DAG Spring Seminar 2023 – Disadvantage in Devon

DAG is delighted to announce that the DAG Spring Seminar will take place online on Monday 20th March at 6.00 pm and our speaker will be Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope.

This free one hour evening seminar will update governors, trustees and clerks on the nature of place-based disadvantage in Devon. The seminar will consider socio economic disadvantage, cultural isolation and geographic remoteness that challenges many schools in Devon by limiting their access to resources necessary for school improvement. Persistently disadvantaged pupils in these schools continue to attain lower outcomes than similarly disadvantaged urban school pupils at GCSE.

Tanya is Provost and Professor of Education at Plymouth Marjon University and Marjon University Cornwall. Tanya is a committed and enthusiastic educationalist with over three decades experience in schools, colleges and universities in England as a teacher, teacher educator, educational leader and educational researcher.

The author of over 75 papers, reports, articles and books, Tanya is dedicated to exploring social inequity and educational disparity and has spent the last ten years focusing on the challenges for coastal, rural and small schools, including issues of teacher recruitment and retention and access to funding and professional development.

To reserve your place and receive your online invitation email [email protected] as soon as possible. This seminar is free to attend for all governors, trustees, clerks and governance professionals in the Devon LA area.