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Quality of Life in Adult Learning

The Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA), USA, announces its annual conference for 8-9 March 2018, Orlando, Florida with the theme: "Quality of Life in Adult Learning".  The purpose of this Alliance is to help institutions of higher education develop and sustain learning environments and programs suitable for adults. 

An insight into the extensive work of a community-driven initiative

Our meeting with Meiling and Haniff of the Multi-faith Multicultural Centre, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia provided an insight into the extensive work of this community-driven initiative linked to the Pure Land Learning College Association Inc., www.interfaith-harmony.org and https://www.facebook.com/MMC.Toowoomba/.

Happy New Year from Place Partners: two Sydney case studies

Place Partners is an Australian group looking a improving physical space and place for people engagement and enjoyment.  Here are two case studies that demonstrate the place transformations achieved: Drummoyne Village and a Telco campus (Optus Centre), both in Sydney. 

Cities of Learning in the UK: a place-based approach to enhancing lifelong learning and access to enrichment opportunities

Cities of Learning (CofL) is a new place-based approach to enhancing lifelong learning through digitally connecting individuals to learning, employment and civic opportunities within a defined locality.

The Glen Postle Intergenerational Mentoring Hub

I’m delighted to have been able to have visited PASCAL Associate Glen Postle and see the Glen Postle Intergenerational Mentoring Hub at the Flexischool in Toowoomba. Glen has been working intensively in the development of the school over the past 20 years and continues to do so.

Commonwealth Foundation: October 2017 Newsletter & Grants

Having just returned from the discussions of PASCAL's "Trends2017" Pretoria international conference, it was interesting to note a blog from the recent South African Development Community - Civil Society Forum.  Issues of collectivity and collaboration were again at the fore [see the Commonwealth Foundation: October 2017 Newsletter, also featured below and attached]. 

Governing In and Against Austerity - Professor Jonathan Davies, De Monfort University

Governing In and Against Austerity, a report edited by Jonathan S. Davies at De Montfort University, Leicester, highlights the responses in 8 cities to the impact of the Crisis of 2008.  The cities are Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Greater Dandenong Melbourne, Montreal and Nantes.  

University of resilience in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Several local and international organizations are working on a project of revitalization of a former factory into an innovative learning space (we call it "university of resilience") in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The special thing about this project is that is is a completely bottom-up-initiative and has to function due to crowd investing and impact investing. The brief description of the project could be found under this link. 

14th PASCAL Conference opens with inspiring introduction by Enrico Jacobs of Belgium Campus

I am delighted to report that the 14th PASCAL Conference has opened in Pretoria with an invigorating introduction from the Vice-Chancellor of the Belgian Campus, Enrico Jacobs.

PASCAL Conference 2018: Updated title and sub-themes

The 15th PASCAL Conference, to be held in Korea on 30 August - 1 September 2018 has an updated title and sub-themes. The venue is the city of Suwon, part of metropolitan Seoul, Korea. The co-organiser is the GyeonggiDo Provincial Institute of Lifelong Learning (GILL).  The main theme of this first East Asia PASCAL Conference is "Learning Cities, Learning Societies: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice to Meet Local and Global Challenges”.  

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