The University Economic Development Association has announced the launch of the Journal of Economic Development in Higher Education (JEDHE).  This is an online, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of university-led economic development. 

The Journal examines ways in which institutions of higher education make communities attractive places to work, operate businesses and raise families.  Dr. Brian Richard,at the Center for Governmental Studies-Northern Illinois University is the editor of JEDHE. 

We are deeply appreciative of and sincerely thankful to all for your warm, sensitive and caring messages and thoughts following the sudden and shocking death of our dear Martha on May 13, 2015 in Kabul.

PASCAL subscribers will be interested to know that since the announcement that Erbil is planning to join the PASCAL Learning City Networks project, and sending a delegation to the Catania conference; I am being contacting by over a hundred people every day.

A recent process of international consultation have come to a phase for UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) to provide a Draft text of a New Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education to follow the very well-known 1976 Nairobi Recommendation.

A network of American Cities of Learning has emerged in the US with initiatives in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington, Dallas, and Los Angeles. While Cities of Learning have much in common with Learning Cities they have a focus on youth rather than the whole lifecycle in most Learning Cities.