Past seminars 2008-2009

Women’s learning through informal social spaces

Speaker: Sue Jackson, Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender and Director of Birkbeck Institute for Lifelong Learning, Birkbeck University of London

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2008
Venue: Room B29, Malet Street, Birkbeck College, London WC1

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Effects of Sure Start Local Programmes on Children and Families

Speaker: Jay Belsky, Professor of Psychology and Director, Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London

Date: Wednesday 21 January 2009
Venue: Room 354, Malet Street, Birkbeck College, London WC1

Financing of Higher Education in a Turbulent Economy: Challenges for the United States and the United Kingdom

Speaker: Donald E. Heller, Professor of Education and Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University

Date: Tuesday 24 February 2009
Venue: Room 630, Malet Street, Birkbeck College, London WC1

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Learning responsibility on the job? Exploring doctors’ transitions in the clinical workplace

Speaker: Miriam Zukas, Professor of Adult Education and Director, Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Leeds

Date: Monday 16 March 2009
Venue: Room 251, Malet Street, Birkbeck College, London WC1

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Complementary Schools for British-born Minority Ethnic Children: policies and practices

Speaker: Li Wei, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck University of London

Date: Thursday 7 May 2009
Venue: Room 354, Malet Street, Birkbeck College, London WC1

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The Labour Party and the polytechnics: ideology, politics and practice

Speaker: Dick Taylor, Professor and Director of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Cambridge

Date: Thursday 25 June 2009
Venue: Room 354, Malet Street, Birkbeck College, London WC1