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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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50 years and counting: the future of community councils in Scotland | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Community Councils in Scotland were created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 as the most local statutory tier of local government in Scotland, and intended as a bridge between local communities and local authorities. The legislation which founded community councils remains unaltered today despite major changes in the structure of local government in the intervening years, which has seen the removal of regional and district councils and the creation of 32 unitary local authorities in their place.

International Conference on Promoting Lifelong Learning in Higher Education - Shanghai 19-21 October 2023

We are very pleased that Associate Director for PASCAL in Europe Professor Roberta Piazza, University of Catania, was able to contribute on our behalf to the International Conference on Promoting Lifelong Learning in Higher Education: From institutional strategies to practical implementation held in Shanghai from 19-21 October 2023 organised by Shanghai Open University and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.

Professor J.E. (Teddy) Thomas, 1933-2023

Former Dean of the Faculty of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the university, Professor J.E. (Teddy) Thomas, passed away aged 89 on Tuesday 11 July 2023. A major figure in adult education nationally and internationally, he served as Reader and later Robert Peers Professor of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham, as well as Deputy Head and Head of the Department of Adult Education.

Learning shops on the High Street | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Recently I attended a seminar at Glasgow Caledonian University, organized in memory of the late Professor Jim Gallacher, formerly Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University. Professor Gallacher’s main interests on which he published widely were in the fields of widening access to higher education, the role of colleges of further education and the transition from further to higher education.  The seminar heard from several speakers who offered up-to-date perspectives on these issues and particularly on efforts to recognize the benefits of pathways to higher education through further education.

Community Placemaking Grants: Applications Now Open | Placemaking Round-Up

This round-up 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.

 

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