported?”
» External website
 
•The 6th Prowess Annual International Conference 2009.
Blackpool - 4th March 2009 to 5th March 2009
Prowess is the UK association of organisations and individuals supporting women who wish to start and grow businesses. This Conference, an important event in the women's enterprise support calendar, focuses on “'Risk and Reward' to ensure female entrepreneurs are given the right support to come through turbulent economic times and excel on the enterprise journey”.
» External website
 
•Careers for Tourism  Students.
University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus. - 4th March 2009
Organised by the Tourism Society this meeting aims to help tourism students to obtain expert and practical advice on getting ahead in tourism careers from  people currently working in the industry.
» External website
 
•Scottish Higher Education Employability Network meeting.
Dundee. - 19th February 2009
The second meeting on the Network this academic year will include: a seminar on evaluation by SQW Consulting; proposed amendments to the SQW Consulting evaluation framework for 2009 reports; and a further proposal from the Employability Co-ordinators’ Network for a cross-institutional development project on enhancing the employability of international PGT students through PDP.
» External website
 
•Enterprise Educators UK Best Practice Event.
University of Liverpool - 18th February 2009
This event, organised, by Enterprise Educators UK, will focus on techniques to engage students with case studies on successful pedagogies and promotion of enterprise programmes. More details will be posted on the website.
» External website
 
•CAUTHE 2009: See Change: Tourism and Hospitality in a Dynamic World.
Fremantle, Western Australia - 10th February 2009 to 13th February 2009
For those interested in how tourism is evolving in Western Australia CAUTHE 2009 focuses on change across a range of tourism and hospitality research and education related areas. These include environments, cultures, economics, markets, paradigms and more.
» External website
 
•Furthering Higher Education 2009: Improving the HE in FE student experience.
Aston Business School, Aston University - 30th January 2009
The aim of this QAA event is to promote good practice and offer practical advice for higher education lecturers in further education colleges. It will also highlight some of the examples of good practice in HEFCE's forthcoming publication 'Supporting higher education in further education colleges'. Among the many likely work shop topics  are: providing information advice and guidance for higher education students; work-based learning and assessment in higher education programmes; and developing students’ reflective skills.
» External website
 
•Promoting the European Dimension in Learning and Teaching.
West Park Conference Centre, Dundee - 23rd January 2009
The British Council and the Higher Education Academy are holding a seminar focusing on recent developments in the Bologna Process and the  implications for learning and teaching at subject level. The event will have a particular focus on curriculum development in relation to mobility, study and work placements and linked issues. UK Bologna Experts, staff from the HE Academy Subject Centres, international Bologna and Tuning subject area representatives, and students will provide a national as well as a European-wide perspective on these topics.
» External website
 
•An Introduction to Work Placement Management.
Woburn House, London. - 11th December 2008
This meeting of the Association for Sandwich Education and Training and aimed at work placement managers, officers, administrators and academic placement tutors, will provide guidance for the management and support of work placements. Participants will be furnished with a basis from which they can develop their own plans and manage the day-to-day problems likely to be faced in their jobs.
» External website
 
•Right skills? Right contexts? Right Dreams? Catching the wave: key issues for effective entrepreneurship educators.
University of Glamorgan - 11th December 2008 to 12th December 2008
This BMAF workshop, hosted by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Entrepreneurial Learning SIG, builds on previous work. Earlier in the year the first two EL-SIG workshops were set up to discuss three topics: what should students learn?; how should students be assessed?; and how should teaching be evaluated? Two new areas of interest have now emerged and will be considered, namely how entrepreneurial capacity in students can be advanced and how can business schools’ contribution evolve in the context of calls for more interdisciplinary approaches.
» External website
 
•Four years in the Global spotlight: How the 2012 Games can involve and enhance the Further and Higher Education sectors.
University of Westminster - 10th December 2008
The event will focus on defining and developing the opportunities for the FE and HE sectors which are generated by the hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
» External website
 
•Going Global 3.
ExCel, London. - 4th December 2008 to 5th December 2008
Organised by the British Council, this conference will explore the effects of the global expansion of higher education in the 21st century, in particular the impact the global economy might have upon it. Themes include the role of international education in promoting entrepreneurship and employability, especially the role of international education in developing a skilled workforce able to operate in the global knowledge economy.
» External website
 
•Beyond Quality Assurance : Enhancing the Student Experience.
Canterbury Cathedral Lodge. - 3rd December 2008 to 5th December 2008
This, the annual conference of the Association for Tourism in Higher Education, aims to cover a variety of themes reflecting the conference’s title. These are listed on the website.
» External website
 
•Work in Progress: Assessment of Work-Based Learning in Foundation Degrees.
Oxford - 27th November 2008
Further details are available from Lynn Farrell: lfarrell@brookes.ac.uk or phone 01865 485844. Places are limited to 45 persons.
» External website
 
