This Stuimulus Paper by Dr Jeongyun Lee from the University of Tokyo provides insights into city policy for this initiative, as well as individual initiatives such as the Seoul Citizens College. The focus on the humanities is a point of interest to be noted, while the 2013 reorganisation of lifelong learning promotion under the slogan “happy lifelong learning wake me up and change the world” brings a distinctive note into the initiative. May this happen. [Peter Kearns]

The recent GUNI Conference in Barcelona provided opportunties for many organisations to present their work in the field of community engagement.

A whole issue of À Lire en ligne, the magazine of Réseau pour le développement de l’alphabétisme et des compétences in Canada in 2010 was devoted to learning communities and is now available online. The magazine in its complete form is only available in French, with a large number of articles, translated into English.

The 6th GUNI conference on Higher Education in the World is coming to an end after three interesting days of inter-change, and has provided many examples of excellent engagement between communities and universities. It has included a number of inputs from PASCAL people, including plenary sessions involving Board Member Hans Schuetze, Associates Paul Benneworth, Lean Chan, Budd Hall, Julia Preece and Shirley Walters, and Co-Director Mike Osborne.

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