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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Wyndham News - July 2023 Edition

 We are pleased to share with you the July Edition of Wyndham News, featured below in full and attached for download.

Report on the first Apprendi Festival - Verona, June 10, 2023

The first Apprendi Festival, a festival on lifelong learning in the province of Verona, was held on June 10, 2023. The event, conceived by Virginia Nocca, a 23-year-old masterstudent in Education from Padua University, together with her father Gino, was held in the village of Fumane (in the Verona province), surrounded by the Valpolicella hills famous for the production of Amarone wine.

In Memoriam - Chris Duke

It is with great sadness that we report of the death of one of the leading lights of adult education of the 20th and 21st century, Professor Chris Duke. Chris, amongst many other positions was a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow, and made extensive practical and conceptual contributions to PASCAL over the past two decades.

Farewell, Chris Duke - ASPBAE Secretary General (1972-1985)

ASPBAE and the adult education movement has lost another one of its own. On 22 June 2023, Dr. Chris Duke, former ASPBAE Secretary General (1972-1985) passed on.

Chris Duke was a towering figure in the adult education movement. A significant part of what ASPBAE has accomplished and reached today is built on Chris' vision and exemplary work. ASPBAE owes him a huge debt of gratitude.

First Learning Festival in Umbria, Italy, hosted by the Sigismondi Institute

The Sigismondi Institute in Nocera City Umbria, Italy recently hosted the first festival of Learning in the City. The festival was part of a dissemination event for an Erasmus+ project involving partners from Italy, Romania, Greece, Israel, and Spain. The PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN) project, represented by Rob Mark, acted as academic adviser t to the project.

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