The Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE) is  funding a series of five seminars on different topics associated with the New Primary National Curriculum 2014 . The first of these events is now scheduled to take place on Wednesday 2 July 2014 (10.00-15.30) in Manchester and will focus on the extremely important topic of ‘Teacher Education and the Primary Curriculum’.  The venue will be Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, which is easily accessible from central Manchester, and a highly distinguished line-up of internationally renowned academics will speak at the event including Professor Michael Apple – John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Professor Gary Beauchamp – Director of Research for the School of Education and Professor of Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University and lead author of the background paper Research and Teacher Education: The BERA-RSA Inquiry – Policy and Practice within the United Kingdom; and Professor Ann Lieberman – Senior Scholar and Interim Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), an affiliate of Stanford University.   The event will be led by Professor Olwen McNamara and colleagues from The University of Manchester.

Since ASPE is funding this event the only charge will be £20 to assist in the costs of catering/refreshments. Please do attend and please also pass on the attached flyer to as many colleagues, organisations and associations as you possibly can. It is very important that this is the first in a series of what we need to be highly successful, and influential meetings.

Please book your place as soon as possible by contacting Dr Grant Stanley at: G.Stanley@ljmu.ac.uk