Learning Cities and Regions

Handbook on Facilitating Flexible Learning During Educational Disruption: The Chinese Experience in Maintaining Undisrupted Learning in COVID-19 Outbreak

As COVID-19 continues spreading in many countries of the world, how to keep learning in disruption has become a major challenge to the global education community. As stated by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay: “We are entering uncharted territory and working with countries to find hi-tech, low-tech and no-tech solutions to assure the continuity of learning.”

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Wednesday, 25 March, 2020

International Conference to commemorate 50 years of Adult Education in Tanzania

The School of Education of the University of Dar es Salaam through its Department of Educational Foundations, Management and Lifelong Learning will host an International Conference to commemorate 50 years of Adult Education in Tanzania. The conference will bring together stakeholders of adult education from within and beyond Tanzania to refl ect on its status since its declaration in 1970. The conference marks an important milestone in the roadmap towards reinvigorating the glory of Tanzania in the field of adult education.

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Thursday, 12 March, 2020

Learning in later life: My Taiwanese experience | By Dr Brian Findsen

Over recent months (September 2019 to January 2020) I have been visiting Taiwan on three occasions, accompanied by my wife, Caterina. On two previous occasions (2013; 2018) I had presented at Later Life Learning conferences (Chiayi; Taipei), as a guest of the Department of Adult & Continuing Education (DACE) at the National Chung Cheng University (CCU). In September/October, October/November and January of this year, I was a visiting scholar at CCU helping with teaching, research and staff development.

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Wednesday, 11 March, 2020

CR&DALL Director Mike Osborne presents keynote in Hume, Australia

It was a pleasure to host Professor Michael Osborne, Director of CR&DALL, back to Hume as a keynote speaker at the February meeting of the Hume Jobs and Skills Task Force.

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Friday, 28 February, 2020

Special Issue Studies in Adult Education and Learning - Learning Cities

The latest issue of Studies in Adult Education and Learning, which is featured below and attached, will be of interest to subscribers since it is focused on the topic of learning cities, and contains an editorial from PASCAL’s Associate Director, Balazs Nemeth.

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Friday, 28 February, 2020

Gendered Journeys: the trajectories of STEM students and graduates through higher education and into employment, in multiple global south contexts

We are pleased to announced that the project, Gendered Journeys: the trajectories of STEM students and graduates through higher education and into employment, in multiple global south contexts, has been funded by the UK’s ESRC within the GCRF programme.

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Monday, 16 December, 2019

Improving Teaching Quality and Effectiveness by Moving Towards a Student-Centred Learning Approach

We are very pleased to report that CR&DALL Deputy Director Muir Houston is member of the University of Glasgow team that has been funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in order to undertake a study of HE pedagogy in Algeria to improve quality and effectiveness with a focus on developing student-centred learning. The team also includes Willie McGuire and Ines Alves.

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Saturday, 14 December, 2019

How do we approach a contemporary philosophy for adult learning in a sustainable world? Peter Kearns

The timely and provocative articles by Shirley Walters and Han Soonghee in PIMA Bulletin No 26 raise fundamental questions about what kind of society we should aspire towards, and the role of adult learning in achieving such a society.

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Wednesday, 27 November, 2019

REGISTER NOW: Guest Lecture with Josef Konvitz - The Future of Sustainable Neighbourhoods, 20 Nov 2019, Glasgow

The Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is very pleased to be welcoming Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow and the former Head of Urban Affairs and Regulatory Policy Divisions at the OECD, Josef Konvitz, to present a guest lecture on 20 November entitled The Future of Sustainable Neighbourhoods.

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Wednesday, 6 November, 2019

FACE e-Bulletin | November 2019

This is the monthly e-Bulletin from FACE (the Forum for Access and Continuing Education), offered to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and others with an interest in access, widening participation and lifelong learning. In this month's issue PASCAL Director and FACE Executive Member Michael Osborne provides an update on the highly impactful work he and others are doing on Learning Cities.

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Tuesday, 5 November, 2019

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