Decisions at 18 2010 - Flexibility for careers of the future20 April 2010 - 22 April 2010

Mr Adam Jackson

Senior Lecturer, Northumbra University

• Getting into law courses - Some innovative approaches to legal education

Mr Adam Oliver

Head Of Age, Disability and Inclusion Research, BT Innovate and Design

• Apprenticeships in practice

Sir Alan Jones

Chair, SEMTA

• How education and employers can work together to support young people

Mr Alan Simmons

Careers Consultant, NHS Careers

• NHS Careers- options at 18 with Europe’s largest employer Part 1 (double session)
• NHS Careers- options at 18 with Europe’s largest employer Part 2 (double session)

Mr Andy Gardner

University and Careers Adviser, JFS School

• The New A* at A-Level (and can it be predicted?)

Mr Andy Shenton

Senior Student Finance Consultant, Student Finance England

• Student finance

Ms Anne Marie Graham

Head of Skills, Business and Adult Learning, CILT

• Fluent and flexible? How languages add value to career pathways

Mrs Anne-Marie Hodgkiss

Head of 14-19 Development, CRAC

• Ideas for using icould with young people

Mr Anthony McClaran

Chief Executive, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

• Panel session - Ask the admissions officers

Mr Ben Rutter

Student Finance Consultant, Student Finance England

• Student finance

Ms Brenda Stephenson

Project Manager, Aimhigher County Durham

• Beginners guide to HE advising
• Identifying potential and supporting success: A new direction for compact schemes?
• Getting into law courses - Some innovative approaches to legal education
• Widening access to veterinary medicine, medicine and health care courses

Ms Cheryl Lim

Community Partnerships Manager and Associate Lecturer, The Open University

• Distance learning

Ms Claire Nix

VT Group

• Supporting decisions around STEM careers

Ms Connie Cullen

Director, Admissions and UK/EU Student Recruitment, University of York

• Getting into law courses - Some innovative approaches to legal education

Mr Dan Shaffer

Senior Project Officer, SPA

• The applicant experience

Dr Daniel Bye

Theatre director, Playwright & academic

• Careers in drama

Mr David Andrews OBE

Senior Fellow, NICEC

• Half plenary B1 - Quality, Choice and Aspiration (DCSF, 2009)

Mr David Hodgson

Training Consultant

• The Buzz

Lord David Puttnam

• Flexibility for careers of the future

Ms Gill Wilson

Head of Content, icould

• Using icould for widening participation

Mr Guy Yeomans

Futures Consultant, Fast Future

• Half plenary A2 - Future Jobs report

Ms Helen White

Widening Participation Officer , St George's, University of London

• Widening access to veterinary medicine, medicine and health care courses

Mr Henry Fryer

Young People Co-ordinator, icould

• Who needs careers advisers when you have the internet?!

Mr James Catterall

Schools Manager, Gapforce

• Bridging the gap – help your students get better places at university

Mr James Pidgeon

President, RHC Student Union

• Work experience and skills development: just box-ticking or the sure-fire route to the best job ever?

Miss Jamie Dunn

Communication Officer and Educational Advisor, US-UK Fulbright Commission

• Studying abroad: US, Australia and New Zealand

Mrs Jane Artess

Director of Research, HECSU

• Using Futuretrack findings to support students and graduates

Ms Janet Willis

Careers Consultant, University of Manchester

• What do graduates (really) do?

Mr Jeffrey Defries

Chief Executive, CRAC: The Career Development Organisation

• Welcome to the conference

Ms Jenny Wright

Executive Director, Solutions for Public Health

• NHS Careers- options at 18 with Europe’s largest employer Part 1 (double session)
• NHS Careers- options at 18 with Europe’s largest employer Part 2 (double session)

Ms Kate Bellingham

National STEM Careers Co-ordinator

• Half plenary B2 - STEM Careers

Mrs Lesley Haughton

Consultant, Foundation Degree Forward

• Foundation degrees: Resources for advisers

Mr Leslie Currie

Senior Project Officer, Supporting Professionalism in Admissions

• Panel session - Ask the admissions officers

Ms Lily Einhorn

Director/Applied Drama Practitioner

• Careers in drama

Ms Lucy Backhurst

Head of Undergraduate Recruitment and Admissions Unit, Newcastle University

• Identifying potential and supporting success: A new direction for compact schemes?

