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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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The influence of parents, places and poverty on educational attitudes and aspirations

Posted October 26, 2011 - 09:36

What are the real barriers to educational achievement?

What is the relationship between young people's aspirations and how they are formed? Based on longitudinal research in three locations in the UK, this study investigates aspirations and empirical evidence.

Ripples - Official Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network - October 2011

Posted October 21, 2011 - 10:13

Our newsletter attached with our compliments.

Jim

Jim Saleeba
Honorary CEO
Australian Learning Communities Network Inc
PO Box 664 Albury 2640

Phone: 02 6021 5690; Fax 02 6021 0616

Email: [email protected]

Supporting the 2012 National Year of Reading

National Jobs Australia Conference - Brisbane, October 2011

Posted October 21, 2011 - 03:05

Business leader warns jobs services providers to prepare for market contraction, calls on the Government to provide more funding to address the problems of long term unemployed and has called into question the place of for profit providers in the Job Services Australia sector .

World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability

Posted October 21, 2011 - 00:17

Flagship Report 2011

In this report, the WBGU explains the reasons for the desperate need for a post-fossil economic strategy, yet it also concludes that the transition to sustainability is achievable, and presents ten concrete packages of measures to accelerate the imperative restructuring. If the transformation really is to succeed, we have to enter into a social contract for innovation, in the form of a new kind of discourse between governments and citizens, both within and beyond the boundaries of the nation state. 

Continuing Education course on Lifelong Learning and National Qualifications Frameworks: Leaders for Learning

Posted October 20, 2011 - 21:39

This course is offered by the University of Western Cape (UWC), in partnership with the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). It is a six-month, continuing education course which will be certificated by UWC. It comprises both face-to-face and eLearning components.

Details to be found in the attached announcement.

 

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