News

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.

We invite readers to submit items for consideration. Please send your contributions to our Submissions Administrator.

The Role of Universities in Promoting Lifelong Learning seminar in Hamburg, 25 May 2012

Posted May 29, 2012 - 18:34

'The Role of Universities in Promoting Lifelong Learning' was the topic of a seminar in the framework of the 60th Anniversary of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg, Germany on 25 May 2012. PASCAL was delighted that its co-director, Professor Michael Osborne, was invited to be one of the speakers.

On the previous day there was a public lecture programme, which included a contribution from the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova.

Special Release of English/Mayo: 'Learning with Adults'

Posted May 17, 2012 - 16:31

This book is written at a time when our own field of adult education is under assault from a variety of capitalist and neoconservative forces pressuring us... to turn away from the causes of criticality, lifelong learning, and education for freedom. Rather than succumb to these pressures, we have hope that our long term goals of education for life and living can and will be accomplished alongside professional and vocational education.

Full details follow...

Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER) meeting in Bonn on 11 May 2012

Posted May 17, 2012 - 16:04

Representatives from PASCAL, Hans Schuetze and Michael Osborne, attended the recent Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER) meeting in Bonn on 11 May 2012 following the Living Knowledge conference held in that city and during which the third Big Tent communique was presented. This communique will follow soon.

Postgraduate programmes for Education & Practice for Social Change

Posted May 9, 2012 - 16:07

The University of Glasgow runs an extensive range of postgraduate programmes in the field of education and practice for social change worldwide. This suite of programmes covers the fields of Adult and Continuing Education, Teaching Adults, Community Learning and Development, and Young People, Social Inclusion and Change. These programmes all combine key features: