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The ‘Transformations’ is a Think Tank event taking place on Thursday 24th June 2010 at Norwich University College of The Arts, Duke Street Building. The purpose of the event is to discuss practical measures for developing and disseminating inclusive practice. The key discussion points will contribute to the final Higher Education Academy Report, for this national teaching fellowship project. Participant contributions will be highly valued. To book please click on the Think Tank booking form and send to Yvonne Moore, please also circulate the PDF flyer to promote this event.
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Think Tank 24 June – V2

The final report and executive summary of findings from the research undertaken as part of the Higher Education Academy’s ‘Developing and embedding inclusive policy and practice in higher education’ programme are now downloadable from the Academy’s website at:  www.heacademy.ac.uk/embeddinginclusion.

The research explored  the experiences of ten institutional teams as they developed and embedded an aspect of disability equality or widening participation across the 14 months of the programme. It aimed to capture the ‘journey travelled’ by the teams in managing and implementing institution-wide change so as to contribute to a greater understanding of the processes involved in developing and embedding inclusion within policy and practice. The full report includes case studies of the work undertaken by each team.

For further information contact: Inclusion@heacademy.ac.uk

InCurriculum Steering Group member Heather Symonds, University of the Arts, is delivering a conference at the NADP Annual Conference on Tuesday 29 June 2010.

The workshop is titled “Identifying the Voice: Transposing oral assessment from accommodation to a mainstream offer”

The aim is to encourage participants to focus on the vehicle of orality as an offer for all students to engage in, rather than seek accommodated assessment. Within this workshop Heather will demonstrate the effectiveness of the model by facilitating the audience listening to a dissertation exemplar of a viva voce and discreet short pieces of oral assessment by students with the spLD, dyslexia . This will be followed by short DVDs of students presenting orally in a mainstream capacity.

Heather will provide material from academic affairs which evidences the feasibility of offering orality in lieu of writing. From primary (Rose Report ) to Higher Education this vehicle offers an exemplar of inclusion. The session offers discourse to support the objectives of accredited orality.

For more information or to book a place please visit www.nadp-uk.org/event

The National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP) held their annual conference on  Friday 3rd July 2009.

Katherine Hewlett, InCurriculum Development Director, delivered workshop on the InCurriculum project titled ‘Developing the AchieveAbility of an Inclusive Curriculum in Higher Education.’

The workshop presentation can be downloaded here: Presentation for NADP Conference

During the workshop delegates were able to discuss the project and comparing it with their own institutions.

The InCurriculum project interim conference took place on Thursday 25th June 2009 at the University of Westminster, London. The conference was attended by 40 people from HE institutions and organisations across the UK. The conference was opened and Chaired by Professor Paula Hixenbaugh, National Teaching Fellow at the University of Westminster. Judi Stewart, Chief Executive of the British Dyslexia Association, gave the key note speech titled What is Policy without practice?Three workshops were delivered by each institution coordinators on the following themes;

~ Tools for dynamic learning: Felicity Booth, Norwich University College of the Arts

~ Capturing the voice: exercises in discursive learning: Katie Hayes, University of Westminster

~ Enhanced student engagement through multi-sensory dialogue: Richard Chipps, De Montfort University

The conference and workshops were filmed and will be available for viewing on shortly.