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Part-time University Tutor post in Psychology in Department for Lifelong Learning, University of Sheffield (fixed term)

The Department for Lifelong Learning at the University of Sheffield has the following vacancy available to work in their expanding programme of degrees with foundation year, focussing in particular upon delivery of our Foundations of Psychology module. 

Lifelong Learning in Korea - June 2018 (NILE)

We are delighted to share our  2018 1st 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.

The title of the 1st issue of 2018 is "The fourth National Lifelong Learning Promotion Plan (2018-2022)".

ALADIN Online Alert 21

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.

Later Life Learning and Older Adults

These are two extracts concerned with Later Life Learning and Older Adults from PIMA Bulletin 18, the whole of which can be found at this link. The authors Thomas Kuan and Alex Withnall will both be presenting papers related to this theme at the next PASCAL conference in Korea on 30/31 August/1 September.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 17 - A benchmarking approach to understanding community engagement and learning cities

The development of a learning city requires city leaders to build a complex partnership with a potentially large number of stakeholders in city institutions, business and civic society. Of the wide variety of measurement tools available to cities to gain some understanding of their strategy needs and performance, the paper argues that a benchmarking approach, using a mixture of qualitative self-assessment supported by some qualitative data offers the most fruitful approach to assess the strengths and weaknesses of policy and practice, and offers a guide to prioritising actions.

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