•Personal Development Planning and e-portfolio: supporting Learning and Development for the 21st Century
Manchester Conference Centre - 20th November 2008 to 21st November 2008
This meeting, the eighth National Residential Seminar of the Centre for Recording Achievement, will focus on developments in policy and practice. Further details and the full programme are awaited.
» External website
 
•RENT XXII - Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Portugal. - 20th November 2008 to 21st November 2008
Organised by the University of Beira Interior, Portugal, and the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, this meeting is expected to cover a wide range of topics including entrepreneurship education and the role of higher education in fostering entrepreneurship.
» External website
 
•Higher Education - Skills in the Workplace: Delivering employer-led higher level work-based learning.
Royal York Hotel, York - 13th November 2008 to 14th November 2008
The UVAC Annual Conference 2008 will focus on identifying and then delivering the higher level work-based learning employers and employees want in the context of future UK skills requirements. All HE levels from foundation degrees to postgraduate qualifications will be covered and particular emphasis will be placed on recruiting learners through the development of work-based progression routes from Apprenticeship and 14 – 19 diplomas.
» External website
 
•Taking Tourism Seriously: The Way Ahead for the UK Visitor Economy.
London - 6th November 2008
This Westminster Briefing will provide an opportunity for central, regional and local authorities and the tourism industry to consider the framework set out by the Government’s initiative, ‘Winning: A Tourism Strategy for 2012 and Beyond". It will consider whether the Tourism Strategy is working and how this will impact upon the sector.
» External website
 
•Culture and Event Tourism: Issues and Debates.
The “Belediye Kültür Merkezi”, Alanya, Turkey. - 5th November 2008 to 9th November 2008
This conference is organised by The Faculty of Business at Akdeniz University and the School of Sport, Leisure and Travel at Buckinghamshire New University. Its aim is to provide tourism scholars, practitioners, and other stakeholders with an opportunity to explore and debate contemporary and future issues relating to the planning and management of event and cultural tourism.
» External website
 
•Tourism & Climate Change: International Perspectives.
Oxford Brookes University - 30th October 2008
Organised by Oxford Brookes University, the Tourism Society and the Higher Education Academy this meeting will consider the challenges faced by the tourism industry brought about by climate change in terms of mitigation, adaptation, and responding to consumer demand. The discussion will focus on recent research conducted by Oxford Brookes University, international case studies, changing traveller and destination behaviours and carbon offsetting.
» External website
 
•Enhancing PDP practice: strategy, policy, research and evaluation.
Dundee - 24th October 2008
Onganised by the Higher Education Academy, the CRA and QAA Scotland, the Forum will provide updates on policy and proposals for an outline programme of work to support PDP in Scottish HE during 2008-09 (based on feedback from the Forum in June) before focusing on the QAA-funded Dundee project on guidelines for institutions implementing PDP.
» External website
 
•Tourism & Events Management: The British Marketplace.
University of Surrey - 16th October 2008
Organised by the Tourism Society, this evening meeting puts the spotlight on the British tourism sector, its current situation, new developments, and what can be done to ensure Britain’s survival as a top tourist destination.
» External website
 
•Enterprise & Innovation in HE.
The Royal Society, London - 16th October 2008
There is a demand for higher education to be responsive to business and to develop not only more employable but also more enterprising graduates. Based on a series of recent research reports, this conference will consider how universities, colleges and businesses can better work together in mutually beneficial enterprising and innovative partnerships.
» External website
 
•AMFORHT Lisbon World Forum 2008.
Lisbon - 8th October 2008 to 12th October 2008
Organised by AMFORHT, the World Association for Hospitality and Tourism Education and Training, this conference has as its theme, “Climate Change and Challenges for Tourism Education”.
» External website
 
•10th World Leisure Congress.
Quebec, Canada - 6th October 2008 to 10th October 2008
Organised by World Leisure, the congress has as its theme, “How do communities adapt leisure to their development?” It will deal with leisure as a driver for the development and integration of communities throughout the world, considering how the various communities, regions and countries convert leisure into social, cultural, economic and environmental development. Also it will look at how individuals, society, governments, industry and associations are involved in the development of leisure (social, cultural, outdoor recreation, tourism, sports, science or other).
» External website
 
•The Future Success of Tourism: New Directions, Challenges and Opportunities.
Dublin, Ireland. - 30th September 2008 to 2nd October 2008
The goal of the International Society of Tourism and Travel Educators (ISTTE) annual conference is to provide a forum for educators, researchers, industry executives, consultants, government officials and others to explore issues related to the teaching of travel and tourism at all levels from high school/secondary school to university and graduate schools.
» External website
 
•1st International Cruise Conference: Cruise Sector Growth - Exploring Opportunities & Challenges.
Bremerhaven, Germany - 26th September 2008 to 27th September 2008
The conference, aimed at academics and industry representatives, will focus on the future of the cruise sector.
» External website
 
•Working with Entrepreneurial Graduates: Understanding, encouraging and challenging entrepreneurial graduates.
Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. - 16th September 2008
This is billed as “A Good Practice Workshop for Careers Professionals and Enterprise Support Staff in Higher Education, the aim being to stimulate thinking about new ways to work with entrepreneurial students and graduates.
» External website
 
