HEFCE Project Conference: Quality Assurance, Enhancement and ESD: Creating a Framework for Dialogue

2nd Jul 2012 09:00 – 17:00

This national conference seeks to create a framework for dialogue, between those involved in ESD seeking to develop more strategic enhancement approaches, and those working in quality assurance and enhancement to bring contemporary educational agendas into those systems. This is a new area of educational practice and it creates a unique dialogue between two worlds that rarely coincide.

This innovative event, which aims to raise the stakes in discussion of contemporary innovation in academic strategies and quality frameworks.



The conference is informed by an LGM HEFCE-funded project: Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability: Strategic Approaches to Quality Enhancement which began in October 2010 and is due to complete in September 2012. The project was forged in recognition of the need for strategic work to scale up efforts on education for sustainable development (ESD) through the quality assurance and enhancement systems of HE.

The conference will bring together findings and insights emerging from the project, drawing on the experiences of the pilot institutions as well as the dialogue and perspectives emerging with sector stakeholders. The event will involve keynote speakers, plenary discussions and interactive workshops, including perspective-taking from students and a range of HE stakeholders. Anthony McClaran, CEO of the Quality Assurance Agency and Chair of the project's Expert Advisory Board, will provide the headline presentation.

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