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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Society for Educational Studies “Highly Commended” Award

At the recent Society of Educational Studies Annual Seminar held in London, Professor Mike Osborne and Dr Muir Houston of the University of Glasgow were members of the research team1 whose book: Improving What is Learned at University: An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education, was Highly Commended in the Society's Annual Book Prize. Judging criteria included: quality of research, originality of analysis and argument and quality and accessibility of writing.

VIRQUAL Newsletter Nº 6 - Virtual Mobility and the European Qualifications Framework

VIRQUAL has fulfilled all activities and tasks that the consortium announced for 2011. The partners of VIRQUAL feel very proud for all the achievements and the high interest received from the audience. Although the attached newsletter is the last produced by the project, we nevertheless hope you enjoy it and distribute it amongst your colleagues.

Outer Estates - A collection of articles on outer city estates

Millions of people in the UK live in outer city estates where levels of poverty are high and job opportunities scarce. This series of articles, published in the now defunct regeneration magazine, New Start, sets the social and economic context and proposes ways of improving the  prospects of residents and their communities, drawing on examples of effective practice from the UK and further afield.

The series was edited by regeneration consultants Martin Yarnit and Jane Foot.

I can influence change – I am part of the solution

Community learning champions (CLCs), supported by governments of all complexions in the UK as part of a strategy to promote informal learning, share their enthusiasm for the benefits of learning by engaging with friends, relatives and perfect strangers and getting them involved.

Learning cities and regions revisited: The R3L+ project

This seminar* presented findings from the R3L+ project which took a case study approach to investigate issues of quality in the development of learning cities and regions. Speakers from three of the cases (Germany, Romania and the UK) provided an overview of their respective cases with reference to issues of partnership, participation and lifelong learning.

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