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UNESCO UIL Learning Cities Awards 2019 announced

Posted February 1, 2019 - 15:29 by John Tibbitt

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Awards for learning cities 2019 have been announced. 10 cities have been judged to have made significant progress in promoting quality education and lifelong learning possibilities for all, they are:

PASCAL on social media

Posted July 18, 2018 - 20:50 by John Tibbitt

You may be interested to know about the latest activity on PASCAL social media.

PASCAL's Facebook page continues to attract new followers - 78 people have liked the page in the last 3 weeks. Welcome all. in the week to 1st July, the page reached 1.1k people, who had 62 'engagements' with posts on the page.

On Twitter, PASCAL now has over 3450 followers. PASCAL tweets had 32.5k impressions in the last 28 days. In that period the top tweet attracted 3.3k impressions and 33 engagements.

PASCAL's paper #learningcities weekly is published every Wednesday.

Promoting Community Engagement for Vocational and Professional Education and Training - Hong Kong, 15 March 2018

Posted March 25, 2018 - 12:48 by John Tibbitt

This symposium on 15 March 2018 at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) discussed findings of two research studies. One was benchmarking research conducted in Hong Kong and European cities and the second, a General Research Fund (GRF) study[1] concerned the importance of partnerships and community engagement for Vocational and Professional Education and Training (VPET).

Widening Regional Engagement of HE and TVET

Posted March 16, 2018 - 02:54 by John Tibbitt

This project at the University of Glasgow is funded under by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through an Impact Acceleration Grant (IAA), ES/M500471/1. It seeks to

Don't miss #learningcities weekly

Posted January 4, 2017 - 21:31 by John Tibbitt

Every Wednesday, PASCAL's weekly curated newspaper #learningcities week is published.

Learning and Place - new newspaper from PASCAL

Posted September 10, 2016 - 20:38 by John Tibbitt

Today sees the first edition of the new PASCAL daily newspaper 'Learning and Place', which replaces the long-running 'Observations' paper. Content in 'Observations' had become more and more diverse as PASCAL's Twitter following continues to grow. The new paper will be more focussed on the PASCAL themes, drawing together the best pieces from social media into one convenient place.

Glasgow's Resilience Strategy

Posted September 2, 2016 - 08:32 by John Tibbitt

Glasgow was one of the first cities to join the Resilient Cities programme supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and has now published its Resilience Strategy, the first UK city to do so. The approach taken by the City to the development of the Strategy was one of the features of the City's presentation at the PASCAL Learning Cities conference in June.

Learning Cities: Keep up to date with Learning Cities Weekly

Posted June 22, 2016 - 17:43 by John Tibbitt

Please note, the latest edition of PASCAL's weekly paper featuring the most articles relating to learning cities is out today and every Wednesday. You can find it here at www.paper.li/obspascal/1440444718 . Or you can subscribe and have it delivered direct to your mailbox.

Learning Cities 2040 - Highlights from the PASCAL 2016 Conference

Posted June 8, 2016 - 21:08 by John Tibbitt

Those who were able to attend the PASCAL Conference in Glasgow will know the rich learning experience it turned out to be. For those who were unable to attend, please follow the link below for the highlights as recorded on Twitter.

Keeping you up-to-date on Learning Cities

Posted March 24, 2016 - 17:14 by John Tibbitt

Just a reminder that PASCAL's weekly paper #learningcities weekly comes out every Wednesday, and brings together links to the best articles relating to learning city news, development and research.

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