Many PASCAL members and subscribers will have known or known of Professor John Field, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Stirling. It is with great sadness to report that he died on Monday 25 March.  He was not only a titan in the field of adult education and great fun to be with, but he also was there at the beginning of PASCAL. It was he who was approached by the late Chris Duke by RMIT to establish a European base at the University of Stirling. That task he passed onto me, and he continued to support the work of the observatory as an Associate until his final days.

We have published a note on the CR&DALL website at this link to which a number of his friends and colleagues have made contributions. Universally amongst those who have commented on his passing there has been a feeling of shock, and of a life cut short too early. If you wish to add anything in response to this message or the posting on CR&DALL please feel free to do so by logging in using your user name and password. Should you be reading this and not be a subscriber and wish to comment then please simply request to be subscribed.

There will be a much more substantial tribute to him written by Professor Tom Schuller in the journal Convergence later this month, and by Sir Alan Tuckett to the International Journal of Lifelong Education to which we will provide access. There are already great tributes at the sites of the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) and UNESCO.