FAB 2022

The FAB 2022 Conference, Exhibition and Awards will be returning to the Marriott Hotel in Leicester on 20 and 21 October 2022.

By attending our flagship industry conference for the awarding, assessment and wider skills sector, you will specifically gain insights across our interactive plenary and workshop programmes. In particular, attending this year, will help you achieve three key aims:

1. Gain a more practical appreciation of the changing world of assessment and its impact and important contribution to equity, diversity and inclusion. (E.g. tackling the attainment gap; understanding neuro-diversity; and making adjustments).
2. Better understand challenging perspectives on (under)representation of diversity in the AO/EPAO workforce/ learner community and how to increase participation. (E.g. what practical steps can individual AOs/EPAOs and the industry take to tackle under-representation? How does it relate to the role of the industry careers framework? Closing the gender pay gap? And how do we get better at promoting career routes into the industry; including the development of more diverse managers and leaders).
3. Implement practical EDI strategies and actions in your day-to-day role. (E.g. adopting more inclusive language; challenging discrimination; understanding the difference between freedom of expression and prejudice).

We will have 5 Livestreams on FE News:

• #FAB2022: State of the Industry with Kirstie Donnelly MBE, Co-chair of the Federation of Awarding Bodies, Frank Douglas, Non-Executive Director at City & Guilds Group & CEO, Caerus Executive and Paul Kett, Director-General Skills Group at the Department for Education. This will be streamed Thursday 20th at 10:50am
• The Skills World Live Radio show at #FAB2022 will explore what equity, diversity and inclusion means for education, FE and skills. This will be streamed Thursday 20th at 1:30pm
• #FAB2022: Generation Z and learning in the metaverse. This will be streamed Thursday 20th at 4:30pm
• FAB 2022 Awards Ceremony. This will be streamed Thursday 20th from 9:30pm
• #FAB2022: What skills policies might AOs want from a potential future labour government? This will be streamed on Friday 21st at 11:30am

Keep up to date with FAB 2022 below!