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News Archive Academic Year 2003 - 2004

Go to our Graduation 2004 Gallery to see who graduated this year!

Thumbs Up for new HE Certificates

Wales’ Minister for Economic Development and Transport, Andrew Davies, visited Lifelong Learning at Bangor University this morning (13/11/03). He was there as guest of honour at the breakfast launch of two new Higher Education Certificates aimed at skills development for local employees.He said:

“I am very pleased to launch the HE Certificates in IT and Community Enterprise, and in Personal and Professional Skills. They have both been developed in response to the expressed needs of local employers and community groups. I have met some local employers and future students today and I am sure that everyone will benefit from the skills that will be gained through the certificates.”

Head of Lifelong Learning, Meri Huws added:

“The recently published Future Skills Wales 2003 Generic Skills Survey indicates that there are skills shortages in Wales in IT and various management areas such as leadership. Our certificates reflect this.

We have also developed them with flexibility in mind. This means that we can tailor courses to employers’ specific needs, students may also enrol for single modules, or the whole Certificate, depending on their requirements.”

In addition to providing basic and further grounding in IT skills the Certificate in IT and Community Enterprise provides modules in business, enterprise and project development and management. The Certificate will be particularly useful to people involved in community projects.

The Certificate in Personal and Professional Skills has been developed to equip people with the “soft” skills that are so essential in becoming a successful manager. Such areas as motivation, team leadership, and project management as well as basic business areas such as budget control, finance and marketing are included in the subject options students may choose.

Lifelong Learning offers bilingual bilingual delivery and support. The Certificates also fit well with existing courses available at Lifelong Learning, thus enabling students completing National Vocational Qualifications a natural progression route to expand their learning.

The first intake of students on the Certificates is planned for January 2004.

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13/11/03

Drop in Sessions

If you are thinking about taking up studies with us in your spare time, come and talk to the tutors for advice and guidance about which is the right course for you!

• MA in Women’s Studies
• BA in Social Studies
• BA in Literature and Creative Writing
• BA in Internet, Learning and Organisations
• HE Certificate in Fine Art
• HE Certificate in Open Studies
• Information Technology courses
  and much much more!

BANGOR
TUESDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER
College of Education and Lifelong Learning,
Dean Street
4.OO - 8.00p.m

WREXHAM
THURSDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER
College of Education and Lifelong Learning,
Archimedes Centre
Wrexham Technology Park
4.00 - 8.00p.m

Fine Art Challenge- An Exhibition of Students' Work in Harlech

At The Memorial Hall, Harlech,
16–18 August 2003, 10.30-5.30pm

Students who recently completed the two year Fine Art Challenge course with the university’s College of Education and Lifelong Learning will exhibit their work in the Memorial Hall (opposite the castle) in Harlech from Saturday 16 to Monday 18 August. The exhibition will be open between 10.30 – 5.30pm each day, and will include observational drawings, paintings, prints and 3-d work, as well as more experimental and ambitious work on a large
scale.

The Fine Art Challenge is held one day a week in the Memorial Hall in Harlech, and is taught by a team of experienced tutors who are all practicing artists. Tutors include: Noelle Griffiths (Maentwrog), Darren Hughes (Bethesda), Andrew Smith (Harlech), Marged Pendrell(Rhyd) and Leanda Thomas (Llanfrothen).

The students attending the course are mature, often with work and family commitments or retired. They travel from as far as Blaenau Ffestiniog, Criccieth, Barmouth and Corris. For some this is the first opportunity to be creative since leaving school, for others it is anopportunity to take their art more seriously or refresh their ideas and practice.

The Fine Art Challenge is run by the University of Wales, Bangor’s College of Education and Lifelong Learning, and takes place on Mondays between 10am – 5pm in the Memorial Hall, Harlech. It is also available in Bangor (Wednesdays) and Colwyn Bay (Saturdays).

The Certificate in Fine Art (equivalent to completing the first year of a full-time BA course) will take place on Thursdays 10am – 5pm in the Memorial Hall, Harlech, and most of the students exhibiting will progress to this course. The Certificate is also available inCaernarfon.

