In an earlier blog, I summarised a discussion which took place in a recent meeting of the PASCAL Advisory Board about the challenges faced by publically funded universities in different parts of the world, and the likely consequences as publically funded university institutions come to terms with the emerging funding environment in which they find themselves. 

The European Lifelong Learning Index (ELLI) developed by Bertelsmann Stiftung in Germany is an annual measure of Europe’s “state of play” of learning throughout the different stages of life from “cradle to grave” and across the different learning environments of school, community, work and home life. The ELLI Index measures learning in four different domains taken from the UNESCO framework completed by Jaques Delors that include learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be. 

John Restakis is Executive Director of the BC Co-operative Association in Vancouver. By vocation he is a community organizer and popular educator.  Aside from being a sessional instructor in the University of Victoria's new Masters in Community Development he is an international consultant on cooperative development including the Bologna Summer Studies Program with Professor Stefano Zamagni.  His most recent book is, Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital (New Society Publishers, 2010).  

The complete collection of Becoming Visible responses are featured in the PASCAL ONline PDF below;  John's essay is a new addition to the collection.

Please consider the following possibility and let the world know. This fellowship can be in an area related to PASCAL work since the Adam Smith Research Foundation is based within the College of Social Sciences of which PASCAL is a part at the University of Glasgow.