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.

This is an early announcement a major event being held next year in Glasgow. The event is a collaboration organised by the International Association for Community Development (IACD), the University of Glasgow and the Community Learning and Development (CLD) Standards Council for Scotland.

This major event will explore some of the most significant local and global questions we face today in the context of the answer: community.

One more week before we will hopefully meet at the GUNI conference in Barcelona. The conference will be the place to read out the 4^th BIG TENT Global communiqué on pathways for social, scientific and technological innovations to contribute to the great transformation.

Your contribution to the communiqué is very welcome:

For those interested in monitoring and assessment tools for community-engaged universities, this inventory prepared for the Community-Engaged Scholarship Partnership in Canada may be helpful:

I am shifting early in the morning from London to Barcelona to begin to prepare for the GUNi conference and wanted to share some thoughts based on some of the goings on that I have been part of here in the UK for the past weeks.  I have had a visit to the National Coordinating Committee for Public Engagement in Higher Education in Bristol, a chat with Sir Peter Scott at the Institute of Education in London, a meeting of many of the leaders of the International Association of Universities in Salford, near Manchester, a talk on Knowledge Democracy at the Association of Commonwealth Universities, a brief chat with Prof. Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Salford and a disappointing draw match between my football team Arsenal and Manchester United.  And of course the death of Margaret Thatcher that raised once more the outrageous arrogance and nastiness of the war against the working class unleashed during her term.