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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Summary of UIL/ PASCAL Webinar: The Challenge of Inclusion in Learning Cities, 17 June 2020 - Jac Torres-Gomez and Leone Wheeler

The Moderator for the Webinar was Ms Marie Macauley, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning: Marie indicated that this Webinar builds upon the Fourth International Conference on Learning Cities which was held in Medellín, Columbia in October 2019.

ALADIN Online Alert 32 - June 2020

The ALADIN Online Alert is a joint ALADIN initiative, produced bimonthly by the UIL Library and CDÉACF, with input from additional ALADIN members from all over the world. Its goal is to share recent online and full-text information and documents in the area of adult and lifelong learning.

Will You Answer the Call to Courage? | Placemaking Weekly

This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement. In this edition, we ask how can we dismantle barriers in retail and real estate during COVID-19?

UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Bulletin, June 2020

While COVID-19 is still challenging education systems around the world, it also presents an opportunity to reimagine the education and lifelong learning we want for the future.

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning is seizing this opportunity in many ways. We have held a consultation process with high-level experts to develop a vision for lifelong learning within UNESCO's Futures of Education initiative. Moreover, many of our experts and partners have contributed to our laboratory of ideas by reflecting on the role and shape of learning in a post-COVID-19 society with contributions to our blog.

South Africa – UK University Staff Doctoral Programme

The University Staff Doctoral Programme (USDP) promotes collaborations that seek to increase the number of academics with PhDs in South African universities. To support this goal, the British Council issued a call for a collaboration development grant to allow for the hosting of scoping and development meetings to explore possible models for doctoral training.

 

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