On Monday 18 August there will be short taster art sessions between 11.00am – 1.00pm and between 2.00 – 4.00pm Professor Mike Knowles, consultant co-ordinator for the Lifelong Learning Art Programme, will talk to prospective students.

For more information phone 01248 383896 for a prospectus and application form or www.bangor.ac.uk/ll

DoLL Class of 2003 Graduate with Honours

Wednesday 16th July, 2003

Celebrating their degree success yesterday (16th July) at Bangor University were eight graduates who studied part time for their BA Honours Degrees in Social Studies through Lifelong Learning.

On behalf of Lifelong Learning Head of Department, Meri Huws said:
"We are so proud of them all. It takes a lot of dedication to fit their studies in with work and home commitments and it is just so good to see them here today. Congratulations to everyone!"

Lifelong Learning offers a range of degree and certificate courses for students to follow in their spare time. Meeting on average one evening a week in Bangor or Wrexham the courses are designed to fit in with normal working hours. It usually takes between four and six years for a student to complete the necessary amount of work required to gain the qualification.

2003 Graduates - celebrating after yesterday's ceremony are:
Philip Roberts, Humphrey Jones, Esther Pritchard, Sue Hesketh,
Sue Roberts, Marian Roberts and Einir Davies. Not pictured, Richard Rowlands."

For more pictures from the day see our Graduation Photo Gallery.

Want to meet members of DoLL?

In the coming months we will be at the following events across north Wales:

• Anglesey County Show, 12 - 13 August 2003

Bilingual ARrt Course Successful in Caernarfon

Friday 18 July, 2003

This week ten budding artists signed up for a summer art class with a difference that is being run in Caernarfon by the University's College of Education and Lifelong Learning.

It is the first time that a University Fine Art course has been offered bilingually in Caernarfon by the Department, which means that students can benefit from individual tuition in their preferred language.

Entitled "Life and Landscape in Caernarfon", the 8 week course has been specially designed for adults who live in the Caernarfon area. No experience is necessary, just an interest and enjoyment in making art.

Tutor Joanna Evans, a native of Rhyd-ddu now living in Brynrefail says she is very happy with the response to the course.

"We are particularly keen to involve local people in our courses and I am very pleased that there has been such an interest shown. We will be based at our studio at the Institute Building on Pavilion Hill and during the course will be working on painting and drawing techniques through life classes and using the surrounding landscape of Caernarfon."

She adds,

"Most people on the course are native Welsh speakers, but the rest are learners and I am delighted to say they have seized the opportunity to practice their Welsh whilst learning about art!"

Students completing this course can use credits earned towards a Higher Education Certificate in Open Studies.

Don't worry if you think you have missed the chance to join in the class. Joanna will be offering a weekly Life Class in the same venue starting in October and going through to March.

Further details about this and other Art courses are available from Lifelong Learning on 01248 383668.

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Celebrations at Bangor

On Friday (17th September) the University of Wales, Bangor’s College of Education and Lifelong Learning celebrated the achievement of part time students at the presentation ceremony of Higher Education Certificates.

Students from across North Wales as far afield as Wrexham and Porthmadog gathered in Bangor to receive their certificates.

Head of Department, Meri Huws said,
“Five years ago, seven people received Higher Education Certificates. This year we are delighted to see 79 people coming through their studies to gain their certificates. Congratulations to everyone!”

The University awarded Higher Education Certificates in Open Studies, Fine Art, Volunteer Management and Level 4 NVQ’s (Registered Managers) at the presentation ceremony.

Bangor University awarded five postgraduate MA degrees in Women’s Studies to students of Lifelong Learning this week.

The five graduates to receive their awards are:

Gloria Burgess, Adrienne Cox, Rhian McCarthy, Sylvia Jones and Jan Morris-Jones.

The Department congratulates all for their achievement.

15/07/04

Sylvia Jones and Rhian McCarthy

Lifelong Learning Students Graduate with Honours

Five students celebrated their degree successes with Lifelong Learning, Bangor University this week. All five received their BA Honours degrees in Social Studies at the degree ceremony on Wednesday (14th July) after studying part –time with the Department.

