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Chair's letter 2024

Posted January 14, 2025 - 14:31

The year 2024 was exceptional.  PASCAL has grown with the adhesion of two new centres.  In New Brunswick, New Jersey USA, Prof. Radha Jagannathan leads a centre at Rutgers University, a key institution in the greater New York metropolitan region.  This centre promises to improve our understanding of youth education (STEM) and employment issues, with a focus on the design and planning of infrastructure, to strengthen connections between universities and the public sector.  Catherine Lido, Glasgow Centre Director, travelled to New Jersey to attend the launch of the Rutgers Centre.

Place identity and social change | Reflections on a seasonal visit to the Scottish Highlands

Posted January 7, 2025 - 13:47

I have recently returned from an enjoyable, if rather windswept seasonal break on the coast of the north west Highlands in Scotland. The place we were staying was in a small crofting community at the end of a twisting and hilly single rack road, some 10 miles or so from the nearest village with some shops and public services such as a school, health services, a community centre (and a golf course by the beach).

New open online course, ‘Distributing learning and knowledge creation’

Posted December 17, 2024 - 10:10

An open online course, ‘Distributing learning and knowledge creation’, aims to set open and distributed education in a broad framework of knowledge equity. Published under a CC licence, universities are free to use, and adapt, the course to build capacity among their staff and others for reducing inequity via distributing education to those who currently miss out.

ALCN Ripples Newsletter - December 2024 (Issue 6/2024)

Posted December 14, 2024 - 14:06

The ALCN Ripples Newsletter for December 2024 provides a summary of what has been a very busy October/November period with reports on ALCN Learning Forums on Community Needs Analysis and Climate Resilience, Sustainability and Regeneration; the ASEAN + 3 Regional Conference on Learning Cities; the Wider Benefits of Learning and more.

Report from the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame conference - Florence 2024

Posted December 6, 2024 - 14:38

I would like to extend a warm thank you to all the International, European and North American organisations and journals in adult and continuing education, that partnered with the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame to organise the Conference “Revitalising Adult Continuing Education for Positive Social Changes and Personal Fulfilment” on 7-9 November 2024 in Florence, including the PASCAL Observatory.

Learning Cities and Communities nurturing Wellbeing and Democracy - joint Finnish and Japanese research

Posted December 5, 2024 - 14:43

Learning Cities and Communities nurturing Wellbeing and Democracy is the title of our joint research that I have been undertaking with Professor Yukiko Sawano from the Sacred Heart University in Tokyo. We are both members of the ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub, Research Network 6 for Learning Cities and Communities, that promotes research activities on the topic between Asia and Europe.

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