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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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Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development - Briefing Paper 25

Posted March 25, 2024 - 11:59

We are pleased to present the attached Briefing Paper 25 concerned with the work of PASCAL's Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Faith and Spirituality. This LCN is a group of researchers, practitioners and policy makers united by the PASCAL Observatory and working jointly on topics related to faith and spirituality in learning city developments.

OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs and 7th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs

Posted March 21, 2024 - 17:08

Subscribers may be interested in the OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs, an ambitious programme to support cities and regions to develop, implement and monitor strategies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Age-friendly cities and lifelong learning

Posted March 19, 2024 - 21:32

My article, Age-friendly cities and lifelong learning, may interest PASCAL subscribers especially those interest in learning cities. There is a huge gap between rhetoric at the macro/global level and what can happen at the local level of practice related to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) framework for Age-friendly cities. Many cities make no contribution at all to such intiatives such is the dire state of public finances.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 24 - Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills Acquisition in Disadvantaged Populations: Evidence from the Nurture thru Nature (NtN) Experiment

Posted March 19, 2024 - 14:06

It is widely acknowledged that public schools in the US have failed to produce sufficient levels of high quality STEM education. The mathematics and science performance of minority and disadvantaged students has been especially troubling with blacks and Hispanics substantially underrepresented in the STEM labor market.

17th PASCAL conference, July 4th to 6th, 2024 - New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts – Revised Dates for Abstracts

Posted March 8, 2024 - 11:25

Whilst we have been very pleased with the response that we have had to our call for abstracts for the 17th PASCAL conference in Taipei, a number of colleagues have requested an extension of the deadline. Therefore we are now announcing a new deadline of 1 April 2024 for further abstracts.

 

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