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The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - October, 2017

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-Newsletter for October, 2017:

Al Wakra City, Qatar, gets strong endorsement from National Commission on its membership of the UNESCO UIL GNLC

The Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science officially announced on 26 September that Al Wakra City, (part of Al Wakrah Municipality) in the State of Qatar, has joined the UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL) Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC).

University of Edinburgh Access Programme - Vacancies

The Centre for Open Learning at University of Edinburgh are advertising for three part-time Teaching Fellow posts which carry the main course development responsibility for their Part-Time Access programme, which launches in August 2018.

Latest news on European research in learning and work [L&W] - October 2017

Particularly worth noting in this edition are calls for papers or proposals relating to: the European Mentoring Research Conference in Chester, the Conference on Comparative Education in Varna (see Conferences), the Asia-Europe conference in Wuerzburg, the Action Learning Symposium in Liverpool, the EARLI SIG 14 in Geneva (see Networks and Organisations), the DARE conference on inclusive education in Tbilisi (see Projects), the Special Issues on Learning in SMIs (HRDI) and the Thematic Series on Assessing financial literacy (see Publications). And not to overlook: the HRD 'Scholar-Practitioner' Writing Award (see Publications).

UALL Members' Bulletin - September 2017

Please find featured below and attached for download the latest issue of the Members’ e-Bulletin, which I hope you will find of interest.

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