Scottish Learning Festival News

February 29th, 2008

SLF 2008: A Partnership Of Educational Bodies

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We are delighted that other key educational organisations see the Scottish Learning Festival as an essential event to engage with the education profession.

We welcome our colleagues as the ‘Official Supporters’ of SLF 2008:

Association of Head Teachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS)

The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS)

The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)

HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIe)

Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)

We look forward to working with our Official Supporters to ensure a bigger and better festival in 2008.

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February 22nd, 2008

Professor Richard Teese - keynote speaker

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We are pleased to announce that Professor Richard Teese will be a keynote speaker for the Scottish Learning Festival 2008.

Professor Richard Teese is Professor and Director of the Centre for Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning in the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Richard’s research is about how well education systems work and for whom. He has delivered many research presentations to educator audiences across Australia, with the aim of raising levels of achievement and to ensure good quality outcomes for all groups of students.

See further information on Professor Richard Teese.

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February 11th, 2008

Making Scotland smarter

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Message from Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning.

Fiona Hyslop, has given her support to the Scottish Learning Festival and encourages all teachers, lecturers and education specialists to attend the festival this September. In the pursuit for making Scotland smarter, the Cabinet Secretary stated “The Scottish Learning Festival is a real opportunity to get to grips with the latest developments in education, to swap ideas and to learn from experts in the field.”

Visit the homepage of the Scottish Learning Festival website to view the full statement.

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February 4th, 2008

Themes for the SLF 2008

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The Scottish Learning Festival will take place on 24-25 September 2008 at Glasgow’s SECC.

The main theme of this year’s event is Curriculum for Excellence with a focus on outcomes and experiential learning and innovation in the curriculum. Glow, the national education intranet currently being rolled out across Scotland, will be the subsidiary theme for the two-day festival. Planning is well underway for the conference programme which will be released in April. Due to the popularity of the Scottish Learning Festival and the demand to host seminars, prospective speakers have been asked to complete a document emphasising how their session meets the key themes for the event to ensure there is a breadth of workshops available to suit every practitioner and education professional. Last year almost 7,000 delegates attended the event. If you missed out you can still see videos from the keynote speakers and podcasts on Connected live and find out all the latest news at the Scottish Learning Festival website.

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