Please find featured below and attached the Winter 2020 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN):

It is with great pleasure that I attach the Australian Learning Community Network Annual Report 2019-2020. In particular, I  highlight the activities of our learning communities. For example, read about:

Glebe is a suburb of Sydney (Australia) that fringes the harbour.  For over 50 years a community body, The Glebe Society, has joined together to advance: Community · Environment · Heritage.  The membership committee initiates a range of activities to engage, reveal and celebrate the uniqueness of this area.

Many are writing about what-comes-after, the post-pandemic era.  Josef Konvitz has completed a two-part essay, “Don’t Waste a Crisis”, for the French Fondation pour l’innovation politique, or FONDAPOL. This final version, which includes the first part on infrastructure and education,  focuses on cross-border risks and concludes with proposals for how Europe can reinforce its cohesion through the single market and at the same time, intervene more broadly in a globalised world.  If you think that globalisation is a bad thing, his essay suggests that regulation, European-style, uses globalisation to make the world safer. 

The COVID-19 Pandemic is already generating proposals for government-led initiatives for a post-crisis recovery. Josef Konvitz, CHAIR of PASCAL, has written a note that looks at the question through the lens of infrastructure investment, drawing on the lessons of the post-2008 recovery, and drawing attention to the importance of education for the future.