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Activate programme from University of Glasgow presented in Cape Town

As part of my involvement in the Kettering Foundation and Talloires Networks international collaborative research partnership into studying Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement, I along with my community partner Nghomes (Margaret Layden) was invited to participate in the Network's International Leaders conference “Live Engagement, Transform Lives” held in South Africa in December 2014.

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Wednesday, 7 January, 2015

24th EAN Annual Conference

The EAN (European Access Network) is excited to be teaming up with the National Union of Students - Norway for its 24th Annual Conference.

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Wednesday, 7 January, 2015

EAN E-bulletin December 2014

This e-bulletin is to share with you the latest news from the European Access Network (EAN) and recent developments in access to higher education from around the world. It has been be produced for EAN members once a month to help keep you up-to-date.

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Wednesday, 24 December, 2014

The second volume in the ESREA new book series with SENSE Publisher is out!

Learning across Generations in Europe. Contemporary Issues in Older Adult Education, edited by Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha, University of Tübingen, Germany. Sabina Jelenc Krašovec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Marvin Formosa University of Malta, Malta.

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Wednesday, 17 December, 2014

Muir Houston helps Romania celebrate Lifelong Learning Day

I was recently invited to attend Lifelong Learning Day (26th April 2014), part of the University of Bucharest’s 150th anniversary celebrations in Bucharest, Romania. This was then followed by the 4th International Conference on Adult Education: "Adult Education in Universities. Local and Regional Perspectives" (27th – 30th April 2014) held at Iasi, Romania.

A full programme was put on for Lifelong Learning Day by our hosts at the University of Bucharest including Professor Romita Iucu and Associate Professor Catalina Ulrich. Adrinks reception was held on the Friday evening for networking and introductions for attendees at the lifelong learning event.

On the Saturday, Honorary Professorships were conferred upon Professor Heribert Hinzen (Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association IIZ/DVV) and Professor James Pappas, Vice-President of Oklahoma Outreach. An interesting and thought-provoking roundtable discussion was held on "University and Lifelong Learning", taking stock and looking ahead.

In the evening our hosts had arranged for us to visit the Ballet at the Opera National to see a performance of Corsarul and it was certainly an interesting spectacle.

Sunday the 27th saw us move to Iasi, in Moldova, for the 4th International Conference on Adult Education hosted by the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi.  A full programme was delivered and there was a diverse range of presentations and large variety of international contributors. I delivered a presentation on two EU funded projects we have been involved in (THEMP and LETAE) and was also invited to be a panellist on a number of roundtables and discussions on: Universities’ support in building strong learning communities and regions; Adult Education in Universities; and, International Doctoral programs - creating synergies.

In addition, one of our CR&DALL and PASCAL colleagues, Professor Chris Duke (above left, with Muir Houston) was inducted to the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. Also honoured at the event was a former colleague Professor John Field.

More pictures of my visit to Romania can be found here

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CR&DALL Director at 2013 Global HR Forum in Seoul

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Professor Michael Osborne, Director of CR&DALL, presented at the 2013 Global HR Forum in Seoul in the strand entitled Lifelong Learning in the Centennial Era - For the Happy Third Age alongside Ian Baptiste Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, St. George's University, Grenada, and discussants, Professor Heesu Lee, Dean, Graduate School of Global HR Development, Chung-Ang University and Professor Zunsang Han Professor, College of Sciences in Education, Yonsei University in a session sponsored by the Korean National Institute for Lifelong Learning (NILE). He was pleased to also be invited to a special session with young entrepreneurs.

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A Review of Flexibility Provision to Widen Access funded by the Higher Education Academy

A synthesis of key research reports/literature in the area of flexible learning. It covers both the contribution to improving access for under-represented groups (lower socio-economic groups and disabled in particular) and the contribution of different types of flexible/LL Learning to the experience and success of those students within and beyond higher education. PIs: Velda McCune with Mike Osborne and Muir Houston

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SHAPE (Shaping Educational Attitudes and Aspirations: The Influence of Parents, Place and Poverty)

Staff involved: Ralf St Clair and Muir Houston (School of Education) and Keith Kintrea (Urban Studies)

Funder: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

This was a  two-stage study which aims to better understand the relationship between young people’s aspirations in relation to education and employment, and the contexts in which they are formed in Glasgow, London and Nottingham. In particular, the study seeks to explore how parental circumstances and attitudes, schools as institutions, and the opportunity structures in neighborhoods come together to shape aspirations in deprived urban areas.

The term ‘aspirations’ is used to capture the various desires and ambitions held by young people about their futures. The research and policy literature is mainly concerned with the educational and occupational goals of young people. Do young people want to go onto further or higher education? Do they want to become doctors, pilots, footballers or musicians? Yet aspirations may also centre on lifestyle or self fulfillment, or revolve around roles in the family or community (such as performing a caring or leadership function).

There were five objectives of the research:

  1. To conduct a systematic review and original synthesis of the available evidence and ideas about the relationship between educational and vocational aspirations and factors associated with the individual, the family and ‘place’.
  2. To undertake a large-scale longitudinal survey of young people to identify the things they say influence their aspirations, and how these change between the formative ages of 13 and 15.
  3. To situate this in context and triangulate the responses with a parallel survey of parents, school support staff and teachers. 
  4. To develop a robust framework to explain how children’s aspirations are shaped and to help identify new and more effective ways of fostering positive and realistic aspirations.
  5. To use these insights to contribute to the development of policy and practice designed to raise aspirations in disadvantaged.
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Tertiary Higher Education for People in Mid-life (THE-PM)

The main challenges of the ageing knowledge economy are constant upgrading of the skills of the active population and mitigating new and old social risks. People in mid-life is increasingly exposed to risks of exclusion from the labour market and lifelong learning. The inclusion of this age group in HE is one of the main challenges of education and training systems.  The project aims to study the TLL of HE institutes in several countries with respect to inclusion of mid-life learners. At the core stands a comparative study with concrete example analysing statistically available data, making series of interviews with decision makers, stakeholders, lecturers and mid-life learners. The study will analyse the efficiency of TLL programs to achieve the inclusion of mid-life learners. GU staff: Mike Osborne, Keith Hammond and Muir Houston.

Funding Strand: KA1 POLICY COOPERATION AND INNOVATION of EC (Transversal Programme)  - Partners as follows: Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo, Barcelona (Lead Partner) (Marti Paralleda); University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona; Radboud University Nijmegen; Universita degli  Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Navreme Boheme, s. r. o.; Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Institut Arbeit und Technik, University of Applied Sciences (FH) Gelsenkirchen

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