NEON’s Summer Symposium is taking place on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th June at Keele University. To help mark 10 years since NEON was founded in 2012,
Here’s a look at the fantastic line up of keynote speakers, including:
• Jo Gideon MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central
• Larissa Kennedy, National President, National Union of Students
• John Blake, Director of Fair Access and Participation, Office for Students
• David Morgan, Chief Executive, Career Development Institute (CDI)
• Mark Lee, Director of Tertiary Education Reform, Department for the Economy NI
• Jane Johns, Head of Widening Access and Inclusion, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
• Professor Mark Ormerod, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Keele University
The two-day event will focus on initiatives and activities that have had clear, measurable impact over the last 10 years as well as those which consider what constitutes success for learners, schools, colleges, universities and policy makers. The government seeks to ‘reboot’ widening access work and place a stronger emphasis on ensuring learners from under-represented groups achieve good graduate outcome. This is the time for those in the widening access community to put forward their vision of success and help shape the discussion for the Office for Students, universities and the government regarding what widening access work should look like over the next 10 years of NEON’s like and what it should be striving to achieve.
If you’re interested in submitting a paper to the conference, please click here