•The International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference (IEEC).
London - 8th September 2008 to 10th September 2008
Led by the NCGE and Enterprise Educators UK, the conference provides an opportunity share the global knowledge, experience and good practice in developing enterprising students and graduate entrepreneurs across all disciplines and contexts. It will consider the challenges of developing the concept of an entrepreneurial university and embedding entrepreneurial activity into the fabric of institutions.
» External website
 
•Employability and PDP - A suitable case for partnership?
University of Leicester - 4th September 2008
This joint CRA/AGCAS event aims to: describe the latest policy and practice agendas at national level; identify a range of partnerships that Careers Services and academic staff may be part of to support effective PDP; and  showcase examples of such partnership practice and the learning that has emerged from such initiatives.
» External website
 
•Working With Entrepreneurial Students and Graduates.
LSE in London - 4th September 2008
Organised by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, this workshop is for careers advisers and other professionals interested in understanding, encouraging and challenging entrepreneurial students and graduates through practical approaches. It will also take place on Tuesday September 16 at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham.
» External website
 
•The ASET Placement and Employability Professionals’ Conference
University of Plymouth - 2nd September 2008 to 4th September 2008
The ASET annual conference will address the challenges of working concurrently with the international and local work-based and placement learning markets. There will be three sessions each with a geographical theme: working internationally both with overseas students and placements overseas; national placements concentrating on good practice, preparing and supporting students; and local issues including working with regional organisations, SMEs and the not-for-profit sector.
» External website
 
•Improving Student Learning – Through the Curriculum.
The University of Durham. - 1st September 2008 to 3rd September 2008
Organised by The Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, this is the 16th Improving Student Learning Symposium. One of the symposium workshops is entitled, “Using graduate attributes to win the curriculum culture wars: Developing practical strategies to achieve university wide curriculum renewal”. It will focus on the challenges of achieving systemic embedding of the development of graduate attributes in university learning experiences.
» External website
 
•Researching work-based learning: constructing an evidence base.
Birmingham - 9th July 2008
The Higher Education Academy and Foundation Degree Forward are hosting this one-day event focusing on current research which contributes to the construction of an evidence base to inform the development of, and policy for, work-based learning.
» External website
 
•Transforming the student experience.
Harrogate - 1st July 2008 to 3rd July 2008
This, the Higher Education Academy Annual Conference 2008, is expected to encompass student feedback and engagement, and employment, entrepreneurship and recruitment among its themes.
» External website
 
•The Third International Blended Learning Conference:
University of Hertfordshire - 18th June 2008 to 19th June 2008
The aims of the conference are to explore how embedding the use of technology alongside more traditional face-to-face teaching can enhance the student experience. Sessions include the support of students in work-based learning and ensuring that students leave university with the core skills required by employers. Blended learning methods can help teachers meet all of these needs and more.
» External website
 
•Engaging students with enterprise education initiatives - use of branding and identity.
Leeds Metropolitan University - 18th June 2008
It can be frustrating for academics who have established enterprise programmes and initiatives only to have their students fail to see the relevance. Helping students to engage with enterprise initiatives is the theme of this Enterprise Educators UK event. There will be practical guidance on strategies and techniques including the branding of enterprise programmes.
» External website
 
•PDP: reflecting on the past year and supporting future institutional and sector priorities.
Glasgow Caledonian University - 13th June 2008
Organised by the HEA-CRA-QAA Scotland PDP Forum, the day will include discussion of future priority areas and activities for 2008-9, and a session on enhancing PDP activities in institutions through effective strategy policy and practice.
» External website
 
•23rd PATH Annual Conference: 2020 Vision: tourism & hospitality work placements fit for the 21st century.
Dublin, Ireland - 12th June 2008 to 13th June 2008
PATH  (Placement Advisors for Tourism and Hospitality), part of the Council for Hospitality Management Education, is an organisation committed to improving the quality of work placements in the hospitality, tourism and related industries.  The annual conference attracts an international audience of employers, educators, placement advisers and others interested in work placement issues.  This year’s conference will focus on the future, and in particular how to ensure the continued relevance of work placements in the face of rapid changes in both the educational and work environment.
» External website
 
•Assessment of Student Learning for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Modules and Courses.
University of Salford - 11th June 2008
Organised by Enterprise Educators UK, this event will focus on Enterprise and Entrepreneurship modules and courses developed by UK Universities and explore how best to meet assessment criteria through non-traditional approaches.
» External website
 
•6th Asia-Pacific (APacCHRIE) Conference and THE-ICE International Panel of Experts Forum 2008
Perth, Western Australia - 21st May 2008 to 24th May 2008
The applied nature of tourism and hospitality education presents a number of challenges to both educators and the industry, hence the conference theme of "Developing and delivering industry-relevant education and research". Its aim is to consider how how to collectively strengthen and deepen the relationships that exist between education institutions and the industry.
» External website
 
