Search for...

PASCAL Library

The displays available here represent all site content categorised under PASCAL Expertise, PASCAL Projects and PASCAL Themes:

PASCAL Briefing Paper 17 - A benchmarking approach to understanding community engagement and learning cities

Posted July 6, 2018 - 18:57

The development of a learning city requires city leaders to build a complex partnership with a potentially large number of stakeholders in city institutions, business and civic society. Of the wide variety of measurement tools available to cities to gain some understanding of their strategy needs and performance, the paper argues that a benchmarking approach, using a mixture of qualitative self-assessment supported by some qualitative data offers the most fruitful approach to assess the strengths and weaknesses of policy and practice, and offers a guide to prioritising actions.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 16 - Learning to be as the core of learning in later life

Posted July 3, 2018 - 12:03

This is PASCAL Briefing Paper 16, Learning to be as the core of learning in later life, written by PASCAL Board Member, Peter Kearns. It is one of a suite of papers produced during the last few months in preparation for the next PASCAL conference to be held in Korea from 30 August to 1 September 2018. Please find details of that conference at this link. This is a conference with no fee thanks to the great genorosity of our hosts in Korea, and places are still available.

Connecting Minds, Creating the Future - Expo 2020 Dubai: University Challenge

Posted May 15, 2018 - 10:58

"Connecting Minds, Creating the Future" is the catchcry of what Dubai is calling "a festival of human ingenuity".  Wanting nations and people to collaborate, the challenge has already gone out to university students to find ways towards innovations that will improve lives while preserving the environment. 

Making Learning Happen - a report on the PASCAL event held at UCL, 4 May, 2018

Posted May 15, 2018 - 07:05

The PASCAL seminar, “Making Learning Happen,” was well-attended by some 30 delegates from across Europe on 4 May 2018.  Thanks to kind generosity of LLAKEs (http://www.llakes.ac.uk) and its head, Professor Andy Green, we convened in a room at the UCL Institute of Education.  The seminar provided an opportunity for associates and key contacts - new faces and old friends - to discuss learning in cities and metro-regions and their links to rural hinterlands, and to shape future PASCAL work in Europe.

Lifelong Learning: Reflections from Wurtzberg ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub meeting - February 2018

Posted May 10, 2018 - 11:28

I have just has the pleasure of attending a conference organised by the University of Wurtzberg in collaboration with the Asia-Europe Lifelong Learning hub, entitled Lifelong Learning Policies & Adult Education Professionals: Contextual and Cross-Contextual Comparisons between Europe and Asia.

PIMA Bulletin No. 17

Posted May 10, 2018 - 09:35

In this number we continue to ask: What is happening to Democracy and What is happening to lifelong learning? The full Bulletin Number 17 is featured below and attached.

  • 8960 reads
 

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

X