The recent GUNI Conference in Barcelona provided opportunties for many organisations to present their work in the field of community engagement.

A whole issue of À Lire en ligne, the magazine of Réseau pour le développement de l’alphabétisme et des compétences in Canada in 2010 was devoted to learning communities and is now available online. The magazine in its complete form is only available in French, with a large number of articles, translated into English.

The 6th GUNI conference on Higher Education in the World is coming to an end after three interesting days of inter-change, and has provided many examples of excellent engagement between communities and universities. It has included a number of inputs from PASCAL people, including plenary sessions involving Board Member Hans Schuetze, Associates Paul Benneworth, Lean Chan, Budd Hall, Julia Preece and Shirley Walters, and Co-Director Mike Osborne.

The journey of social justice in Hume City...

Please find below details of the first three books in a new PASCAL book series on Universities and Lifelong Learning being published shortly by Manchester University Press. The series editor is PASCAL Director for Europe, Professor Mike Osborne of the University of Glasgow, and we are very pleased that so many of our associates and principals are involved in the project.

This work was inspired in the first instance by the PURE project, and a number of other books will follow.