•Innovation in Placement Assessment - E-Portfolio Project Dissemination Event.
De Montfort University, Leicester - 9th May 2008
ASET is the professional body for placement and employability staff in HE and FE. This meeting will focus on the outcomes from an ASET funded research project on innovative methods in the assessment of work-based learning. The title of the project was 'Innovative Methods in Portfolio Assessment: A Scoping Study of Implementation and Good Practice'.
» External website
 
•International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD).
Skopje and Ohrid, Macedonia - 8th May 2008 to 11th May 2008
Amongst the diverse topics covered by this conference on entrepreneurship and business development in South-East Europe, are public policies on entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, and university industry collaboration.
» External website
 
•Employability and professional learning.
Sheffield Hallam University - 25th April 2008
This workshop will showcase current projects and initiatives undertaken by CETLs  in the areas of student employability and professional learning. Five CETLs will be represented including “Embedding, Enhancing and Integrating Employability”, Centres for “Promoting Learner Autonomy”, “Employability through the Humanities” and “Professional Learning from the Workplace”, and “White Rose CETL Enterprise”.
» External website
 
•Promoting Entrepreneurship by Universities.
Hameenlinna, Finland - 20th April 2008 to 22nd April 2008
The Conference is organised by FINPIN, HAMK University of Applied Sciences, and Häme Convention Bureau. It will focus on how universities can promote entrepreneurship by research and education, promoting activities, and transferring best practice. Teachers, researchers, practitioners, and politicians who are interested in themes and issues concerning entrepreneurship, are expected to attend.
» External website
 
•PlaceNet 2008 Annual Conference.
Brighton - 9th April 2008 to 11th April 2008
Placenet provides a forum for higher education placement officers and tutors who wish to enhance the organisation, management and provision of quality vocational experience for their students. The annual conference focuses on issues affecting placements and this year has speakers from higher education, employers and placement organisations.
» External website
 
•Aspire Conference.
Harper Adams University College, Shropshire - 7th April 2008 to 8th April 2008
This one day conference will focus on some of the work arising from the Aspire CETL programme. Approaches to support and teaching in each of the five Aspire programme’s overlapping themes will be featured, namely: work-based learning; placement learning; professional skills development; e-learning; and learner support.
» External website
 
•Staff Engagement with Personal Development Planning.
University of Reading - 7th April 2008
Organised by the Centre for Recording Achievement for staff in academic and central departments across universities, this seminar aims to give insights into some of the 'success secrets' of staff engagement with PDP.
» External website
 
•Entrepreneurial Culture & Firm Creation: 1st International Conference.
Monastir, Tunisia - 27th March 2008 to 30th March 2008
Organised by the University of Sfax and the University Environment Association, this Conference will focus on teaching entrepreneurship at university and its pedagogical practices and methods. The programme will include: method and mechanism for entrepreneurial culture development; innovative pedagogical practices in teaching entrepreneurship; entrepreneurs and tutors’ experiences in business creation; and evaluation methods and impact studies in teaching entrepreneurship.
» External website
 
