In celebration of England-Africa Partnerships some of the partners took forward the following workshop sessions focussing upon the impact of EAP on institutional capacity building and lessons learned and best practice within the context of their EAP projects. Their experiences detailed in the following presentations inspired much discussion and debate around these themes.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 8-9 September 2008

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

			Career-oriented and Vocational Education in Higher and Further Education in Africa: Position, Trends and Impact (Professor Roy du Pré, Vice Chancellor, Durban University of Technology)
			Strengthening Skills and Employability: a New Opportunity for International FE-HE Partnerships (Professor Simon McGrath, Professor of International Education and Development, University of Nottingham)

CONFERENCE WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

			Training a Tanzanian Task Force as an agent to develop the quality, standards and capacity of Tanzanian Tertiary Technical Institutions (Malcolm Shaw, Leeds Metropolitan University and Timothy Manyaga, National Council for Technical Education, Tanzania)
			Embedding Work-based Learning in all Undergraduate Programmes Offered by the University of Mauritius (David Jamookeeah, University of Bradford)
			Distance travelled: PCAP and its impact in Kenya (Mike Calvert, York St John University and Serah Waitiki, Moi University, Kenya)
			Successes and challenges of developing midwifery education capacity in the ECSA region (Tina Lavender, University of Central Lancashire)
			Open Door - Building capacity in Maths, Science and Technology higher education in sub-Saharan Africa (Maureen Mackintosh, Open University UK and Magnus John, University of Sierra Leone)
			Teacher Education as a Driver for Educational Development in Africa: lessons from the ELATE Programme (Steve Hurd, Open University and Christopher Mugimu, Makerere University, Uganda)
			Best Practice in facilitating interfirm business learning: lessons from ProfitNET UK and South Africa (Shaun Gannon, University of Brighton and Claire O’Neill, University of KwaZulu-Natal, S Africa)
			Expanding Your Project Outputs to Make a Difference to the Person on the Street (Gibson D’Cruz, (University of East Anglia and Michael Boyo, Institute of Applied Medical Sciences, Cameroon)