I am pleased to report that the first two days of the inaugural UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities hosted by the Government of Beijing Municipal City and the Minister of Education, China, has successfully concluded with the assent by acclamation of the Beijing Declaration of Learning Cities. Full details will follow in a subsequent posting.

A number of PASCAL associates, including Heribert Hinzen, Ron Faris, Shirley Walters and Norman Longworth played key roles, as did PASCAL Director, Michael Osborne. We were also very pleased that another associate, Liza Ireland, currently working in China for Royal Roads University was able to join us.

The photo above includes: Ron Faris, Mike Osborne, Un Shil Choi, President of the Korean National Insitute for Lifelong Education, Constance Chigwamba, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary, Education, Zimbabwe and Benita Somerfield, formerly CEO of the Barbara Bush Centre for Literacy