Issues in Running Foundation Courses

Saturday 22nd May 1999

ICELS, Oxford Brookes University

Organiser: Richard Haill

Plenary Sessions

Kate Williams (Oxford Brookes University) 
Another country: orientation to HE in the UK

Trevor Christie (Leeds University) 
Project work and the Internet

Julie Hartill (Essex University) 
Not quite from scratch: an emerging framework for an EAP foundation year for Chinese students

Margaret Christodoulou (Kingston College) 
Preparatory programmes for international students at Kingston College

Patricia Walker and Martin Millar (Oxford Brookes University) 
Access by what means? Foundation courses for international students

Short presentations and general forum

Six speakers talked for approx. 5 minutes each about their institution's Foundation course(s) and highlighted issues which were taken up in the general discussion which followed.

Virginia Irwin (Queen Mary & Westfield College)

Carl Ellis (Bath University)

Cohn Sowden (University of Wales Institute at Cardiff)

Jeanne Godfrey (Westminster University)

Barbara Loveridge (Roehampton Institute)

Graham Davies (School of Oriental and African Studies)