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The Shanghai Municipal Institute for Lifelong Education (SMILE) in partnership with the National Center for Educational Development and Research and the National Center for Community Education Research and Development is convening a Shanghai Forum on Lifelong Education in Shanghai on 15 November immediately prior to the EU Centre/PASCAL Hong Kong Conference on 18-20 November. SMILE links the East China Normal University and Shanghai City Council in the development of the Shanghai Learning City initiative.

Please find featured below attached a recent piece of work for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which argues for a repositioning of the strategic focus of town and city centres more in line with their DNA or 'personality'. The report also offers the first ever National Framework for Town Centre Performance in the UK with a set of key performance indicators that favour a 'DIY' approach from communities empowering them to gather the data for themselves without any previous knowledge of market research.

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

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.

This three-day intensive program is run jointly by the Monash European and EU Centre, the ANU Centre for European Studies, the European Union Centre at RMIT, and the New Zealand European Union Centres Network, with support from the European Commission. It offers a unique opportunity for teachers of History, Global Politics, Social and Cultural Studies, Economics, and European Languages to engage with diverse expert speakers on topics that complement secondary school curricula.