Event type:

In person

Date & time:

19 Oct 2021, 14:00 – 15:30

Launch event: Post-16 education and training outcomes for young people who use EAL

This online event will launch new research from UCL Institute of Education on post-16 education and training outcomes for young people who use English as an Additional Language (EAL). Funded by the Bell Foundation.

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Launch event: Post-16 education and training outcomes for young people who use EAL

19 Oct 2021, 14:00 – 15:30

Professor Li Wei

Director and Dean

UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Professor Wei holds a Chair in Applied Linguistics and is a Fellow of the British Academy, Academia Europaea, Academy of Social Sciences UK, and Royal Society of Arts.

Dr Olga Cara

Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Sociology of Education

UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Olga has mixed methods and quantitative methodology expertise and research interests in the relationship between ethnicity, language, and education as well as parental engagement. Olga has more than 15 years of experience in investigating EAL and ESOL related issues involving primary data as well as secondary analysis of large administrative datasets.

Dr Vera Hutchinson

UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Vera has over 20 years’ experience of the Further, Adult, Vocational and Voluntary Education sector as a manager, teacher, teacher educator and researcher. She currently teaches on the Post-Compulsory PGCE in ESOL & Literacy at the IOE and until recently was a programme leader for the Masters in Adult Literacy, Language and Numeracy.

She has also acted as the London Regional Lead for English at the Education and Training Foundation and was involved in various NRDC projects looking at ESOL provision.

Vera had a lead training role for the national GCSE English Enhancement Programme.

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Olga Cara

o.cara@ucl.ac.uk