LJMU & City Unity College
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Welcome
• Dream
• Plan
• Achieve
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Dream
• 2007: Athens and LJMU- Harris & Mike
• Partnership Programme
• Create an excellent learning opportunity for
Greek students
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Plan
• Several models: not all successful
• Genuine interaction and discussion between
all partners.
• First programme Postgraduate Certificate in
Dyslexia and MA in Special Educational Needs:
Today’s focus.
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Achieve
• 120 + students completing the programme
• 90 % + achieved PG Certificate in Dyslexia
• 25+ MA many at Distinction level (English !!!)
• Anticipate 90% success rate for MA
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Celebration and
Progression
• Two day Pedagogical Conference
• Celebrate and share insights on Special
Educational Needs
• Science & STEM & Astro-Physics – pedagogy,
links and teacher education
• Start the new “Dream”.
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Welcome to the day
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Colleagues
Outline of day one:
Professor Phil Vickerman: The Context
Dr Barbara Pavey
Lunch & Networking
Workshops:
Network , talk about working together
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LJMU
• Who are we?
– An outstanding modern civic university –
delivering solutions to the challenges of the 21st
Century
• University Mission Statement
• The University is a vibrant community for learning and
knowledge where staff and students work together in an
active and supportive partnership providing opportunities to
enrich students, partners and wider society through
education, training, research, scholarship and knowledge
transfer.
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• A University building on success and committed to
its students and communities
• Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) is a large, modern
university located in the north west of England. It is one of the
largest UK universities with more than 24,000 students in
Liverpool and approximately 4,500 are international students
studying overseas. Our staff and students are recruited from
over 90 countries world-wide, and our teaching, research and
consultancy span three continents.
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League Tables
• The University is one of the leading research-active
contemporary institutions in the UK, with, for example, 90%
of research in engineering rated 'world-leading', and is
ranked:
• In the top 4 of post-1992 UK Universities for the following
disciplines: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, SportsRelated Studies, General Engineering, Architecture and Built
Environment, Physics, Anthropology, Biological Sciences and
Computer Science and Informatics (UK Research Assessment
Exercise 2008) (RAE 2008).
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Awards and partners
• One of the top 20 UK universities for the impact of research,
being awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2005 in
recognition of the University’s excellence in Astronomy and
Public Engagement in Science.
• In the top 100 of in world universities under 50 years old
(Times Higher Education 100 Under 50, 2012).
• In the top 400 universities world-wide in 2012 (Times Higher
Education World University Rankings, 2012).
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Partnership
• Key feature of LJMU
• Flexible approaches
• Possible outcome of the 2 day conference
further partnerships.
• Mike Aiello: m.aiello@ljmu.ac.uk
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