Upcoming events

• Enhancing vocational education for 14 to 16 year olds

  In association with WJEC & Welsh Government

  This conference will address questions critical to the development of Welsh vocational provision. Is there/should there be a distinctive vocational educational system in Wales? How effective is the current system? What is the scope for improving it? With a major Review of Qualifications for 14 to 19-year-olds now underway, there is no better time to debate the future of vocational education in Wales.

  WJEC, Western Avenue, Cardiff 9.15am - 4.00pm

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  21st Feb

• Wales’s Obesity Epidemic

  This conference will examine Wales’s obesity epidemic and suggest policies that should be put in place to address it. in association with, Academy Health Wales, Cardiff Metropolitan University, National Heart Forum

  Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff Road, Llandaff, Cardiff 9.15am - 4.00pm

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  22nd Feb

• Getting Wales Moving - 3rd Welsh National Economy Conference

  This year this important event in the Welsh business calendar will explore innovative plans to tap private funds to improve our infrastructure as well as the work of the new industrial sector panels set up by the Welsh Government.

  Parc Hotel, Park Place, Cardiff 9.00am - 4.15pm

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  9th Mar

• Science in Wales - POSTPONED - New date to be announced

  On 11th November 2010 in Swansea and on 2nd February 2011 in Cardiff, Professor Harries shared his early thoughts after a short time in his new post in Wales. On this occasion (and in Cardiff on February 16 th) he will describe developments over the past year which have informed the formulation of the new science policy of the Welsh Government; it is expected that the new policy will be announced early in 2012 by the First Minister.

  Swansea University: Main Lecture Theatre, Faraday Building

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  2nd Feb