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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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Celebrating Learning in Brimbank

Posted April 12, 2024 - 12:35

Celebrating Learning is a bimonthly newsletter sharing local projects, good news stories, information and resources relating to learning in all its forms. Celebrating Learning is an initiative of the Brimbank Community Learning Strategy..

Back issues are available here.

Covid Education Alliance (COVIDEA): Adapting education systems to a fast changing and increasingly digital world through the use of appropriate technologies

Posted March 28, 2024 - 13:14

I am very pleased to share with PASCAL subscribers, a document produced by the Covid Education Alliance (COVIDEA), entitled, Adapting education systems to a fast changing and increasingly digital world through the use of appropriate technologies - A primer.

Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development - Briefing Paper 25

Posted March 25, 2024 - 12:59

We are pleased to present the attached Briefing Paper 25 concerned with the work of PASCAL's Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Faith and Spirituality. This LCN is a group of researchers, practitioners and policy makers united by the PASCAL Observatory and working jointly on topics related to faith and spirituality in learning city developments.

OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs and 7th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs

Posted March 21, 2024 - 18:08

Subscribers may be interested in the OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs, an ambitious programme to support cities and regions to develop, implement and monitor strategies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Age-friendly cities and lifelong learning

Posted March 19, 2024 - 22:32

My article, Age-friendly cities and lifelong learning, may interest PASCAL subscribers especially those interest in learning cities. There is a huge gap between rhetoric at the macro/global level and what can happen at the local level of practice related to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) framework for Age-friendly cities. Many cities make no contribution at all to such intiatives such is the dire state of public finances.

 

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