News

This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Reminder: PASCAL Faith / Spirituality-based Learning Cities Development Network - June 6 and 13, 2019 - PLEASE RSVP

Whether you are new to the network or have been in on a few of our conversations, we hope you will find time on June 6 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST ( https://zoom.us/j/996200309) or June 13 10 AM - 11 AM EST (https://zoom.us/j/617404042) for an opportunity to reconnect. This will be by Zoom and in-person in New York City (City Seminary of New York) / Glasgow (University of Glasgow) if you are available. Please RSVP by June 5 or June 12, 2019.

PASCAL Director Peter Kearns to participate in in the International Symposium on Aging Well, Beijing, 15-16 June 2019

PASCAL Director Peter Kearns has been invited to participate in the International Symposium on Aging Well and Public Service Delivery: Policy and Practice to be held on 15-16 June 2019 in Beijing, China.

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Latest news on European Research in Learning and Work [L&W] - June 2019

In this edition of the L&W Newsletter you should note in particular several calls for papers relating to international conferences: the 22nd GeNeMe Conference "Communities in New Media" in Dresden, the TVET Conference 2020 in Pretoria (see Conferences) and the Cedefop/OECD symposium on apprenticeship (see Networks and Organisations); also a call for applications for the IPEP Winter School 2019 in Verona (see Programmes and Projects); calls for contributions to the Edited book for UFHRD and the Handbook of research on TVET (see Publications), and calls for proposals for the VET Research Award 2019 and the new EMCC Research Award (see Networks and Organisations). And not to overlook: the vacancy announcements for positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (see Networks and Organisations)!

SUEUAA Final Project Meeting and International Symposium and Workshop Report Harare, Zimbabwe, 8-10 May, 2019

The SUEUAA (Strengthening the Urban Engagement of Universities in Africa and Asia) project held its final partner meeting on 8-9 May, 2019 at the University of Zimbabwe, to discuss final outputs and reports for the project. Partners were also given a tour of the facilities at the University of Zimbabwe and met with a number of academics including the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Dr Oswell Hapanyengwi.

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