We are very pleased to report that Pascal Associate, Professor Ivan Grdešić has been appointed as Croatian Ambassador to the UK. Here we see him with the President and Prime Minister of Croatia, receiving his orders. We wish him the very best in his new position in London.

Details of a new post within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, the European base of PASCAL are found here. The person appointed will join an expanding staff grouping in the field of post-compulsory education.

The Main Duties and Responsibilities are as follows:

The following is taken from a recent report on technology-enhanced learning in the UK. Whilst it refers specifically to schools, I wonder if the same statements could also be made in relation to all areas of education, formal and norm-formal.

Understanding Society is an initiative by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, which contains headline findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. This offers data on 14 topic areas using results from approximately 100,000 individuals in 40,000 households, as well as young people aged 10-15. Topics include social support networks, housework and gender, risky behaviours of 10-15 year olds, population diversity, employment and racial discrimination, immigrants and overseas remittances, higher education and social background, working hours, employment and the recession, sports participants and measuring well-being:

http://research.understandingsociety.org.uk

Readers may be interested in the introduction to a new book, entitled the Cornerstones of Municipal Self-Government, edited amongst others by PASCAL Associate, Professor Jari Stenvall from the University of Lapland in Finland. The introduction, 'Why is municipal self-government important at the present moment?' is featured below.