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National Strategies for Implementing Life Long Learning (LLL): an International Perspective

Posted August 20, 2009 - 14:41

This Hot Topic paper returns to a central theme for PASCAL, which is the development and implementation of lifelong learning. Unlike earlier HTs on the theme, Jarl Bengtsson is concerned less with the concept of lifelong learning but much more with those factors at national level which need to be addressed if substantial progress is to be made in making a reality of the widespread policy commitments which are in place in most EU countries and amongst OECD member countries around the world.

Creative City-Regions & the Role of their Creative Universities

Posted February 12, 2009 - 13:28

Over the last decade the University of Salford has responded to the national and global challenges in quite a unique way. This reflects the particular academic strength of its staff and the situation in which it found itself in the middle of the late nineties. This strategy, developed in the light of a changing environment, focuses in particular on its development of Academic Enterprise

Creative City-Regions & the Role of their Creative Universities

Posted February 12, 2009 - 13:28

Future Manifestations of the Old: Exploring the Potential of Radio Learning in Building Social Capital in Malawi

Posted January 19, 2008 - 12:58

A rapid response in the provision of high quality education at all levels is urgently required of educational communities and governments. Hence, universal primary education has been registered as a top priority on the agenda of the international community in the modern era. To this effect the United Nation’s goal is to ensure that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality (Unesco, 2000).