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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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Emergence and Growth of Community Supported Enterprises - NIU Center for Governmental Studies

Posted November 28, 2016 - 21:26

With support from the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, the NIU Center for Governmental Studies recently published a report, Emergence and Growth of Community Supported Enterprises describing how Community Supported Enterprises are organized and operate in the U.S.  The report authored by Norman Walzer and Jessica Sandoval, is featured in full below.

New Book about Rural Communities

Posted November 28, 2016 - 20:41

Briony Penn, PASCAL publication author, just got back from a 5 week long book tour for her latest book. Leaving the genre of children’s literature, her book, The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan is the biography of a man who believed in getting into rural communities, talking to people and inspiring them about nature, conservation and science.

Adult literacy, numeracy, pop up learning — ACE News, 28 November 2016

Posted November 28, 2016 - 05:52

This week's news round up is chock full of interesting stories. How we score in comparisons of adult numeracy, pubs as places for pop up learning, adult and community education, social inclusion and domestic violence as well as the latest VET news. 

Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellowships and Leadership Fellowships

Posted November 25, 2016 - 11:31

Fully funded Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellowships for 3 years at the University of Glasgow offer great opportunities for good researchers all around the world. Within the college where PASCAL is hosted we are offering 5 scholarships in the following areas:

The Future of School - a DIF video talk

Posted November 24, 2016 - 22:07

In collaboration with The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Liza Ireland, PASCAL North America Associate Director, presents how we can redesign schools in the 21st Century using ecological principles of sustainable living systems in a DIF talk entitled The Future of School, featured below. 

 

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