Improving Life Outcomes Through Post 16 Education
Improving Life Outcomes and Through Post 16 Education
When: Friday 27 June, 9.15AM-3:30PM
Where: Sussex University Campus
The day will include:
- Keynote from Sharon Gewirtz, Professor of Education in the School of Education, Communication & Society at King’s College London and co-director of the Centre for Public Policy Research. Sharon will discuss the findings from the five-year Young Lives, Young Futures study: . This focuses on the 15-20 age group and how the vocational education and training (VET) system can be developed to better support the school-to-work transitions of those young people at greatest risk of falling between gaps in the system and experiencing a range of negative outcomes and lifetime costs.
- Two presentations of recently completed research:
- Understanding embodied learning in Level One Construction classrooms in FE (Greg Campbell)
- Navigating Post 16 education, employment and training trajectories from Alternative Provision (Hannah Olle)
- A policy and practice panel discussion, that will allow a wide range of sector and service experiences on challenges, opportunities and needs to be shared. Panel members will include:
- Cath Oddhayward, Head of the Swan Centre, a specialist centre for young people with Speech, Language and Communication Needs, including Autistic Spectrum Condition, based in a mainstream secondary academy, Brighton and Hove City Council
- Fenella Potterton, Assistant Principal for Student Experience, East Sussex College
- Tolulope Sawyer, Inclusion Officer for Children with a Social Worker/Previously Looked After Children/ Kinship, Essex Virtual School
- Opportunity for questions and discussion around each session
- Refreshments and a sandwich lunch provided
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This event is hosted by the Centre for Teaching and Learning Research (CTLR).
Best wishes,
The CTLR Team