There are many ways to participate in the Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum - as a delegate or as someone who is also a presenter, a facilitator or a participant. The organisers also welcome participation in the form of support for sponsored places.
You can register for the conference mailing list at any time by going to the soon to be set up online registration page and registering your details. This creates a username and password which you can then use to login and either submit a proposal, or book and pay for your place. Please note that you only need to choose the 'Register to attend' option when you are ready to make your payment.
To participate in the conference programme
If you would like to contribute towards the conference programme, please follow these steps carefully.
- Refer to the guidelines for proposals
- Read about the Conference Themes.
- Complete the PCF6 registration form, including the section on submitting a proposal. Submit your abstracts
Online Click Here or you may send your proposal to the Conference Manager PCF6 at abstract@pcf6.net Please note that the deadline for receipt of proposals is 28th February 2010.
- You will receive acknowledgement of the receipt of your proposal within 2 working days (this takes into account international time differences).
- Your proposal will be reviewed by members of the programme committee who will forward their feedback to you directly. (Please allow a three-week period for this).
- If the feedback:
- requires you to make some changes and resubmit your proposal, you will be given some advice on exactly what needs doing and a deadline for re-sending the proposal.
- requests that your proposal is acceptable, you will need to start preparing the full submission of your contribution which is due in no later than 31st July 2010.
- reports that your proposal is not suited to the conference and its’ themes, you will not be required to prepare anything further and you may instead proceed to registering as a delegate for the conference.
- All completed contributions should be submitted for review by 31st July 2010.
- Once the programme committee has received all the contributions and started the review process, they will compile the programme.
- Conference participants will all be notified of when their contribution is scheduled during the conference. Important: scheduling of conference sessions can only be confirmed once participants have registered for a place and their conference fee has been accepted.
For information on applying for a subsidy to attend the conference, please go to the Subsidy Page .
If you have any questions, please contact the organisers on pcf6@pcf6.net, telephone 011-29535399.
To participate as a delegate
To book and pay for your place at the conference, please login or complete the registration form if you have not yet registered your name and details. You will need to provide payment to confirm your place. We will be setting up a full range of payment systems – details of the different choices will be provided soon on the page, Conference Fees and Payment. Please contact the Conference Manager PCF6 at pcf6@pcf6.net if you have any questions regarding payments.
To participate as a sponsor
The Pan-Commonwealth Forum offers sponsorship opportunities for those organisations who wish to support the event and establish contact with those working in the field of open and distance learning and development. Sponsorship of this important forum will:
- Provide you with opportunities to develop and strengthen relationships with policy-makers in education
- Build awareness of your organisation’s work among this important audience
- Help ensure that those who might benefit most are not excluded on grounds of cost
The level of support provided by government, non-governmental and commercial organisations, including the support provided to visiting ministers, and to permit more people from developing countries to participate has been one of the important ingredients for the success of previous events. Several sponsorship options are available and are listed under sponsorship information.
We look forward to participating with you in this Forum and working together on the ideas that emerge.
Pre Conference Workshops |
A series of online workshops and pre-conference workshops will be organised as a run up to the event, in order to focus on the theme of PCF6, ‘Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives.’ Four main themes are being taken up under the overall theme of 'Access and Success: Global Development Perspectives to Learning for Development'. They are: Social Justice, Community Development, Skills Development and Formal Education. The Pre- conference workshops should pertain to the Main Theme, Sub Themes and Cross Cutting themes of PCF6 You may like to visit PCF6 Website’s Theme page at http://www.pcf6.com/themes.html for more details.
We invite open universities and other institutions of Open Distance Learning that have to participate in this conference. We encourage you to take advantage of the opportunities to conduct Pre-conference workshops at your own universities or at IGNOU. For this we invite expression of interest/proposals from public and private universities, Institutions and individuals. The last date for submitting the proposals is 31st March 2010. The proposals may be sent to the Program Chair by email at prrpcf6@pcf6.net
(We will announce Post-Conference Workshops too soon. Please visit PCF6.net regularly) |
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