the centre for volunteering and community leadership in collaboration with nwcan present ‘big...
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The Centre for Volunteering and Community Leadershipin Collaboration with NWCAN
Present
‘Big Society or Strong Society?’ Community and Identity
Think Tank Seminar Series
Wajid Khan LLM
Course Leader for the Community Leadership Programme and for the ‘International Institute for Community Leadership’
The School of Education and Social Science
Welcome
Aim of today...
Promote critical analysis as opposed to ‘training’ on the issues that affect community activists today
Open a discourse on the development of an‘International Institute for Community Leadership’ as an
intellectual collaboration between communities and academics, locally and globally
Aim of today...
Providing a basis for opening up informed critical debatewithin and between communities around politics, policyand practice
Identifying the most appropriate vehicles for facilitatingand channelling debate and discourse
• To reflect on and discuss the BIG question...
A Big Society or a Strong Society?Prof. Keith Faulks, UCLan June 2011
Think Tank SeminarsCase studies: Strong Society in
PracticeDiscussion and debate
Outline for today...
“I am not impartial or objective; not a fixed observer of facts and
happenings.”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom, 1997
Dr Martin Brown
Director of the University of Central LancashireBurnley Campus
Getting fit for the future
Key Target GroupsLocal 18 year olds
Local Asian heritage groups
Returners to education / retraining
Course Portfolio
BSc Advanced Manufacturing BA Community Leadership BA (Hons) Exercise & FitnessBA Health & Social CareBA (Hons) Adventure Sports LeadershipFD PolicingFD Sports Massage TherapyBA(Hons) Social Work
And for 2011: LLM; PGC Management
Over 70 courses in total
MA Community LeadershipBA (Hons) Eastern Fashion Design BA (Hons) Business ManagementBA (Hons) Computer Games EnterpriseLLB (Hons) LawBSc (Hons) PsychologyBA (Hons) Sports CoachingFD Volunteering
The Success Story
2008/9 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12
HE Student FTEs 400 700 960 1120
Campus Opens Steady State
Community EngagementWorking with Burnley & Pendle 11-16 schools to use UCLan facilities; input to curriculum; offer master classesUCLan STEM events and with BITC
Burnley Education Trust
Think Tank Seminar Series
Joe Taylor and Amanda Bickerton
NWCAN
Final thoughts?
Thank you!To our volunteers: Sara Ali, Nadim Ali, Sam Broxton,Rebecca Catterall, Riyaz Desai, Naim Iltaf, Lubna Khan,Charlotte Smith, Emily Smith, Saima Zeb and NWCAN.