•EIGTUR 2008- 1. International Meeting on Tourism Management.
Brazil - 25th March 2008 to 29th March 2008
This event will provide an opportunity to discuss recent developments in tourism management and related areas. As well as covering some of the particular work sectors, eg  HR, information management, business strategy, finance, and marketing, within the industry, the meeting will include sessions on the environmental, sustainability, and other issues affecting the growth of the tourism industry worldwide.
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•PDP: Sharing Practice Event.
University of St. Andrews - 19th March 2008
Jointly run by the Higher Education Academy, the Centre for Recording Achievement, and QAA, this practitioner-led event is an opportunity to share practice relating to Personal Development Planning (PDP). It will consist of at least one Marketplace session, and two in-depth "show and tell" sessions, all with a focus on sharing practice.
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•Fundamentals of Events Management.
Birmingham - 12th March 2008 to 13th March 2008
Organised by the British Association of Conference Destinations, the aim of this workshop is to enable delegates to gain an overall understanding of the events, conference and hospitality industry.
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•Lighting the Flame, Shaping Skills for the Future.
Sheffield - 12th March 2008
Organised by SkillsActive, this education conference will cover new developments in vocational learning and foundation degrees in the sports and active leisure sector. lt aims to as gauge a better understanding of employer engagement and the skills drive for 2012.
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•Student Engagement with Personal Development Planning.
The University of Wolverhampton - 10th March 2008
This seminar will be of interest to PDP practitioners and others involved in supporting staff and student development.  It will provide the opportunity for pooling experience, showcasing practice and discussing factors that inhibit and promote student engagement with Personal Development Planning in HE.
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•Enhancement Themes Conference 2008.
Edinburgh Conference Centre - 5th March 2008 to 6th March 2008
Although the full programme for this Scottish Higher Education Enhancement Committee (SHEEC) conference is not yet available it is anticipated that some employability issues, eg enhancing graduate attributes, will be addressed.
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•Engaging Our Students by Linking Enquiry-Based Learning, Learning Journals and Reflective Thinking.
The Higher Education Academy, York - 7th February 2008
This workshop, for university lecturer/teachers, will address how to enable students to maximize their learning through the use of ‘Learning Journals’ and ‘Reflective Thinking’. It will be repeated on 28 February at a venue to be decided.
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•International Conference on Problem-based Learning.
University of Colima,  Mexico. - 28th January 2008 to 1st February 2008
In exploring the state and development of Problem Based-Learning, this meeting will focus on the range of skills that students use including: the search for information; analysis; reflection; discussion; and team working.
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•Entrepreneurship Workshop for Postgraduate Students.
University of Hull - 23rd January 2008
This interactive workshop is designed to provide participants with 'hands-on' experience of some of the skills that are required to help in the development of an entrepreneurial outlook. There may be some bias towards science and technology
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•The current and future direction of higher education in further education colleges.
Birmingham. - 22nd January 2008
This one-day conference will consider likely higher education (HE) futures with particular emphasis on the currently changing context which encompasses the Further Education Bill, the skills agenda, working with employers and engaging students in quality assurance processes.
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•Enhancing Graduate Employability Via E-Learning and Work-Related Learning.
University of Glasgow - 16th January 2008
This workshop, organised by the HE Academy Business, Management , Accountancy and Finance Subject Centre, focuses on materials developed to enhance the employability of graduates. These relate to work experience, PDP and other employability related activities.
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•Enhancing Graduate Employability via E-Learning and Work-Related Learning.
University of Glasgow - 16th January 2008
This BMAF Subject Centre workshop will explore outcomes of the E-Evolve FDTL project, especially the e-learning materials developed to enhance the employability of graduates. These are designed for use with students for PDP, work placement preparation/support and other employability related activities. The meeting will also introduce 'Aiming University Learning @ Work', a 3-year cross-university work-related learning project funded by the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish universities.
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•Taking Control of the Research Skills Agenda.
The Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod Wells - 14th January 2008
Aimed at experienced research supervisors and with input from postgraduate researchers, the meeting will consider research and generic skills development training for postgraduate researchers.
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•Inspiring and Developing Enterprising People: Building Global Networks.
University of Leeds - 10th December 2007 to 11th December 2007
The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Leeds Conference is tailored to the interests of faculty members, university administrators and graduate students involved with the study of entrepreneurship and its global impact. It aims to explore aspects of practice and research in the development of entrepreneurship skills in the context of the distinctive requirements necessary to produce global entrepreneurs.
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•ATHE 2007 Conference: Shaping the Future of Tourism Education.
Oxford - 5th December 2007 to 7th December 2007
The conference will provide an opportunity to address issues which are central to present and future tourism education. It will consider the changes taking place in the tourism industry and how tourism graduates can be equipped with the knowledge and skills to understand tourism as a phenomenon, to manage tourism organisations and to shape policy for the future.
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•Foundation Degrees, employers and work-based learning in an international context.
London - 27th November 2007
This conference offers an opportunity to explore work-based learning and how education providers can work with employers in an international context, eg in Europe and China.
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•Personalisation, Developments and Planning.
Manchester - 22nd November 2007 to 23rd November 2007
The Seventh National Residential Seminar of The Centre for Recording Achievement will focus on new developments and practices in Personal Development Planning and E-portfolios. It will be of interest to those working in 14-19 Education, FE, HE and within Continuing Professional and/or Employee Development.
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•UVAC Annual Conference 2007: Work Based Learning - Excellence in Practice.
York - 8th November 2007 to 9th November 2007
The conference theme is ‘excellence’ in higher level, work based learning delivery. As well as a review of what has been achieved, the further development of higher level work based learning provision will be considered. It is expected that many examples of innovation and  excellence in work based learning will be showcased.
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•Progressing with Personal Development Planning: a Seminar for Senior Managers.
Universities UK, London. - 30th October 2007
The seminar is organised by the Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA). It is aimed at Senior Managers, Deans, Heads of Faculties/Schools/ Departments and others, and will: consider how PDP can align with institutional and departmental strategies and how PDP can be integrated into departmental practice; look at the revisions to the Guidelines for Personal Development Planning; and formally launch the PDP Update for Senior Managers that the CRA has produced for the Higher Education Academy.
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•EuroCHRIE Leeds 2007.
Leeds - 25th October 2007 to 27th October 2007
The theme of EuroCHRIE Leeds 2007 will be "25 years of Showcasing Innovation in Education, Training and Research through Tourism, Hospitality and Events". The diverse programme is expected to include topics such as: skills and labour market studies relating to tourism, hospitality and events; education and careers decision making; personal skills development; and placement and internships/study abroad.
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•Conference on Entrepreneurship Education.
London - 23rd October 2007