Dr Lyndon Cabot

Director of Admissions, Deputy Director of Education (Undergraduate) and Senior Lecturer , King’s College London Dental Institute

• Dentistry

Mr Mark Woodward

Head of Careers, Bablake School

• Who needs careers advisers when you have the internet?!

Mr Matthew Welbourn

Professional Development Officer, UCAS

• Adjustment explained

Ms May Busch

MCB Consulting

• Hexed in the City - The future of financial careers in the City

Mr Mervin Dadd

Director, Marketing and Communications, Cogent

• What do employers want? Career pathways and industry LMI

Dr Michelle Stewart

Workforce Development & Careers Adviser, London South Bank University

• New postgraduate certificate in careers education

Mr Mike Chant

HE Adviser, University of Glamorgan

• Expanding HE horizons from vocational level 3 courses
• Personal statements and things I wish I'd known

Mr Mike Nicholson

Director of Undergraduate Admissions, University of Oxford

• Getting into Oxbridge
• BMAT, LNAT and all that
• Panel session - Ask the admissions officers
• What will higher education admissions look like in the future?

Mr Neil Robinson

Glass Industry Lead, Head of Careers, Proskills UK

• Proskills

Ms Nicole McAllister

Pathology Network Training Facilitator, ASPH NHS Trust and University of Surrey

• NHS Careers- options at 18 with Europe’s largest employer Part 1 (double session)
• NHS Careers- options at 18 with Europe’s largest employer Part 2 (double session)

Mr Nigel Rowley

Programme Lead - Workforce Capacity, NHS Employers

• NHS Careers- options at 18 with Europe’s largest employer Part 1 (double session)
• NHS Careers- options at 18 with Europe’s largest employer Part 2 (double session)

Mr Paul Fletcher

Director for Policy and Development, Rathbone

• NEET - but not for the want of trying!

Mr Paul Jackson

Chief Executive, EngineeringUK

• Half plenary B2 - STEM Careers

Mr Paul Phillips

Head of Admissions & UK Recruitment, Royal Holloway, University of London

• Panel session - Ask the admissions officers

Mr Peter Mulligan

Professional Development Officer, UCAS

• Half plenary A1 - UCAS update

Mr Richard Earp

Education & Skills Manager, National Grid

• Engineering energy - How skills and jobs are needed to support a £200 billion investment programme

Mr Richard Harvey

Director of Admissions, University of East Anglia

• Panel session - Ask the admissions officers

Mr Rob Brown

HE Adviser

• Expanding HE horizons from vocational level 3 courses
• Personal statements and things I wish I'd known

Prof Rob Kemp

Acting Principal, Royal Holloway, University of London

• Welcome to Royal Holloway, University of London

Mr Ross Renton

Head of Department, UK Recruitment and Access, University of Hertfordshire

• Distance learning

Ms Sarah Nash

Director, Study Options

• Studying abroad: US, Australia and New Zealand

Mr Sean Russell

Director, Sean Russell Consulting Ltd

• Work experience and skills development: just box-ticking or the sure-fire route to the best job ever?

Dr Simon Jones

Senior Academic Admissions Tutor, University of Glamorgan

• New ways of studying - ‘Hobby degrees: and the pressures of modern marketing in HEIs
• The perfect UCAS application: How to get to university and stay there!
• Panel session - Ask the admissions officers

Ms Stella Barnes

Higher Education and Careers Adviser, Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College

• Beginners guide to HE advising
• Making the right choice
• What do graduates (really) do?

Dr Taj Bhutta

Careers Officer, Institute of Physics

• Supporting decisions around STEM careers

Mr Tim Miller

Deputy Head, JFS School

• The New A* at A-Level (and can it be predicted?)

Prof Tony Watts

Founding Fellow, NICEC

• The remodelling of careers services

Dr Tristram Hooley

Head of iCeGS, University of Derby

• Managing and amplifying your online presence