On behalf of Lifelong Learning Head of Department, Meri Huws said:
“We are so proud of them all. It takes a lot of dedication to fit their studies in with work and home commitments and it is just so good to see them here today. Congratulations to everyone!”

Lifelong Learning offers a range of degree and certificate courses for students to follow in their spare time. Meeting on average two evenings a week in Bangor or at the Wrexham campus on the Wrexham Technology Park (adjacent to the Maelor Hosptial), the courses are designed to fit in with normal working hours.

15/07/04

L-R: Diane Evans, Pauline Warner, Annwen Evans,
Beryl Phillip-Jones, Gwennan Jones-Evans

Prize for Graduate

A Wrexham lady, who graduates from Lifelong Learning, Bangor University this week has also won a prize for her dissertation. Pauline Warner received her BA Honours degree (First Class) in Social Studies today (Wed 14th July). Pauline is among the first three graduates from the University’s Wrexham campus, who all received their degrees at the graduation ceremony on Wednesday.

Pauline won the Anne Mortimer Jones prize for her dissertation, which examined emigration and looked particularly at events in Caia Park in Wrexham last year. The prize is in memory of a former student with the Department and is awarded to the best Level 3 (final year) dissertation.

Professor Chas Cricher, who was external examiner for the degree, commented:
“This was an outstanding dissertation. It successfully integrated accounts from social history and sociology into a detailed case study of a community riot. On all possible criteria, a first class piece of work.”

Pauline took 6½ years to complete her degree, studying part-time in the evenings at Lifelong Learning in Wrexham.

14/7/04

Meri Huws (Head of Department), Pauline Warner, Betty Williams MP

New Word Order With Zoe Skoulding and Ian Davidson.

Wednesday, July 7th

At:
Lifelong Learning,
Bangor University Archimedes Centre
Wrexham Technology Park
Wrexham

Zoe and Ian are both established poets and teach creative writing for the Department. They will each read from their new publications, then present the results of their collaborative work in poetry and film.
Zoe and Ian combine experimentalism with lyric intensity to produce poems that draw on geography, landscape and a shared interest in relationships between the local and global.

This event is sponsored by Academi

FREE ENTRY
Starts 7.00pm - Refreshments 6.30pm
Places may be pre-booked

More details from:

College of Education and Lifelong Learning
www.bangor.ac.uk/ll

Bursary Award for Local Poet

Ian Davidson of Lifelong Learning at the University of Wales, Bangor, will be spending next year writing and researching thanks to having been awarded a bursary by the Arts and Humanities Research Board via the Welsh Academi. He recently completed a PhD on contemporary poetry through the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

In 2004-2005 Ian will be working jointly with College of Education and Lifelong Learning in Bangor and the Department of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in order to research the impact of the internet on contemporary poetry. His work will involve examining the way the internet has influenced the writing process and the way poetry is read and distributed. He will also be writing his own work and producing a sequence of poems for distribution on the internet as well as writing collaboratively with poets from a number of other countries.

Ian is course director for the part-time BA degree in Literature and Creative Writing and the new part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Writing offered through the department. He also supervises the successful on-line course in creative writing, Writing with Intent.

Ian has published three books of poetry in the last twelve months; Human
Remains and Sudden Movements, Harsh and At a Stretch. He co-edits the
magazine Skald with Zoë Skoulding and writes collaboratively with Zoë. They have recently performed their individual and collaborative work in a number of multi-media shows in Wales and beyond.

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10/06/04

Welcome to Stel and Jim

Welcome to Stel Farrar and Jim Ostler who have taken on the role of coordinating a new Welsh Language project, Cyfrwng in Gwynedd and Anglesey.

Cyfrwng is an initiative that is part funded by ELWa, Cymad and the Welsh Assembly Government through Objective 1. The project has been set up to create increased awareness of available opportunities and to encourage wider participation in learning Welsh among the adult population of the region. The project also aims to investigate the needs of Welsh learners and, where applicable, to establish new courses to meet new needs that may arise.

Meet Stel and Jim in the Learners’ tent at the Urdd Eisteddfod (31st May – 6th June) at the Anglesey Showground in Gwalchmai. They would be very happy to talk to anyone who is interested in finding out more about the project.

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01/06/04