On 10 October 2015, Roberta Piazza of Catania University and Associate Director of PASCAL, and its associates, Dermot Coughlan of University of Limerick together with Anna Hansen and Henrik Zipsane of Jamtli Foundation represented PASCAL International Observatory at a seminar in the old research library in the municipality of Acireale, a community just North of Catania with about 60,000 inhabitants and a glorious past with 17^th – 19^th Century churches and palaces as well as diverse museum collections.

I'm Jane Thandi Lipman, filmmaker and journalist, and I recently attended the Nelson Mandela Annual lecture addressed by economist Professor Thomas  Piketty with my mother, Beata Lipman, veteran anti apartheid activist and scriber of the Freedom Charter. I thought that subscribers might be interested in hearing what PIketty had to say. 

Below you will find great opportunities to work in an exciting environment at the forefront of education in the UK. The School of Education in Glasgow has recently been ranked as No. 1 in the UK on the National Survey of Students; No. 1 in the UK on the Sunday Times Good University Guide; and No. 2 in the UK in the Complete University Guide. Subscribers will have seen two of these posted previously. There are now three others of interest.

Featured below and attached is the introduction to a special issue on ”Skill regime in the context of globalization and migration” which will soon be published in the journal Studies in Continuing Education. The issue is edited with Hongxia Shan at UBC Canada as lead-editor, and me as co-editor. 

Given the focus on migration at the PASCAL Catania conference, I hope that this will be of interest to delegates.

I would like subscribers to be aware of two new posts at the University of Glasgow. We are looking for high calibre applications from any part of the world for these posts.