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Knowledge for Change Mentor Training Programme

Our close friends and colleagues, Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall oversee the Knowledge for Change Mentor Training Programme (MTP) in Community-based research.  This programme offers learning opportunities for university and community knowledge workers to take a 21-week course in teaching Community Based Research, and has been operating for five years.

Manila: Lessons learned on the city’s strategy to achieve SDG4

We are very pleased to make available a blog from UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning concerning how the city of Manila is working to acheive Sustainable Development Goal 4.

The introduction to this blog gives the context for this work as follows:

Lecturership in Adult Education - University of Glasgow

The School of Education invites applications for the position of Lecturer in Adult Education (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow. The School of Education is one of the leading Schools of Education globally, ranked No 38 in the QS for Education and Training (2021). We are a large and dynamic unit which brings together academics and researchers with expertise across all sectors of education: formal and non-formal, pre-school through to higher, adult and community education.

REMINDER: The Global Learning Festival being organised by Wyndham and Melton Cities runs from 1-4 September, 2020

Subscribers are reminded that the first Global Learning Festival being organised by Wyndham and Melton Cities runs from 1-4 September. Some 70 events across the world are available online, and PASCAL as a sponsor encourages all of you to register for one or more of these excellent programmes.

Rwandan cities of Kigali and Huye join PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN)

We are delighted to announce that two cities in Rwanda, Kigali and Huye, have become members of PASCAL’s Learning Cities Networks (LCN). Both cities are participants in the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) and it is a pleasure to be able to welcome them to PASCAL.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 16 - 'Learning to be as the core of learning in later life' now available in Mandarin

We’re very pleased to be able to report that PASCAL Briefing Paper 16, Learning to be as the core of learning in later life, written by Peter Kearns, is now available in Mandarin (featured below and attached).

Mapping and Critical Synthesis of Current State-of-the-Art on Community Engagement in Higher Education

Subscribers may be interested in the attached publication by Paul Benneworth, Bojana Ćulum, Thomas Farnell, Frans Kaiser, Marco Seeber, Ninoslav Šćukanec, Hans Vossensteyn & Don Westerheijden, entitled, Mapping and Critical Synthesis of Current State-of-the-Art on Community Engagement in Higher Education.

¿Tercera división o tercera misión de la universidad? - Fundación CYD

Please find a link to an interesting blog from our colleagues in the Fundación CYD, which subscribers interested in the third mission of universities might wish to read.

Big Data in Bulgaria: Non-formal Education - Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century.

As Catherine Lido was presenting in New York, I was very pleased to be presenting, in parallel, similar material based on the work that our Urban Big Data Centre has been undertaking at a conference in Sofia entitled, Non-formal Education - Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century.

The University of Glasgow has awarded two funded PhD studentships related to Learning Cities

The University of Glasgow is delighted to announce two funded PhD studentships have been awarded.  Preeti Dagar, currently an International Masters in Adult Educaiton for Social Change (AESC) second year student has been awarded a 3-year studentship by the university with the ESRC GCRF Centre for Sustainable Healthy Learning Cities. She will be supervised by Mike Osborne.

 

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