Open Eye: Dean returns to deliver keynote

Doctor Paul Clark, who is the newly- appointed founding chief executive of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, will be returning to the OU to give the keynote address at the annual Humanities and Arts Higher Education Network conference.

The conference is being held at at the OU's Walton Hall campus on October 9.

Dr Clark was Dean of Science at the OU from 1983 to 1993.

He left the University to become Head of Quality Assessment for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

From 1996 to March 1999 he was the Director of Teaching and Learning for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, where his responsibilities included the planning and delivery of funding initiatives to improve the processes of teaching and learning.

Evaluate And Improve is a one-day conference investigating lecturers' teaching in the arts and humanities.

For more information contact contact Kelvin Lack at the Institute of Educational Technology.

E-mail: k.j.lack@open.ac.uk

Details of the conference can be found on the Internet at:

www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/han.html/