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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The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - April 2019

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates. The Network enjoys a high profile and is among the several national and international bodies encouraging universities worldwide to adopt a more centrally-focussed universities' 'third mission' commitment to community service in its different senses and settings.

Here is a copy of Talloires Network E-Newletter for April 2019:

PIMA Bulletin 23

The PIMA Bulletin Number 23 for March 2019 can now be read in full below.

This issue of the Bulletin continues discussion started in Suwon, Korea of the idea and meaning of life-deep learning. At this time hype and fake news cause ever more widespread concern, corrupting words and draining them of meaning. Lifelong learning (LLL) is one such term; used loosely and vaguely it is sprayed surface-deep on many policies like a smell-good perfume.

Quest - Adult Learning Australia (ALA) Member News - December 2016

Welcome to our first issue of Quest for 2019, which gathers stories about the impact of adult learning programs from around Australia. 

Workshop in Tanzania on ‘Leave no one behind: Making the right to education for adults a reality’

In the context of increasing global inequality, climate crises, continuing gender inequality, and the opportunity provided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) processes, participants from 9 African countries and Sweden, met in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from 5-8 March 2019, at a workshop entitled ‘Leave no one behind: Making the right to education for adults a reality’.

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

In this edition of the L&W Newsletter you should note in particular several calls for papers relating to international conferences: the UFHRD Doctoral symposium in Nottingham, the UALL Work and Learning network conference in London, the EDI stream on Diversity and Precarious Work in Rotterdam, the CVER conference in London, the PASCAL conference in Cork, the European Access Network conference in Ghent, the BIBB conference in Siegburg, the ProPEL conference in Sydney and the ReNAdET meeting in Thessaloniki; also calls for papers relating to a book on VET in the age of digitalization, and to special issues of journals: on the economics of vocational education (ERVET), on continuing training (IJTD), on international mobility (JIM/ERASMUS+), on gender hegemony (HRDI) and on adult learning and sustainability (RELA).

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