Organised by KnowledgeLondon and supported by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship and other agencies, this conference considers entrepreneurship education from the perspective of the knowledge transfer community. In particular, the day will consider how to encourage university staff to be more entrepreneurial, and how to engage with the large and diverse group of entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs - students and graduates.
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•Future Foundations - Lets talk.......Employer Engagement.
Nottingham - 17th October 2007
This meeting, organised by EMFEC in partnership with other organisations, will consider the skills agenda and employer engagement relating to foundation degrees.
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•Winning ways for work-based learning in HE.
Leicester Business School, 19 September 2007 - 19th September 2007
Following the Leitch Review of Skills, HE institutions are being challenged to ‘rebalance their priorities to...meet the high skill needs of employers’. This event, organised by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, aims to: identify how adults learn at work and look at the role of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in addressing this; identify and share good practice in delivering and accrediting work-based learning; and consider employer perspectives of university work-based learning.
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•Our Olympic Goals – Raising the Profiles of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education in the Wider World.
Missenden Abbey - 17th September 2007 to 18th September 2007
London’s hosting of the Olympic Games in 2012 brings a unique opportunity to raise the profile and recognition of the hospitality, leisure sport and tourism subject areas. This HLST 2007 conference aims to explore in detail how the HLST community can take advantage of this. A number of employability-related issues will be addressed. See the conference programme.
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•European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) 37th Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business Conference.
University of Ljubljana. - 13th September 2007 to 14th September 2007
With the theme of “contributing to an entrepreneurial society”, this conference will focus on the role and nature of entrepreneurship education and its practice in higher education especially in the European environment and its relationship with the needs of businesses and other organisations nationally, regionally and globally
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•Education in a Changing Environment Conference: Meeting the Challenges.
University of Salford - 12th September 2007 to 14th September 2007
The conference aims to provide a forum for academics involved in research in a number of areas including “Employability and Workforce Development”.
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•2nd International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference
Robinson College, Cambridge - 10th September 2007 to 12th September 2006
This conference will provide an opportunity for educators to learn about and discuss current practice and future developments in entrepreneurship education in the UK, Europe and the USA.
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•ASET Annual Placement & Employability Professionals’ Conference
UWIC, Cardiff - 4th September 2007 to 6th September 2007
Aimed at academic and administrative placement staff from UK and European HEIs, the conference will cover good practice, and  new initiatives and projects relating to student placements. Themes will include employer engagement, experiential learning, placement management, assessing workplace learning, and international placements.
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•E-Evolve and Enhancing Employability Conference.
University of Central Lancashire. - 4th September 2007 to 5th September 2007
Based on the work of two FDTL 5 projects, E-Evolve and Enhancing Graduate Employability, the conference will have 3 streams: enhancing graduate employability; work related learning; and international dimensions of employability. The aims are to investigate and explore key issues surrounding the nature and challenges of enhancing employability at the graduate level; share best practice within the HE sector; and explore approaches for embedding employability skills development in the curriculum.
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•Improving Student Learning – For What?
Trinity College, Dublin - 3rd September 2007 to 5th September 2007
Organised by the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brooks University, this symposium, one of an annual series on aspects of student learning, is likely to cover employability and skills development among its themes.
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•Work-based Learning Network 2007 Annual Conference.
Middlesex University - 5th July 2007 to 6th July 2007
The Conference will address the theoretical underpinnings of Work-based Learning (WBL) which is a relatively new field and mode of study in higher education. The way in which WBL relates to parties with different interests and the flow of knowledge between the parties, who may be in paid or unpaid work, and their contexts which may situate them in diverse and international locations, will be examined.
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•The Higher Education Academy National Conference 2007: Engaging Students in Higher Education
Harrogate International Centre - 3rd July 2007 to 5th July 2007
The overarching theme for this conference is "Engaging Students in Higher Education". It is expected that some sessions will touch on aspects of employability.
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•Whatever happened to the leisure society?
University of Brighton - 3rd July 2007 to 5th July 2007
The Leisure Studies Association Conference 2007 brings together academic staff and practitioners in the leisure services (public, private and voluntary) to look at the shifts in leisure practices, industries, cultures and economies over the past 30 years.
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•The National Agenda for Employability: Implications for HE Policy and Practice’.
London South Bank University - 28th June 2007
This is another workshop run jointly by two FDTL 5 projects, Enhancing Graduate Employability and E-Evolve and supported by the HLST and BMAF Subject Centres. It will: provide an opportunity to explore some key issues surrounding graduate employability; enable the sharing of best practice within the HE sector to enhance graduate level employability; and explore approaches for embedding employability skills development in the curriculum.
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•Learning in the Workplace and Making Practice Based Learning Work.
Newcastle - 27th June 2007
This workshop is for individuals involved in supporting, facilitating, engaging in or providing opportunities for learning in the workplace. It will be of interest to academic and other HE staff, employers, professional and statutory bodies, and skills councils. The focus of the workshop will be generic and appropriate for all subjects and professional groups.
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•The Times they are a-changing: researching transitions in Lifelong Learning.
University of Stirling - 22nd June 2007 to 24th June 2007
The aim of this, the 4th International Conference of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning (CRLL), is to review issues which have emerged from researching transitions in different post-school contexts, including transitions in community based learning, vocational education and training, colleges and higher education institutions, learning at work, and learning throughout the lifespan.
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•Employability: preparing the ground and reaping the rewards
De Montfort University, Leicester. 18 June 2007 - 18th June 2007
The conference aims to consider the ways in which higher education prepares students for employment, from placements and sandwich years to graduate/employability skills modules. It will also consider how students can be helped to understand the concept of “graduateness” and its impact upon programme design and delivery.
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•International Issues in Work Experience: a Key Focus for Hospitality and Tourism.
The Thistle Hotel, Liverpool - 14th June 2007 to 15th June 2007
This, the annual conference of Placement Advisors for Tourism and Hospitality (PATH), will concentrate on issues relating to placing international students in the UK and sending students abroad on placement. Delegates will include employers and placement advisors from across the UK and abroad.
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•Disability Development Network Training Event: Working with Clients with Mental Health Issues.
Staffordshire University - 12th June 2007
Each year the AGCAS Disabilities Task Group’s organises an annual training event. In 2007 it aims to help careers advisers, and others in HE who are working in areas such as Disability Services, Work Placement or Learning Support, improve their practice, advice and referral when it comes to maximising the employability of disabled students and graduates.
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•Partnership and innovation: business and academia.
Brussels - 10th June 2007 to 12th June 2007
