VenueVaLP 2011 will be held 11th-13th April 2011 at the main Chester Campus of the University of Chester, UK. The University of Chester was established in 1839 and is one of the oldest English higher education establishments of any kind, pre-dating all but Oxford, Cambridge, London and Durham, and its original buildings in the ancient city of Chester were the first in the country to be purpose-built for the professional training of teachers. Education degrees are now just a small part of the 130 course combinations on offer and its over 15,000 students study subjects drawn from across the Arts and Sciences. VaLP 2011 will be hosted primarily by the Department of English, a highly successful academic unit which was recognised in 2008 as producing research of international quality. The Department of English ranks as the top English Department in the UK in terms of overall student satisfaction, underlining its commitment to a student-centred approach to research, teaching and scholarship. |
