I am pleased to report that the special issue of the International Review of Education, edited by PASCAL Director Mike Osborne, LCN Director Peter Kearns and the former leader of the UNESCO’s Learning Cities initiative, Jin Yang, on the topic of learning cities is now available in Mandarin with the ISBN 978-7-5191-0206-7.

Subscribers interested in the issue of access to Higher Education, may wish to know that the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes will be running a conference on the topic of the Access Policy of Higher Education hosted by Beijing Normal University from 30 October to 2 November. Keynote speakers include the Master of Green College, Oxford University, Professor Sir David Watson.

See http://ialei.bnu.edu.cn/index.html for more details.