The conference, organised by EFMD (The international network for excellence in management development), will cover, amongst other topics, new business models for education, innovation in entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, the challenges of services innovation and innovation in learning.
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•Learning after Leitch: the roles of Higher Education in up-skilling the workforce
Woburn House, London - 24th May 2007
Following the December 2006 Leitch Report, this Higher Education Academy and DfES sponsored conference is the second in the Learning after Leitch series (see details of the first conference taking place on April 17 2007). It is aimed at senior managers and policy makers in HE and business, will explore the role of HE in the higher level skills development of the UK workforce.
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•Implementing PDP: You Are Not Alone.
University of Westminster - 22nd May 2007
This workshop offers opportunities to discuss the challenges, and work on strategies and solutions, of implementing Personal Development Planning. It will also take place at Leeds Metropolitan University on 14 June 2007.
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•Welcome UK 2007: Providing the Skills to Support the Tourism Industry and the UK Economy.
London - 17th May 2007
The annual Welcome UK tourism and hospitality skills conference, supported by the Council for Hospitality Management Education and the HEA Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network, will be set in the context of the National Skills Strategy for hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism. Leading education providers and representatives from industry will examine how they can work together to improve skills supply.
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•Making Enterprise Work for Non-vocational Disciplines.
University of Glasgow - 14th May 2007
Organised by the HEA Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, this discussion day will focus on the 'enterprising graduate', often a self-employed graduate or someone who has a portfolio of employments. There will be contributions from “enterprising graduates”, academics, careers advisers and others. Staff from all subject areas are invited to participate.
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•International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure.
Chiang Mai, Thailand - 7th May 2007 to 10th May 2007
The event is intended to bring together academics and practitioners from around the world to share their research, experience and insights into contemporary, including labour market, issues in the development of international leisure and tourism.
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•Meeting the challenges facing learning and teaching in a globalised world through research, evaluation and reflective practice.
Paisley Business School - 2nd May 2007 to 4th May 2007
This is the 2007 Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance. The changes and challenges of globalisation require a constant re-assessment of the extent to which higher education is equipping students with the attitudes, skills and knowledge that will enable them to succeed in their working lives. The theme of the meeting will be an exploration of the ways that research, reflective practice and evaluation can help to meet these challenges.
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•Higher Education Academy Enterprise & Employability Conference
Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod Wells - 1st May 2007 to 2nd May 2007
Aimed at staff in HE in Wales, this conference will focus on new curriculum areas and appropriate learning and teaching strategies relating to employability, employer engagement and work-based learning.
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•Sport Business in the 21st Century : Challenges and Opportunities.
London - 17th April 2007
A one-day academic conference for Sport Business Campus ’07, will bring together academics and practitioners involved in the business of sport. It will provide an opportunity for academics to present the findings of their research and to network with practitioners.
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•Learning After Leitch: Building Partnerships and Practice to Upskill the Workforce.
National College for School Leadership, Nottingham - 17th April 2007
Of interest to practitioners in HE already involved in engaging with employers and the development of work-based learning, this conference will focus on the pedagogy of the workplace, how HE and employers work together and the roles of those involved, including the learner. A linked conference (taking place on 24 May 2007) is aimed at senior managers and policy makers in HE and business.
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•Implementing PDP: You Are Not Alone
North East Wales Institute of Education - 16th April 2007
This series of workshops offers opportunities to discuss the challenges, and work on strategies and solutions, of implementing Personal Development Planning. It will also take place at the University of Westminster on 22 May and Leeds Metropolitan University of 14 June 2007.
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•Learning in the Workplace and Making Practice Based Learning Work.
London - 3rd April 2007
This workshop is for individuals involved in supporting, facilitating, engaging in or providing opportunities for learning in the workplace. It will be of interest to academic and other HE staff, employers, professional and statutory bodies, and skills councils. The focus of the workshop will be generic and appropriate for all subjects and professional groups.  The workshop will also take place on April 11, April 13, May 2, and May 18 at various locations.
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•BMAF/HLST Joint Workshop: The International Dimensions of Employability
Sheffield Hallam University - 22nd March 2007 - 22nd March 2007
This, the second joint workshop on employability, focused on the international dimensions. The aim was to share best practice within the HE sector for enhancing graduate level employability, and to explore approaches to embedding employability skills development in the curriculum through curriculum interventions. Click on this entry to view the presentations made at the meeting.
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•Our Sporting Future Forum 2007
Brisbane, Australia - 21st March 2007 to 23rd March 2007
Organised by the Australian Sports Commission, the Forum aims to discuss trends and emerging issues in the sporting industry in Australia and internationally. Key themes will include the future of business and of technology in sport.
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•Implementing PDP: You Are Not Alone
University of Gloucestershire - 16th March 2007
This series of workshops offers opportunities to discuss the challenges, and work on strategies and solutions, of implementing Personal Development Planning. It will also take place at North East Wales Institute of Education on 16 April, University of Westminster on 22 May and Leeds Metropolitan University of 14 June 2007.
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•PDP and Employability 2007
The Higher Education Academy, York - 28th February 2007
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•Tourism: Past Achievements, Future Challenges
Sydney, Australia - 11th February 2007 to 14th February 2007
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•Forum for New Lecturers
Nottingham - 5th February 2007 to 6th February 2007
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•Reflective Practice - Where's the Evidence?
King's College London - 23rd January 2007
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•What can the curriculum do for careers?
University of Reading - 11th January 2007 to 12th January 2007
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•Creativity or conformity? Building cultures of creativity in higher education.
Cardiff - 8th January 2007 to 10th January 2007
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•Preparing for Academic Practice Conference
St. Anne’s College, Oxford - 19th December 2006
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•Using Portfolios to Develop Students' Employability Skills Workshop
Kings College, London - 7th December 2006
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•Lifelong Learning UK 1st Annual Conference: Investing in the Lifelong Learning Workforce.
Hilton London Metropole Hotel - 7th December 2006
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•e-Portfolios in Higher Education.
University of Bolton - 6th December 2006
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•Putting Work Based Learning into Practice: UVAC Annual Conference 2006
Royal York Hotel, York - 30th November 2006 to 1st December 2006
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•Teaching Entrepreneurship: Resources for Academics
Leeds Metropolitan University - 22nd November 2006
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•PDP: Putting Development(s) into Policy(ies)
The Midland Hotel, Manchester - 21st November 2006 to 22nd November 2006
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•International Tourism Conference: New Perspectives and Values in World Tourism and Tourism Management in the Future
Alanya, Turkey - 20th November 2006 to 26th November 2006
» Internal page
 
