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U21 workshop in Hong Kong - 21 November

The lastest workshop of the U21 RUR network on the topic of Research Universities and their Learning Cities was held at Hong Kong University on 21 November 2013, and hosted by Professor Mark Bray. Delegates attended from the University of Glasgow, Hong Kong University and UBC as well as collaborating universities and cities who are not part of U21. These included the University of Catania, the cities of Cork and Helsinki, Simon Fraser University and the University of Tampere. 

At this point some practical suggestions that emerged from discussion include the following:

  • Using Finland as an example ‘platforms for collaboration’ can be established to provide an on-going working relationship between groups of universities and their cities / regions.  Similarly in Shanghai through government funded research and training centres, which have been established to link university expertise to public and business development.
  • The potential benefits of university staff being placed within public bodies for specific tasks and projects, was highlighted with Helsinki cited as an example
  • From Glasgow, examples of training the drug and alcohol workforce and building leadership in public education, were used to illustrate the need and potential for university expertise being applied for organizational and senior leadership development within the public and business sectors

A full report of the event will be posted soon.

U21 Workshop

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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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Fundacion Bofil and PASCAL PIAAC seminar and conference in Barcelona - 7 November

We are delighted to announce that Fundacion Bofil is organising in collaboration with the PASCAL Observatory a seminar and conference on 7 November 2013 in Barcelona related to the recent PIAAC report. In order to facilitate productive discussions in the seminar, the number of participants will be limited to approximately 30 invited individuals. The evening conference is opened to the general public. Full details are attached.

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Friday, 1 November, 2013

Compare and Contrast - PIAAC interpretations

Subscribers may be interested in following the progression of an item that we recently produced on the PIAAC results from the UK:

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Tuesday, 29 October, 2013

World Access Congress Follow up

On behalf of the EAN, I would like to express a huge appreciation of everyone who took part in the first ever World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education in Montreal last week. We hope your participation in the congress was successful and that it led to many new contacts, exciting project ideas and partnerships.

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Friday, 25 October, 2013

Glasgow: A City of the Future - the EcCoWell Approach for 2020

Despite demanding weather and travel conditions in Scotland, we were delighted to have been able to run the second EcCoWell conference successfully in Glasgow on 5 December.

A full report, all presentations and some videos of the event will be published in due course. See below for attachments of those we have received to date.

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Friday, 25 October, 2013

First report from the inaugural UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities, Beijing

I am pleased to report that the first two days of the inaugural UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities hosted by the Government of Beijing Municipal City and the Minister of Education, China, has successfully concluded with the assent by acclamation of the Beijing Declaration of Learning Cities.

Full details will follow in a subsequent posting.

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A number of PASCAL associates, including Heribert Hinzen, Ron Faris, Shirley Walters and Norman Longworth played key roles, as did PASCAL Director, Michael Osborne. We were also very pleased that another associate, Liza Ireland, currently working in China for Royal Roads University was able to join us.

 

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PIAAC events in Barcelona and Edinburgh

We are delighted to announce that PASCAL will be collaborating with the  Jaume Bofill Foundation in Barcelona in organising two events concerned with the recent OECD PIAAC study.

Details of the first of these events to be held in Barcelona on 7 November 2013 are attached below. The day consists of a seminar with invited guests from 0900-1400 at Palau Macaya, Passeig de Sant Joan, 108 – Barcelona and a Conference open to all at 18.30h at Cercle d’Economia, Provença, 298 – Barcelona.

A second event is in planning for early in the New Year in Edinburgh with additional collaborators in the form of College Development Network and the Scotland's Learning Partnership.

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International Conference on Learning Cities - Beijing, China, 21–23 October 2013

We are delighted to provide the details of the UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities, to be held in Beijing from 21–23 October 2013. PASCAL is a collaborating partner of the programme, and PASCAL Director, Professor Michael Osborne will be a plenary panellist, presenting on the topic of The role of research and collaboration in promoting the learning city. One of his fellow panellist will be PASCAL Associate, Ron Faris, who will speak on the subject of Assessment of learning cites/regions.

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Saturday, 5 October, 2013

New book launched: The Red Paper on Scotland 2014: Class, Nation and Socialism

This week sees the publication of The Red Paper on Scotland 2014: Class, Nation and Socialism and follows on from two previous Red Papers (1975 The Red Paper on Scotland; 2006 The Red Paper 30 years on).

This has already gained some advanced publicity in the Glasgow Herald

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Tuesday, 10 September, 2013

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