In this number we continue to ask: What is happening to Democracy and What is happening to lifelong learning? The full Bulletin Number 17 is featured below and attached.

Two recent meetings prompt the main theme of this issue of the Bulletin. A conference in Wolverhampton, England, reviewed the progress, or perhaps regress, in support and provision of UK lifelong learning over the past two decades; a regular Asia-European Meeting (ASEM) followed in Wurtzburg, Germany soon after. We have reflections from two participants in each, and additional thoughts about the condition of LLL from two senior reflective practitioners in Australia, where a national Lifelong Learning Policy Summit takes place this month. This is the kind of Out-of-the-Box (OTB) dialogue that PASCAL and PIMA wish to foster.

Further contributions on these and other themes would be welcome for the Bulletin; or we might switch such discussion to the OTB site and more immediate interactive mode….