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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Opportunities for a New Dialogue for Change in Ukraine – PASCAL Learning Cities Co-ordinator, Rob Mark, addresses a learning cities forum in Ivano-Frankivisk

Promprylad is a new inclusive learning environment seeking to change a city through providing new kind of learning opportunities for the community. The project, which is in it infancy, is operated by MItOst, an independent non-profit organisation located in Berlin. It is seeking to transform the lives of people in the the city of Ivano-Frankivisk Western Ukraine.

Lifelong Learning in Australia Workshop

In November 2017, the beautiful Western BACE in Melton welcomed nearly 50 learning professionals to a practitioner’s workshop.

Call for contributions - “Aging well a long time”

It is about "the development of the plan of retirement and about long ageing in a worldwide society where we are always numerous more and older".

You will find below a link to a call for contributions with the purpose of accomplishing a training programme, in the form of a MOOC, having the objective: "to get ready for a long time of retirement and of ageing".

Your commitment can take one of the following forms:

PIMA Newsletter-Bulletin No 15, December 2017

PIMA Newsletter-Bulletin No 15 December 2017 carries letters about living with critical change when so much is going on, and asks about our place-based lifelong learning mission with the critical issues and events of today.

ALA Member News December 2017

Welcome to December news, the final for 2017. This month brought us both good and bad news from Canberra. Finally, we had a positive outcome for the Same Sex Marriage Bill which was passed on 7 December. A great achievement for equality in this country and one, which demonstrates the power of a strong social movement to influence and change Australian law to make our country a fairer place.

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