•European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Ministry of Research, Paris - 16th November 2006 to 17th November 2006
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•Work Integrated Learning for a Sustainable Future
University of Westminster - 16th November 2006 to 18th November 2006
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•BMAF/CEEBL Workshop: Engaging students by linking enquiry-based learning, learning journals and reflective thinking
University of Manchester - 8th November 2006
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•Work Placement: Adding Value to Education?
Oxford Brookes University - 20th October 2006
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•Will Higher Education be ready for the European Labour Market? Competencies, Mobility & Employability after the Sorbonne-Bologna Process
Maastricht University, Netherlands - 19th October 2006 to 21st October 2006
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•ePortfolio 2006
The Kings Centre, Oxford. - 11th October 2006 to 13th October 2006
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•Researching and Evaluating PDP and e-Portfolios.
The Oxford Belfry, Oxford - 9th October 2006 to 11th October 2006
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•HLST Network Annual Conference 2006
St Hugh's College, University of Oxford - 20th September 2006
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•First International iPED Conference 2006: Pedagogic Research and Academic Identities
University of Coventry - 11th September 2006 to 12th September 2006
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•Improving Student Learning Through Teaching
The 14th Improving Student Learning Symposium, University of Bath - 4th September 2006 to 6th September 2006
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•The Higher Education Academy Annual Conference
East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham - 3rd July 2006 to 5th July 2006
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•Employability Workshop: What do employers want from graduates?
University of Central Lancashire, Preston - 29th June 2006
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•The Development of Work-Based Learning in Higher Education
Cavendish Conference Centre, London - 13th June 2006
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•1st Pedagogical Research in Higher Education Conference
Marriott Hotel, Liverpool - 2nd May 2006 to 3rd May 2006
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•Burlington Group, Higher Education Academy Event
Edinburgh - 26th April 2006 to 27th April 2006
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•Skills Active HE Conference: The Challenge of "Employability"
Ramada Hotel, Leicester - 15th March 2006
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•Innovations in employability and e-learning
Centre for Career Management Skills, University of Reading - 12th December 2005
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•ATHE Conference
Liverpool - 30th November 2005 to 2nd December 2005
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