Access to Humanities Conference

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) What is it? This is a two day conference for Access students and is run collaboratively by staff at both the colleges involved and SOAS. The conference itself runs on both sites with a day at SOAS and a day at the colleges. Development and delivery of this is carried out by SOAS lecturing staff and college staff and involves exchanging ideas and resources. The choice of course content is driven by the needs of the Access courses but tends to be current affairs rather than content lead. The day at SOAS includes lectures, workshops, discussions and contact with current undergraduates and HE staff.The students do an OCN unit around preparation for HE and attendance at the conference is a key element in achieving the unit. The course ran successfully in 2003/04 for 80 Access students from City and Islington College. In 2004/05 the conference is expanding to take an additional 50 students from Kensington and Chelsea College.

Time scale 2 days in April 2005 Target students Access to humanities and social sciences. Students from Kensington and Chelsea are drawn from a range of humanities courses including Access to Teaching, Access to English and Access to African and Caribbean studies. Target staff FE staff teaching on Access to humanities courses. Links www.soas.ac.uk www.candi.ac.uk www.kcc.ac.uk Proposal - Access to Humanities SOAS Planning and monitoring - Access to Humanities SOAS Evaluation - Access to Humanities SOAS Documents Project profile.