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PASCAL Briefing Paper 17 - A benchmarking approach to understanding community engagement and learning cities

The development of a learning city requires city leaders to build a complex partnership with a potentially large number of stakeholders in city institutions, business and civic society. Of the wide variety of measurement tools available to cities to gain some understanding of their strategy needs and performance, the paper argues that a benchmarking approach, using a mixture of qualitative self-assessment supported by some qualitative data offers the most fruitful approach to assess the strengths and weaknesses of policy and practice, and offers a guide to prioritising actions.

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

This is PASCAL Briefing Paper 16, Learning to be as the core of learning in later life, written by PASCAL Board Member, Peter Kearns. It is one of a suite of papers produced during the last few months in preparation for the next PASCAL conference to be held in Korea from 30 August to 1 September 2018. Please find details of that conference at this link. This is a conference with no fee thanks to the great genorosity of our hosts in Korea, and places are still available.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 15 - Building entrepreneurship in sustainable learning cities

Please find attached PASCAL Briefing Paper 15,  Building entrepreneurship in sustainable learning cities, written by PASCAL Board Member, Peter Kearns. We offer our thanks to Dr Yuan Dayong of Beijing Academy of Social Sciences for the translation into Mandarin and to Ms. Jihye Han, Doctoral Student at the Free University of Berlin for the translation into Korean, arranged by Professor Han Soonghee of Seoul National University.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 14 - Integrating happiness in sustainable learning cities

The latest PASCAL Briefing Paper 14, Integrating happiness in sustainable learning cities, written by Peter Kearns, is now available In English, Mandarin and Korean. We offer our thanks to Dr Yuan Dayong of Beijing Academy of Social Sciences for the translation into Mandarin and to Dr. Euna Yang of Korea Nazarene University for the translation into Korean, arranged by Professor Han Soonghee of Seoul National University.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 13 - Learning Later: responding to the evolving educational needs of older people - Mark,Talmage and Knopf

Please find attached in English, Mandarin and Korean, PASCAL Briefing Paper 13 entitled, Learning Later: responding to the evolving educational needs of older people. It has been written by Rob Mark, PASCAL Learning Cities Project Coordinator and Honorary Senior Research Fellow,  Glasgow University, UK & Dublin City University, Ireland, Craig A. Talmage, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, USA, Richard C. Knopf, Professor, Arizona State University, USA.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 12 - The coming revolution in Public Services: What it means for Cities and Universities - Josef Konvitz

We are pleased to publish the lastest of our Briefing Paper. This paper bt Chaor of the PASCAL Board, Professor Josef Konvitz, is entitled, The coming revolution in Public Services: What it means for Cities and Universities. Below is an Executive Summary.

 

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