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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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Shirley Randell Scholarship in Rwanda and forthcoming book

Professor Shirley Randell AO PhD (www.shirleyrandell.com.au) is a global mentor, educator, author, public speaker, change activist, and campaigner for human rights. Shirley was an Australian Inaugural Women of Influence in 2012, a TIAW World of Difference Awardee in 2013, and winner of the Institute of Managers and Leaders ANZ Sir John Storey Lifetime Leadership Achievement Award in 2018. She is a distinguished alumna of the Universities of New England and Canberra, a conjoint professor of the University of Newcastle, and an Associate of the Centre for Sustainable Communities at the University of Canberra.

Open Science and the Decolonization of Knowledge

Our changing understanding of knowledge is something that PASCAL and its subscribers might want to give some thought to.  In the context of the forthcoming UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, our Chair in cooperation with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO has produced a brief, Open Science Beyond Open Access For and With Communities: A Step towards the Decolonisation of Science, which is featured below and attached.

EcCoWell 2 Briefing Paper 7: Rethinking Lifelong Learning within Current Contexts of Time and Space

Please find attached the 7th Briefing Paper in the EcCoWell 2 series, by Tom Schuller, Idowu Biao, and Mike Osborne, entitled, Rethinking Lifelong Learning within Current Contexts of Time and Space. The objective of this piece is to open up some fresh lines of thinking about lifelong learning by looking in a very broad way at the dimensions of time and place, in a global context.

PIMA Bulletin No. 32 - September 2020

‘Only connect’. Never was this injunction more fitting than today. I scan the material in this issue and realise how much each is part of an interwoven web. As Chris Brooks observes below, we see ‘how poorly policies are tied up into a coherent strategy: housing, education, skills and infrastructure are all conceived and implemented as separate and non-connected policies. If only one could find a clear beginning and untangle strands into a neat and orderly ball.  But there are too many ends and no free ends at all.

The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities welcomes 55 new member cities from 27 countries

23 September 2020, Hamburg. Today, 55 cities from 27 countries will join the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC). These cities are outstanding examples of how lifelong learning can become a reality at the local level.

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