PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE! Now at 1a The Square, University of Glasgow.

Join us for an event marking the contributions to research made by Emeritus Prof Mike Osborne through his leadership and support for the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning. The event includes lunch, a series of speakers and closing drinks. See below and in the attached flyer for more information.

Germany's tenth National Education Report was published on 17 June. The report is jointly compiled every two years by a group of authors from six research institutes and statistical offices, including Prof. Dr. Josef Schrader and Jonathan Kohl from the German Institute for Adult Education.

We are pleased to inform subscribers that our article "Learning from the past for the future: Signposts and landmark anniversaries in adult learning and education" has been published online in the International Review of Education. This article which Maria Slowey, Khau Phuoc and I have written is an an Introduction to the International Reseach in Education Special Issue on ALE Signposts, and was started with the late Chris Duke some time ago.

There are currently exceptional pressures on local authority budgets in the UK, and it can seem almost inevitable that adult and lifelong learning provision is likely to suffer. At the same time, post-compulsory education rarely gets much attention in the UK press, and within that broad category adult and lifelong learning probably gets the least. There may thus be a risk that adult education and lifelong learning in the UK might pass away quietly, without anybody much noticing.