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Latest issue of Education Permanente in Switzerland on Learning Regions

We are pleased to announce the latest issue of Education Permanente published by the Schweizerischer Verband für Weiterbildung (SVEB) in Zürich. The main topic of this issue of the magazine is learning regions / education landscape, and include an article by Pascal Director, Michael Osborne. The articles are written in French and German and we hope that you enjoy them.

This link will take you to the magazine and we also feature it below...

Random Reflections for the Month of October, 2014

Here is another round for your perusal:

Education, Learning Cities and the Urban Big Data Centre

Colleagues in the Learning City Networks may be interested in some of the specific work currently being undertaken by the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) at the University of Glasgow in the field of Education.

Ripples - Spring 2014 Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network

Please find attached the Spring 2014 newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network. This includes reports of the recent Learning Cities workshops in Frankston, Canberra and Townsville, at which Mike Osborne, PASCAL director in Europe, spoke (and much more).

Cities learning together - Public administration as a domain for smart solutions - Report of 3rd LC2020 workshop 12/13 June 2014

The objective of the event, the third in the PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 workshop series, was to bring about an awareness of the role and needs of local communities in relation to learning, and to seek smart solutions in which cities and other public organizations can play a greater role in response to those needs. The workshop was attended by some 80 people from a number of different counties. There were 18 presentations in the workshop including the keynote presentations. The attached document summarises some of the main issues from the workshop.

Cities that score well barely qualify as cities - an analysis of rankings argues

Increasingly popular lists that judge cities on "liveability" and "quality of life" are dangerous for the future development of our metropoles, says Sam Jacob, professor of architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago, in the article Cities that score well barely qualify as cities from Dezeen magazine.

Random Reflections for the Month of September, 2014

Here is another round of random reflections for your perusal:

Cities, Universities and Science

In a government reshuffle in Britain in July 2014, newly appointed universities Minister and Cabinet Member Greg Clark assumed a role expanded from that of his predecessor David Willetts. Cities were added to his portfolio. The Times Higher Education leader for 24 July, Closing the “town-gown” gap, mentions a concern that this further signals ‘the reduction of universities into economic tools or “engines of growth”’.

Random Reflections for the Month of August, 2014

Here is another round of it for your perusal:

Atlantic Creative Cities to gather in Plymouth

On September 19, to coincide with the Ocean City Festival and the new round of European funding programmes, the city of Plymouth and Plymouth College of Art are hosting a meeting between stakeholders across the European Atlantic Sea Board, linked to the Creative and Cultural Industries.

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