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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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2019: A crucial year for Europe and universities

In 2019, the EU will welcome a new leadership, face the final chapter of Brexit and set the rules for its new research and education programmes. At the same time, new technologies, larger and more diverse student populations, constraints on academic freedom and new ways to learn and teach will have a strong impact on the longer-term opportunities and challenges at Europe’s universities.
 

UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities Newsletter August - December 2018

In this newsletter – our last of 2018 – we are delighted to report on several developments that demonstrate the growth and dynamism of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC).

ALADIN Online Alert 24

The ALADIN Online Alert is a joint ALADIN initiative, produced bimonthly by the UIL Library and CDÉACF, with input from additional ALADIN members from all over the world. Its goal is to share recent online and full-text information and documents in the area of adult and lifelong learning.

Lifelong Learning in Korea - December 2018 (NILE)

We are delighted to share the 2018 2nd issue of our semiannual web magazine Lifelong Learning in Korea.

Lifelong Learning in Korea is published by the Office of Public Relations and International Affairs at NILE and the objective is to share Korean lifelong education projects and cases with policy makers, researchers, experts and practitioners from all over the world.

A fascinating article from Dr Kamal Ketuly, Professor at the University of Duhok in Iraq and PASCAL contributor

During my visit earlier last year to the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, at the Sumerian wing, I observed among the numerous historical items there, three clay tablets with cuneiform writing and drawings dating back to around 3000 BC. One tablet depicted the drawing of Geometric-Algebraic equations and shapes such as angled triangles, Euclid Theorem similar to it ; the second is a mathematical tablet and the Pythagorean Theorem resembles it; and the third tablet is of the heliocentric drawings of the solar system.

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