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REMINDER: The Global Learning Festival being organised by Wyndham and Melton Cities runs from 1-4 September, 2020

Submitted by Mike Osborne on August 25, 2020 - 08:02

Subscribers are reminded that the first Global Learning Festival being organised by Wyndham and Melton Cities runs from 1-4 September. Some 70 events across the world are available online, and PASCAL as a sponsor encourages all of you to register for one or more of these excellent programmes.

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The Glen Postle Intergenerational Mentoring Hub

Submitted by Mike Osborne on December 2, 2017 - 09:12

I’m delighted to have been able to have visited PASCAL Associate Glen Postle and see the Glen Postle Intergenerational Mentoring Hub at the Flexischool in Toowoomba. Glen has been working intensively in the development of the school over the past 20 years and continues to do so.

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University of Glasgow invited to join UNESCO's prestigious Universities Network

Submitted by Mike Osborne on October 11, 2016 - 10:02

I am very pleased to report that the University of Glasgow has been asked to establish the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. The chair holder is our colleague, Professor Alison Phipps to whom we offer our congratulations from PASCAL.

Please find featured below and attached the press release for the UNESCO programme. There is a feature on it in the press today and the BBC is working with Alison on a programme feature. An Early Day Motion is published today in Westminster Parliament congratulating the University.

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Should students from poorer homes be admitted to university with lower grades?

Submitted by Mike Osborne on November 21, 2015 - 18:00

The interim report of the Commission on Widening Access to HE in Scotland has recently been published together with a summary of evidence submitted.  The report, the summary of evidence, and my own submission on behalf of  the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL) can be found at this link. 

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Our hearts go out to all victims of terror

Submitted by Mike Osborne on November 15, 2015 - 12:29

On behalf of PASCAL we post below a response made by our colleague Chris Duke on the campaigning website 38 Degrees with which we are sure that PASCAL subscribers will wish to echo. We could add many more examples of terrorist acts even in the last week, such as that of the 224 Russians most likely murdered over the Sinai desert, and as Chris says our hearts are with all victims of such atrocities.

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The TEF(LON) - will it stick?

Submitted by Mike Osborne on November 9, 2015 - 12:47

A much awaited Green Paper has been published today in the UK entitled, Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice. The press release from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills can be found at this link.

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Invitation to International Conference on Learning Cities - 28-30 September 2015

Submitted by Mike Osborne on August 18, 2015 - 16:44

Please find featured below and attached an invitation from our good friends at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg to the forthcoming International Conference on Learning Cities in Mexico City from 28-30 September 2015. We strongly encourage all members of PASCAL and subscribers to consider attendance, particularly members cities and organisations of our Learning Cities Networks (LCN) program.

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12th PASCAL Conference - Proposals for the Big Idea Sandpit - Deadline 7 August

Submitted by Mike Osborne on July 18, 2015 - 16:38

Delegates for the 12th PASCAL Conference are invited to propose Big Ideas linked to the themes of the conference in advance of the event: five of these ideas will chosen to be pitched in plenary session on Day 2 with a strict 5 minute presentation. There will then be a debate and vote for the best idea. That idea will then be developed into a longer presentation by the presenter and advocates from the conference, and debated further on Day 3.

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