Julie and Karla recently attended and presented at the European First Year Experience Conference in Groningen in the Netherlands.  We presented a  paper entitled ‘Moving Forward and Beyond:  Enhancing Progression through Partnership.  A University-wide initiative to enhance the First Year Experience and to Develop Independent Lifelong Learners.’  Over 200 colleagues from across Europe and beyond attended the conference.  This is the link for the conference website http://www.efye.eu/ and it is hoped the papers presented will appear here shortly.  Our presentation can be found on our website http://www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/movingforward/pdocs.html

5 out of the 6 mini CoPs have now met.  The attendance and discussions relating to possible developments and sharing of practice in all areas have been encouraging and positive so far.   An email has now been sent to our wider Community of Practice, in order to keep them up to date with all developments and detailing possible topics/themes/issues to be explored or developed at further meetings.  An email will be sent to all of the groups over the next two weeks with the details of the next set of meetings. 

If you would like to join one of the groups please contact Julie.Brown@gcal.ac.uk